Aurealis Awards 2021
science fiction awards database
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July 8, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Eligibility Year: 2020
Sf Novel
- Winner (tie): The Animals in that Country, Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
- Winner (tie): Repo Virtual, Corey J. White (Tordotcom)
- Aurora Burning, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Fauna, Donna Mazza (Allen & Unwin)
- Ghost Species, James Bradley (Penguin Random House)
- The Mother Fault, Kate Mildenhall (Simon & Schuster Australia)
Sf Novella
- Winner: “The Weight of the Air, the Weight of the World”, T. R. Napper (Neon Leviathan)
- “Dingo & Sister”, Nikky Lee (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Mar 2020)
- “Generation Gap”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld Feb 2020)
- “Jigsaw Children”, Grace Chan (Clarkesworld Feb 2020)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Mary, Mary”, Fiona Bell (Aurealis #135)
- “All the Stars in Her Eyes”, Deborah Sheldon (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Sep 2020)
- “Andrei Tarkovsky”, Ben Peek (Dimension6 #20)
- “The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter”, Elaine Cuyegkeng (Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women)
- “Jack's Fine Dining”, T. R. Napper (Neon Leviathan)
- “Pork Belly”, Jack Heath (Aurealis #129)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Conquist, Dirk Strasser (Chimaera)
- Hollow Empire, Sam Hawke (Transworld)
- Monstrous Heart, Claire McKenna (HarperCollins)
- The Ninth Sorceress, Bonnie Wynne (Talem)
- The Vanishing Deep, Astrid Scholte (Allen & Unwin)
Fantasy Novella
- Winner: “Dingo & Sister”, Nikky Lee (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Mar 2020)
- “By Touch and By Glance”, Lisa L. Hannett (Songs for Dark Seasons)
- The Frost Fair Affair, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- “Generation Gap”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld Feb 2020)
- “Karkinos”, Nikky Lee (Cancer: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Zodiac)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner: “Truth Be Told”, Louise Pieper (Unnatural Order)
- “The Case of the Somewhat Mythic Sword”, Garth Nix (Tor.com 29 Jan 2020)
- “The Dead May Dance”, Nikky Lee (Midnight Echo #15)
- “A Solace of Shadows”, Suzanne J. Willis (Three Crows Magazine Jul 2020)
- “Terracotta Daughter”, J. Z. Ting (Coppice & Brake)
Horror Novel
- Winner: None Shall Sleep, Ellie Marney (Allen & Unwin)
- An Enigma in Silver, Simon Haynes (Bowman)
- Gutterbreed, Marty Young (Eclectic Trio)
- Monstrous Heart, Claire McKenna (Harper Voyager)
- Soul Survivor, Daniel de Lorne (Scarlo)
Horror Novella
- Winner: “The Saltbush Queen”, Chris Mason (Outback Horrors Down Under)
- The Attic Tragedy, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
- “Bad Weather”, Robert Hood (Outback Horrors Down Under)
- The Cockroach King, Andrew Cull (Beneath Hell)
- “Foundations”, Michael Gardner (Writers of the Future, Volume 36)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “Phoenix Pharmaceuticals”, Jessica Nelson-Tyers (Cancer: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Zodiac)
- “The Bone Fairy”, Martin Livings (Midnight Echo #15)
- “The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter”, Elaine Cuyegkeng (Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women)
- “How We Felt”, Helena O'Connor (Aurealis #136)
- “Many Mouths to Make a Meal”, Garth Nix (Final Cuts)
Anthology
- Winner: Rebuilding Tomorrow, Tsana Dolichva, ed. (Twelfth Planet)
- After Australia, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, ed. (Affirm)
- Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)
- Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Unnatural Order, Alis Franklin & Lyss Wickramasinghe, eds. (CSFG)
- The Zookeeper's Tales of Interstellar Oddities, Aiki Flinthart & Pamela Jeffs, eds. (CAT)
Collection
- Winner: The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (PS)
- Castle Charming, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- Dark Harvest, Cat Sparks (NewCon)
- Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness, Juliet Marillier (Serenity)
- Songs for Dark Seasons, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
- Unreal Alchemy, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
Graphic Novel/illustrated Work
- Winner: Under-Earth, Chris Gooch (Top Shelf)
- Action Tank: Book 2, Mike Barry (Mike Barry Was Here)
- The Grot, Pat Grant (Top Shelf)
- The Odds, Matt Stanton (ABC)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: The Erasure Initiative, Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
- Aurora Burning, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Future Girl, Asphyxia (Allen & Unwin)
- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- The Other Wide of the Sky, Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)
- Truel1f3, Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Dingo & Sister”, Nikky Lee (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Mar 2020)
- “Eat Prey, Love”, Freya Marske (Unnatural Order)
- “Kids These Days”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Rebuilding Tomorrow)
- “Pea Soup”, Juliet Marillier (Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness)
- “Ram's Revenge”, Nikky Lee (Aries: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Zodiac)
- “The Witching Well”, Juliet Marillier (Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness)
Children's Fiction
- Winner: The Lost Soul Atlas, Zana Fraillon (Hachette Australia)
- Across the Risen Sea, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
- The Chicken's Curse, Frances Watts (Allen & Unwin)
- Her Perilous Mansion, Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)
- Hodgepodge: How to Make a Pet Monster, Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
- Tricky Nick, Nicholas J. Johnson (Pan Australia)
Convenors' Award
- Winner: Never Afters: Female Friendship and Collaboration in Contemporary Re-visioned Fairy Tales by Women, Kirstyn McDermott
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