2017 Aurealis Awards Finalists

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Closing Down, Sally Abbott (Hachette Australia)
• Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman (Hachette Australia)
• Year of the Orphan, Daniel Findlay (Penguin Random House Australia)
• An Uncertain Grace, Krissy Kneen (Text)
• From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
• Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• “This Silent Sea”, Stephanie Gunn (Review of Australian Fiction #166)
• “I Can See the Ending”, Will Kostakis (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
• “The Wandering Library”, D.K. Mok (Ecopunk!)
• “Island Green”, Shauna O’Meara (Ecopunk!)
• Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright)
• Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

• “The Missing Years”, Lyn Battersby (Andromeda Spaceways #66)
• “A Little Faith”, Aiki Flinthart (Like a Woman)
• “Cards and Steel Hearts”, Pamela Jeffs (Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier)
• “One Small Step“, Amie Kaufman (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
• “Conversations with an Armoury”, Garth Nix (Infinity Wars)
• “Hurk + Dav”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #01)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor)
• Gwen, Goldie Goldbloom (Fremantle)
• Cassandra, Kathryn Gossow (Odyssey)
• Godsgrave, Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins)
• Gap Year In Ghost Town, Michael Pryor (Allen & Unwin)
• Wellside, Robin Shortt (Candlemark & Gleam)

BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

• The Book Club, Alan Baxter (PS)
• “Remnants”, Nathan Burrage (Dimension6 #11)
• “The Cunning Woman’s Daughter”, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (The Silver Well)
• In Shadows We Fall, Devin Madson (self-published)
• “Braid”, Kirstyn McDermott (Review of Australian Fiction #161)
• Humanity for Beginners, Faith Mudge (Less Than Three)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

• “Hamelin’s Graves”, Freya Marske (Andromeda Spaceways #69)
• “The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories)
• “The Little Mermaid, in Passing”, Angela Slatter (Review of Australian Fiction #147)
• “Duplicity”, J. Ashley Smith (Dimension6 #11)
• “The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz”, Marlee Jane Ward (Feminartsy 4/6/17)
• “Oona Underground”, Lili Wilkinson (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

• Aletheia, J.S. Breukelaar (Crystal Lake)
• Who’s Afraid Too?, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia)
• Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)

BEST HORROR NOVELLA

• The Mailman, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
• Hope and Walker, Andrew Cull (Vermillion)
• “Grind”, Michael Grey (Pacific Monsters)
• “The Stairwell”, Chris Mason (Below The Stairs: Tales from the Cellar)
• “No Good Deed”, Angela Slatter (New Fears)
• “Furtherest”, Kaaron Warren (Dark Screams Volume 7)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

• “Reef”, Kat Clay (SQ Mag 5/17)
• “Outside, a Drifter”, Lisa L. Hannett (Looming Low Volume 1)
• “Angel Hair”, Deborah Sheldon (Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories)
• “The Endless Below”, Alfie Simpson (Breach #02)
• “Old Growth”, J. Ashley Smith (SQ Mag 5/17)
• “On the Line”, J. Ashley Smith (Midnight Echo #12)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• In The Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
• Ida, Alison Evans (Echo, Bonnier Australia)
• Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• This Mortal Coil, Emily Suvada (Puffin UK)
• Psynode, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)
• The Undercurrent, Paula Weston (Text)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• “One Small Step“, Amie Kaufman (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
• “I Can See the Ending”, Will Kostakis (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
• “Competition Entry #349”, Jaclyn Moriarty (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
• “First Casualty”, Michael Pryor (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)
• Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
• “Oona Underground”, Lili Wilkinson (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)

BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

• How to Bee, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
• The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin)
• The Shop at Hoopers Bend, Emily Rodda (HarperCollins Australia)
• The Exile, Jo Sandhu (Penguin Random House Australia)
• Accidental Heroes, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
• Nevermoor, Jessica Townsend (Hachette Australia)

BEST COLLECTION

• The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales, Peter M. Ball (Brain Jar)
• The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (Ticonderoga)
• Beneath the Floating City, Donna Maree Hanson (self-published)
• Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
• Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Australia)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Midnight Echo #12, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony Ferguson, eds. (Australasian Horror Writers Association)
• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga)
• Dimension6: Annual Collection 2017, Keith Stevenson, ed. (coeur de lion)
• Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Rebellion/Solaris)
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Rebellion/Solaris)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED WORK

• Action Tank, Mike Barry (self-published)
• Dungzilla, James Foley (Fremantle)
• Tintinnabula, Margo Lanagan (Little Hare)
• Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts, Craig Phillips (Allen & Unwin)
• Changing Ways: Book 3, Justin Randall (Gestalt)
• Home Time, Campbell Whyte (Penguin Random House Australia)

Winners will be announced in an awards ceremony during Swancon 43, March 29 – April 2, 2018 in Perth, Australia. For more, see the official website.