2020 Aurora Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• Haunting the Haunted, E.C. Bell (Tyche)
• The Gossamer Mage, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
• A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
• The Quantum Garden, Derek Künsken (Solaris)
• Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

Best YA Novel

• Wolf’s Bane, Kelley Armstrong (KLA Fricke)
• The Brilliant Dark, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
• Metamorphosis, Marty Chan (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Bursts of Fire, Susan Forest (Laksa)
• Murder at the World’s Fair, M.J. Lyons (Renaissance)

Best Short Fiction

• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
• “Clear as Quartz, Sharp as Flint”, Maria Haskins (Augur 2.1)
• Alice Payne Rides, Kate Heartfield (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Little Inn on the Jianghu”, Y.M. Pang (F&SF 9/19)
• “Modigliani Paints the World”, Hayden Trenholm (Neo-Opsis #30)
• “Blindside”, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (Amazing Stories Fall ’19)

Best Graphic Novel

• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Atwood & Renee Nault (McClelland & Stewart)
• Krampus Is My Boyfriend!, S.M. Beiko (https://www.smbeiko.com/)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (http://itneverrainscomic.com/)
• Dakwäkãda Warriors, Cole Pauls (Conundrum)
• Carpe Fin, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)

Best Related Work

• PodCastle, Jen R. Albert & Cherae Clark, eds.
• Nothing Without Us, Cait Gordon & Talia C. Johnson (Renaissance)
• Neo-opsis, Karl Johanson, ed.
• Lackington’s, Ranylt Richildis, ed.
• “Dave Duncan’s Legacy”, Robert Runté (On Spec #111)
• Augur #2.1, 2.2, and 2.3, Kerrie Seljak-Byrne & Alexander De Pompa, eds.
• On Spec, Diane L. Walton, ed.

Best Poem/Song

• “The Girl Who Loved Birds”, Clara Blackwood (Amazing Stories Spring ’19)
• “At the Edge of Space and Time”, Swati Chavda (Love at the Speed of Light)
• “Steampunk Christmas”, David Clink (Star*Line Fall ’19)
• “The Day the Animals Turned to Sand”, Tyler Hagemann (Amazing Stories Spring ’19)
• “Totemic Ants”, Francine P. Lewis (Amazing Stories Fall ’19)
• “Beauty, Sleeping”, Lynne Sargent (Augur #2.2)
• “Bursts of Fire”, Sora (theme song for book trailers)

Best Artist

• Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Bursts of Fire
• James F. Beveridge, cover for Fata Morgana and cover for On Spec 112
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, “A Rivet of Robots” in On Spec and cartoons in Amazing Stories
• Nathan Fréchette, covers for Renaissance Press
• Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and cover for On Spec 110

Best Visual Presentation

• The Umbrella Academy
• V Wars, Season 1
• Killjoys, Season 5
• Murdoch Mysteries, Season 12, Episodes 10-18 and Season 13, Episodes 1-9
• Van Helsing, Season 4

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• Weekly online columns for Amazing Stories, R. Graeme Cameron
• Polar Borealis issues 9-12, R. Graeme Cameron, ed.
• “Travelling TARDIS“, Jen Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
• Weekly online columns for Amazing Stories, Steve Fahnestalk
• “Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?“, Ron S. Friedman (Quora)
• Books and Tea, Christina Vasilevski

Best Fan Organizational

• KT Bryski & Jen R. Albert, ephemera reading series, Toronto
• Brent Jans, Pure Speculation Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, Edmonton
• Derek Künsken & Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can-Con, Ottawa
• Randy McCharles, chair, When Words Collide, Calgary
• Sandra Wickham, Creative Ink Festival, Burnaby, BC

Best Fan Related Work

• Broadcasts from the Wasteland, Brandon Crilly & Evan May
• Kari Maaren for music on her YouTube channel
• Speculating Canada, Derek Newman-Stille
• Just Joshing, Joshua Pantalleresco
• The Worldshapers, Edward Willett