sfadb: Aurora Awards 2014 (original) (raw)
Where and When: VCON 39, Vancouver : October 3, 2014 - October 5, 2014
Eligibility Year: 2013
Novel In English
- Winner: A Turn of Light, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
- Red Planet Blues, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
- River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
- The Tattooed Witch, Susan MacGregor (Five Rivers)
- Tombstone Blues, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
Ya Novel In English
- Winner: The Rising, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
- The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate, Marty Chan (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
- Ink, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
- The Lake and the Library, S. M. Beiko (ECW)
- Out of Time, D. G. Ladroute (Five Rivers)
- Resolve, Neil Godbout (Bundoran)
Short Fiction In English
- Winner: “Ghost in the Machine”, Ryan McFadden (The Puzzle Box)
- “Angela and Her Three Wishes”, Eileen Bell (The Puzzle Box)
- “The Awakening of Master March”, Randy McCharles (The Puzzle Box)
- “A Bunny Hug for Karl”, Mike Rimar (Masked Mosaic, Canadian Super Stories)
- “The Gift”, Susan Forest (Urban Green Man)
- “Green Man She Restless”, Billie Milholland (Urban Green Man)
- “Living Bargains”, Suzanne Church (When the Hero Comes Home 2)
Related Work In English
- Winner: On Spec, Copper Pig Writers' Society
- Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, Samantha Beiko & Sandra Kasturi, eds. (ChiZine)
- The Puzzle Box, The Apocalyptic Four (EDGE)
- “Suzenyms”, Susan MacGregor (suzenyms.blogspot.ca#sthash.xttbxagF.dpuf)
- Urban Green Man, Janice Blaine & Adria Laycraft, eds. (EDGE)
Poem/song In English
- Winner: “Night Journey: West Coast”, Eileen Kernaghan (Tesseracts Seventeen)
- “Awake”, Peter Storey (Urban Green Man)
- “A City of Buried Rivers”, David Clink (The Literary Review of Canada Nov 2013)
- “The Collected Post Cards of Billy the Kid”, Helen Marshall (Postscripts to Darkness Nov 2013)
- “Lost”, Amal El-Mohtar (Strange Horizons 25 Feb 2013)
- “Turning the Leaves”, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine Dec 2013)
Artist
Fan Organizational
- Winner: Randy McCharles (chair When Words Collide, Calgary)
- Evelyn Baker & Alana Otis-Wood (co-chairs Ad Astra, Toronto)
- S. M. Beiko & Chadwick Ginther (co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Winnipeg)
- Sandra Kasturi & James Bambury (co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Toronto)
- Matt Moore (chair Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Ottawa)
- Rose Wilson (Art Show Director, VCON 38, Vancouver)
Fan Music
- Winner: Chris Hadfield, for his performance of Space Oddity
- Brooke Abbey, for writing and publishing 12 songs
- Debs & Errol, for CTRL+ALT+DUETS, EP
- Kari Maaren, for Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off, CD
- Devin Melanson, Leslie Hudson & Kari Maaren, for Pirate Elves in Space, CD
Fan Related Work
- Winner: Robert Runt� (�Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading�, Scholar Keynote Address at ACCSFF �13, Toronto)
- R. Graeme Cameron (weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine)
- Steve Fahnestalk (weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine)