Aurealis Awards 2003
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2002
Sf Novel
- Winner: Transcension, Damien Broderick (Tor)
- Blue Silence, Michelle Marquardt (Bantam Australia)
- Echoes of Earth, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (HarperCollins)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Walk to the Full Moon”, Sean McMullen (F&SF Dec 2002)
- “The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover”, Geoffrey Maloney (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
- “Late Returns”, Shane M. Brown (Redsine #9)
- “Lucy Lucy”, Shane M. Brown (Aurealis #29 2002)
- “Within Twilight”, Chris McMahon (Redsine #8)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Storm Weaver and the Sand, Sean Williams (HarperCollins)
- Blood, Tony Shillitoe (HarperCollins)
- The Crippled Angel, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)
- The Gift, Alison Croggon (Penguin)
- Hades' Daughter, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)
- The Novice, Trudi Canavan (HarperCollins)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: no award
Horror Novel
- Winner: The White Body of Evening, A. L. McCann (Flamingo/HarperCollins)
- Daughter of the Dark, Louise Cusack (Simon & Schuster)
- The Gift, Alison Croggon (Penguin)
- Shadows Bite, Stephen Dedman (Tor)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Oracle”, Kim Westwood (Redsine #9)
- “Les Autres”, Adam Browne (Redsine #8)
- “Wastelands”, Stephen Dedman (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)
- “What the Tide Brings”, Claire McKenna (Fables & Reflections #2)
- “Within Twilight”, Chris McMahon (Redsine #8)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: The Hand of Glory, Sophie Masson (Hodder Headline)
- Fireworks and Darkness, Natalie Jane Prior (Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins)
- Mum, Me, and the 19th C, David McRobbie (Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins)
- The Starthorn Tree, Kate Forsyth (Pan)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: no award
Children's Long Fiction
- Winner: In the Garden of Empress Cassia, Gabrielle Wang (Puffin Books)
- Astrid Spark, Fixologist, Justin d'Ath (Allen & Unwin)
- Eglantine, Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin)
- Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely, Natalie Jane Prior (Hodder)
- Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron, Dave Luckett (Scholastic)
Children's Short Fiction
- Winner: Tashi and the Haunted House, Anna Fienberg & Kim Gamble (Allen & Unwin)
- “The Golden Udder”, Terry Denton (Allen & Unwin)
- “In the Blink of an Eye”, Andrew Chapman (Spellbinders (Spinouts Sapphire))
- “Old Ridley”, Gary Crew & Marc McBride (Hodder)
- “The Two Natalies”, Justin d'Ath (Reel Trouble (Spinouts Sapphire))
Peter Mcnamara Convenors' Award
- Winner: Robbie Matthews, for his important contribution to local genre publishing both with the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
- Kim Selling & Lilla Smee, for organising the Fantastic Fictions: Medieval and Modern one-day seminar at the University of Sydney
- Cat Sparks, for the guidance and support she has provided to the local genre industry through her imprint Agog! Publishing
- Sara Creasy, for compiling and editing the monthly ebulletin 'aurealisXpress'
- Justine Larbalestier, for The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
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