2010 Aurealis Award Nominees

From SFScope blog

• The nominees for this year's Aurealis Awards have been announced. The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 to "recognize the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers

Here is a partial listing of the science fiction nomination:

Science Fiction Short Story:
"The Heart of a Mouse" by K.J. Bishop (Subterranean Online)
"The Angaelian Apocalypse" by Matthew Chrulew (The Company Articles of Edward Teach/The Angaelian Apocalypse)
"Border Crossing" by Penelope Love (Belong)
"Interloper" by Ian McHugh (Asimov's Science Fiction)
"Relentless Adaptations" by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sprawl)

Science Fiction Novel:
Song of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy (Eos)
Mirror Space by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit/Hachette)
Transformation Space by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit/Hachette)

The complete list is available at SFScope here

WINNERS: 2009 Aurealis Awards

Here is a partial listing of the 2009 winners of the Aurealis Awards.

The Aurealis Awards, honoring works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians.

Here are the science fiction category winners

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: Wonders of a Godless World, Andrew McGahan
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY: 'Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens', Peter M. Ball
BEST ANTHOLOGY: Eclipse 3, Jonathan Strahan (editor)

For a complete listing of all categories you can click the link here or the article title

Aurealis Awards results for 2009

The 2009 Aurealis Awards results were announced live on their own Twitter feed, which may be afirst for an SF award. This from the Science Fiction Awards Watch blog:

Here is a partial listing, if you would like the complete listing please go to the Science Fiction Awards Watch blog:

• Best Science Fiction Novel: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, K A Bedford
• (reviewed here on BMU earlier)
  

• Best Science Fiction Short Story: “The Empire, Simon Brown”

Congrats to K.A. Bedford and Simon Brown

Aurealis Awards

Science Fiction Award Watch is jumping on the award season with the nominees for the 2009 Aurealis Awards (for works published in 2008-ish) have been announced. Here are the Science fiction portion of the list:

Best Science Fiction Novel

K A Bedford, Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing ( reviewed here on Beam Me Up )

Marianne de Pierres, Chaos Space, Book Two of the Sentients of Orion, Orbit

Simon Haynes, Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Fremantle Press

Kim Westwood, The Daughters of Moab, HarperVoyager

Sean Williams, Earth Ascendant, Astropolis Book Two, Orbit

Best Science Fiction Short Story

Simon Brown, ‘The Empire’, Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager

Nathan Burrage, ‘Black and Bitter, Thanks’, The Workers’ Paradise, Ticonderoga Publications

Trent Jamieson, ‘Delivery’, Cosmos, #21

Margo Lanagan, ‘The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross’, Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager

Tansy Rayner Roberts, ‘Fleshy’, 2012, Twelfth Planet Press

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Aurealis Winners Announced

The Aurealis Awards recognize the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writer. The folks over at SF Awards Watch have a complete list of this years award winners.

Here are the Science Fiction winners, click on article title for the complete list:

Best science fiction novel:
David Kowalski, The Company of the Dead - Pan Macmillan

Best science fiction short story:
Cat Sparks, “Hollywood Roadkill” - On Spec #69

Aurealis Finalists, Philip K. Dick nominees & Nebula Preliminary ballots

Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot

NOVELS

From the Files of the Time Rangers Richard Bowes
* Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell (Tor, Feb06)
* The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
* The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
* Counting Heads by David Marusek
* To Crush the Moon by Wil McCarthy
* Seeker by Jack McDevitt
* A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
* Remains by Mark W Tiedemann
* Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

NOVELLAS

* Sanctuary by Michael A. Burstein (Analog, )
* Burn by James Patrick Kelly
* The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko
* Inclination by William Shunn (Asimov's, )

NOVELETTES

* The Language of Moths- Chris Barzak (Realms Apr05)
* Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
* A Key to the Illuminated Heretic by Alyx M. Dellamonica
* Second Person, Present Tense Daryl Gregory
* Do Neanderthals Know? by Robert J Howe
* Little Faces by Vonda McIntyre
* Journey into the Kingdom by M. Rickert
* Walpurgis Afternoon by Delia Sherman

SHORT STORIES
* Helen Remembers the Stork Club Esther M. Friesner
* Pip and the Fairies by Theodora Goss
* Echo" by Elizabeth Hand (F&SF, Oct/Nov05)
* Mahmoud's Wives" by Janis Ian
* Henry James, This One's For You" by Jack McDevitt
* The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations by Eugene Mirabelli
* Anyway" by M. Rickert (SCI FICTION, 23 Aug05)

The finalists for the 2006 Aurealis Awards, which honors the best in Australian genre fiction,
have been announced:

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

* Hydrogen Steel by K. A. Bedford
* K-Machines by Damien Broderick
* Underground by Andrew McGahan
* Geodesica: Descent by Sean Williams with Shane Dix

NOMINEES: 2007 Philip K. Dick Award
from SF Signal blog

Nominees for this year's Philip K. Dick Award, recognizing distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, have been announced:

* Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
* Catalyst by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
* Idolon by Mark Budz
* Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson
* Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
* Recursion by Tony Ballantyne
* Spin Control by Chris Moriarity