2018 Aurora Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• The Rebel, Gerald Brandt (DAW)
• To Guard Against the Dark, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
• All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, James Alan Gardner (Tor)
• RecipeArium, Costi Gurgu (White Cat)
• Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
• Light of a Distant Sun, Brent Nichols (Bundoran)

Best YA Novel

• Maddie Hatter and the Gilded Gauge, Jayne Barnard (Tyche)
• Scion of the Fox, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
• Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
• The West Woods, Suzy Vadori (Evil Alter Ego)
• Houses of the Old Blood, Elizabeth Whitton (Kettlescon)

Best Short Fiction

• “The Calling”, Elizabeth Grotkowski (Enigma Front: The Monster Within)
• “Old Souls”, Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “Rose’s Arm”, Calvin D. Jim (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “A Human Stain“, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/17)
• “Gone Flying”, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound)

Best Graphic Novel

• SIGNAL Saga #0: PanGaea and the Key of Mirrari, Dominic Bercier (Mirror)
• Rock Paper Cynic, Peter Chiykowski (rockpapercynic.com)
• Honey Dill, Ryan & Laura Harby (iamhoneydill.com)
• Crash and Burn, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)
• Riftworld Legends, #1-4, Jonathan Williams, Daniel Wong & Paris Alleyne (Joe Books)

Best Related Work

• Enigma Front: The Monster Within, Renée Bennett, ed. (Analemma)
• The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, eds. (Laksa)
• Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Lucas K. Law & Derwin Mak, eds. (Laksa)
• 49th Parallels, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)
• Compostela: Tesseracts 20, Spider Robinson & James Alan Gardner, eds. (EDGE)
• On Spec, Diane L. Walton, et al., eds.

Best Poem/Song

• “After Midnight”, David Clink (Compostela: Tesseracts 20)
• “Card”, Catherine Girczyc (Compostela: Tesseracts 20)
• “Heaven is the Hell of No Choices”, Matt Moore (Polar Borealis 7-8/17)
• “Shadows in the Mist”, Lee F. Patrick (Polar Borealis 7-8/17)
• “Cruising Glaciers”, Rhea Rose (49th Parallels)
• “Meat Puppets”, Lynne Sargent (Polar Borealis 7-8/17)
• “The Canadian Small-Town Denizen and the Distant-Planet Space Traveller”, J.J. Steinfeld (49th Parallels)

Best Artist

• Samantha M. Beiko, covers for Laksa Media
• Ann Crowe, cover art for Avians by Timothy Gwyn (Five Rivers)
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, A Rivet of Robots: Body of Work
• Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press
• Fiona Staples, art for Saga comic series

Best Visual Presentation

• Blade Runner 2049
• Dark Matter, Season 3
• Killjoys, Season 3
• Orphan Black, Season 5
• Travelers, Season 2
• Wynonna Earp, Season 2