Aurealis Awards 2009 Finalists and Winners

Winners of the 2009 Aurealis Awards (Australia’s juried awards) have been announced:

Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award

• Justin Ackroyd, Proprietor, Slow Glass Books

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Wonders of a Godless World, Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)

• The Grand Conjunction: Astropolis Book Three, Sean Williams (Orbit)

Best Science Fiction Short Story

• “Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens”, Peter M. Ball (Apex May 2009)

• “To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament”, Peter M. Ball (Apex Oct 2009)

• “A Hundredth Name”, Christopher Green (Abyss & Apex #31)

• “Defence of the Realm”, Greg Mellor (Cosmos #25)

• “Soulmates”, Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn (Asimov’s Sep 2009)

Best Fantasy Novel

• Magician’s Apprentice, Trudi Canavan (Orbit)

• Horn, Peter Ball (Twelfth Planet)

• The Last Stormlord, Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)

• Witches Incorporated, K.E. Mills (HarperVoyager)

• The Dark Griffin, K.J. Taylor (HarperVoyager)

Best Fantasy Short Story

• “Father’s Kill”, Christopher Green (Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  #24)

• “Once a Month, On a Sunday”, Ian McHugh (Andromeda
  Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40)

• “Siren Beat”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Roadkill/Siren Beat)

• “Words”, Angela Slatter (The Lifted Brow #5)

• “Something Better than Death”, Lucy Sussex (Aurealis #42)

Best Horror Novel

• Red Queen, Honey Brown (Penguin Australia)

• Horn, Peter Ball (Twelfth Planet)

• The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)

• Night’s Cold Kiss, Tracey O’Hara (HarperCollins Australia)

• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)

Best Horror Short Story

• “Wives”, Paul Haines (X6)

• “Slice of Life — A Spot of Liver”, Paul Haines (Slice of Life)

• “Jesse’s Gift”, Felicity Dowker (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40)

• “Having Faith”, Christopher Green (Nossa Morte
  Feb 2009)

• “The Message”, Andrew J. McKiernan (Midnight Echo #2)

Best Anthology

• Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

• The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Harper Eos)

• New Ceres Nights, Alisa Krasnostein & Tehani Wessely, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• X6, Keith Stevenson, ed. (Coeur de Lion)

• Eclipse 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

Best Collection

• Oceanic, Greg Egan (Gollancz)

• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet)

• Slice of Life, Paul Haines (The Mayne Press)

• Johnny Phillips, Werewolf Detective, Robbie Matthews (Australian Speculative Fiction)

Best Young Adult Novel

• Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)

• The Puzzle Ring, Kate Forsyth (Pan Macmillan)

• The Museum of Mary Child, Cassandra Golds (Puffin)

• A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, Glenda Millard (Allen & Unwin)

• Scarecrow, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)

Best Young Adult Short Story

• “Seventeen”, Cat Sparks (Masques)

• “Dragon Bones”, Joanne Anderton (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39)

• “Paper Dragons”, Sue Isle (Shiny #5)

• “Once a Month, on a Sunday”, Ian McHugh (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40 Sep 2009)

• “Like Us”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Shiny #5)

The winners were announced at a ceremony in Brisbane on January 23, 2010. Full list of winners available at the Aurealis Awards website.