sfadb: Ditmar Awards 2006 (original) (raw)

Where and When: Conjure, the 45th Australian national SF convention, Brisbane, Australia : April 15, 2006
Eligibility Year: 2005

Novel

• Winner: Geodesica: Ascent, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (Ace)
• The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday, Garth Nix (HarperCollins)
• Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
• Midnighters, Book Two: Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld (Eos)
• Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill)
• Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)

Novella Or Novelette

• Winner: “The Grinding House”, Kaaron Warren (The Grinding House)
• “Countless Screaming Argonauts”, Chris Lawson (Realms of Fantasy Aug 2005)
• “The Memory of Breathing”, Lyn Triffitt (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)
• “Passing of the Minotaurs”, Rjurik Davidson (Sci Fiction 20 Apr 2005)
• “The Red Priest's Homecoming”, Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)

Short Story

• Winner: “Fresh Young Widow”, Kaaron Warren (The Grinding House)
• “Leviathan”, Simon Brown (Eidolon SF: Online)
• “Matricide”, Lucy Sussex (Sci Fiction 2 Feb 2005)
• “Once Giants Roamed the Earth”, Rosaleen Love (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales)
• “Summa Seltzer Missive”, Deborah Biancotti (Ticonderoga Online #6)

Collected Work

• Winner: Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales, Robert Hood & Robin Penn, eds. (Agog! Press)
• The Grinding House, Kaaron Warren, edited by Donna Maree Hanson (CSFG Publishing)
• Shadowed Realms (http://www.shadowedrealms.com.au), Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings, eds.
• A Tour Guide in Utopia, Lucy Sussex (MirrorDanse Books)
• Years Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, eds. (MirrorDanse Books)

Fan Production

• Winner: The Australian SF Bullsheet (website and newsletter), Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner
• Conflux Committee (Conflux 2. Conflux 2 convention)
• Continuum Committee (Continuum 3. Continuum 3 convention)
• ASif!: Australian Specfic In Focus (http://asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php), Alisa Krasnostein
• Inkspillers (http://www.inkspillers.com), Tony Plank

Fanzine

• Winner: Ticonderoga Online, Russell B. Farr
• Horrorscope (http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com), Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Bill Wright, ed.

Fan Writer

• Winner: Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope)
• Martin Livings (Skeletor_Hordak, LiveJournal web comic)
• Bill Wright (Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Published by Bill Wright)
• Bruce Gillespie (Writer/reviewer, Steam Engine Time and Science Fiction Commentary)
• Stephanie Gunn (Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope)

Fan Artist

• Winner: Shane Parker (Conflux Poster Art, Conflux)
• Dick Jenssen (Artwork in American fan Earl Kemp's ezines eI20 (June 2005) and eI23 (Dec 2005), Published via efanzines.com)
• Elaine Kemp (ConSensual a Trois interior artwork, ConSensual a Trois, April 2005)

Artwork

• Winner: Nick Stathopoulos for Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview by Donna Hanson
• Greg Bridges for The Blood Debt by Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)
• Fell #3, Ben Templesmith (Image Comics)
• Robin Evans for The Grinding House by Kaaron Warren (CSFG Publishing)

Professional Achievement

• Winner: Robert Dobson, Robert Hoge, Kate Eltham & Heather Gammage (Clarion South 2005, Clarion South Workshop)
• Jonathan Strahan, for co-editing Best Short Novels: 2005 (SFBC), Science Fiction: Best of 2004 (ibooks), and Fantasy: Best of 2004 (ibooks)
• Michael Rymer (Screenwriting and directing, Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.0 Sci-Fi Channel)
• Australian Speculative Fiction: a genre overview, Donna Maree Hanson
• COSMOS Magazine, Damien Broderick, Wilson de Silva & Kylie Ahern