Aurora Awards 2023
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: August 19, 2023
Where: Online
Eligibility Year: 2022
Where: Online
Eligibility Year: 2022
Novel
- Winner: The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield (HarperVoyager)
- All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada)
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (HarperCollins)
- The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
Ya Novel
- Winner: The Hollow Boys, Douglas Smith (Spiral Path)
- Black Hole Radio -- Ka'Azula, Ann Birdgenaw (DartFrog)
- Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel (Puffin Canada)
- Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, Rati Mehrotra (Wednesday Books)
- Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao (Margaret K. McElderry)
Short Story
- Winner: “Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer”, Peter G. Reynolds (On Spec 120)
- “Big Trouble in Droidtown”, Hayden Trenholm (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
- “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark Mar 2022)
- “The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing, or A for Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro”, Geoffrey W. Cole (Clarkesworld Jan 2022)
- “Green Witch”, Elizabeth Whitton (Prairie Witch)
- “A New Brave World”, Eric Choi (Brave New Worlds)
- “Schrödinger's Cats”, Wayne Cusack (Polar Borealis 22)
- “We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon”, Gillian Secord (Fireside Mar 2022)
Novelette/novella
- Winner: The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee (Subterranean)
- Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
- “A Sky and a Heaven”, Eric Choi (Just Like Being There)
- The Tiger Came to the Mountains, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Amazon Original Stories)
Related Work
- Winner (tie): The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, eds. (Tyche)
- Winner (tie): Nothing Without Us Too, Cait Gordon & Talia C. Johnson, eds. (Renaissance)
- On Spec, Diane Walton, ed. (The Copper Pig Writers' Society)
- Prairie Witch, Stacey Kondla, ed. (Prairie Soul)
- Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, Don Miasek, ed. (TDotSpec)
Graphic Novel/comic
- Winner: It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)
- Birds of Maine, Michael DeForge (Drawn and Quarterly)
- Cupcake War Machine, Marika Kapogeorgakis (cupcakewarmachine.thecomicseries.com)
- Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens (www.goblinscomic.com)
- Mistress of the Winds, Michèle Laframboise (Echofictions)
- Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques (questionablecontent.net)
- Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff (www.wychwoodcomic.com)
Poem/song
- Winner: “Rapunzel in the Desert”, Melissa Yuan-Innes (On Spec Win 2022)
- “After the Apocalypse”, Colleen Anderson (NewMyths Dec 2022)
- “Ghost Stories”, James Grotkowski (Polar Starlight 6)
- “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny May/Jun 2022)
- “Poltergeist”, Rhonda Parrish (Star*Line Spr 2022)
- “a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future”, Dominik Parisien (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2022)
- “Three Herons”, Geoffrey W. Cole (Polar Starlight 5)
- “The Wolf of Your Passions”, Lynne Sargent (Augur 5.2)
Cover Art/interior Illustration
- Winner: Rachel Yu Lobbenberg for Arboreality (Stelliform)
- Kayla Kowalyk for The Astronaut Always Rings Twice (Tcyhe)
- Marco Marin for Birthday of the Unicorn (TdotSpec)
- Julia Louise Pereira for Weird Fishes (Stelliform)
- Swati Chavda for “The World We Left Behind” (On Spec Spr 2022)
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