Aurealis Awards 2012
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Sydney :
May 12, 2012
Eligibility Year: 2011
Eligibility Year: 2011
Sf Novel
- Winner: The Courier's New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager)
- Black Glass, Meg Mundell (Scribe Publications)
- Children of Scarabaeus, Sara Creasy (HarperVoyager)
- Machine Man, Max Barry (Scribe Publications)
- The Waterboys, Peter Docker (Fremantle Press)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Rains of la Strange”, Robert N. Stephenson (Anywhere but Earth Coeur de Lion)
- “Dead Low”, Cat Sparks (Midnight Echo)
- “Desert Madonna”, Robert Hood (Anywhere but Earth Coeur de Lion)
- “Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden”, Joanne Anderton (Hope Kayelle Press)
- “SIBO”, Penelope Love (Anywhere but Earth Coeur de Lion)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Ember and Ash, Pamela Freeman (Hachette)
- Debris, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
- The Shattered City, Tansy Rayner Roberts (HarperVoyager)
- Stormlord's Exile, Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)
- The Undivided, Jennifer Fallon (HarperVoyager)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “Fruit of the Pipal Tree”, Thoraiya Dyer (After the Rain FableCroft Publishing)
- “The Dark Night of Anton Weiss”, D. C. White (More Scary Kissess Ticonderoga Publications)
- “Into the Clouds on High”, Margo Lanagan (Yellowcake Allen & Unwin)
- “The Proving of Smollett Standforth”, Margo Lanagan (Ghosts by Gaslight HarperVoyager)
- “Reading Coffee”, Anthony Panegyres (Overland)
Horror Novel
- The Broken Ones, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette)
- The Business of Death, Trent Jamieson (Hachette)
- No shortlist or winning novel
Horror Short Story
- Winner (tie): “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt”, Paul Haines (The Last Days of Kali Yuga Brimstone Press)
- Winner (tie): “The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds”, Lisa L. Hannett (Bluegrass Symphony Ticonderoga Publications)
- “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living”, Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar Gilgamesh Press)
- “The Coffin-Maker's Daughter”, Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors Quercus)
- Mulberry Boys, Margo Lanagan (Blood and Other Cravings Tor)
Anthology
- Winner: Ghosts by Gaslight, Jack Dann & Nick Gevers, eds. (HarperVoyager)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Ishtar, Amanda Pillar & K. V. Taylor, eds. (Gilgamesh Press)
- Life on Mars: Tales of the New Frontier, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Viking)
- The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga Publications)
Collection
- Winner: Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga Publications)
- Bad Power, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet Press)
- The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Paul Haines (Brimstone Press)
- Love and Romanpunk, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Nightsiders, Sue Isle (Twelfth Planet Press)
Illustrated Book/graphic Novel
- Winner (tie): The Deep: Here Be Dragons, Tom Taylor (author) and James Brouwer (illustrator) (Gestalt Publishing)
- Winner (tie): Hidden, Mirranda Burton, author and illustrator (Black Pepper)
- The Eldritch Kid: Whiskey and Hate, Christian Read (author) and Michael Maier (illustrator) (Gestalt Publishing)
- Salsa Invertebraxa, Mozchops, author and illustrator (Pecksniff Press)
- Torn, Andrew Constant (author) and Joh James (illustrator) (Gestalt Publishing)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Only Ever Always, Penni Russon (Allen & Unwin)
- Black Glass, Meg Mundell (Scribe Publications)
- Secrets of Carrick: Tantony, Ananda Braxton-Smith (black dog books)
- The Shattering, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin)
- Shift, Em Bailey (Hardie Grant Egmont)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Nation of the Night”, Sue Isle (Nightsiders Twelfth Planet Press)
- “Finishing School”, Kathleen Jennings (Steampunk! Candlewick Press)
- “One Window”, Martine Murray (The Wilful Eye Allen & Unwin)
- “The Patrician”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Love and Romanpunk Twelfth Planet Press)
- “Seventy-Two Derwents”, Cate Kennedy (The Wicked Wood Allen & Unwin)
Children's Fiction (told Primary Through Words)
- Winner: City of Lies, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
- The Coming of the Whirlpool, Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
- “It Began with a Tingle”, Thalia Kalkapsakis (Allen & Unwin)
- The Outcasts, John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
- The Paradise Trap, Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin)
Children's Fiction (told Primarily Through Pictures)
- Winner: Sounds Spooky, Christopher Cheng (author) and Sarah Davis (illustrator) (Random House Australia)
- The Deep: Here Be Dragons, Tom Taylor (author) and James Brouwer (illustrator) (Gestalt Publishing)
- The Ghost of Annabel Spoon, Aaron Blabey, author and illustrator (Penguin/Viking Books)
- The Last Viking, Norman Jorgensen (author) and James Foley (illustrator) (Fremantle Press)
- Vampyre, Margaret Wild (author) and Andrew Yeo (illustrator) (Walker Books)
Peter Mcnamara Convenors' Award
- Winner: Galactic Suburbia podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts & Andrew Finch
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