2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners

Winners for the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award were announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ) and honored at LexiCon 2017, June 4, 2017 at the Suncourt Hotel Taupō, New Zealand.

Best Novel

• Into the Mist, Lee Murray (Cohesion)

• Innocents, Sarah Fayermann (FeedARead)
• Den of Wolves, Juliet Marillier (Pan MacMillan Australia)
• Daybreak Rising, Kiran Oliver (self-published)
• Night’s Fall, Richard Parry (Mondegreen)

Best Youth Novel

• Light in My Dark, Jean Gilbert & William Dresden (Rogue House)

• Stranded Starship, Kevin Berry (Fairytale Factory)
• The Ghosts of Moonlight Creek, Sue Copsey (self-published)
• Battlesaurus: Clash of Empires, Brian Falkner (MacMillan)

Best Novella / Novelette

• The Convergence of Fairy Tales, Octavia Cade (Book Smugglers)

• “Babylon’s Song”, Woelf Dietrich (Interspecies)
• The Sleeper’s Dance, Mouse Diver-Dudfield (Self-published)
• “Spindle”, Dan Rabarts (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #63)
• “Tipuna Tapu”, Dan Rabarts (And Then… the Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales Vol 1)

Best Short Story

• “Splintr”, A.J. Fitzwater (At the Edge)

• “Narco”, Michelle Child (At the Edge)
• “Wakers”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s 8/16)
• “Call of the Sea”, Eileen Mueller (At the Edge)
• “BlindSight”, A.J. Ponder (At the Edge)
• “London’s Crawling”, Emma Pullar (Dark Minds)

Best Collected Work

• At the Edge, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray, eds. (Paper Road)

• Everything is Fine, Grant Stone (Racket House)

Best Professional Artwork

• Cover for Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray’s At the Edge, Emma Weakley (Paper Road)

• Cover for Jean Gilbert & Chad Dick’s Write Off Line 2016: Everyone’s a Winner, Kodi Murray (Rogue House)
• Cover for Chad Dick & Jan Goldie’s Beyond the Stars, Kodi Murray (Tauranga Writers)
• Cover for RoAna Sylver’s Chameleon Moon, Laya Rose (self-published)
• “The Midnight Star”, Laya Rose
• Cover for That Kind of Planet, Emma Weakley (Random Static)

Best Professional Production / Publication

• That Kind of Planet, Emma Weakley (Random Static)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• This Giant Papier Mache Boulder is Actually Really Heavy, Andrew Beszant & Christian Nicholson (Little Hero Productions)

• AFK: The Webseries: “ZERG”
• Chronesthesia, Hayden J. Weal & Simeon Duncombe

Best Fan Production / Publication

• Summer Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror

• Novazine
• Phoenixine

Best Fan Writing

• “Food and Horror” column, Octavia Cade (Book Smugglers)

• “SITREP”, Alex Lindsay (Phoenxine)
• Jacqui Smith, contributions to Novazine

Best Fan Artist

• Keith Smith, contributions to Novazine

Best New Talent

• Eileen Mueller

• Richard Parry
• Laya Rose
• Darian Smith

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Lee Murray

Services to Fandom

• Lynelle Howell

• Jan Butterworth