2017 Aurora Awards Ballot

The 2017 Aurora Awards ballot has been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2016,” including a special “Best of the Decade” category with works “first published between 2001 and the end of 2010 by Canadians.”

Best Novel

• Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)
• The Courier, Gerald Brandt (DAW)
• The Nature of a Pirate, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
• Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
• Stars Like Cold Fire, Brent Nichols (Bundoran)
• Quantum Night, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

Best YA Novel

• Icarus Down, James Bow (Scholastic Canada)
• The Wizard Killer (Season #1), Adam Dreece (ADZO)
• Day of the Demon, Randy McCharles (Self-published)
• Mik Murdoch: Crisis of Conscience, Michell Plested (Evil Alter Ego)
• Heir to the Sky, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
• Door into Faerie, Edward Willett (Coteau Books)

Best Short Fiction

• “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “Living in Oz”, Bev Geddes (Strangers Among Us)
• “Frog Song”, Erika Holt (Strangers Among Us)
• “When Phakack Came to Steal Papa, A Ti-Jean Story”, Ace Jordyn (On Spec #103)
• “Age of Miracles”, Robert Runté (Strangers Among Us)
• “Marion’s War”, Hayden Trenholm (Strangers Among Us)

Best Graphic Novel

• Angel Catbird Volume One, Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, & Tamra Bonvillian (Dark Horse)
• Crash and Burn, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)
• Weregeek, Alina Pete (weregeek.com)
• Earthsong, Crystal Yates (earthsongsaga.com)

Best Related Work

• Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, eds. (Laksa)
• Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen, Claude Lalumière & Mark Shainblum, eds. (EDGE)
• Clockwork Canada, Dominik Parisien, ed. (Exile Editions)
• Enigma Front: Burnt, Celeste A. Peters, ed. (Analemma)
• Lazarus Risen, Hayden Trenholm & Mike Rimar, eds. (Bundoran)

Best Artist

• Samantha M. Beiko
• James Beveridge
• Melissa Mary Duncan
• Erik Mohr
• Dan O’Driscoll

Best Visual Presentation

• Arrival
• Dark Matter, Season 2
• Killjoys, Season 2
• Murdoch Mysteries, Season 9
• Orphan Black, Season 4

Best of the Decade

• The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor)
• Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson (Tor)
• The Blue Ant Trilogy, William Gibson (Berkley)
• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
• The Neanderthal Parallax, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor)
• Blind Lake, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

No award in the Best Poem/Song category will be given this year due to insufficient eligible nominees.

There were also nominees in fan categories. Winners will be honored at Hal-Con, held at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax Nova Scotia September 22-24, 2017. Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) members have from July 15, 2017 until September 2, 2017 vote.

For more information, and complete nominees, see the Aurora Awards website.