Aurora Awards 2016
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Canvention 36,
Calgary :
August 14, 2016
Eligibility Year: 2015
Eligibility Year: 2015
Novel
- Winner: A Daughter of No Nation, A. M. Dellamonica (Tor)
- Cursed: Black Swan, Ryan T. McFadden (Dragon Moon)
- Drowning in Amber, E. C. Bell (Tyche)
- Much Ado About Macbeth, Randy McCharles (Tyche)
- Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
- Too Far Gone, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
Ya Novel
- Winner: An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet (Scholastic Canada; Clarion US)
- The Flame in the Maze, Caitlin Sweet (ChiZine)
- The Fountain, Suzy Vadori (Evil Alter Ego)
- Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
- Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond, Jayne Barnard (Tyche)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Waters of Versailles”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 10 Jun 2015)
- “Cosmobotica”, Costi Gurgu & Tony Pi (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
- “Game Not Over”, Ron Friedman (Galaxy's Edge Jan 2015)
- “La Héron”, Charlotte Ashley (F&SF Mar/Apr 2015)
- “Looking for Gordo”, Robert J. Sawyer (Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft)
- “Super Frenemies”, Stephen Kotowych (Caped: An Anthology of Superhero Tales)
Related Work
- Winner: Second Contacts, Michael Rimar & Hayden Trenholm, eds. (Bundoran)
- Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, Madeline Ashby & David Nickle, eds. (ChiZine)
- nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery & the Macabre, Nancy Kilpatrick & Caro Soles, eds. (Edge)
- Playground of Lost Toys, Colleen Anderson & Ursula Pflug, eds. (Exile Editions)
- Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places, J. R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (Edge)
Graphic Novel
- Winner: The Lady ParaNorma, Vincent Marcone (ChiZine)
- Bloodsuckers: Volume 2, J. M. Frey, illustrated by Ryan Cole (Toronto Comics)
- Crash and Burn: Prologue, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
- Infinitum: Time Travel Noir, GMB Chomichuk (ChiZine)
- West of Bathurst: The Complete Collection, Kari Maaren (self-published)
Poem/song
- Winner: “Origami Crane / Light Defying Spaceship”, Naru Dames Sundar (Liminality #5)
- “Elegy for WLC”, David Clink (The Dalhousie Review 94:3)
- “Portrait”, David Clink (On Spec #99)
- “Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story”, Sandra Kasturi (Gods, Memes, and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary)
- “Venice Letting Go”, Sandra Kasturi (Postscripts to Darkness #6)
Artist
Visual Presentation
- Winner: Orphan Black
- Bitten
- Continuum
- Dark Matter
- Killjoys
Fan Publication
- Winner: Speculating Canada, Derek Newman-Stille, ed.
- Broken Toys, Taral Wayne, ed.
- Ecdysis, Jonathan Crowe, ed.
- The Page of Reviews, Adam Shaftoe-Durrant, ed.
- WARP, Cathy Palmer-Lister, ed.
Fan Organizational
- Winner: Randy McCharles (Chair, When Words Collide, Calgary)
- Samantha Beiko & Chadwick Ginther (Chair, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Winnipeg)
- Derek Künsken & Marie Bilodeau (Executive, Can*Con 2015, Ottawa)
- Matt Moore, Marie Bilodeau & Nicole Lavigne (Co-chairs, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Ottawa)
- Alana Otis & Paul Robert (Co-chairs, Ad Astra 34 Convention, Toronto)
Fan Related Work
- Winner: Derek Newman-Stille (Speculating, Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM)
- Morva Bowman & Alan Pollard (Halsway Con Concert, Somerset, UK)
- Keith Braithwaite (The Doctor and his Companion, Montreal Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (WARP))
- Steve Fahnestalk (weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine)
- Kari Maaren (Everbody Hates Elves (album), Bandcamp and CD)
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