2013 Ditmar Awards Ballot

The 2013 Ditmar Awards ballot, for Australian SF, has been announced:

Best Novel

• Suited, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
• The Corpse-Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot)
• Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
• Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
• Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet)

Best Novella or Novelette

• “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)
• “Flight 404”, Simon Petrie (Flight 404/The Hunt for Red Leicester)
• “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

Best Short Story

• “The Bone Chime Song”, Joanne Anderton (Light Touch Paper Stand Clear)
• “Sanaa’s Army”, Joanne Anderton (Bloodstones)
• “The Wisdom of Ants”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12)
• “Oracle’s Tower”, Faith Mudge (To Spin a Darker Stair)

Best Collected Work

• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga)
• Midnight and Moonshine, Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)
• Light Touch Paper Stand Clear, Edwina Harvey & Simon Petrie, eds. (Peggy Bright Books)
• Cracklescape, Margo Lanagan (Twelfth Planet)
• Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet)
• Epilogue, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)

Best Artwork

• Illustrations, Adam Browne, for Pyrotechnicon (Coeur de Lion)
• Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga )
• Cover art and illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, for To Spin a Darker Stair (FableCroft)
• Cover art, Les Petersen, for Light Touch Paper Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books)
• Cover art, Nick Stathopoulos, for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 (ASIM Collective)

Best Fan Writer

• Alex Pierce, for body of work including reviews in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
• Grant Watson, for body of work including the “Who50” series in The Angriest
• Sean Wright, for body of work including reviews in Adventures of a Bookonaut

Best Fan Artist

• Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including “The Dalek Game” and “The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook”

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, Alisa Krasnostein, Tehani Wessely, et. al.
• Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Sean Wright
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Pierce
• Snapshot 2012, Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung et. al.
• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
• Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe
• The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe

Best New Talent

• Steve Cameron
• Stacey Larner
• David McDonald
• Faith Mudge

William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review

• Rjurik Davidson, for “An Illusion in the Game for Survival”, a review of Reamde by Neal Stephenson (The Age)
• Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, for “The Year in Review” (The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011)
• Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, and Tehani Wessely, for review of Mira Grant’s Newsflesh (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus)
• David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely, for the “New Who in Conversation” series
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.” (Tor.com)
  

Voting for the Ditmar Awards is conducted in accordance with the rules, and is open to members and supporting members of Conflux 9 and to members of Continuum 8 who were eligible to vote in the 2011 Awards. For more, see the Ditmar Awards Website.