Chimaera Publications
Encyclopedia
Chimaera Publications is a publisher based in Mount Waverley, Victoria
, Australia
. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction
magazine Aurealis
as well as running the Aurealis Awards.
by Richard Harland
. The Black Crusade won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best horror novel
and was named the 2004 Golden Aurealis novel. It was a short-list nominee for the 2005 Ditmar Award
for best novel. The artwork featured on the cover of The Black Crusade also won the 2005 Ditmar award for best artwork for Kerri Valkova.
for best periodical, losing to the Eidolon magazine. In 1999 it was a short-list nominee for the Ditmar Award for best Australian magazine or anthology, losing to Jack Dann
and Janeen Webb
's Dreaming Down-Under
. The artwork also received nominations at the Ditmar Awards Trudi Canavan
was a finalist for best professional artwork for the cover Aurealis #17 as well as her work on Eidolon #22/23 but lost to Elizabeth Kyle's cover of Dream Weavers
and Adam Duncan was a short-list nominee for best artwork in 2009 but lost to Shaun Tan
's Tales from Outer Suburbia. The magazine has featured short stories which have been short-listed and won literary awards. These stories have won five Aurealis Awards and a Ditmar Award and have been short-list nominees at these awards on 21 other occasions.
. They were administered by Fantastic Queensland from 2004 to 2010 in partnership with Chimaera. The Aurealis Awards were created to differ from the Ditmar Award
and the Australian Children’s Book Council Awards which don't distinguish between different genres of speculative fiction. The Aurealis Awards give separate awards for fantasy, horror and science fiction works across different age ranges.
Mount Waverley, Victoria
Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction
Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...
magazine Aurealis
Aurealis
Aurealis is a Australian speculative fiction magazine published by Chimaera Publications. The magazine was launched in September 1990 to provide a market for speculative fiction writers, with a particular emphasis on raising the profile of Australian authors.In 1995 the magazine instituted the...
as well as running the Aurealis Awards.
History
Chimaera Publications begun publishing the Aurealis magazine in 1990. In 1995 Chimaera established the Aurealis Awards which is held yearly to reward the achievement in Australian speculative fiction. Chimaera also publishes books and in 2004 they published the multi-award winning novel The Black CrusadeThe Black Crusade
The Black Crusade is a 2004 horror novel by Richard Harland. It is a prequel to Harland's earlier novel The Vicar of Morbing Vyle. It describes the journey of the hapless Basil Smorta, a multi lingual bank clerk, who is forced into the company of a group of "fundamental Darwinists" by their...
by Richard Harland
Richard Harland
Richard Harland Richard Harland Richard Harland (born 15 January 1947 in Yorkshire is an English fantasy and science fiction writer, living in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in 1947 in Huddersfield, United Kingdom and migrated to Australia in 1970...
. The Black Crusade won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best horror novel
Aurealis Award for best horror novel
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers"...
and was named the 2004 Golden Aurealis novel. It was a short-list nominee for the 2005 Ditmar Award
Ditmar Award
The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...
for best novel. The artwork featured on the cover of The Black Crusade also won the 2005 Ditmar award for best artwork for Kerri Valkova.
Aurealis magazine
Aurealis was first released in April 1990 and was edited by Dirk Strasser and Stephen Higgins. It is currently edited by Stuart Mayne. In 1993 it was a short-list nominee for the Ditmar AwardDitmar Award
The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...
for best periodical, losing to the Eidolon magazine. In 1999 it was a short-list nominee for the Ditmar Award for best Australian magazine or anthology, losing to Jack Dann
Jack Dann
Jack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...
and Janeen Webb
Janeen Webb
Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
's Dreaming Down-Under
Dreaming Down-Under
Dreaming Down-Under is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb-Background:Dreaming Down-Under was first published in Australia in November 1998 by Voyager Books in trade paperback format....
. The artwork also received nominations at the Ditmar Awards Trudi Canavan
Trudi Canavan
Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
was a finalist for best professional artwork for the cover Aurealis #17 as well as her work on Eidolon #22/23 but lost to Elizabeth Kyle's cover of Dream Weavers
Dream Weavers (anthology)
Dream Weavers is a 1996 fantasy anthology edited by Paul Collins.-Background:Dream Weavers was first published in September 1996 by Penguin Books in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for the 1997 Ditmar Award for best long fiction but lost to Lucy Sussex' The Scarlet Rider. Dream...
and Adam Duncan was a short-list nominee for best artwork in 2009 but lost to Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival...
's Tales from Outer Suburbia. The magazine has featured short stories which have been short-listed and won literary awards. These stories have won five Aurealis Awards and a Ditmar Award and have been short-list nominees at these awards on 21 other occasions.
Aurealis Awards
The Aurealis Awards have been running since 1995 and were developed to award work in speculative fictionSpeculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...
. They were administered by Fantastic Queensland from 2004 to 2010 in partnership with Chimaera. The Aurealis Awards were created to differ from the Ditmar Award
Ditmar Award
The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...
and the Australian Children’s Book Council Awards which don't distinguish between different genres of speculative fiction. The Aurealis Awards give separate awards for fantasy, horror and science fiction works across different age ranges.