2015 Aurora Awards Winners

The 2015 Aurora Awards winners have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2014.”

Best Novel

• A Play of Shadow, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)

• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Penguin Canada)
• The Future Falls, Tanya Huff (DAW)
• My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Best YA Novel (tie)

• Out of This World, Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada)
• Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor)

• Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
• The Voices in Between, Charlene Challenger (Tightrope)
• Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
• Rain, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
• Twist of the Blade, Edward Willett (Coteau)

Best Short Fiction

• “Crimson Sky”, Eric Choi (Analog 7-8/14)

• “Jelly and the D-Machine”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
• “Soul-Hungry”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
• “Mecha-Jesus”, Derwin Mak (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
• “No Sweeter Art”, Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/14)

Best Poem/Song

• “A Hex, With Bees”, Tony Pi (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)

• “The Machine”, David Clink (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
• “The Perfect Library”, David Clink (If the World were to Stop Spinning)
• “The New Ways”, Amal el-Mohtar (Uncanny 11/14)
• “Aversions”, Helen Marshall (Goblin Fruit 10/14)

Best Graphic Novel

• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)

• Treadwell, Dominic Bercier (Mirror)
• Raygun Gothic Vol. 2, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical)
• Cassie & Tonk, Justin Currie & GMB Chomichuk (Chasing Artwork)
• Trillium, Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)

Best Related Work

• On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)

• Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction, Suzanne Church (EDGE)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• Lackington’s, Ranylt Richildis, ed. (lackingtons.com)
• Strange Bedfellows, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)

Best Artist

• Dan O’Driscoll

• James Beveridge
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk
• Erik Mohr
• Derek Newman-Stille

There were also nominees in fan categories. Winners were honored at Canvention 35, hosted by SFContario 6 in Toronto, Ontario, November 22, 2015. For more information, and complete nominees: www.prixaurorawards.ca.