2013 Aurora Award Nominees

Finalists for the 2013 Prix Aurora Awards, celebrating the best Canadian SF/fantasy work, have been announced.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Best Novel – English

• Destiny’s Fall, Marie Bilodeau (Dragon Moon)
• Food for the Gods, Karen Dudley (Ravenstone)
• Thunder Road, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
• The Silvered, Tanya Huff (DAW)
• Triggers, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
• Healer’s Sword, Lynda Williams (EDGE)

Best YA Novel – English

• The Calling, Kelley Armstrong (Harper Teen)
• Above, Leah Bobet (Scholastic)
• Under My Skin,  Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada)
• Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
• Dissolve, Neil Godbout (Bundoran)
• Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero, Michell Plested (Five Rivers)

Best Short Fiction – English

• “Happily Ever After”, Marie Bilodeau (When the Villain Comes Home)
• “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop”,  Suzanne Church (Clarkesworld #68)
• “Delta Pi”, Matt Moore (Torn Realities)
• “Knights Exemplar”,  Al Onia (On Spec #90)
• “The Walker of the Shifting Borderland”,  Douglas Smith (On Spec #90)

Best Poem/Song – English

• “Hold Fast”,  Leah Bobet (Strange Horizons 6/11/12)
• “Zombie Descartes Writes a Personal Ad”,  Carolyn Clink (Tesseracts Sixteen)
• “A sea monster tells his story”, David Clink (The Literary Review of Canada 7-8/12)
• “Roc”,  Sandra Kasturi (Come Late to the Love of Birds)
• “The Ghosts of Birds”,  Helen Marshall (Phantom Drift 2: Valuable Estrangements)

Best Graphic Novel – English

• Raygun Gothic, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical Press)
• Goblins, Tarol Hunt (webcomic)
• West of Bathurst, Kari Maaren (webcomic)
• Weregeek, Alina Pete (webcomic)
• Looking for Group, Ryan Sohmer & Lar DeSouza (webcomic)

Best Related Work – English

• Shanghai Steam, Ace Jordyn, Calvin D. Jim, & Renée Bennett, eds. (EDGE)
• Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, Sandra Kasturi & Halli Villegas, eds. (ChiZine)
• Hair Side, Flesh Side, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• Blood and Water, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)
• On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)

Best Artist

• Richard Bartrop
• GMB Chomichuk
• Costi Gurgu
• Michelle Milburn
• Erik Mohr

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