Ditmar Awards 2007
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2006
Novel
- Winner: The Pilo Family Circus, Will Elliott (ABC Books)
- Carnies, Martin Livings (Lothian)
- The Mother, Brett McBean (Lothian)
- Prismatic, Edwina Grey (Lothian)
- The Silver Road, Grace Dugan (Penguin)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: “The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or how I found God inside my wife)”, Paul Haines (C0ck)
- “Aftermath”, David Conyers (Agog! Ripping Reads)
- “The Dead of Winter”, Stephen Dedman (Weird Tales #339)
- “The Soul of Dead Soldiers Are for Blackbirds, Not Little Boys”, Ben Peek (Agog! Ripping Reads)
- “Under the Red Sun”, Ben Peek (Fantasy Magazine #4)
- “World's Whackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disasters Dating Game”, Brendan Duffy (Agog! Ripping Reads)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Fear of White”, Rjurik Davidson (Borderlands #7)
- “The Bat's Boudoir”, Kyla Ward (Shadowed Realms #9)
- “Burning from the Inside”, Paul Haines (Doorways for the Dispossessed)
- “Cold”, Kirstyn McDermott (Shadowed Realms #9)
- “Honeymoon”, Adam Browne & John Dixon (C0ck)
- “Surrender 1: Rope Artist”, Deborah Biancotti (Shadowed Realms #9)
Collected Work
- Winner: The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy Volume Two, Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, eds. (Mirrordanse Books)
- Agog! Ripping Reads, Cat Sparks, ed. (Agog! Press)
- C0ck, Keith Stevenson & Andrew Macrae, eds. (Coeur de Lion Publications)
- Doorways for the Dispossessed, Paul Haines & Geoffrey Maloney, eds. (Prime Books)
- Eidolon 1, Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy Byrne, eds. (Eidolon Books)
Fan Production
- Winner: ASif!: Australian Specfic In Focus, Alisa Krasnostein (website)
- The Bullsheet, Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner (website and ezine)
- Inkspillers, Tony Plank (website)
- Outland, John Richards
- Tabula-Rasa, David Carroll (website)
Fanzine
- Winner: HorrorScope, Shane Jiraiya Cummings
- Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe (e-zine)
- ASif!: Australian Specfic In Focus, Alisa Krasnostein (website)
- The Captain's Log, Clare McDonald (Austrek clubzine)
- Ethel the Aardvark (MSFC clubzine)
Fan Writer
Fan Artist
- Winner: Jon Swabey
- Christopher Johnstone
Artwork
- Winner: Andrew Macrae for 26Lies/1Truth (Wheatland Press)
- Cat Sparks for Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press)
- Shaun Tan for The Arrival (Lothian)
- Cat Sparks for Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press)
- Greg Bridges for The Devoured Earth (HarperCollins)
New Talent
Fan Achievement
- Winner: Alisa Krasnostein, for establishing Asif
- Tony Plank, for establishing and maintaining the Inkspillers website
- Marty Young, for his work establishing and promoting the Australian Horror Writers Association
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan University Press)
- “Bad Film Diaries--Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld”, Grant Watson (Borderlands #8)
- “Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiji Eiga and Its Metaphorical Undercurrents”, Robert Hood (Borderlands #7)
- “Review of Paraspheres”, Miranda Siemienowicz (HorrorScope)
- “Review of 'Through Soft Air'”, Kathryn Linge (Asif)
Professional Achievement
- Winner: Bill Congreve, for Mirrordanse Press and two issues of the Australian Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Justine Larbalestier, for editing Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
- Gary Kemble, for work on ABC's Articulate and promoting the genre through radio and other mediums
- Russell B. Farr, for Ticonderoga Publications
- Angela Challis, for establishing Brimstone Press as a mass-market publisher
- Alisa Krasnostein, for providing new paying markets for readers and writers of both fiction and non-fiction, art as well as forums for reviews/interviews within the speculative fiction genre, enhancing the profile of Australian speculative fiction
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