2016 Sir Julius Vogel Award Nominees

Finalists for the 2016 Sir Julius Vogel Award have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ). Winners will be selected by members of SFFANZ and of the AuContraire 2016 convention.

Best Novel

• Mariah’s Dream, Grace Bridges (Splashdown)
• Ardus, Jean Gilbert (Rogue House)
• Sun Touched, J.C. Hart (Etherhart)
• Vestiges of Flames, Lyn McConchie (Lethe)
• Shards of Ice, Catherine Mede (Flying Kiwi)
• Currents of Change, Darian Smith (Wooden Tiger)

Best Youth Novel

• Deadline Delivery, Peter Friend (Fairytale Factory)
• Brave’s Journey, Jan Goldie (IFWG Australia)
• Dragons Realm, Eileen Mueller (Fairytale Factory)
• The Caretaker of Imagination, Z.R. Southcombe (self-published)
• Lucy’s Story: The End of the World, Z.R. Southcombe (self-published)

Best Novella / Novelette

• “Bree’s Dinosaur”, A.C. Buchanan (Shortcuts: Track 1)
• “The Ghost of Matter”, Octavia Cade (Shortcuts: Track 1)
• Burn, J.C. Hart (Etherhart)
• The Way the Sky Curves, J.C. Hart (Etherhart)
• “The Molenstraat Music Festival”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 9/15)
• “Pocket Wife”, I.K. Paterson-Harkness (Shortcuts: Track 1)
• “The Last”, Grant Stone (Shortcuts: Track 1)

Best Short Story

• “Pride”, Jean Gilbert (Contact Light)
• “The Shelver”, Piper Mejia (SpecFicNZ Shorts)
• “The Harpsicord Elf”, Sean Monoghan (Capricious 9/15)
• “The Thief’s Tale”, Lee Murray (The Refuge Collection Volume One)
• “Floodgate”, Dan Rabarts (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
• “Drag Marks”, Darian Smith (Shifting Worlds)

Best Collected Work

• The Survivors: Heroic Edition, V.L. Dreyer (Cheeky Kea Creations)
• Write Off Line 2015: The Earth We Knew, Jean Gilbert & Chad Dick, eds. (Rogue House)
• Beyond the Veil: A collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Lauren Haddock & Jessica Harvey, eds. (self-published)
• Shortcuts: Track 1, Marie Hodgkinson, ed., (Paper Road)
• SpecFicNZ Shorts, Piper Mejia, Jane Percival, & I.K. Paterson-Harkness (SpecFicNZ)
• Shifting Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories, Darian Smith (Wooden Tiger)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover for The Earth We Knew: A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Kodi Murray (Rogue House)
• Cover for Shortcuts: Track 1, K.C. Bailey (Paper Road)
• Cover for Pisces of Fate, Henry Christian-Sloane (Paper Road)
• Cover for Miss Lionheart and the Laboratory of Death, Imojen Faith Hancock (Phantom Feather)

Best Professional Production / Publication

• “Ahead of her time and lost in time: On Feminism, Gender, and Bisexuality:, A. J. Fitzwater (Letters to Tiptree)
• The Face of Oblivion, Catherine Pegg
• White Cloud Worlds Anthology 3, Paul Tobin, ed. (Weta Workshop)

Best Fan Production / Publication

• Phoenixine, John & Lynelle Howell

Best Fan Writing

• Terri Doyle (Novazine)
• John Toon (Phoenixine)
• June Young (Phoenixine)

Best New Talent

• Octavia Cade
• Jean Gilbert
• Eileen Mueller
• Y.K. Willemse

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Marie Hodgkinson