Ditmar Awards 1986
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1985
Australian Novel
- Winner: Illywhacker, Peter Carey (Penguin Australia)
- Changelings of Cha'an, David J. Lake (Hyland House)
- Landscape with Landscapes, Gerald Murnane (Norstrilia)
- Transing Syndrome, Kurt von Trojan (Rigby)
Australian Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Bullet That Grows in the Gun”, Terry Dowling (Urban Fantasies)
- “The Fittest”, George Turner (Urban Fantasies)
- “Glass Reptile Breakout”, Russell Blackford (Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction)
- “Lipton Village Society”, Lucy Sussex (Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction)
- “Montage”, Lucy Sussex (Urban Fantasies)
- “The Twist of Fate”, David Grigg (Urban Fantasies)
International Fiction
- Winner: The Compass Rose, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)
- The Devil in a Forest, Gene Wolfe (Granada)
- Elleander Morning, Jerry Yulsman (Orbit/Futura)
- Free Live Free, Gene Wolfe (Gollancz)
- Peace, Gene Wolfe (Chatto)
- Tik-Tok, John Sladek (Corgi)
Australian Fanzine
- Winner: Metaphysical Review, Bruce Gillespie
- The Notional, Leigh Edmonds
- Sikander, Irwin Hirsh
- Thyme, Roger Weddall & Peter Burns
- Tigger, Marc Ortlieb
Australian Fan Writer
Australian Sf Or Fantasy Artist
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Neuromancer”, George Turner (et al)
- Yvonne Rousseau
- Norman Talbot
- Russell Blackford
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