2016 Aurora Awards Finalists

The 2016 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2015.”

Best Novel

• Drowning in Amber, E.C. Bell (Tyche)
• A Daughter of No Nation, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
• Too Far Gone, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
• Much Ado about Macbeth, Randy McCharles (Tyche)
• Cursed: Black Swan, Ryan T. McFadden (Dragon Moon)
• Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)

Best YA Novel

• Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond, Jayne Barnard (Tyche)
• An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet (Scholastic Canada/Clarion US)
• Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
• The Flame in the Maze, Caitlin Sweet (ChiZine)
• The Fountain, Suzy Vadori (Evil Alter Ego)

Best Short Fiction

• “La Héron”, Charlotte Ashley (F & SF 3-4/15)
• “Game Not Over”, Ron Friedman (Galaxy’s Edge 1/15)
• “Cosmobotica”, Costi Gurgu & Tony Pi (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
• “Super Frenemies”, Stephen Kotowych (Caped: An Anthology of Superhero Tales)
• “Waters of Versailles”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)
• “Looking for Gordo”, Robert J. Sawyer (Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft)

Best Poem/Song

• “Elegy for WLC”, David Clink (The Dalhousie Review 94:3)
• “Portrait”, David Clink (On Spec #99)
• “Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story”, Sandra Kasturi (Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary)
• “Origami Crane / Light Defying Spaceship”, Naru Dames Sundar (Liminality #5)
• “Venice Letting Go”, Sandra Kasturi (Postscripts to Darkness #6)

Best Graphic Novel

• Infinitum: Time Travel Noir, GMB Chomichuk (ChiZine)
• Bloodsuckers: Volume 2,  J.M. Frey, illustrated by Ryan Cole (Toronto Comics)
• Crash and Burn: Prologue, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
• West of Bathurst: The Complete Collection, Kari Maaren (self-published)
• The Lady ParaNorma, Vincent Marcone (ChiZine)

Best Related Work

• Playground of Lost Toys, Colleen Anderson & Ursula Pflug, eds. (Exile Editions)
• Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, Madeline Ashby & David Nickle, eds. (ChiZine)
• Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places, J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (EDGE)
• nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery & the Macabre, Nancy Kilpatrick & Caro Soles, eds. (EDGE)
• Second Contacts, Michael Rimar & Hayden Trenholm, eds. (Bundoran)

Best Artist

• James Beveridge
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
• Jeff Minkevics
• Erik Mohr
• Dan O’Driscoll

Best Visual Presentation

• Bitten, Season 2
• Continuum, Season 4
• Dark Matter, Season 1
• Killjoys, Season 1
• Orphan Black, Season 3

There were also nominees in fan categories. Winners will be honored at Canvention 36, hosted by When Worlds Collide in Delta Calgary South, Calgary, August 12-14, 2016. Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) members have from June 15, 2016 until midnight EDT on July 23, 2016 to cast ballots. For more information, and complete nominees: www.prixaurorawards.ca.