2012 Aurora Award Nominees

Finalists for the 2012 Prix Aurora Awards, celebrating the best Canadian SF/fantasy work, have been announced.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Best Novel

• Enter Night, Michael Rowe (ChiZine)
• Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, David Nickle (ChiZine)
• Napier’s Bones, Derryl Murphy (ChiZine)
• The Pattern Scars, Caitlin Sweet (ChiZine)
• Technicolor Ultra Mall, Ryan Oakley (EDGE)
• WWW: Wonder, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

Best Short Story

• “The Legend of Gluck”, Marie Bilodeau (When the Hero Comes Home)
• “The Needle’s Eye”, Suzanne Church (Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd Did I Live)
• “One Horrible Day”, Randy McCharles (The 2nd Circle)
• “Turning It Off”, Susan Forest (Analog 12-11)
• “To Live and Die in Gibbontown”, Derek Künsken (Asimov’s 10-11/11)

Best Poem / Song

• “A Good Catch”, Colleen Anderson (Polu Texni 4/11)
• “Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm”, Sandra Kasturi (ChiZine 47)
• “Skeleton Leaves”, Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press)
• “Skeleton Woman”, Heather Dale & Ben Deschamps (Fairytale)
• “Zombie Bees of Winnipeg”, Carolyn Clink (ChiZine 47)

Best Graphic Novel

• Goblins, Tarol Hunt (www.goblinscomic.com)
• Imagination Manifesto, Book 2, GMB Chomichuk, James Rewucki, & John Toone (Alchemical Press)
• Weregeek, Alina Pete (www.weregeek.com)

Best Related Work

• Fairytale, Heather Dale, (HeatherDale.com)
• The First Circle: Volume One of the Tenth Circle Project, Eileen Bell & Ryan McFadden, eds. (www.the10thcircle.com)
• Neo-Opsis, Karl Johanson, ed.
• On Spec, the Copper Pig Writers’ Society
• Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, Julie Czerneda & Susan MacGregor, eds. (EDGE)

Best Artist (Professional and Amateur)

• Janice Blaine
• Costi Gurgu
• Erik Mohr
• Dan O’Driscoll
• Martin Springett

There were also nominees in fan/volunteer categories. For a complete list, see the Aurora Awards website.