2016 Aurealis Awards Winners

The 2016 Aurealis Awards winners, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, were announced April 14, 2017.

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Gemima: Illuminae Files 2, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)

• Watershed, Jane Abbott (Penguin Random House)
• Confluence, S.K. Dunstall (Ace)
• Squid’s Grief, DK Mok (self-published)
• Stiletto, Daniel O’Malley (HarperCollins)
• Threader, Rebekah Turner (Harlequin Australia)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• “Salto Mortal”, Nick T. Chan (Lightspeed 6/16)

• Waking in Winter, Deborah Biancotti (PS)
• “Going Viral”, Thoraiya Dyer (Dimension6 #8)
• The Bonobo’s Dream, Rose Mulready (Seizure)
• “All the Colours of the Tomato”, Simon Petrie (Dimension6 #9)
• “Did We Break the End of the World?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Defying Doomsday)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• “Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart”, Samantha Murray (Clarkesworld 11/16)

• “Trainspotting in Winesburg”, Jack Dann (Concentration)
• “The Baby Eaters”, Ian McHugh (Asimov’s 1/16)
• “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring”, Claire McKenna (In Your Face)
• “68 Days”, Kaaron Warren (Tomorrow’s Cthulu)
• “The Least of Things”, Jen White (Aurealis #94)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• Nevernight, Jay Kristoff (Harper Voyager)

• Fall of the Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette Australia)
• Den of Wolves, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
• Road to Winter, Mark Smith (Text)
• Sisters of the Fire, Kim Wilkins (Harlequin Australia)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

• “Forfeit”, Andrea K. Höst (The Towers, the Moon)

• “Raven’s First Flight”, Alan Baxter (SNAFU: Black Ops)
• “By the Laws of Crab and Woman”, Jason Fischer (Review of Australian Fiction #118)
• The Bonobo’s Dream, Rose Mulready (Seizure)
• “Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark)
• “Finnegan’s Field”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com 1/13/16)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

• “Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest”, Thoraiya Dyer (In Your Face)

• “Watercress Soup”, Tamlyn Dreaver (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #65)
• “Dune Time”, Jack Nicholls (Tor.com 4/19/16)
• “Penny for a Match, Mister?”, Garth Nix (The Starlit Wood)
• “The Lighthouse at Cape Defeat”, David Versace (Aurealis #89)
• “The Cartographer’s Price”, Suzanne Willis (Mythic Delirium 7-9/16)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

• The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG Publishing Australia)

• Fear Is the Rider, Kenneth Cook (Text)
• My Sister Rosa, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

• “Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark)

• Box of Bones, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
• “Served Cold”, Alan Baxter (Dreaming in the Dark)
• “Waking in Winter”, Deborah Biancotti (PS)
• “The Starlight Circus”, Tara Calaby (Red Sun Magazine 12/16)
• “Pan”, Christopher Ruz (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #62)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

• “Flame Trees”, T.R. Napper (Asimov’s 4-5/16)

• “Non Zero Sum”, R.P.L. Johnson (SNAFU: Hunters)
• “Penny for a Match, Mister?”, Garth Nix (The Starlit Wood)
• “The Red Forest”, Angela Slatter (Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales)
• “68 Days”, Kaaron Warren (Tomorrow’s Cthulhu)
• “Life, or Whatever Passes For It”, Durand Welsh (Peel Back the Skin)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)

• Elegy, Jane Abbott (Penguin Random House Australia)
• The Bone Queen, Alison Croggon (Penguin Books Australia)
• The Other Side of Summer, Emily Gale (Penguin Random House Australia)
• Gemima: Illuminae Files 2, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• “Pretty Jennie Greenteeth”, Leife Shallcross (Strange Little Girls)

• “A Right Pretty Mate”, Lisa L. Hannett (Dreaming in the Dark)
• “Dune Time”, Jack Nicholls (Tor.com 4/19/16)
• “No One Here is Going to Save You”, Shauna O’Meara (In Your Face)
• “Did We Break the End of the World?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Defying Doomsday)

BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

• When the Lyrebird Calls, Kim Kane (Allen & Unwin)

• Blueberry Pancakes Forever, Angelica Banks (Allen & Unwin)
• Magrit, Lee Battersby (Walker Books Australia)
• Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket, Caleb Crisp (Bloomsbury)
• The Turners, Mick Elliott (Hachette Australia)
• The Hungry Isle, Emily Rodda (Omnibus Books)

BEST COLLECTION

• A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter (Prime)

• Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga)
• Concentration, Jack Dann (PS)
• Winter Children, Angela Slatter (PS)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Year’s Best YA Speculative fiction 2015, Julia Rios & Alisa Krasnostein, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
• Defying Doomsday, Tsana Dolichva & Holly Kench, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• In Your Face, Tehani Wessely, ed. (Fablecroft)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED WORK

• Negative Space, Ryan K. Lindsay (Dark Horse Comics)

• Mechanica, Lance Balchin (Five Mile)
• BROBOT, James Foley (Fremantle)
• The Spider King, Josh Vann (self-published)

CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE

• The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Kate Forsyth (FableCroft)

 

The Sara Douglass Book Series Award did not run.

Winners were honored in an awards ceremony during Swancon 42, April 13-17, 2017 in Perth, Australia. For more, see the official website.