Aurealis shortlist
Thirteen categories, 56 titles – that’s the shortlist for the 2008 Aurealis Awards, whittled down from more than 600 entries. Speculative fiction is big.
Several categories are of particular interest to us, although there is something for everyone in all of them.
Best Fantasy Novel
- Alison Goodman – The Two Pearls of Wisdom
- Sylvia Kelso – Amberlight
- Margo Lanagan – Tender Morsels
- Juliet Marillier – Heir to Sevenwaters
- Karen Miller – The Riven Kingdom
Best Illustrated Book /Graphic Novel
- Steve Hunt & David Richardson – The Cloudchasers
- Shaun Tan – Tales from Outer Suburbia
- Colin Thompson – The Floods Family Files
- Julie Watts & Graeme Base – The Art of Graeme Base
Best Young Adult Long Fiction
- Isobelle Carmody – The Stone Key
- David Cornish – Lamplighter
- Alison Goodman – Two Pearls of Wisdom
- Melina Marchetta – Finnikin of the Rock
- Sean Williams – The Changeling
Best Young Adult Short Fiction
- Deborah Biancotti, ‘The Tailor of Time’, Clockwork Phoenix, Norilana Books
- Dirk Flinthart, ‘This Is Not My Story’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #37
- Trent Jamieson, ‘Cracks’, Shiny, #2
- Kevin MacLean, ‘Eye of the Beholder’, Misspelled
Best Children’s Long Fiction
- Simon Higgins – Moonshadow (Eye of the Beast)
- Sophie Masson – Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts
- Emily Rodda – The Wizard of Rondo
- Carole Wilkinson – Dragon Dawn
- Sean Williams – The Changeling and The Dust Devils (Changeling series)
Best Children’s Illustrated Work/Picture Book
- Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble -Tashi and the Phoenix
- Richard Harland & Laura Peterson (illustrator) – Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, The Heavy Crown, (The Wolf Kingdom series)
- Ian Irvine & David Cornish (illustrator) – Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Crypt, Wizardry Crag (The Sorcerer’s Tower series)
- Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin and Blaze Kwaymullina & Adam Hill (illustrator) – Curly and the Fent
- Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton (illustrator) – Twisted Tales
The full list can be viewed here on the Aurealis Awards revamped site. Winners will be announced on January 24.
Addendum 21 December. Apologies to Simon Haynes, who has rightly pointed out the following omission:
Best Science Fiction Novel
- K A Bedford – Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
- Marianne de Pierres – Chaos Space (Book Two of the Sentients of Orion)
- Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch
- Kim Westwood – The Daughters of Moab
- Sean Williams – Earth Ascendant (Astropolis Book Two)
December 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am
You left off the SF portion, where Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch sits proudly in the list. WA author, YA/Adult crossover and most importantly I watch your blog
December 21st, 2008 at 8:03 pm
A thousand apologies, Simon. That will teach me to rush things when I am trying to make up for lost time and a month or more of computer malfunction. Please see addendum. Many grovels!
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Hey, no problem! I didn’t expect to see my book in the list at all
I appreciate you mentioning the Aurealis Awards on the blog too. Sometimes Spec Fic readers and writers feel a bit left out, despite the genre being such a large part of the landscape. Recognition is always nice!
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:24 am
And congratulations, Simon. Why not the YA category (too), I wonder but so good to be included here. Daughters of Moab was reviewed in Fiction Focus as YA too, so the Aurealis criteria would be interesting to follow up. Just musing.