2012 Aurora Award Winners

Winners for the 2012 Aurora Awards, honoring the best SF/fantasy works by Canadians and landed immigrants, have been announced.

Best Novel

• WWW: Wonder, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

• 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)

Best Short Story

• “The Needle’s Eye”, Suzanne Church (Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live)

• “The Legend of Gluck”, Marie Bilodeau (When the Hero Comes Home)
• “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

• “Skeleton Leaves”, Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press)

• “A Good Catch”, Colleen Anderson (Polu Texni 4/11)
• “Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm”, Sandra Kasturi (ChiZine 47)
• “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

• On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)

• 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.
• Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, Julie Czerneda & Susan MacGregor, eds. (EDGE)

Best Artist (Professional and Amateur)

• Dan O’Driscoll

• Janice Blaine
• Costi Gurgu
• Erik Mohr
• Martin Springett

There were also awards in fan categories. The awards were presented on August 11, 2012 at the Aurora Awards Banquet in Calgary. All winners received trophies, and the best novel winner received a $500 cash prize from SF Canada, the National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals. For more information, and the full list of winners, see the Aurora Awards website.