Aurealis Awards 1998
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1997
Sf Novel
- Winner: The White Abacus, Damien Broderick (Avon)
- The Dark Edge, Richard Harland (Pan Macmillan)
- Diaspora, Greg Egan (Millennium)
- Winter, Simon Brown (HarperCollins)
- Zones, Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes (HarperCollins/Moonstone)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Niagara Falling”, Janeen Webb & Jack Dann (Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures)
- “Lucent Carbon”, Russell Blackford (Eidolon #25/26 Spring 1997)
- “Merlusine”, Lucy Sussex (The Horns of Elfland)
- “Reasons to be Cheerful”, Greg Egan (Interzone #118 Apr 1997)
- “Schrödinger's Dog”, Damien Broderick (Eidolon #22/23 Spring 1996)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Infernal, Kim Wilkins (Random House)
- Black Ice, Lucy Sussex (Hodder Headline)
- Darkfall: Book One of the Legendsong, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin)
- Dragonclaw: Book One of The Witches of Eileanan, Kate Forsyth (Random House Arrow Australia)
- Sinner: Book One of the Wayfarer Redemption, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “Merlusine”, Lucy Sussex (The Horns of Elfland)
- “Death at the Blue Elephant”, Janeen Webb (Enter: HQ)
- “Jackie Chan”, Chris Gregory (Twins)
- “Nicholas Afalling”, Jodie Kewley (Eidolon #24 Fall 1997)
- “The River of Dreams”, Le Hang (Influence: Australian Voices)
Horror Novel
- Winner: The Infernal, Kim Wilkins (Random House)
- The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (Tor)
- The Dark Edge, Richard Harland (Pan Macmillan)
- Dead Set, Emma Tom (Random House)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Jenny Come to Play”, Terry Dowling (Eidolon #25/26 Spring 1997)
- “The Freezing of Sarah”, Sean Williams (Bloodsongs #9)
- “The Mullet That Screwed John West”, Bill Congreve (Epiphanies of Blood: Tales of Desperation and Thirst)
- “Ten Minutes of Midnight”, J M Earle (Aurealis #18 1996)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner (tie): Eye to Eye, Catherine Jinks (Penguin/Puffin)
- Winner (tie): Greylands, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin/Puffin)
- The Outcast, Patricia Bernard (HarperCollins/Moonstone)
- Shade's Children, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Zones, Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes (HarperCollins/Moonstone)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “The Twist in the Tale”, Ruth Starke (Lothian Books)
- “Hanging by a Thread”, Julie Ireland (Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories)
- “The Peppercorn Tree”, Sheryl Gardner (Lothian Books)
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