2017 Aurora Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Quantum Night, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

• 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)

Best YA Novel

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: “Marion’s War”, Hayden Trenholm (Strangers Among Us)

• “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)

Best Graphic Novel

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: Samantha M. Beiko

• James Beveridge
• Melissa Mary Duncan
• Erik Mohr
• Dan O’Driscoll

Best Visual Presentation

• WINNER: Arrival

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

Best of the Decade

• WINNER: The Neanderthal Parallax, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor)

• 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)
• Blind Lake, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

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

There were also winners in fan categories. Winners were honored at an award ceremony on September 22, 2017 during Hal-Con, held at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax Nova Scotia.

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