sfadb: Aurealis Awards 2020 (original) (raw)

Eligibility Year: 2019

Sf Novel

• Winner: Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Daughter of Bad Times, Rohan Wilson (Allen & Unwin)
• The Glad Shout, Alice Robinson (Affirm)
• The Subjects, Sarah Hopkins (Text)
• The Trespassers, Meg Mundell (University of Queensland Press)
• The Year of the Fruit Cake, Gillian Polack (IFWG Australia)

Sf Novella

• Winner: “Scapes Made Diamond”, Shauna O'Meara (Interzone Mar/Apr 2019)
• Prisoncorp, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)
• “Ventiforms”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov's Jan/Feb 2019)
• “You Will Remember Who You Were”, Cat Sparks (Dimension6 #16)

Sf Short Story

• Winner: “Wreck Diving”, Joanne Anderton (Aurealis #123)
• “Canute”, R. P. L. Johnson (SNAFU: Last Stand)
• “Micro”, Angela Meyer (Kill Your Darlings 6 May 2019)
• “Riding the Snails”, Jason Fischer (War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia)
• “Sky Tears”, Mike Adamson (Alien Dimensions #17)
• “What We Named the Needle”, Freya Marske (Analog Jul/Aug 2019)

Fantasy Novel

• Winner: Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• Darkdawn, Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins)
• Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, Michael Pryor (Allen & Unwin)
• The Harp of Kings, Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
• Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom, P. M. Freestone (Scholastic)
• The Wailing Woman, Maria Lewis (Little, Brown)

Fantasy Novella

• Winner: “Scapes Made Diamond”, Shauna O'Meara (Interzone Mar/Apr 2019)
• “The Final Prologue”, Christopher Sequeira (Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not)
• “Like Ripples on a Blank Shore”, J. S. Breukelaar (Collision: Stories)
• “The Orchard”, Ephiny Gale (Andromeda Spaceways Sep 2019)
• “Out of Darkness”, Chris Mason (Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We All Lose Something)
• “To Hell and Back”, Michael Pryor (Aurealis #120)

Fantasy Short Story

• Winner: “Dragon by Subscription”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Patreon)
• “1078 Reasons”, Aidan Doyle (Translunar Travelers Lounge 15 Aug 2019)
• “CurioQueens”, Ephiny Gale (Constellary Tales Dec 2019)
• “Good Dog, Alice”, Juliet Marillier (Wonderland)
• “Loose Stones”, Joanne Anderton (Infinite Threads)
• “Pigshit and Gold”, Aiki Flinthart (Dimension6 #18)

Horror Novel

• Winner: The Rich Man's House, Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
• Body Farm Z, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
• Chuwa: The Rat People of Lahore, Brian Craddock (Broken Puppet)
• Remains, Andrew Cull (IFWG Australia)
• A Riddle in Bronze, Simon Haynes (Bowman)

Horror Novella

• Winner: Into Bones Like Oil, Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)
• Supermassive Black Mass, Matthew R. Davis (Short Sharp Shocks! #12)
• “Yellowheart”, Alan Baxter (Served Cold)

Horror Short Story

• Winner: “Vivienne and Agnes”, Chris Mason (Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Day Tripper)
• “Loose Stones”, Joanne Anderton (Infinite Threads)
• “The Mark”, Grace Chan (Verge 2019: Uncanny)
• “The Moth Tapes”, J. Ashley Smith (Aurealis #117)
• “Of Meat and Man”, Jason Fischer (SNAFU: Last Stand)
• “Pilgrimage”, Matthew R. Davis (Breach #10)
• “The Unwrapping”, Terry Dowling (Echoes)

Anthology

• Winner: Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 13, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, Michael Earp, ed. (Walker Australia)
• Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not, Christopher Sequeira, ed. (IFWG Australia)

Collection

• Winner: Collision: Stories, J. S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
• Blackbirds Sing, Aiki Flinthart (CAT)
• Five Dragons, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
• Men and Machines I: Space Operas and Special Ops, Charlie Nash (Flying Nun)
• Scar Tissue and Other Stories, Narrelle M. Harris (Clan Destine)
• Stray Bats, Margo Lanagan (Small Beer)

Young Adult Novel

• Winner: Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Dev1at3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Ghost Bird, Lisa Fuller (University of Queensland Press)
• The Harp of Kings, Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
• I Heard the Wolf Call My Name, K. S. Nikakis (SOV)
• Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom, P. M. Freestone (Scholastic)

Young Adult Short Story

• Winner: The Jindabyne Secret, Jo Hart (Deadset)
• “Dragon by Subscription”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Patreon)
• “Each City”, Ellen Van Neerven (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories)
• Glass-Heart, K. S. Nikakis (SOV Media)
• “Rats”, Marlee Jane Ward (Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOZYA Stories)
• “Seaweed”, Andrea Teare (Breach #11)

Children's Fiction

• Winner: The Dog Runner, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
• Elementals: Scorch Dragons, Amie Kaufman (HarperCollins)
• The Glimme, Emily Rodda & Marc McBride (Omnibus)
• Jinxed!: The Curious Curse of Cora Bell, Rebecca McRitchie, illustrated by Sharon O'Connor (HarperCollins)
• The Lost Stone of SkyCity, HM Waugh (Fremantle)
• Race for the Red Dragon, Rebecca Lim (Allen & Unwin)

Convenors' Award

• Winner: “Watermarks: Science Fiction, Mitigation and the Mosaic Novel Structure in Australian Climate Fiction”, Jason Nahrung (PhD thesis, University of Queensland)