2015 Aurora Awards Nominees

The 2015 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2014.”

Best Novel

• A Play of Shadow, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Penguin Canada)
• The Future Falls, Tanya Huff (DAW)
• My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Best YA Novel

•  Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
• The Voices in Between, Charlene Challenger (Tightrope)
• Out of This World, Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada)
• Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
• Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
• Rain, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
• Twist of the Blade, Edward Willett (Coteau)

Best Short Fiction

• “Crimson Sky”, Eric Choi (Analog 7-8/14)
• “Jelly and the D-Machine”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
• “Soul-Hungry”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
• “Mecha-Jesus”, Derwin Mak (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
• “No Sweeter Art”, Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/14)

Best Poem/Song

• “The Machine”, David Clink (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
• “The Perfect Library”, David Clink (If the World were to Stop Spinning)
• “The New Ways”, Amal el-Mohtar (Uncanny 11/14)
• “Aversions”, Helen Marshall (Goblin Fruit 10/14)
• “A Hex, With Bees”, Tony Pi (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)

Best Graphic Novel

• Treadwell, Dominic Bercier (Mirror)
• Raygun Gothic Vol. 2, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical)
• Cassie & Tonk, Justin Currie & GMB Chomichuk (Chasing Artwork)
• Trillium, Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)

Best Related Work

• Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction, Suzanne Church (EDGE)
• On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• Lackington’s, Ranylt Richildis, ed. (lackingtons.com)
• Strange Bedfellows, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)

Best Artist

• James Beveridge
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk
• Erik Mohr
• Derek Newman-Stille
• Dan O’Driscoll

There were also nominees in fan categories. Winners will be honored at Canvention 35, hosted by SFContario 6 in Toronto, Ontario, November 20–22, 2015. Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) members have from June 1, 2015 until midnight EDT on October 17, 2015 to cast ballots. For more information, and complete nominees: www.prixaurorawards.ca.