Ditmar Awards 1981
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1980
Australian Novel
- Winner: The Dreaming Dragons, Damien Broderick (Norstrilia; Pocket)
- Breathing Space Only, Wynne Whiteford (Void)
- The Fourth Hemisphere, David J. Lake (Void)
- Looking for Blucher, Jack Wodhams (Void)
Australian Short Fiction
- Winner: “Deus Ex Corporus”, Leanne Frahm (Chrysalis 7)
- “Horg”, Jay Hoffman (Crux #2)
- “Passages to Earth”, Leanne Frahm (Galileo Jan 1980)
- “The Pastseer”, Philippa Maddern (Interfaces)
International Fiction
- Winner: Timescape, Gregory Benford (Simon & Schuster; Gollancz)
- Mockingbird, Walter S. Tevis (Doubleday; Hodder)
- The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge (The Dial Press/Quantum; Sidgwick)
- The Wounded Land, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey)
Australian Fanzine
- Winner: Q36, Marc Ortlieb
- Australian SF News, Mervyn R. Binns
- Chunder, John Foyster
- SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
Australian Fan Writer
Australian Sf Or Fantasy Artist
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Frederik Pohl as a Creator of Future Societies”, George Turner (The Stellar Gauge)
- Winner: “Samuel Delany: Victim of Great Applause”, George Turner (SF Commentary #58 Feb 1980)
- “Charting Paradise”, Algis Budrys (TriQuarterly #49 Fall 1980)
- “Four Reasons for Reading Thomas M. Disch”, John Sladek (The Stellar Gauge)
- “Outside the Whale”, Christopher Priest (SF Commentary #59 Apr 1980)
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