The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction have been announced.
The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction have been announced.
‘The field was of a particularly high standard this year, indicative of the increasing quality of Australian speculative fiction,' said the judges' report.
The two winners of the major prize, the Golden Aurealis, are David Kowalski for The Company of the Dead (Pan Macmillan), also awarded for the best science fiction novel; and Cat Sparks for her short story ‘Hollywood Roadkill' (in On Spec, #69), also the winner of the best science fiction short story award.
The best fantasy novel award went to Heaven's Net is Wide (Lian Hearn, Hachette Livre); and the best horror novel award to Blood of Dreams (Susan Parisi, Penguin)
In the children's categories, the best young adult novel is Skyfall (Anthony Eaton, UQP); best children's (8-12 years) long fiction ‘The Chain of Charms' series (Kate Forsyth, Pan Macmillan); and the best children's (8-12 years) short fiction award was tied, shared between World of Monsters (Marc McBride, Scholastic) and Kumiko and the Dragon (Briony Stewart, UQP).
The Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence was presented to Terry Dowling for Rynemonn (Coeur de Lion Publications). ‘Terry Dowling has long been a respected writer of science fiction and supporter of the speculative fiction community,' said the judges. ‘In 2007 his book Rynemonn was released. This work is the culmination of the exceptional Tom Rynosseros stories that Dowling has published over more than a decade.'
For the full list of all category winners, see the Aurealis website.