2010 Ditmar Awards Finalists

The 2010 Ditmar Award shortlist, for Australian SF, has been announced:

Best Novel

• World Shaker, Richard Harland (Allen & Unwin)
• Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury)
• Life Through Cellophane, Gillian Polack (Eneit)
• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)
• Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)

Best Novella or Novelette

• Horn, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet)
• “Black Water”, David Conyers (Jupiter)
• “After the World: Gravesend”, Jason Fischer (Black House Comics)
• “Wives”, Paul Haines (X6)
• “Siren Beat”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Roadkill/Siren Beat)

Best Short Story

• “Six Suicides”, Deborah Biancotti (A Book of Endings)
• “Prosperine When it Sizzles”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (New Ceres Nights)
• “The Piece of Ice in Ms Windermere’s Heart”, Angela Slatter (New Ceres Nights)
• “Seventeen”, Cat Sparks (Masques)
• “Tontine Mary”, Kaaron Warren (New Ceres Nights)
• “Black Peter”, Marty Young (Festive Fear)

Best Collected Work

• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti, Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Slice Of Life, Paul Haines (The Mayne Press)
• New Ceres Nights, Alisa Krasnostein & Tehani Wessely, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
• The New Space Opera 2, Jonathan Strahan & Gardner Dozois, eds. (HarperCollins)

Best Artwork

• Cover art, Masques (CSFG), Mik Bennett
• Cover art, The Whale’s Tale (Peggy Bright), Eleanor Clarke
• Cover art, Horn (Twelfth Planet), Dion Hamill
• Cover art, New Ceres Nights (Twelfth Planet), Dion Hamill
• Cover art and illustrations, Shards: Short Sharp Tales (Brimstone), Andrew J. McKiernan
• Cover art, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #42, Lewis Morley

Best Fan Writer

• Bruce Gillespie, for work in Steam Engine Time
• Robert Hood, for Undead Backbrain (roberthood.net/blog)
• Chuck McKenzie, for work in Horrorscope
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work
• Tehani Wessely, for body of work

Best Fan Artist

• Kathleen Jennings, for body of work
• Dick Jenssen, for body of work
• Dave Schembri, for work in Midnight Echo

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Steam Engine Time, Bruce Gillespie & Janine Stinson, eds.
• Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet (bullsheet.sf.org.au), Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner, eds.
• ASif! (asif.dreamhosters.com), Alisa Krasnostein, Gene Melzack et al, eds.
• A Writer Goes on a Journey (awritergoesonajourney.com), Nyssa Pascoe et al, eds.
• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Bill Wright, ed.

Best Achievement

• H. Gibbens, for the Gamers’ Quest CGI-animated book trailer
• Ruth Jenkins and Cathy Jenkins-Rutherford, for the children’s program at Conjecture
• Alisa Krasnostein, Liz Grzyb, Tehani Wessely, Cat Sparks & Kate Williams, for the New Ceres Nights book launch
• Gillian Polack et al., for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux
• Amanda Rainey, for the cover design of Siren Beat/Roadkill (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best New Talent

• Peter M. Ball
• Thoraiya Dyer
• Jason Fischer
• Christopher Green
• Kathleen Jennings
• Pete Kempshall
• Simon Petrie

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Chuck McKenzie, for “The Dead Walk! … Into a Bookstore Near You” (Eye of Fire #1)
• Helen Merrick, for The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms (Aqueduct)
• Ian Mond, for reviews on his blog (mondyboy.livejournal.com)
• Grant Watson, for reviews and articles for Eiga: Asian Cinema (www.eigaasiancinema.com)

The Ditmar Awards will be announced at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (“NatCon-Dudcon III”), to be held in Melbourne, Australia, September 2-6 2010.