The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 award, presented annually at the Australian "NatCon" since 1969. The historical nominations and results (listed in boldface) of the Award follow.

Best Australian Science Fiction of any length, or collection

• Pacific Book Of Australian SF, John Baxter
  John Baxter (author)
  John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney, but has made his home in Paris since 1989, where he is married to the film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel...
  
  
• False Fatherland, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Final Flower, Stephen Cook

Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection

• An Age
  An Age
  An Age is a 1967 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind...
  
  , Brian Aldiss
  Brian Aldiss
  Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
  
  
• Camp Concentration
  Camp Concentration
  Camp Concentration is a 1968 science fiction novel by American author Thomas M. Disch.-Plot introduction:The book is set during a war, projected from the Vietnam War, in which the United States is apparently criminally involved...
  
  , Thomas M. Disch
  Thomas M. Disch
  Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W...
  
  
• The Ring of Ritornel, Charles Harness

Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction

• Brian Aldiss
  Brian Aldiss
  Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
  
  
• R.A. Lafferty
• Samuel R. Delany
  Samuel R. Delany
  Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., also known as "Chip" is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein...
  
  
• Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  

Best Australian Amateur Science Fiction Publication or Fanzine

• Australian Science Fiction Review, John Bangsund
  John Bangsund
  John Bangsund was a prominent Australian science fiction fan in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was a major force, with Andrew I. Porter behind Australia winning the right to host the 1975 Aussiecon, and he was Toastmaster at the Hugo Award ceremony at that convention.He was an influential and...
  
  
• The Mentor, Ronald L Clarke
• Rataplan, Leigh Edmonds

Best Australian Science Fiction

• Dancing Gerontius, Lee Harding
• Anchor Man, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  
• Split Personality, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  
• Kinsolving Planet's Irregulars, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  

Best International Fiction

• The Left Hand of Darkness
  The Left Hand of Darkness
  The Left Hand of Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is part of the Hainish Cycle, a series of books by Le Guin all set in the fictional Hainish universe....
  
  , Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
  
• Cosmicomics
  Cosmicomics
  Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. Each story takes a scientific "fact" , and builds an imaginative story around it...
  
  , Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• The Journal of Omphalistic Epistemology, John Foyster

Best Australian SF

• After Ragnarok, Robert Bowden
• The Bitter Pill, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Squat, David Rome

Best International Fiction

• Time And The Hunter, Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...
  
  
• The Region Between, Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
  
• Towers Of Glass, Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
  
  
• No Award

Best Australian Fanzine

• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• The Somerset Gazette, Noel Kerr
• The New Forerunner, Gary Mason

Special Awards

• SF in the Cinema, John Baxter
  John Baxter (author)
  John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney, but has made his home in Paris since 1989, where he is married to the film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel...
  
  
• Vision of Tomorrow, Ron Graham

Best Australian Fiction

• What You Know, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Fallen Spaceman, Lee Harding
• The Immortal, Olaf Ruhen
• Man Of Slow Feeling, Michael Wilding
  Michael Wilding (writer)
  Michael Wilding is an Australian writer and academic in Sydney.- Life :Michael Wilding, novelist and critic, was born in Worcester UK and read English at Oxford...
  
  
• The Authentic Touch, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  

Best International Fiction

• To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
  Philip José Farmer
  Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....
  
  
• Continued On Next Rock, R.A. Lafferty
• The Lathe Of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
  
• Ringworld, Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
  
• Time Of Changes, Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Scythrop, John Bangsund
  John Bangsund
  John Bangsund was a prominent Australian science fiction fan in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was a major force, with Andrew I. Porter behind Australia winning the right to host the 1975 Aussiecon, and he was Toastmaster at the Hugo Award ceremony at that convention.He was an influential and...
  
  
• The Mentor, Ron L. Clarke
• The Fanarchist, David Grigg
• Chao, John Alderson
• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  

Best Australian Fiction

• The Hard Way Up, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• "Let it Ring", John Ossian (John Foyster)
• Gone Fishing, David Rome
• Budnip, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  

Best International Fiction

• The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
  
  
• The Gorgon Festival, John Boyd
  John Boyd (author)
  John Boyd is the primary pen-name of Boyd Bradfield Upchurch a science fiction author. His best known work is his first science fiction novel, The Last Starship from Earth, published in 1968. Boyd has written eleven science fiction novels, five novels and one biography...
  
  
• The IQ Merchant, John Boyd
  John Boyd (author)
  John Boyd is the primary pen-name of Boyd Bradfield Upchurch a science fiction author. His best known work is his first science fiction novel, The Last Starship from Earth, published in 1968. Boyd has written eleven science fiction novels, five novels and one biography...
  
  
• Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
  
  

Best Dramatic Presentation

• Aussiefan
• A Clockwork Orange
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Tales From The Crypt

Best Australian Fanzine

• Chao, John Alderson
• Gegenschein, Eric Lindsay
• Rataplan, Leigh Edmonds
• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  

Best Australian SF

• The Bitter Pill, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• The Soft Kill, Colin Free
• The Ark of James Carlyle, Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand....
  
  

Best International Fiction

• Protector, Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
  
• The Dispossessed
  The Dispossessed
  The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness . The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974, both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975, and received a nomination for...
  
  , Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
  
• Frankenstein Unbound, Brian Aldiss
  Brian Aldiss
  Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Osiris, Del & Dennis Stocks
• Forerunner, Sue Clarke
• Fanew Sletter, Leigh Edmonds
• Chao, John Alderson
• Gegenschein, Eric Lindsay

Best Australian Fiction

• The Big Black Mark, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Way Out West, Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand....
  
  
• The Frozen Sky, Lee Harding (Ruled as ineligible, published in 1976)

Best International Fiction

• The Indian Giver, Alfred Bester
  Alfred Bester
  Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books...
  
  
• The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
  John Brunner (novelist)
  John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year...
  
  
• The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
  Joe Haldeman
  Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
  
  
• Inferno, Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
   & Jerry Pournelle
  Jerry Pournelle
  Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog....
  
  
• Down to a Sunless Sea, Cordwainer Smith
  Cordwainer Smith
  Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Chao, John Alderson
• Fanew Sletter, Leigh Edmonds
• Mad Dan's Review, Marc Ortlieb
• Osiris, Del & Dennis Stocks
• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Bill Wright

William Atheling Jr Award

• Algis Budrys
  Algis Budrys
  Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A. Sentry", "William Scarff", and "Paul Janvier."-Biography:...
  
  , Foundation & Asimov
• James Gunn
  James Gunn (author)
  - Further reading :James E. Gunn The Listeners, BenBella Books, ISBN 1-932100-12-1 -External links:*...
  
  , Alternative Worlds
• David Ketterer, New Worlds For Old
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , Paradigm and Pattern; Form and Meaning in "The Dispossessed"
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , Philip Dick by 1975

Best Australian Science Fiction

• "The Ins and Outs of the Hadhya City State", Phillipa Maddern
• Kelly Country, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Future Sanctuary, Lee Harding
• Walkers on the Sky, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
  

Best International Fiction

• A World Out of Time, Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
  
• The Space Machine, Chris Priest
• The Hand of Oberon, Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  
• Piper At the Gates of Dawn, Richard Cowper

Best Australian Fanzine

• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Mad Dan's Review, Marc Ortlieb
• Enigma, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• South of Harad, East of Rhun, Jon Noble

William Atheling Jr Award

• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "Theme as an Element of Fiction"
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "The Jonah Kit"
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
   & Peter Nichols
  Peter Nichols
  Peter Nichols FRSL is an English writer of stage plays, film and television.Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and served his compulsory National Service as a clerk in Calcutta and later in the Combined Services Entertainments Unit in Singapore where he...
  
  , "Plumbers of the Cosmos"

Australian Science Fiction, Best Novel

• The Right Hand of Dextra, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Wildings of Westron, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Weeping Sky, Lee Harding
• The Luck of Brins Five, Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder
  Cherry Wilder was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand....
  
  

Australian Science Fiction, Best Short Fiction

• "Albert's Bellyful", Francis Payne
  Francis Payne (author)
  -Biography:Payne was born in 1953 in Scotland. In 1967 Payne emigrated to Australia. Payne won his first award in 1978 with his work "Albert's Bellyful" which won the Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction. In 1995 he won the Aurealis Award for best horror short story with his chapbook...
  
   (Yggdrasil, Feb '77)
• "Ignorant of Magic", Phillipa C. Maddern (View From The Edge)
• "The Two Body Problem", Bruce Barnes (View From The Edge)
• "The Long Fall", A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
   (Amazing, July '77)

Best International Fiction

• In the Hall Of the Martian Kings, John Varley
  John Varley (author)
  John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...
  
  , F&SF, Feb '77
• The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
   (Allen & Unwin)
• Our Lady Of Darkness, (aka The Pale Brown Thing) Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  , (Berkeley Putnam/F&SF, Jan February 77)
• A Dream of Wessex, Chris Priest (Faber)
• "The House of Compassionate Sharers", Michael Bishop
  Michael Bishop (author)
  Michael Lawson Bishop is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy literature....
  
   (Cosmos No 1)
• The Silver in the Tree, Susan Cooper
  Susan Cooper
  Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
  
   (Chatto & Windus)
• Gateway, Frederik Pohl
  Frederik Pohl
  Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...
  
   (Gollancz or Ballantine)

Best Amateur Australian Publication (Fanzine)

• Yggdrasil, Dennis Callegari & Alan Wilson
• Enigma, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Minardor, Marc Ortlieb
• Fanew Sletter, Leigh Edmonds
• Epsilon Eridani Express, Neville J. Angove

William Atheling Jr Award

• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "The Martial Art of SF Criticism", Yggdrasil, Feb, May & August 1977
• Andrew Whitmore, "The Novels of D.G. Compton", SF Commentary, No 52.
• Robert Scholes & Eric S. Rabkin, Science Fiction: History Science Vision, O.U.P
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "The Silverberg Phenomenon", SF Commentary, No 51
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  , "Review of 'Going'"

Best Australian Fiction

• To Keep The Ship, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
   (DAW)
• Beloved Son, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
   (Faber)
• Play Little Victims, Kenneth Cook
  Kenneth Cook
  Kenneth Cook was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy.Born in Lakemba, New South Wales, Cook...
  
   (Pergamon Press)
• "Pie Row Joe", Kevin McKay, Rooms of Paradise (Quartet)

Best International Fiction

• The Far Call, Gordon R. Dickson
  Gordon R. Dickson
  Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction author.- Biography :Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1923. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1937...
  
   (Quantum)
• Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre
  Vonda McIntyre
  Vonda Neel McIntyre is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Vonda N. McIntyre, daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre, earned a degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970. That same year, she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, founded at the Clarion...
  
   (Houghton & Mifflin)
• Stardance II, Spider
  Spider Robinson
  Spider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.- Biography :Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State...
  
   and Jeanne Robinson
  Jeanne Robinson
  Jeanne Robinson was an American-born Canadian dancer, choreographer, teacher and co-author of three award-winning science fiction novels, The Stardance Saga...
  
  , Analog, Sept to November 1978
• "The Persistence of Vision", John Varley
  John Varley (author)
  John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...
  
  , F&SF, March 1978
• The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey
  Anne McCaffrey
  Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Forerunner, Jack R. Herman
• Yggdrasil, Dennis Callegari & Alan Wilson
• Scytale, Peter Toluzzi
• The Epsilon Eridani Express, Neville J. Angove
• Chunder!, John Foyster

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• John Bangsund
  John Bangsund
  John Bangsund was a prominent Australian science fiction fan in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was a major force, with Andrew I. Porter behind Australia winning the right to host the 1975 Aussiecon, and he was Toastmaster at the Hugo Award ceremony at that convention.He was an influential and...
  
  
• Marc Ortlieb
• Anthony Peacy
• Eric Lindsay
• John Foyster

William Atheling Jr Award

• Susan Wood
  Susan Wood (science fiction)
  Susan Joan Wood Susan Joan Wood Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948-November 12, 1980 was a Canadian author, critic, and science fiction fan, born in Ottawa, Ontario.Wood discovered science fiction fandom while she was studying at Carleton University in the 1960s. Wood met fellow fan Mike Glicksohn of...
  
  , "Women and Science Fiction", Algol 33, 1978
• John Bangsund
  John Bangsund
  John Bangsund was a prominent Australian science fiction fan in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was a major force, with Andrew I. Porter behind Australia winning the right to host the 1975 Aussiecon, and he was Toastmaster at the Hugo Award ceremony at that convention.He was an influential and...
  
  , Parergon Papers 10, ANZAPA, October 1978
• John McPharlin, "On The Ebb Tide of the New Wave", Auto Delerium, March 1978
• Lloyd Biggle Jr, "The Morasses of Academe Revisited", Analog, September 1978

Australian Fiction

• Moon in the Ground, Keith Antill
• Displaced Person, Lee Harding
• Australian Gnomes, Robert Ingpen
  Robert Ingpen
  Robert Roger Ingpen is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and author.-Early life:Ingpen was born in Geelong Australia and attended Geelong College to 1957...
  
  
• One Clay Foot, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  

Best International Fiction

• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
  
  
• Castle Roogna, Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
  
  
• The Flight of Dragons, Peter Dickinson
  Peter Dickinson
  Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey
  Anne McCaffrey
  Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
  
  
• Titan, John Varley
  John Varley (author)
  John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Bionic Rabbit, Damian Brennan
• The Wasffan, Roy Ferguson
• Chunder, John Foyster
• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Forerunner, Jack Herman

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Damian Brennan
• Roy Ferguson
• Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• Jack R. Herman
• Marc Ortlieb

Australian Fantasy/SF Artist

• Bevan Casey
• Chris Johnston
• Rob McGough
• John Packer
• Marilyn Pride
• Jane Taubman

William Atheling Jr Award

• Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , "The Art of Xenography", Science Fiction 3
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  , "The Man Who Filled the Void" & "By Our Fruits", S.F. Commentary 55/56
• Jack R. Herman, "Paradox as Paradigm: A Review of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever", Forerunner, May
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "Delany: A Victim of the Great Applause", Yggdrasil 3/79

Best Australian Novel

• The Dreaming Dragons, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  
• Breathing Space Only, Wynne Whiteford
• Looking for Blucher, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  
• The Fourth Hemisphere, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
  

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "Deus Ex Corporus", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• "The Pastseer", Phillipa Maddern
• "Passage to Earth", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• "Horg", Jay Hoffman

Best International Fiction

• Mockingbird, Walter Tevis
  Walter Tevis
  Walter Stone Tevis was an American novelist and short story writer. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth...
  
  
• The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
  Joan D. Vinge
  Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Timescape, Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine...
  
  
• The Wounded Land, Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Australian Science Fiction News, Mervyn R. Binns
• Q36, Marc Ortlieb
• Chunder, John Foyster
• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Leigh Edmonds
• Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• David Grigg
• Marc Ortlieb

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist

• John Packer
• Marilyn Pride
• Jane Taubman
• Julie Vaux

William Atheling Jr Award

• Algis Budrys
  Algis Budrys
  Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A. Sentry", "William Scarff", and "Paul Janvier."-Biography:...
  
  , "Charting Paradise"
• Christopher Priest, "Outside the Whale"
• John Sladek
  John Sladek
  John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.- Life and work :...
  
  , "Four Reasons for Reading Thomas M. Disch"
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "Frederik Pohl as a Creator of Future Societies", and "Samuel Delany: Victim of Great Applause"

Best Long Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy

• The Anarch Lords, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Bard, Keith Taylor
  Keith Taylor (author)
  Keith John Taylor is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard...
  
  
• Behind the Wind, Patricia Wrightson
  Patricia Wrightson
  Patricia Wrightson was an Australian author who wrote a number of highly regarded and influential children's books. Her reputation came to rest largely on her magic realist titles. Her books, including the widely praised The Nargun and The Stars , were among the first Australian books for children...
  
  
• City of Women, David Ireland
  David Ireland (author)
  David Neil Ireland AM is an Australian novelist.-Biography:David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927....
  
  
• The Man Who Loved Morlocks, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
  

Best Short Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy

• Armstrong, Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  
• Tales of Mirric, Elizabeth Travers
• Where Silence Rules, Keith Taylor
  Keith Taylor (author)
  Keith John Taylor is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard...
  
  

Best International Fiction

• The Affirmation, Chris Priest
• The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
  
  
• Radix, A.A. Attanasio
• The Sirian Experiments, Doris Lessing
  Doris Lessing
  Doris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos....
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Australian SF News, Mervyn R. Binns
• Q36, Marc Ortlieb
• S.F. Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Thyme, Andrew Brown and Irwin Hirsh
• Weberwoman's Wrevenge, Jean Weber

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Leigh Edmonds
• Judith Hanna
• Eric B. Lindsay
• Marc Ortlieb

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist

• Steph Campbell
• Chris Johnston
• John Packer
• Marilyn Pride

William Atheling Jr Award

• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , "The Lately Great Alfred Bester", S.F. Commentary 62/66
• Thomas Disch, "The Labor Day Group" F&SF, February 1981
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  , "Sing a Song of Daniel", S.F. Commentary 62/66

Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy

• The Ones Who Walk Away Behind the Eyes, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Omega, May 1982
• The Lances of Nengesdul, Keith Taylor
  Keith Taylor (author)
  Keith John Taylor is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard...
  
  
• Vaneglory, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  

Best International Fiction

• No Enemy But Time, Michael Bishop
  Michael Bishop (author)
  Michael Lawson Bishop is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy literature....
  
  
• The One Tree, Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series...
  
  
• Ridley Walker, Russell Hoban
  Russell Hoban
  Russell Conwell Hoban is an American writer, now living in England, of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books-Biography:...
  
  
• Roderick, John Sladek
  John Sladek
  John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.- Life and work :...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Ornithopter, Leigh Edmonds
• Q36, Marc Ortlieb
• Science Fiction, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Thyme, Andrew Brown, Irwin Hirsh, Roger Weddall
• Weberwoman's Wrevenge, Jean Weber

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist

• Kerrie Hanlon
• Chris Johnston
• Marilyn Pride
• Nick Stathopoulos

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Cartoonist

• Terry Frost
• Michael McGann
• John Packer
• Jane Taubman
• Julie Vaux

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Editor

• Neville Angove
• Mervyn Binns
• Ron L. Clarke
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Norstrilia Press - Rob Gerrand
  Rob Gerrand
  Rob Gerrand is an Australian writer of science fiction - Books :* Transmutations ,* Fortress * Rewrite Your Life! ,...
  
  , Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
   & Carey Handfield

William Atheling Jr Award

• Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , "Kirth Gersen: The Other Demon Prince", Science Fiction 11
• Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , "The Lever of Life: Winning and Losing in the Fiction of Cordwainer Smith", Science Fiction 10
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  , S.F. Commentary, The First Year

Best Australian Long Science Fiction or Fantasy

• The Tempting of the Witchking, Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
   (Cory & Collins)
• The Judas Mandala, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Timescape)
• Valencies, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   & Rory Barnes
  Rory Barnes
  Rory Barnes is an Australian writer of popular fiction. Although born in London, he has lived most of his life in Australia.-Bibliography:*Valencies *The Bomb-Monger's Daughter...
  
   (UQP)
• Kelly Country, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
   (Penguin)
• Yesterday's Men, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , (Faber)
• Thor's Hammer, Wynne Whiteford (Cory & Collins)

Best Australian Short Science Fiction or Fantasy

• "Crystal Soldier", Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  
• "Life the Solitude", Kevin McKay
• "Land Deal", Gerald Murnane
  Gerald Murnane
  - Life :Murnane was born in Coburg, Melbourne, and has almost never left the state of Victoria. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bendigo and the Western District. In 1956 he matriculated from De La Salle College Malvern....
  
  
• "Above Atlas His Shoulders", Andrew Whitmore

Best International Fiction

• The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, John Calvin Batchelor (Dial Press)
• The Tempting of the Witchking, Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
   (Cory and Collins)
• Dr Who (BBC)
• Pilgerman, Russell Hoban
  Russell Hoban
  Russell Conwell Hoban is an American writer, now living in England, of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books-Biography:...
  
   (Jonathan Cape)
• Yesterday's Men, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
   (Faber)
• Thor's Hammer, Wynne Whiteford (Cory & Collins)
• No Award

Best Australian Fanzine

• Australian Science Fiction News, Mervyn R. Binns
• Rataplan/Ornithopter, Leigh Edmonds
• Science Fiction, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Thyme, Roger Weddall
• Wahf-full, Jack Herman

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist

• Neville Bain
• Steph Campbell
• Michal Dutkiewicz
  Michal Dutkiewicz
  Michael Dutkiewicz is a professional illustrator and comic book artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. The son of artist Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, Dutkiewicz has worked on a variety of comic book titles, including Lost in Space , Wolverine:Doombringer, Batman Forever and Superman, as well as an...
  
  
• Chris Johnston
• Nick Stathopoulos

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Cartoonist

• Bill Flowers
• Terry Frost
• Craig Hilton
• Michael McGann
• John Packer
• Clint Strickland

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Editor

• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• David King
• Norstrilia Press - Rob Gerrand
  Rob Gerrand
  Rob Gerrand is an Australian writer of science fiction - Books :* Transmutations ,* Fortress * Rewrite Your Life! ,...
  
  , Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
   & Carey Handfield

Best Australian Novel

• Beast of Heaven, Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
  
  
• The Last Amazon, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• The Wild Ones, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Suburbs of Hell, Randolph Stow
  Randolph Stow
  Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...
  
  

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "Terrarium", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Omega, May/June 1984
• "The Maze Man", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Men's Journal, Summer 1984
• "Resurrection", Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , IASFM, August 1984
• "Three Star Trek", Ron Ferguson, Omega, Sept/October 1984

Best International Fiction

• Neuromancer, William Gibson
  William Gibson
  William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...
  
   (Ace)
• The Final Encyclopedia, Gordon R. Dickson
  Gordon R. Dickson
  Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction author.- Biography :Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1923. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1937...
  
   (Tor)
• Native Tongues, Suzette Haden Elgin
  Suzette Haden Elgin
  Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages...
  
  , (DAW)
• Damiano's Lute, R.A. MacAvoy (Bantam)

Best Australian Fanzine

• Australian SF News, Merv Binns
• The Mentor, Ron L. Clarke
• Rataplan, Leigh Edmonds
• Science Fiction, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Leigh Edmonds
• David Grigg
• Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• Yvonne Rousseau

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist, Cartoonist or Illustrator

• Nick Stathopoulos
• Craig Hilton
• Kerrie Hanlon
• Peter Reading

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Editor

• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Philip Gore
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Dramatic Presentation

• Boiling Frog, Stage play with productions in Adelaide & Sydney
• Beach Blanket Tempest, Rock Fantasy stage musical (Half Moon Production)
• Iceman
  Iceman (film)
  Iceman is a 1984 science fiction film from Universal Studios. The screenplay was written by John Drimmer and Chip Proser, and was directed by Fred Schepisi. The cast included John Lone, Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse and Danny Glover....
  
  , Fred Schepisi Director
• Iceman
  Iceman (film)
  Iceman is a 1984 science fiction film from Universal Studios. The screenplay was written by John Drimmer and Chip Proser, and was directed by Fred Schepisi. The cast included John Lone, Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse and Danny Glover....
  
  , Bruce Smeaton
  Bruce Smeaton
  Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
  
   Musical score
• Thief of Sydney, Animated feature 15 minutes
• Kindred Spirits, ABC Telemovie

William Atheling Jr Award

• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , In The Heart or in the Head
• John Foyster, Article on George Turner, ASFN 1984
• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , SF Reviews, "The Age", 1984
• John Baxter
  John Baxter (author)
  John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney, but has made his home in Paris since 1989, where he is married to the film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel...
  
  , SF Reviews, The Australian, 1984

Best Australian Science Fiction Novel

• Landscape With Landscapes, Gerald Murnane
  Gerald Murnane
  - Life :Murnane was born in Coburg, Melbourne, and has almost never left the state of Victoria. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bendigo and the Western District. In 1956 he matriculated from De La Salle College Malvern....
  
   (Norstrilia)
• Illywacker, Peter Carey (UQP)
• Changelings of Cha'an, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
   (Hyland House)
• Transing Syndrome, Kurt von Trojan
  Kurt von Trojan
  Kurt von Trojan was an Australian journalist and science fiction author. He has also been employed as a psychiatric nurse and a cinema projectionist....
  
   (Rigby)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "The Twist of Fate", David Grigg, Urban Fantasies
• "Glass Reptile Breakout", Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , Strange Attractors
• "Montage", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , Urban Fantasies
• "The Fittest", George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , Urban Fantasies
• "Lipton Village Society", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , Strange Attractors
• "The Bullet That Grows in the Gun", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Urban Fantasies

Best International Fiction

• Devil in a Forest, Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
  
   (Granada)
• Tik-Tok, John Sladek
  John Sladek
  John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.- Life and work :...
  
   (Corgi)
• Free Live Free, Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
  
   (Gollancz)
• Peace, Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
  
   (Chatto)
• Compass Rose, Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
   (Bantam, also Underwood & Miller, and Harper and Row)
• Elleander Morning, Jerry Yulsman
  Jerry Yulsman
  Jerry Yulsman was an American novelist and a photographer best known for his photographs of Jack Kerouac, notably the cover illustration on Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters....
  
   (Orbit/Futura)

Best Australian Fanzine

• The Notional, Leigh Edmonds
• The Metaphysical Review, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Thyme, Roger Weddall & Peter Burns
• Tigger, Marc Ortlieb
• Sikander, Irwin Hirsh

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  
• Leigh Edmonds
• Yvonne Rousseau
• Marc Ortlieb

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist

• Lewis Morley
• John Packer
• Betty deGabrielle
• Nick Stathopoulos
• Marilyn Pride
• Craig Hilton

William Atheling Jr Award

• Norman Talbot
• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  
• George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , "Neuromancer et al."
• Yvonne Rousseau

Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel

• Bard III: The Wild Sea, Keith Taylor
  Keith Taylor (author)
  Keith John Taylor is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard...
  
   (Ace)
• "Oasis", Patrick Urth, Aphelion 1-4
• Taronga, Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
  
   (Viking Kestrel)
• The Black Grail, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Avon)
• Adventures Of Christian Rosy Cross, David Foster
  David Foster (novelist)
  David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist. He is one of the most adventurous writers of his generation, publishing a range of satires and considerations of the decline of Western civilization...
  
   (Penguin)

Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction

• "Shut the Door When You Go Out", George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , Aphelion 4
• "The Man Who Lost Red", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• "Time of the Star", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Aphelion 3
• "A Dragon Between His Fingers", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Omega, May/June
• "For the Man Who Has Everything", Chris Simmons, Aphelion 1

Best Australian Fanzine

• The Space Wastrel, Mark Loney, Michelle Muijsert, Julian Warner
• Motional, Anonymous
• Larrikin, Irwin Hirsh & Perry Middlemiss
• Metaphysical Review, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Thyme, Roger Weddall and Peter Burns

Best Australian SF or Fantasy Artist

• Craig Hilton
• Nick Stathopoulos
• Kerrie Hanlon
• Betty deGabriele
• John Packer

Outstanding Contribution to Australian Fandom

• Carey Handfield, T.R.O. (The Real Official.)

William Atheling Award

• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , Debased and Lascivious
• Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett is an Australian children's writer born in Stanmore, New South Wales. He has written three non-fiction books about cricket and medieval weapons and armor. He has also written three series of fantasy books as well as a number of standalone fantasy books. One of the series, The Rhianna...
  
  
• Margaret Winch, Frank's Tank
• Michael J Tolley

Best Australian Long Fiction

• For as Long as You Burn, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Aphelion 5
• The Makers, Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
  
   (Viking, Kestrel)
• Bard IV: Raven's Gathering, Keith Taylor
  Keith Taylor (author)
  Keith John Taylor is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard...
  
   (Ace)
• The Sea And The Summer, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
   (Faber)
• The Hyades Contact, Wynne Whiteford (Ace)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• The Dirty Little Unicorn, Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  
• "The Last Elephant", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Australian Short Stories #20
• "Marmordesse", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Omega, January 1987
• "The Supramarket", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  , Doom City
• "The Celestial Intervention Agency", Karen Herkes, Time Loop #70

Best Australian Fanzine

• Australian Science Fiction Review, Melbourne Collective eds
• Larrikin, Irwin Hirsh, Perry Middlemiss
• Science Fiction, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• The Space Wastrel, Mark Loney, Michelle Muijsert, Julian Warner

Best Australian Fan Writer

• Karen Herkes
• Jack R. Herman
• Irwin Hirsh
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Perry Middlemiss

Best Fan Artist

• Donna Angus
• Kerrie Hanlon
• Craig Hilton
• David Kenyon
• Stephen McArthur
• Lewis Morley

William Atheling Jr Award

• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , "Deconstructing the Demon: John Calvin Bachelor's Novels" ASFR #11
• Richard Erlich & Peter Hall, "A Prefilmic, Post-Poststructurialist Prostruction of Alien/Alien3", ASFR #11
• John Foyster, Review of Trillion Year Spree, ASFR #7
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  , "Mirror Reversals and the Tolkien Writing Game", Science Fiction #25
• Susan Margaret, "Structural Analysis of SF. Why?", The Space Wastrel
• Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
  
  , "I Know Who I am, But What is my Brand Name?"

Best Australian Long Fiction

• Striped Holes, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Avon)
• West Of The Moon, David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
   (Hyland)
• Huaco Of The Golden God, Carolyn Logan (A&R)
• Beyond The Labyrinth, Gillian Rubinstein
  Gillian Rubinstein
  Gillian Rubinstein is an English-born children's author and playwright. Born in Potten End, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Rubinstein split her childhood between England and Nigeria, moving to Australia in 1973. As well as eight plays, numerous short stories and articles, she has written...
  
  , (Hyland)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "A Tale of Nine Cats", Katherine Cummings, Conviction Programme
• "Scatter My Ashes", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  , Interzone #23
• "Things Fall Apart", Philippa Maddern, Matilda at the Speed of Light
• "The Colors of the Masters", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , F&SF March 1988
• "My Lady Tongue", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , Matilda at the Speed of Light

Best International Fiction

• Dawn, Octavia Butler (Gollancz)
• Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
   (Legend)
• Aegypt, John Crowley
  John Crowley
  John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
  
   (Gollancz)
• Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
  William Gibson
  William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...
  
   (Gollancz)
• On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers
  Tim Powers
  Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare...
  
   (Grafton)
• Life During Wartime, Lucius Shepard
  Lucius Shepard
  Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...
  
   (Grafton)
• Islands In The Net, Bruce Sterling
  Bruce Sterling
  Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...
  
   (Century)

Best Australian Fanzine

• SFR, SF Collective
• Get Stuffed, Jacob Blake
• Larrikin, Perry Middlemiss & Irwin Hirsh
• Science Fiction, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Jack Herman
• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Perry Middlemiss

Best Fan Artist

• Ian Gunn
• Kerrie Hanlon
• Craig Hilton
• Mike McGann
• Kiera McKenzie
• Phil Wlodarczyk

William Atheling Jr Award

• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , ASFR articles
• Martin Bridgestock, "Sea & Summer", ASFR, and "Counter Earth/Counter Humanity", Metaphysical Review
• Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
  
  , ASFR articles
• Arthur Webster, "Speaker for the Dead", Get Stuffed

1990: Danse Macabre, Melbourne

The William Atheling Jr Award was withdrawn for insufficient nominations

Best Australian Long Fiction

• Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
  
  , The Red King (Viking Kestrel)
• Keith Taylor
  Keith Taylor (author)
  Keith John Taylor is an Australian science fiction and fantasy writer.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard...
  
  , The Sorcerer's Sacred Isle (Ace)
• Wynne Whiteford, Lake Of The Sun (Ace)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , "The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House", Australian Short Stories #26 (June 1989)
• Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...
  
  , "If You Go Down to the Park Today", Total Devotion Machine
• Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...
  
  , "Total Devotion Machine", Total Devotion Machine
• Petrina Smith, "Over the Edge", Mirrors: Redress Novellas

Best Australian Fanzine

• SF Collective, ASFR
• Melbourne Science Fiction Club
  Melbourne Science Fiction Club
  The Melbourne Science Fiction Club Inc. was founded in May 1952 by Race Mathews and others. It is the second oldest, continuously active, science fiction club in the world, after the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society...
  
  , Ethel The Aardvark
• Jacob Blake, Get Stuffed
• Jack Herman, Sweetness and Light

Best Australian Fanwriter

• Terry Frost
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Ian Gunn
• Jack R. Herman
• Yvonne Hintz
• Alan Stewart

Best Fanzine

• Australian Science Fiction Review, (Second series), edited by the Science Fiction Collective
• Doxa!, Roman Orszanski
• Doxy, John Foyster
• Ethel the Aardvark, Alan Stewart
• Pink, Karen Pender-Gunn
• StunGunn, Ian Gunn

Best Australian Novel or Anthology

• A Pursuit of Miracles, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  (Aphelion)
• Fortress of Eternity, Andrew Whitmore (Avon)
• My Lady Tongue and Other Tales, Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
   (William Heinemann)
• Rynosseros, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
   (Aphelion)
• The Specialist, Wynne Whiteford (Ace)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "Generation Gap", George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  , A Pursuit of Miracles, Aphelion
• "God and Her Black Sense of Humour", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , My Lady Tongue and Other Tales
• "Red Ochre", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , My Lady Tongue and Other Tales (William Heinemann)
• "The Caress", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  , Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine January 1990
• "Turtle Soup", Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...
  
  , Eidolon December 1990
• "While the Gate is Open", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , F&SF March 1990

Best Australian Fan Artist

• Ian Gunn
• Craig Hilton
• Marion Plumridge
• Phil Wlodarczyk

Best Australian Fan Writer

• Terry Frost
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Ian Gunn
• Marc Ortlieb
• Alan Stewart

William Atheling Jr Award

• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , "Analogues of Anomie: Lee Harding's Novels" in Science Fiction 30 & Australian Science Fiction Review (Second Series
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  , "The Non-SF Novels of Philip K. Dick" presented at the Nova Mob and published in ANZAPA
• Peter Nicholls
  Peter Nicholls (writer)
  Peter Nicholls is an Australian literary scholar and critic. He is the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ....
  
  , "Fantastic World" reviews in the Melbourne Sunday Herald
• Alan Stewart, Reviews in Ethel the Aardvark and SF Commentary

Best Novel or Collection

• From Sea to Shining Star, A. Bertram Chandler
  A. Bertram Chandler
  Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
  
  
• Wormwood, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• Brother Night, Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
  
  
• Del Del, Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher
  Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa,...
  
  
• Brainchild, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  

Best Short Fiction

• "Vanities", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• "Nobody's Fool", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• "A Deadly Edge Their Red Beaks Pass Along", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• "Olive Truffles", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• "The Dominant Style", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  
• "Alone in his Chariot", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  

Best Fanzine

• Eidolon, Jeremy Byrne
• Ethel the Aardvark, Alan Stewart
• Inconsequential Parallax, Tim Richards & Narrelle Harris
  Narrelle Harris
  Narrelle Harris is a Melbourne-based writer. She is the author of "Fly By Night" , "Witch Honour" and its sequel, "Witch Faith" , probably her highest-profile work to date is "The Opposite Of Life"...
  
  
• Thyme, LynC & Clive Newall
• Thyme, Greg Hills & Mark Loney

Best Fan Writer

• James Allen
• Terry Frost
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Greg Hills
• Alan Stewart

Best SF or Fantasy Artist

• Ian Gunn
• Craig Hilton
• Nick Stathopoulos
• Phil Wlodarczyk

William Atheling Jr Award

• "Jonathan Carroll, Storyteller", Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• "Going Commercial", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  
• Review of The Fantastic Civil War, Blair Ramage

Special Award for Services to Fandom

• Susan Batho
• Ron Clarke
• Jack Herman

Best Long Fiction

• Blue Tyson, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• Quarantine, Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  
• Back Door Man, Ian M. Hails
• Call to the Edge, Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  
• Brainchild, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  
• And Disregards the Rest, Paul Voermans
  Paul Voermans
  Paul Voermans is a science fiction author, community internetwork activist and performer. A strong stream of his art is comic, though dark and surreal at times...
  
  

Best Short Fiction

• "Privateer's Moon", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• "Ship's Eye", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• "Closer", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  
• "Worthless", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  
• "The Seas of Castle Hill Road", Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...
  
  
• "It's All In The Way You Look At It", Michael Pryor
  Michael Pryor
  -Biography:Pryor was born in Swan Hill, Victoria and currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and two daughters. His first work to be published was the short story "Talent" in 1990, which was published in Aurealis #1...
  
  

Best Periodical

• Slow Glass Books Catalog, Justin Ackroyd
• Eidolon, Jeremy Byrne
• Ethel the Aardvark, Alan Stewart
• Thyme, Alan Stewart
• Aurealis, Dirk Strasser & Stephen Higgins

Best Fan Writer

• Paul Ewings
• Terry Frost
• Robin Pen
• Karen Pender-Gunn
• Alan Stewart
• Roger Weddall

Best Artwork

• "Fanimals", Ian Gunn
• Space Time Buckaneers, Ian Gunn
• 1992 Ditmar Award, Lewis Morley
• Cover art for Blue Tyson, Nick Stathopoulos
• "Relics", 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...
  
  
• "Snowman", Leisl Yvette

William Atheling Jr Award

• "Five Go Camping with 12-01 Club", Paul Ewings
• "James Morrow and the Erni", Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• "Australian SF Art Turns 50", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  
• "From Fantasy to Gallileo", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  
• Reviews in Ethel the Aardvark, Karen Pender-Gunn

Best Long Fiction or Collection

• The Destiny Makers, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
  
• Graffiti, Dirk Strasser
• Twilight Beach, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  
• The Weird Colonial Boy, Paul Voermans
  Paul Voermans
  Paul Voermans is a science fiction author, community internetwork activist and performer. A strong stream of his art is comic, though dark and surreal at times...
  
  

Best Short Fiction

• "Catalyst", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  , Terror Australis
• "Starbaby", Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...
  
  , Overland, December 93
• "The Lottery", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , Overland, December 93
• "Ghosts of the Fall", Sean Williams, Writers of the Future IX

Best Professional Art Work

• Galaxy Bookshop Dragon, Lewis Morley
• Twilight Beach Cover, Nick Stathopoulos

Best Fan Artist

• Ian Gunn
• Craig Hilton
• Pamela Rendall
• Steve Scholz
• Kerry Valkova
• Phil Wlodarczyk

Best Fanzine

• Black Light
• Ethel the Aardvark
• Get Stuffed
• SF Commentary
• The Mentor
• Thyme

William Atheling Jr Award

• "Five Bikers Of The Apocalypse", Leigh Edmonds, Eidolon #12
• "SF Sucks", James Allen, Get Stuffed #6
• "Silverberg Not Moving", Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , SF Commentary 73/74/75

Best Australian Long Fiction

• Deersnake, Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
   (Hodder)
• Genetic Soldier, George Turner
  George Turner (writer)
  George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. He was notable for being a "late bloomer" in science fiction . His first SF story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties...
  
   (William Morrow)
• Permutation City, Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
   (Millennium)
• Voices in the Light, Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   (Aphelion)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "Cocoon", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  , Asimov's SF, May 94
• "Jinx Ship", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  , The Patternmaker
• "Land's End", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  , Alien Shores
• "Our Lady of Chernobyl", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  , Interzone 83, May 1994
• "The Patternmaker", Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett is an Australian children's writer born in Stanmore, New South Wales. He has written three non-fiction books about cricket and medieval weapons and armor. He has also written three series of fantasy books as well as a number of standalone fantasy books. One of the series, The Rhianna...
  
  , The Patternmaker

Best Professional Artwork

• 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...
  
  , for artwork in 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...
  
   and Eidolon

Best Fanzine

• Gegenschein, Eric Lindsay
• The Mentor, Ron Clarke
• Sirius, Garry Wyatt
• Thyme, Alan Stewart

Best Long Fiction

• An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
   (Aphelion)
• Mirrorsun Rising, Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   (Aphelion)
• Sabriel, Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
   (Moonstone/Harper Collins)
• She's Fantastical, Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
   & Judith Buckrich
  Judith Buckrich
  Dr Judith Buckrich is a Melbourne author and the Chair of the International PEN Women Writers' Committee.- Life :...
  
   (Sybylla)
• The Unknown Soldier, Sean Williams & Shane Dix
  Shane Dix
  Shane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction....
  
   (Aphelion)

Best Short Fiction

• "Entropy", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  , She's Fantastical (Sybylla)
• "Schrödinger's Fridge", Ian Gunn, Aurealis #15
• "A Sky Full of Ravens", Sue Isle
  Sue Isle
  Sue Isle is the author of the Young Adult literature Fantasy novel Scale Of Dragon, Tooth Of Wolf and nonfiction children's book 'Wolf Children'....
  
  , She's Fantastical (Sybylla)
• "Angel Thing", Petrina Smith, She's Fantastical (Sybylla)
• "A Map of the Mines of Barnath", Sean Williams, Eidolon #16
• "The Perfect Gun", Sean Williams, Eidolon #17/18

Best Publication/Fanzine/Periodical

• Eidolon, J. Byrne, R Scriven & J Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• Ethel the Aardvark, Paul Ewins
• The Metaphysical Review, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Pinkette, Karen Pender-Gunn
• Thyme, Alan Stewart

Best Artwork

• Thyme 106 (Cover), Ian Gunn
• An Intimate Knowledge of the Night (Cover), Nick Stathopoulos
• Eidolon 19 (Cover), 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...
  
  

William Atheling Jnr Award

• Reading by Starlight, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Routledge)
• "The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction", Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
  , Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   & Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , The Scream Factory #16

Best Australian Long Fiction

• Dreamweavers, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (ed) (Penguin Books)
• The Memory Cathedral, 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...
  
   (Bantam)
• Scarlet Rider, Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
   (Tor/Forge)
• Metal Fatigue, Sean Williams (Harper Collins)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "The Sword of God", Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  
• Dreamweavers, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  (ed) (Penguin Books)
• "The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Interzone #106
• "Borderline", Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  , Borderline (Mirrordanse Books)
• The Stray Cat, Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
   (Lothian)

Best Fanzine

• The Communicator, Derek Screen
• Emerald City, Cheryl Morgan
• Oscillation Overthruster, Sue Ann Barber
• Pinkette, Karen Pender-Gunn
• Science Fiction, Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  
• Thyme, Alan Stewart

Best Fan Writer

• Terry Frost
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Ian Gunn
• Cheryl Morgan
• Karen Pender-Gunn

Best Professional Artwork

• 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...
  
   for art in Aurealis #17, and Eidolon #22/23
• Norm & Margaret Hetherington
  Norman Hetherington
  Norman Frederick Hetherington OAM was an Australian artist, etcher, cartoonist , puppeteer, and puppet designer....
  
   for Mr Squiggle, ABC TV
• Elizabeth Kyle, Cover of Dreamweavers
• 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...
  
   for artwork in Eidolon and the cover of The Stray Cat
• Jason Towers for "Valdo Over Evora" cover, Australian Realms #28

William Atheling Jr. Award

• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , for "The Tiger in the Prison House", Science Fiction #37, Reviews of Distress in Science Fiction and NYRSF, and "Jewels in Junk City" in Review of Contemporary Fiction
• Alan Stewart, for reviews in Thyme
• Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
  
  , for "Post human SF: Lost In Cyberspace", The Festival of Imagination Programme Book

Best Long Fiction

• The White Abacus
  The White Abacus
  The White Abacus is a 1997 science fiction novel by Damien Broderick. It follows the story of Telmah Lord Cima who travels to Earth from a far-off world and becomes friends with a computer-augmented being called Ratio.-Background:...
  
  , Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Avon Books)
• Winter, Simon Brown (Harper Collins)
• Darkfall, Isobelle Carmody
  Isobelle Carmody
  Isobelle Jane Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.-Biography:Carmody began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles at the age of fourteen...
  
   (Penguin)
• Old Bones, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  
• Sinner, Sara Douglass (Harper Collins)

Best Short Fiction

• "Niagara Falling", Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
  
   & 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...
  
  , Black Mist
• "Lucent Carbon", Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , Eidolon 25/26
• "The Willcroft Inheritance", Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...
  
   and Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  , Gothic Ghosts
• "Reasons to be Cheerful", Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  , Interzone #118, [Withdrawn.]
• "Grievous Music", Carole Nomarhas, Eidolon 24

Best Dramatic Presentation

• Spellbinder 2, Nine Network
• Degree Absolute, Bedlam Theatre Company
• Multiverse Ceremonies Video

Best Artwork/Artist

• Kerri Valkova
• Mack McBride, Shivers Series
• Nick Stathopoulos
• Robert Jan
• R & D Studios, Eidolon Cover
• 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...
  
  , The Viewer

Best Fanzine

• Eidolon
• Frontier
• Thyme
• Captain's Log
• Oscillation Overthruster

Best Fan Writer

• George Ivanoff
• Terry Frost
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm
  Leanne Frahm is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. She received her first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best...
  
  
• Karen Johnson
• Cathy Cupitt

William Atheling Jr Award

• Katharine and Darren Maxwell, for X-files episode reviews in Frontier #59
• Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   and Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , "Australian Contemporary Fantasy", Encyclopedia of Fantasy #173 (Orbit)

Best Australian Long Fiction

• Pilgrim, Sara Douglass (Harper Collins)
• Feral, Kerry Greenwood
  Kerry Greenwood
  Kerry Greenwood is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as...
  
   (Hodder and Stoughton)
• The Centurion's Empire, Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   (Tor)
• The Tilecutter's Penny, Caiseal Mór
  Caiseal Mor
  Caiseal is Gaelic for "great stone fort".Caiseal Mór is a bestselling fantasy novelist. He is an Australian of Irish descent. Irish folklore is an inspiration for his works. Mor also composes and records music, with twelve albums so far and another one on the way over the next year. He is well...
  
   (Random House)
• The Resurrected Man, Sean Williams (Harper Collins)

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "The Marsh Runners", Paul Brandon, Dreaming Down Under
• "The Evil Within", Sara Douglass, Dreaming Down Under
• "Dream Until God Burns", Andrew Enstice, Dreaming Down Under
• "The Truth About Weena", David Lake
  David Lake
  David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...
  
  , Dreaming Down Under
• "Queen of Soulmates", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , Dreaming Down Under
• "To Avalon", Jane Routley
  Jane Routley
  Jane Routley is an Australian writer of fantasy fiction.-Biography:Routley was born in Melbourne, Australia. In 1996 Routley's first book was released in the U.S., entitled Mage Heart which is the first book in the Mage Heart series. She has since released two more novels in the series. In 2000 all...
  
  , Dreaming Down Under

Best Australian Magazine or Anthology

• Altair, Rob Stephenson
• Aurealis, Stephen Higgins & Dirk Strasser
• Dreaming Down-Under, 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...
  
   & Janeen Webb (Harper Collins)
• Eidolon, Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   & Jeremy Byrne
• Fantastic Worlds, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (Harper Collins)
• MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (M.U.P.)

Best Australian Fanzine

• The Captain's Log, Rose Mitchell
• Ethel the Aardvark, Ian Gunn
• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Bill Wright
• Metaphysical Review, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Out of the Kaje, Karen Johnson
• Thyme, Alan Stewart

Best Professional Artwork

• Emma Barber, Cover Cannibals of the Fine Light, Cover A View Before Dying
• Mark McBride, Cover Fantastic Worlds
• Marilyn Pride, Peregrine Besset/A3 PRs
• Nick Stathopoulos, Cover The Man Who Melted, Cover Dreaming Down Under
• 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...
  
  , The Rabbits

William Atheling Jr. Award

• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   Reviews, The New York Review of Science Fiction
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  , MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction
• Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , Contributions to MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  , Reviews in Locus
• Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
  
   and Andrew Enstice, Aliens & Savages (Harper Collins)
• Sean Williams & Simon Brown, "No Axis No Boundary", Altair 1

Best Written Work (Professional)

• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   & Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  , Generation X, Cicada Nov/December 1999
• Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  , The Lady of Situations, Ticonderoga Publications
• Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett is an Australian children's writer born in Stanmore, New South Wales. He has written three non-fiction books about cricket and medieval weapons and armor. He has also written three series of fantasy books as well as a number of standalone fantasy books. One of the series, The Rhianna...
  
  , A Dark Journey, Omnibus
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  , The Nabakov Affair, Australian Short Stories #63
• Rory Barnes
  Rory Barnes
  Rory Barnes is an Australian writer of popular fiction. Although born in London, he has lived most of his life in Australia.-Bibliography:*Valencies *The Bomb-Monger's Daughter...
  
   & Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , The Book of Revelation, Harper Collins

Best Written Work (Unpaid or Fan)

• Colin Sharpe & Kate Langford, Magical Cream Puff Destiny, JAMWAF Magazine
• Kyla Ward
  Kyla Ward
  -Biography:Ward was born in New South Wales, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she gained a BA in communications.-Writing:Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs...
  
  , "Night Cars", Abaddon #2
• Robin Pen, Eidolist 1999 Reviews, Eidolist
• Bill Wright, Interstellar Ramjet Scoop
• Alan Stewart, Thyme

Best Professional Production In Any Medium

• Sarah Endacott (ed), Orb 0
• Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
   (ed), The Lady of Situations (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Roadshow and Warner Brothers, The Matrix
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   & Meredith Costain (ed), Spinouts (Pearson Education)
• MP Books, Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (MP Books)

Best Non-Professional Production In Any Medium

• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   & Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction
• Team, Twenty3, Swancon 2000 Launch Video
• Cathy Cupitt, The Rhizome Factor
• Danny Heap, The Opening Ceremony Video at Aussiecon Three
• Ion Newcombe, The Antipodean SF website

Best Artwork (Professional.)

• Nick Stathopoulos, The Cover of Antique Futures
• Graeme Bliss, The Cover of Clementine
• Marc McBride, The Cover of Spinouts
• 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...
  
  , The Cover of Orb 0
• Nick Stathopoulos, The Cover of The Aussiecon Three Souvenir Book

Best Artwork (Unpaid or Fan)

• Jeremy Nelson, The Cover of The Rhizome Factor #4
• Colin Sharpe, Illustrations for The Magical Cream Puff Destiny
• Dick Jenssen, Body of Work
• Phil Wlodarczyk, Cover to Ethel the Aardvark

William Atheling Award for Criticism or Review

• Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
  , Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
   & Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (Greenwood)
• Judith Buckrich
  Judith Buckrich
  Dr Judith Buckrich is a Melbourne author and the Chair of the International PEN Women Writers' Committee.- Life :...
  
  , George Turner: A Life 1916-1997 (M.U.P.)
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , Articles in i.am ezine
• Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb
  Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic, and editor working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.-Biography:...
  
   & Andrew Enstice, The Fantastic Self (Eidolon Press)
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   & Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction

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Second Round Nominations and Winners

Best Novel

• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   and Rory Barnes, The Book of Revelation
• Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  , Teranesia (Award declined.)
• 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...
  
  , Hidden From View
• Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett
  Dave Luckett is an Australian children's writer born in Stanmore, New South Wales. He has written three non-fiction books about cricket and medieval weapons and armor. He has also written three series of fantasy books as well as a number of standalone fantasy books. One of the series, The Rhianna...
  
  , A Dark Victory
  A Dark Victory
  A Dark Victory is a 1999 young-adult fantasy novel by Dave Luckett and is the last book in the Tenabran Trilogy. It follows the story of how Will is preparing for his final battle as Prince Nathan's armies mass on the moors.-Background:...
  
  
• Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  , Foreign Bodies
• Jane Routley
  Jane Routley
  Jane Routley is an Australian writer of fantasy fiction.-Biography:Routley was born in Melbourne, Australia. In 1996 Routley's first book was released in the U.S., entitled Mage Heart which is the first book in the Mage Heart series. She has since released two more novels in the series. In 2000 all...
  
  , Aramaya
  Aramaya
  Aramaya is a 1999 fantasy novel by Jane Routley. It follows the second book in the series, Fire Angels, with Dion arriving in the capitol of Akieva in search of her missing niece.-Background:...
  
  
• Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , Souls In The Great Machine

Best Short Fiction

• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  , "The Habokov Affair", Australian Short Stories 63
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , "Ground Underfoot", Aurealis 23
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   and Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams
  Jack Wodhams is a science fiction writer who has lived in Australia since 1955. He was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1967 with the story There Is a Crooked Man. He is largely known for the kind of "problem oriented" stories that Analog itself is known for...
  
  , "Generation X", Cicada, Nov/December 99
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , "Primal Etiquette", Orb 0
• Chris Lawson
  Chris Lawson
  -Biography:Lawson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1966. During his childhood Lawson spent time in New Guinea where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity. Later he studied medicine in which he has attained a graduate...
  
  , "Written In Blood", Asimov's, June 1999

Best Collected Work

• Sean Williams, New Adventures in Sci-Fi
• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   and David Hartwell, Centaurus
• Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Antique Futures
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   and Meredith Costain, Spinouts
• Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  , The Lady Of Situations

Best Artwork

• 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...
  
  , Cover to The Coode St Review Of Science Fiction
• Nick Stathopoulos, Cover to Aussiecon 3 Programme Book
• Nick Stathopoulos, Cover to Dreaming Down Under Volume 2, (Ineligible, withdrawn.)
• Marc McBride, Covers to Spinouts

Best Fan Writer

• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Alan Stewart
• Karen Johnson
• Robin Pen
• Merv Binns

Best Fan Artist

Brad Foster withdrawn as ineligible (non-Australian)

• Dick Jenssen
• Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  

Best Fan Production

• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   and Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , The Coode St Review Of Science Fiction
• Alan Stewart, Thyme
• Cathy Cupitt, The Rhizome Factor
• Danny Heap, Nick Stathopoulos, Aussiecon 3 Masquerade Ceremony
• Danny Heap, Aussiecon 3 Opening Ceremony Video
• Bill Wright, Interstellar Ramjet Scoop
• Ethel The Aardvark

William Atheling Jr. Award

• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , Writings in i.am website
• Tess Williams and Helen Merrick, Women Of Other Worlds
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  , Reviews in Locus
• Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , Van Ikin
  Van Ikin
  Van Ikin is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia, and has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates - including science fiction and fantasy writers...
  
   and Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , Strange Constellations: A History Of Australian Science Fiction
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   and Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen
  Steven Paulsen is a prize winning Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world...
  
  , The Coode St Review of Science Fiction

Best Novel

• Cyberskin, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (Hybrid Publishers)
• The Miocene Arrow, Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   (Tor Books)
• Sea as Mirror, Tess Williams (HarperCollins Australia)
• Evergence 2: The Dying Light, Sean Williams and Shane Dix
  Shane Dix
  Shane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction....
  
   (Ace Books)

Best Short Fiction

Included Best Novella or Novelette eligible nominees

• "That Old Black Graffiti", Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , Tales from the Wasteland, ed. Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (Hodder Headline)
• "The Devotee", Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  , Eidolon 29/30
• "The First and Final Game", Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , Altair #6/7
• "The King with Three Daughters", Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , Black Heart, Ivory Bones, eds. Ellen Datlow
  Ellen Datlow
  Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
  
   and Terri Windling
  Terri Windling
  Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award...
  
   (Avon)
• "The Saltimbanques", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Blackwater Days (Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine Eidolon which ran to 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books.-History:...
  
  )
• "Basic Black", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Blackwater Days (Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine Eidolon which ran to 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books.-History:...
  
  )

Best Collected Work

• Tales from the Wasteland, ed. Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (Hodder Headline)
• Blackwater Days, Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
   (Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine Eidolon which ran to 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books.-History:...
  
  )
• White Time, Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
  
   (Allen and Unwin, Australia)

Best Artwork

• 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...
  
  , The Lost Thing(Lothian Books)
• Otto Schmidinger, "Space", Stamp Issue, Australia Post
• Marc McBride, Cover to Tales from the Wasteland (Hodder Headline)

Best Fan Production

• The Rhizome Factor, ed. Cathy Cupitt
• First Sight, dir. Chris Dickinson
• "Angriest Video Store Clerk in the World", Grant Watson
• SwanCon 2001 Launch Video
• The Unrelenting Gaze: SF Commentary # 76, ed. Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Mitch? Short Stories for Short Attention Spans, ed. Mitch?

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review

• Waking Henson: A Jim Henson Retrospective, Grant Watson and Simon Oxwell
• The Unrelenting Gaze: SF Commentary # 76, ed. Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Reviews in Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field, Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• Transrealist Fiction, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Greenwood)
• "Time Travel, Time Scapes and Timescape", Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford
  Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based for many years in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, but returned to Newcastle to live and work in 2009.-Writing career:As a...
  
  , The New York Review of SF #150

Best Professional Achievement

‘’Two items ruled ineligible; category withdrawn’’

• Farscape, Channel 9/Henson Productions
• Spinouts Bronze, eds. Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   & Meredith Costain (Pearson Educational)
• The Lost Thing, 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...
  
   (Lothian Books)

2002: Convergence, Melbourne

Best Novella/Novelette category left off the nomination form

Best Australian Artwork and William Atheling Jr. removed for insufficient nominees

Best Australian Novel

• Eyes of the Calculor, Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
   (Tor)
• Lirael, Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
   (Allen and Unwin)
• The Year of the Intelligent Tigers, Kate Orman
  Kate Orman
  Kate Orman is an Australian author, best known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.-Biography:...
  
   (BBC.)

Best Australian Short Fiction

Included Best Novella or Novelette eligible nominees

• "Absolute Uncertainty", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , F&SF, April 2001
• "The Boneyard", Kyla Ward
  Kyla Ward
  -Biography:Ward was born in New South Wales, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she gained a BA in communications.-Writing:Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs...
  
  , Gothic.Net, September 2001
• "The Diamond Pit", 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...
  
  , Jubilee (Harper Collins)
• "Rotten Times", Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , Aurealis 27/28
• "Tower of Wings", Sean McMullen
  Sean McMullen
  Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature...
  
  , Analog, December 2001
• "Whispers", Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...
  
   & Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  , Stalking Midnight (Cosmos Books)

Best Australian Collected Work

• Earth is But a Star, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (UWA Press)
• Jubilee, 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...
  
  , (Harper Collins)
• Orb #2, Sarah Endacott
• Stalking Midnight, Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
   (Cosmos Books)

Best Fan Writer

Adrian Gaetano withdrew nomination

• Geoff Allshorn
• Deb Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  
• Bill Wright
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  

Best Australian Fan Production, Fanzine

• Diverse Universe, Geoff & Miriam
• Fables and Reflections, Lily Chrywenstrom
• Interstellar Ram Jet Scoop, Bill Wright
• SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Solar Spectrum, Geoff & Miriam

Best Australian Fan Production, Other

Included Best Australian Fan Achievement eligible nominee

• Consensual, Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
   et al.
• JB Resurrection, Garth Thomas
• Mitch? 2, Tarts of the New Millennium, Anthony Mitchell
• Spaced Out Website
• Tabula-Rasa, David Carroll & Kyla Ward
  Kyla Ward
  -Biography:Ward was born in New South Wales, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she gained a BA in communications.-Writing:Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs...
  
  

Best Australian Professional Achievement

• Meredith Costain and Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  , Editing
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   for the Young Adult Series, Shades (Hodder Headline)
• Dirk Strasser & Stephen Higgins, for editing and production of Aurealis over so many years

Best Australian Novel

• Transcension, Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  
• Echoes of Earth, Sean Williams & Shane Dix
  Shane Dix
  Shane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction....
  
  
• Sovereign, Simon Brown
• The Storm Weaver and the Sand, Sean Williams
• Blue Silence, Michelle Marquardt
• The Sky Warden and the Sun, Sean Williams
• Time Past, Maxine McArthur
  Maxine McArthur
  -Biography:McArthur spent 16 years living in Japan but returned to live in Canberra in 1996. In 1999 McArthur's first book was released in Australia, entitled Time Future. It won the 1999 George Turner Award and finished ninth in 2000 Locus Awards for best first novel...
  
  

Best Australian Short Fiction

• "Father Muerte and the Thief", Lee Battersby
  Lee Battersby
  Lee Battersby is an Australian author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. His story "Carrying The God" made him the first Western Australian winner in the Writers of the Future Competition in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Ditmar Award for Best New Talent...
  
  , Aurealis 29
• "Stealing Alice", Claire McKenna, Agog! Fantastic Fiction
• "Scratches in the Sky, Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  , Agog! Fantastic Fiction
• "Cigarettes and Roses, Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  , Passing Strange
• "King of All and The Metal Sentinel", Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , Agog! Fantastic Fiction

Best Australian Collected Work

• Machinations, ed. Chris Andrews (CSFG Publishing)
• Agog! Fantastic Fiction, ed. Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   (Agog! Press)
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, ed. ASIM Collective
• AustrAlien Absurdities, ed. Chuck McKenzie
  Chuck McKenzie
  -Biography:McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature. During his life McKenzie has worked various jobs including a commercial artist, restaurant manager, entertainment consultant, and previously as a television...
  
   & Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
   (Agog! Press)
• Passing Strange, ed. Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
   (MirrorDanse)

Best Australian Artwork

• Passing Strange Cover, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Cover Issue #3, Les Peterson
• AustrAlien Absurdities Cover, Dion Hamill
  Dion Hamill
  Dion Hamill is a comic book artist born in Australia. He was nominated in the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian Artwork for his AustrAlien Absurdities Cover.-Selected bibliography:* Amazing Ruins Journey Through Lost Civilisations* The Pegasus Quest...
  
  
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Cover Issue #1, Les Peterson
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Cover Issue #4, Les Peterson
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Cover Issue #2, Les Peterson

Best Australian Fan Writer

• Edwina Harvey
• Chris Lawson
  Chris Lawson
  -Biography:Lawson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1966. During his childhood Lawson spent time in New Guinea where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity. Later he studied medicine in which he has attained a graduate...
  
  
• Robin Pen
• Dave Cake
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• Grant Watson
• Bill Wright

Best Australian Fan Artist

• Miriam English
• Les Peterson
• Sarah Xu
• Dick Jenssen
• Colin Sharpe
• Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  

Best Australian Fanzine

• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, ed. Bill Wright
• Fables & Reflections, ed. Lily Chrywenstrom
• Australian SF Bullsheet, ed. Edwina Harvey and Ted Scribner
• Visions, ed. Stephen Thompson
• Antipodean SF, ed. Antipodean Computer Services

Best Australian Production

• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Launch
• Spaced Out Website
• The View From Mt. Pootmootoo
• Eidolon
  Eidolon Publications
  Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine Eidolon which ran to 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books.-History:...
  
   Website

Best Australian Professional Achievement

• Lee Battersby
  Lee Battersby
  Lee Battersby is an Australian author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. His story "Carrying The God" made him the first Western Australian winner in the Writers of the Future Competition in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Ditmar Award for Best New Talent...
  
  
• Trent Jamieson
  Trent Jamieson
  -Biography:Jamieson was first published in 1994 with the short story "Threnody " which was published in the winter edition Eidolon. In 2003 Jamieson was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best professional achievement but lost to Jonathan Strahan. In 2005 Jamieson won the Aurealis Award for best...
  
  
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  

Best Australian Fan Achievement

• Borderlands: That which scares us..., ed. Simon Oxwell, Grant Watson and Anna Hepworth
• Robin Pen
• Spaced Out Website, ed. Miriam and Geoff

The William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Tama Leaver
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• Robin Pen
• Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
  
• Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
  

Best Novel

• The Etched City, K. J. Bishop
  K. J. Bishop
  Kirsten J. Bishop is an Australian writer and artist. In 2004, her first book, The Etched City, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category.-Novels:* The Etched City * Black Dog...
  
   (Prime Books)
• Abhorsen, Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
   (Allen & Unwin)
• Fallen Gods, Jonathan Blum
  Jonathan Blum
  Jonathan Blum is an American writer most known for his work for various Doctor Who spin-offs, usually with his wife Kate Orman although he has also been published on his own...
  
   & Kate Orman
  Kate Orman
  Kate Orman is an Australian author, best known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.-Biography:...
  
  , (Telos Publishing)
• The High Lord, 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...
  
   (HarperCollins)
• Orphans of Earth, Sean Williams & Shane Dix
  Shane Dix
  Shane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction....
  
   (HarperCollins)

Best Novella or Novelette

• "La Sentinelle", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
  Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
  Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve-Background:Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format...
  
  
• "Alien Space Nazis Must Die", Chuck McKenzie
  Chuck McKenzie
  -Biography:McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature. During his life McKenzie has worked various jobs including a commercial artist, restaurant manager, entertainment consultant, and previously as a television...
  
  , Elsewhere
• "Louder Echo", Brendan Duffy, Agog! Terrific Tales
• "Rynemonn", Terry Dowling
  Terry Dowling
  Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
  
  , Forever Shores
• "Sigmund Freud & the Feral Freeway", Martin Livings
  Martin Livings
  Martin Livings is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award...
  
  , Agog! Terrific Tales
• "Uncharted", Leigh Blackmore
  Leigh Blackmore
  Leigh David Blackmore is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist and musician. He served as the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association . His work has been nominated twice for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and once for criticism...
  
  , Agog! Terrific Tales

Best Short Story

• "Room for Improvement", 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...
  
  , Forever Shores
• "Frozen Charlottes", Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , Forever Shores
• "Kijin Tea", Kyla Ward
  Kyla Ward
  -Biography:Ward was born in New South Wales, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she gained a BA in communications.-Writing:Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs...
  
  , Agog! Terrific Tales
• "The Mark of His Hands", Chuck McKenzie
  Chuck McKenzie
  -Biography:McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature. During his life McKenzie has worked various jobs including a commercial artist, restaurant manager, entertainment consultant, and previously as a television...
  
  , Orb #5, April 2003
• "The Singular Life of Eddy Dovewater", Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , Agog! Terrific Tales
• "The Truth About Pug Roberts", Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.-Biography:McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where she completed a Bachelor of Arts. In 1995 McDermott moved...
  
  , Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
  Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
  Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve-Background:Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format...
  
  

Best Collected Work

• Agog! Terrific Tales - Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   ed. (Agog! Press)
• Forever Shores - Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch eds. (Wakefield Press)
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine - ASIM Publishing Cooperative
• Elsewhere - Michael Barry ed. (CSFG Publishing)
• Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
  Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
  Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve-Background:Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format...
  
   - Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
   ed. (Sandglass Enterprises)

Best Fan Production

• CSFG - for Elsewhere Book Launch
• Aaron Jacks & Mitch - for "The Mega Panel", Continuum 2003
• Ian Mond - for "Mondys's Perfect Match", Continuum 2003
• Swancon 2003 Committee - for Swancon 2003 Opening Ceremony & Video
• Spaced Out - Geoff & Miriam

Best Fanzine

• The Australian SF Bullsheet - Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner (ed.)
• Dark Animus - James Cain
• Fables & Reflections - Lily Chrywenstrom
• Fandom is my life - Danny Oz
• No Award - Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
  
• Three-Eyed Frog - Paul Ewins & Sue Ann Barber

Best Fan Writer

• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Paul Ewins
• Edwina Harvey
• Danny Oz
• Grant Watson

Best Fan Artist

• Les Petersen - for "Battle Elf" (Conflux) poster
• Miriam English - for Diverse Universe
• Dick Jenssen - for extensive body of work
• Phil Wlodarczyk - for cartoons in Ethel the Aardvark

Best Artwork

• Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   - Cover of Agog! Terrific Tales by Cat Sparks (ed.)
• 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...
  
   - Cover of Fables & Reflections
• Greg Bridges - Cover of Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass
• Les Petersen - Cover of Elsewhere by Michael Barry (ed.)
• Les Petersen - Cover of The High Lord by Trudi Canavan

Best New Talent

• K. J. Bishop
  K. J. Bishop
  Kirsten J. Bishop is an Australian writer and artist. In 2004, her first book, The Etched City, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category.-Novels:* The Etched City * Black Dog...
  
  
• Monica Carroll
• Brendan Duffy
• Glenda Larke
  Glenda Larke
  Glenda Larke is an Australian writer.Larke was born in Western Australia. She obtained a degree in history and a diploma in education at University of Western Australia and has taught English in Australia, Vienna, Tunisia and Malaysia...
  
  
• Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  
• Anna Tambour
  Anna Tambour
  Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.In 2009, her story "The Age of Fish, Post-flowers" was in the anthology Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. that won the Anthology World Fantasy Award...
  
  

William Atheling Jr. Award

• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Lee Battersby
  Lee Battersby
  Lee Battersby is an Australian author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. His story "Carrying The God" made him the first Western Australian winner in the Writers of the Future Competition in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Ditmar Award for Best New Talent...
  
  
• Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne, Victoria with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner...
  
  
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• Grant Watson

Best Novel

• The Black Crusade, 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...
  
  
• Less than Human
  Less Than Human
  Less Than Human is the debut album by electronic artist The Juan MacLean, formerly of Six Finger Satellite. It was released on DFA Records in August 2005...
  
  , Maxine McArthur
  Maxine McArthur
  -Biography:McArthur spent 16 years living in Japan but returned to live in Canberra in 1996. In 1999 McArthur's first book was released in Australia, entitled Time Future. It won the 1999 George Turner Award and finished ninth in 2000 Locus Awards for best first novel...
  
  
• The Crooked Letter
  The Crooked Letter
  The Crooked Letter is a 2004 fantasy novel by Sean Williams. It follows the story of Seth and Hadrian who have gone to Europe on holidays. Seth is murdered and they discover that Earth is just one of many realms.-Background:...
  
  , Sean Williams

Best Collected Work

• Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.-Background:Agog! Smashing Stories was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to Black...
  
  : Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   (ed.)
• Black Juice: - Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
  
  
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine - Lyn Triffitt, Edwina Harvey, Andrew Finch, Robbie Matthews & Tehani Croft (ed.)
• Orb 6 - Sarah Endacott (ed.)
• Encounters - Donna Hanson and Maxine McArthur (ed.)

Best Novella or Novelette

• Simon Brown: "Water Babies", Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.-Background:Agog! Smashing Stories was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to Black...
  
  , April
• Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  : "The Whole of the Law", ASIM 13
• Paul Haines: - "The Last Days of Kali Yuga", NFG Magazine, Volume 2 Issue 4, August 2004
• 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...
  
  : "Catabolic Magic", Aurealis #32
• Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  : "Home By The Sea", Orb #6, July

Best Short Story

• Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  : "Number 3 Raw Place", Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.-Background:Agog! Smashing Stories was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to Black...
  
  , April
• Rjurik Davidson: "The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr Wu", Aurealis #33
• Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
  
  : - "Singing My Sister Down", Black Juice
• Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  : "R", Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.-Background:Agog! Smashing Stories was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to Black...
  
  , ed by Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  

Best Professional Artwork

• Les Petersen: cover of ASIM 12
• Kerri Valkova: - Cover of The Black Crusade (Chimaera Publications)
• Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  : Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories
  Agog! Smashing Stories is a 2004 speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks.-Background:Agog! Smashing Stories was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to Black...
  
   cover
• Les Petersen: Encounters Book Cover
• Les Petersen: cover and internal ASIM 16

Best Professional Achievement

• The Clarion South Team (Fantastic Queensland; Convenors Robert Hoge, Kate Eltham, Robert Dobson & Heather Gammage): negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business.
• Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  : editing and writing including winning third place in the writers of the future award
• Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
  
  : for Black Juice
• Geoff Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in Aurealis #1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine...
  
  : for Tales of the Crypto-System, his short story publications
• Sean Williams for The Crooked Letter and efforts in teaching
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   for work over the year in internationally published reviews and in editing anthologies

Best Fan Achievement

• Super Happy Robot Hour
• Conflux convention committee
• Continuum 2 convention committee

Best Fanzine/website

• Antipodean SF - Ion Newcombe (ed.)
• Bullsheet - ed Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner
• Gynaezine - Emma Hawkes and Gina Goddard (ed.)

Best New Talent

• Chris Barnes
• Stuart Barrow
• Grace Dugan
• Paul Haines
• Barbara Robson
• Brian Smith

William Atheling Jr. Award

• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   - review of Weight of Water at HoodReviews, asking "is this film a ghost story?"
• Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne, Victoria with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner...
  
   - "Why are publishers afraid of horror, BEM", Courier Mail, 20 March 2004
• Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
   - review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project

Best Novel

• Magic or Madness - Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
   (Razorbill)
• Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
   (Harper Collins)
• Midnight 2: Touching Darkness - Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
  
   (Eos)
• Peeps - Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
  
   (Razorbill)
• Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
  
   (Simon Pulse)
• Geodesica: Ascent - Sean Williams & Shane Dix
  Shane Dix
  Shane Dix is an Australian science fiction author best known for his collaborative work with Sean Williams in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series.His daughter Katelin Dix is also an author, with promising work in both teenage and fantasy fiction....
  
   (Ace)

Best Collected Work

• Shadowed Realms - Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
  
• Years Best Australian SF & Fantasy - Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
   & Michelle Marquardt (MirrorDanse)
• Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
  Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
  Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales is a 2005 speculative fiction anthology edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen.-Background:Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales was first published in Australia in 2005 by Agog! Press in hardback format. It won the 2006 Ditmar Award for best collected work. Daikaiju! Giant...
  
   - Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   & Robin Pen (Agog! Press
  Agog! Press
  Agog! Press is an independent Australian book publisher, specializing in speculative fiction short story collections. It was founded in 2002 by Cat Sparks....
  
  )
• A Tour Guide in Utopia - Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
   (MirrorDanse Books)
• The Grinding House - Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
   (CSFG Publishing)

Best Novella or Novelette

• "Passing of the Minotaurs" - Rjurik Davidson, SciFiction, April 2005
• "The Red Priest's Homecoming "- Dirk Flinthart, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17
• "Countless Screaming Argonauts" - Chris Lawson
  Chris Lawson
  -Biography:Lawson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1966. During his childhood Lawson spent time in New Guinea where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity. Later he studied medicine in which he has attained a graduate...
  
  , Realms of Fantasy
• "The Memory of Breathing" - Lyn Triffitt (Battersby), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17
• "The Grinding House" - Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
  , The Grinding House

Best Short Story

• "Summa Seltzer Missive" - Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , Ticonderoga Online #6
• "Leviathan" - Simon Brown, Eidolon SF: Online
• "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" - Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...
  
  , Daikaju!
• "Matricide" - Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex
  Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...
  
  , SciFiction
• "Fresh Young Widow" - Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
  , The Grinding House

Best Professional Artwork

• The Blood Debt (cover) - Greg Bridges (HarperCollins Australia)
• The Grinding House (cover) - Robin Evans (CSFG)
• Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview (cover) - Nick Stathopoulos (Australian Speculative Fiction Project)
• Fell #3 - Ben Templesmith (Image Comics)

Best Professional Achievement

• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , Wilson da Silva and Kylie Ahern - Cosmos (magazine)
  Cosmos
  In the general sense, a cosmos is an orderly or harmonious system. It originates from the Greek term κόσμος , meaning "order" or "ornament" and is antithetical to the concept of chaos. Today, the word is generally used as a synonym of the word Universe . The word cosmos originates from the same root...
  
  
• Robert Dobson, Robert Hoge, Kate Eltham, Heather Gammage - Clarion South 2005, Clarion South Workshop
• Donna Maree Hanson - Australian Speculative Fiction: a genre overview (Australian Speculative Fiction Project)
• Michael Rymer - Screenwriting and directing, Battlestar Galactica Season 2.0, Sci-Fi Channel
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   - for co-editing Best Short Novels: 2005 (SFBC), Science Fiction: Best of 2004 (ibooks), and Fantasy: Best of 2004 (ibooks)

Best Fan Production

• Edwina Harvey - The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet, website and newsletter
• Alisa Krasnostein - ASif!: Australian Specfic In Focus, website
• Tony Plank - Inkspillers website
• Conflux Committee - Conflux 2, convention
• Continuum Committee - Continuum 3, convention

Best Fan Artist

• Dick Jenssen - Artwork in eI 20 and eI 23, efanzines.com
• Elaine Kemp - ConSensual a Trois interior artwork, ConSensual a Trois
• Shane Parker - Conflux Poster Art, Conflux

Best Fanzine/website

• Horrorscope - Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
   et al.
• Ticonderoga Online - Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
  , et al.
• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop - Bill Wright (ed)

Best Fan Writer

• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
   - Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
   - Writer/reviewer, Steam Engine Time and Science Fiction Commentary, *brg*, Earl Kemp's ezines
• Stephanie Gunn - Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope
• Martin Livings
  Martin Livings
  Martin Livings is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award...
  
   - "Skeletor_Hordak", LiveJournal web comic
• Bill Wright - Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Published by Bill Wright

William Atheling Jr. Award

• Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment - Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
   (Wildside Press)
• Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla - Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , King Kong is Back (Benbella Books)
• "Body Parts" - Chris Lawson
  Chris Lawson
  -Biography:Lawson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1966. During his childhood Lawson spent time in New Guinea where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity. Later he studied medicine in which he has attained a graduate...
  
  , Borderlands
• "PK Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror" - Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love
  Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...
  
  , Borderlands
• The 2005 Snapshot Australian Speculative Fiction writers, editors, publishers - Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  , website

Best Novel

• Carnies, Martin Livings
  Martin Livings
  Martin Livings is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award...
  
   (Lothian)
• Prismatic, Edwina Grey (Lothian)
• The Mother, Brett McBean
  Brett McBean
  Brett McBean is best known as an award winning Australian horror and speculative fiction writer. He was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and he is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association...
  
   (Lothian)
• The Pilo Family Circus, Will Elliott
  Will Elliott
  Will Elliott is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane, Queensland.His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award...
  
   (ABC Books)
• The Silver Road, Grace Dugan (Penguin)

Best Novella/Novelette

• "Aftermath", David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  , Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press)
• "The Dead of Winter", Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  , Weird Tales, #339
• "The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or how I found God inside my wife)", Paul Haines, C0ck (Couer de Lion Publishing)
• "The Souls of Dead Soldiers are for Blackbirds, Not Little Boys", Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  , Agog! Ripping Reads, (Agog! Press)
• "Under the Red Sun", Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
  , Fantasy Magazine #4, (Prime Books)
• "World's Whackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disasters Dating Game", Brendan Duffy, Agog! Ripping Reads (Agog! Press)

Best Short Story

• "Burning from the Inside", Paul Haines, Doorways for the Dispossessed (Prime Books)
• "Cold", Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.-Biography:McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where she completed a Bachelor of Arts. In 1995 McDermott moved...
  
  , Shadowed Realms #9
• "Honeymoon", Adam Browne
  Adam Browne
  Adam Browne is an Australian speculative fiction writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.-Publications:*"Orlando’s Third Trance" -HQ Magazine , 1999*"Account Dracula" -Orb Magazine , 1999...
  
   and John Dixon, C0ck, (Couer de Lion Publishing)
• "Surrender 1: Rope Artist", Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , Shadowed Realms #9
• "The Bat's Boudoir, Kyla Ward
  Kyla Ward
  -Biography:Ward was born in New South Wales, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she gained a BA in communications.-Writing:Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs...
  
  , Shadowed Realms #9
• "The Fear of White", Rjurik Davidson, Borderlands #7

Best Collected Work

• Agog! Ripping Reads, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   (ed.) (Agog! Press)
• C0ck, Keith Stevenson & Andrew Macrae (eds.)
• Doorways for the Dispossessed, Paul Haines and Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in Aurealis #1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine...
  
   (eds.) (Prime Books)
• The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol.2, Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
   & Michelle Marquardt (eds.) (Mirrordanse Books)
• Eidolon I, Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   and Jeremy Byrne (eds.) (Eidolon Books)

Best Artwork/Artist

• 26Lies/1Truth, cover art by Andrew MacRae (Wheatland Press)
• Agog! Ripping Reads, cover art by Cat Sparks
  Catriona
  Catriona is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic Caitrìona, and the Irish Caitríona. Both Caitríona and Caitríona are Gaelic forms of the English Katherine...
  
   (Agog! Press)
• Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century cover art by Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   (Wesleyan University Press)
• The Devoured Earth, cover art by Greg Bridges (HarperCollins Press)
• The Arrival, cover art by 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...
  
   (Lothian)

Best Fan Writer

• Stephanie Gunn
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
  
• Danny Oz
• Miranda Siemienowicz
• Mark Smith-Briggs
• Matthew Tait

Best Fan Production

• ASif website, Alisa Krasnostein – Executive Editor
• Inkspillers website, Tony Plank
• Outland, Directed by John Richards
• Tabula Rasa website, David Carroll
• The Bullsheet website & ezine, Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner

Best Fanzine

• AntipodeanSF, editor Ion Newcombe
• ASIF – Australian Specfic in Focus, editor Alisa Krasnostein
• The Captain's Log, Austrek clubzine. Edited by Clare McDonald
• Ethel the Aardvark, MSFC clubzine
• HorrorScope, editor Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
  

Best Professional Achievement

• Angelia Challis for establishing Brimstone Press as a mass market publisher
• Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
   for Mirrordanse Press and 2 issues of the Australian Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
   for Ticonderoga Publications
• Gary Kemble for work on ABC's Articulate and promoting the genre through radio and other mediums
• Alisa Krasnostein for providing new paying markets for readers and writers of both fiction/ non fiction, art as well as forums for reviews/interviews within the speculative fiction genre, enhancing the profile of Australian speculative fiction.
• Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
  , for editing Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Best Fan Achievement

• Marty Young for his work establishing and promoting the Australian Horror Writers Association
• Alisa Krasnostein for establishing ASIf
• Tony Plank for establishing and maintaining the Inkspillers website

Best New Talent

• Stephanie Campisi
• David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
  
• Alisa Krasnostein
• Brett McBean
  Brett McBean
  Brett McBean is best known as an award winning Australian horror and speculative fiction writer. He was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and he is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association...
  
  

William Atheling Jr Award

• Miranda Siemienowicz for her review of Paraspheres appearing in Horrorscope
• Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
   for Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   for "Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and its Metaphorical Undercurrents", Borderlands #7
• Grant Watson for "Bad Film Diaries - Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld", Borderlands #8
• Kathryn Linge for her review "Through Soft Air", ASif

Best Novel

• The Company of the Dead, David Kowalski (PanMacmillan)
• Extras, Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
  
   (Simon & Schuster)
• Dark Space, Marianne de Pierres
  Marianne de Pierres
  Marianne de Pierres is an Australian science fiction author. Born in Western Australia, she did her undergraduate studies at Curtin University in Perth and later studied a Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland...
  
   (Orbit)
• Saturn Returns, Sean Williams (Orbit)
• Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
   (Penguin)
• The Darkness Within, Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne, Victoria with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner...
  
   (Hachette Livre)

Best Novella/Novelette

• "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon", Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
  , Fantastic Wonder Stories, edited by Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
  
• "Where is Brisbane and How Many Times Do I Get There?", Paul Haines, Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane, edited by Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in Aurealis #1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine...
  
  , Trent Jamieson and Zoran Zivkovic
  Zoran Živkovic
  Zoran Živković may refer to:*Zoran Živković , Serbian handball player and coach widely known under his nickname Tuta*Zoran Živković , Serbian writer...
  
  
• "The Bluebell Vengeance", Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #28 edited by Zara Baxter
• "Lady of Adestan", Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  , Orb #7, edited by Sarah Endacott
• Cenotaxis, Sean Williams (MonkeyBrain Books)
• "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go To War Again", Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
   Jim Baen's Universe

Best Short Story

• "The Dark and What It Said", Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...
  
   Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #28, edited by Zara Baxter
• "Domine", Rjurik Davidson, Aurealis #37, edited by Stephen Higgins and Stuart Mayne
• "A Scar for Leida", Deb Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , Fantastic Wonder Stories, edited by Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
  
• "Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex", Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
  , Eclipse One, edited by Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• "The Sun People", Sue Isle
  Sue Isle
  Sue Isle is the author of the Young Adult literature Fantasy novel Scale Of Dragon, Tooth Of Wolf and nonfiction children's book 'Wolf Children'....
  
  , Shiny #2, edited by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne and Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  
• "His Lipstick Minx", Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
  , The Workers' Paradise, edited by Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
   and Nick Evans

Best Collected Work

• Orb #7, Sarah Endacott (ed.) (Orb Publications)
• The Workers' Paradise, Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
   and Nick Evans (eds.) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• New Ceres, Alisa Krasnstein (ed.) (Twelfth Planet Press)
• The New Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   (ed.) (HarperCollins Australia)
• Fantastic Wonder Stories, Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
   (ed.) (Ticonderoga Publications)

Best Artwork/Artist

• Daryl Lindquist for the ASIM #28 cover
• Nick Stathopolous for the Daikaju #3 cover
• Eleanor Clark for ASIM #31 internal art
• Amanda Rainey for The Workers' Paradise cover
• Nick Stathopolous for the Rhinemonn cover
• Eleanor Clark for ASIM #30 internal art

Best Fan Writer

• Alexandra Pierce for Last Short Story on Earth and for ASiF! reviews
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
   for Horrorscope
• Grant Watson for the 'angriest' Livejournal
• Rob Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   for film reviews on his website

Best Fan Art

• "Exterminate!" Dalek Postcards - Kathryn Linge
• 'Nights Edge' Convention Poster Art - John Parker

Best Fan Production

• 2007 Snap Shot Project - interviews with influential members of the Australian speculative fiction scene conducted by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , Katherine Linge, Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
   and Rosie Clark
• Inkspillers Website - Tony Plank
• "The Liminal" short film - directed by Claire McKenna
• Daikaju Limerick Competition - Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   on his website
• Talking Squid Website - Chris Lawson
  Chris Lawson
  -Biography:Lawson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1966. During his childhood Lawson spent time in New Guinea where his father worked as a biologist on a crocodile farm and his mother studied psychology of personal identity. Later he studied medicine in which he has attained a graduate...
  
  

Best Fanzine

• The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet, Ted Scribner and Edwina Harvey (eds.)
• Not If You Were the Last Short Story on Earth, Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
   (eds.)
• Steam Engine Time, edited by Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
  
• Horrorscope, Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
   (ed.)

Best Professional Achievement

• Gary Kemble for his continued coverage of speculative fiction on Articulate and ABC news online
• Russell B. Farr
  Russell B. Farr
  -Biography:Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia. In 1996 he founded Ticonderoga Publications publishing works by authors such as Sean Williams and Stephen Dedman. In 1999 Farr created the online journal Ticonderoga Online, which in 2006 won the Ditmar Award best fanzine...
  
   for Ticonderoga Publications; in 2007, Russell produced an issue of Ticonderoga Online, The Workers' Paradise and Fantastic Wonder Stories, which produced five Aurealis Award nominees
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   for a prolific body of work editing The Jack Vance Treasury, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Best Short Novels of 2007, The New Space Opera, Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling and Eclipse One: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Operative Ltd for five issues in 2007, including three electronic Best Of anthologies
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  , Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
  , Deb Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
   and Trevor Stafford for compiling and promoting the new Australian Fantasy and SF catalogue in the United States to increase awareness and appreciation of forthcoming Australian SF and to expand creative and professional opportunities for writers

Best Fan Achievement

• Alisa Krasnostein for ASiF! Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
• Marty Young for his work as President of the Australian Horror Writers Association
• John Parker, Sarah Parker and Sarah Xu for Night's Edge Convention
• Sarah Xu for the CyPEC Cyber-feminist Conference held as part of Night's Edge convention

Best New Talent

• Angela Slatter
  Angela Slatter
  Angela Slatter is an award-winning writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction, she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005, when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing...
  
  
• Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung
  Jason Nahrung is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne, Victoria with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner...
  
  
• Nathan Burrage
  Nathan Burrage
  Nathan Burrage is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.Born 7 January 1971, in country Victoria, Australia, Nathan grew up in Melbourne. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics & Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 1993....
  
  
• Tehani Wessely
• David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  

William Atheling Jr Award

• Ian Nichols for "Seriatem, Seriatum, omnia Seriatem" (Published by Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #30, edited by Robbie Matthews)
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
   and Alexandra Pierce for review of Elizabeth Bear's New Amsterdam (Published as Podcast #2 on ASiF!)
• Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   for editorial for The New Space Opera (Published in The New Space Opera by HarperCollins Australia)
• Grant Watson for "The Bad Film Diaries" (Published in Borderlands #9)
• Ben Peek
  Ben Peek
  Ben Peek is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes...
  
   for the Aurealis Awards Shortlist Feature Article (Published on ASiF!)
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
   for review of David Conyers' and John Sunseri's The Spiraling Worm
  The Spiraling Worm
  The Spiraling Worm is a science fiction and Lovecraftian horror novel written in the style of a spy thriller, by authors David Conyers and John Sunseri and published in 2007. The novel went on to receive an Honourable Mention for Best Australian Horror Novel in the 12th Annual Aurealis Award and...
  
   (Published on Horrorscope)
• Ian Nichols for "The Shadow Thief" (Published by The West Australian Weekend Magazine on 22 September 2007)

Best Novel

• Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Simon Haynes
  Simon Haynes
  Simon Haynes is an Australian writer of speculative fiction novels and short stories.-Biography:Haynes was born in the United Kingdom and raised in the south of Spain. In 1983 he emigrated to Australia with his family. Haynes also writes computer software between writing fiction and is a founding...
  
  
• Daughter of Moab, Kim Westwood
  Kim Westwood
  Kim Westwood is an Australian author born in Sydney and currently living in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory.She is an Aurealis Award winner and twice finalist for her short stories, a number of which have appeared in Years Best anthologies in Australia and the USA, as well as broadcast...
  
  
• Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams
• Fivefold, Nathan Burrage
  Nathan Burrage
  Nathan Burrage is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.Born 7 January 1971, in country Victoria, Australia, Nathan grew up in Melbourne. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics & Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 1993....
  
  
• How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
  
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
  
  

Best Novella/Novelette

• “Creeping in Reptile Flesh”, Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  
• “Soft Viscosity”, David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  
• “Angel Rising”, Dirk Flinthart
• “Night Heron’s Curse”, Thoraiya Dyer
• “Painlessness”, Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.-Biography:McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where she completed a Bachelor of Arts. In 1995 McDermott moved...
  
  

Best Short Story

• “The Goosle”, Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan
  Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
  
  
• “This Is Not My Story”, Dirk Flinthart
• “Pale Dark Soldier”, Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  
• “Sammarynda Deep”, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  
• “Her Collection of Intimacy”, Paul Haines
• “Ass-Hat Magic Spider”, Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
  
  
• “Moments of Dying”, Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  

Best Collected Work

• Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, edited by Angela Challis
• Creeping In Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  
• 2012, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne
• Canterbury 2100, edited by Dirk Flinthart
• Midnight Echo, edited by Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.-Biography:McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where she completed a Bachelor of Arts. In 1995 McDermott moved...
  
   and Ian Mond
• Dreaming Again, edited by 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...
  
  
• The Starry Rift, edited by Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  

Best Artwork

• Tales from Outer Suburbia, 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...
  
  
• The Last Realm, Book 1: Dragonscarpe, Michal Dutkiewicz
  Michal Dutkiewicz
  Michael Dutkiewicz is a professional illustrator and comic book artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. The son of artist Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, Dutkiewicz has worked on a variety of comic book titles, including Lost in Space , Wolverine:Doombringer, Batman Forever and Superman, as well as an...
  
  
• Gallery in Black Box, Andrew McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan is an Australian speculative fiction writer and Illustrator. He currently lives on the Central Coast with his wife and two children....
  
  
• Aurealis #40 cover, Adam Duncan
• Creeping in Reptile Flesh cover, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  
• 2012 cover, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  

Best Fan Writer

• Mark Smith-Briggs, for work in Horrorscope
• Edwina Harvey, for work in The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet
• Chuck McKenzie
  Chuck McKenzie
  -Biography:McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature. During his life McKenzie has worked various jobs including a commercial artist, restaurant manager, entertainment consultant, and previously as a television...
  
  , for work in Horrorscope
• Craig Bezant, for work in Horrorscope
• Brenton Tomlinson, for work in Horrorscope
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , for work in Undead Backbrain

Best Fan Artist

• Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  , for Scary Food Cookbook
• Anna Tambour
  Anna Tambour
  Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.In 2009, her story "The Age of Fish, Post-flowers" was in the anthology Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. that won the Anthology World Fantasy Award...
  
  , for “Box of Noses” and other works
• Rachel Holkner, for “Gumble Soft” toy and other works
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , for “Daleks are a girl’s best friend”
• Andrew McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan is an Australian speculative fiction writer and Illustrator. He currently lives on the Central Coast with his wife and two children....
  
  , for body of work
• David Schembri, for body of work
• Nancy Lorenz, for body of work

Best Fan Publication In Any Medium

• ASif! (Australian Specfic in Focus), edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Gene Melzack
• Horrorscope, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
   et al.
• The Australian SF Bullsheet, edited by Edwina Harvey and Ted Scribner
• Scary Food Cookbook, edited by Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  

Best Achievement

• Angela Challis, for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine and Brimstone Press
• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , for fiction editing in Cosmos
• Talie Helene, for her work as AHWA News Editor
• James “Jocko” Allen and KRin Pender-Gunn, for “The Gunny Project: A tribute to Ian Gunn 1959-1998”
• Steven Clark, for Tasmaniac Productions
• James Doig, for preserving colonial Australian horror fiction and editing Australian Gothic and Australian Nightmares
• Marty Young and the AHWA Committee, for promoting Australian horror through the AHWA

Best New Talent

• Amanda Pillar
• Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer is a speculative fiction writer from South Australia, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres....
  
  
• Peter M. Ball
• Felicity Dowker
  Felicity Dowker
  Felicity Dowker is a speculative fiction writer from Victoria, Australia. She is predominantly recognised as a writer in the horror genre.In 2009, she won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent...
  
  
• Gary Kemble

William Atheling Jr Award

• Kim Wilkins
  Kim Wilkins
  Kim Wilkins is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane, Queensland. She is the author of several mass-market novels, including her debut horror novel, The Infernal , which won Aurealis Awards for both horror and fantasy...
  
  , for “Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction”
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings
  Shane Jiraiya Cummings is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his partner Angela Challis...
  
  , for “Dark Suspense: The End of the Line”
• Grant Watson, for “Bad Film Diaries - Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes”
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , for “George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead”

Best Novel

• Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld
  Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:...
  
   (Penguin)
• Liar, Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier
  Justine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
  
   (Bloomsbury)
• World Shaker, 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...
  
   (Allen & Unwin)
• Slights
  Slights
  Slights is a 2009 horror novel by Australian writer Kaaron Warren. It is her debut novel and is about a woman who withdraws from society and has near death experiences in which she enters a dark room where she is tormented by people she had previously slighted...
  
  , Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
   (Angry Robot Books)
• Life Through Cellophane, Gillian Polack
  Gillian Polack
  Gillian Polack is an Australian writer and editor working mainly in the field of speculative fiction. She has published two novels, numerous short stories and nonfiction articles, and is the creator of the New Ceres universe.-Life:...
  
   (Eneit Press)

Best Novella or Novelette

• “Siren Beat”, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
   (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Black Water”, David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  , Jupiter
• “After the World: Gravesend”, Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer is a speculative fiction writer from South Australia, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres....
  
   (Black House Comics)
• Horn, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Wives”, Paul Haines, X6 (Couer de Lion)

Best Short Story

• “The Piece of Ice in Ms Windermere's Heart”, Angela Slatter
  Angela Slatter
  Angela Slatter is an award-winning writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction, she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005, when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing...
  
  , New Ceres Nights (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Six Suicides”, Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Black Peter” Marty Young, Festive Fear (Tasmaniac Publications)
• “Seventeen”, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  , Masques (CSFG)
• “Tontine Mary”, Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
  , New Ceres Nights (Twelfth Planet Press)
• “Prosperine When it Sizzles”, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , New Ceres Nights (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Collected Work

• The New Space Opera 2, edited by Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   and Gardner Dozois
  Gardner Dozois
  Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
  
   (HarperCollins)
• New Ceres Nights, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani Wessely (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Slice Of Life, Paul Haines, edited by Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney
  Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in Aurealis #1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine...
  
   (The Mayne Press)
• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti
  Deborah Biancotti
  -Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...
  
  , edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
   (Night Shade Books)

Best Artwork

• Cover art, New Ceres Nights (Twelfth Planet Press), Dion Hamill
  Dion Hamill
  Dion Hamill is a comic book artist born in Australia. He was nominated in the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian Artwork for his AustrAlien Absurdities Cover.-Selected bibliography:* Amazing Ruins Journey Through Lost Civilisations* The Pegasus Quest...
  
  
• Cover art, The Whale's Tale (Peggy Bright Books), Eleanor Clarke
• Cover art and illustrations, Shards: Short Sharp Tales (Brimstone Press), Andrew J. McKiernan
• Cover art, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #42, Lewis Morley
• Cover art, Horn (Twelfth Planet Press), Dion Hamill
  Dion Hamill
  Dion Hamill is a comic book artist born in Australia. He was nominated in the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian Artwork for his AustrAlien Absurdities Cover.-Selected bibliography:* Amazing Ruins Journey Through Lost Civilisations* The Pegasus Quest...
  
  
• Cover art, Masques (CSFG), Mik Bennett

Best Fan Writer

• Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
   for body of work
• Chuck McKenzie
  Chuck McKenzie
  -Biography:McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature. During his life McKenzie has worked various jobs including a commercial artist, restaurant manager, entertainment consultant, and previously as a television...
  
   for work in Horrorscope
• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
   for Undead Backbrain (http://roberthood.net/blog)
• Tehani Wessely for body of work
• Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
   for work in Steam Engine Time

Best Fan Artist

• Dave Schembri for work in Midnight Echo
• Kathleen Jennings for body of work
• Dick Jenssen for body of work

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, edited by Bill Wright
• A Writer Goes on a Journey (http://awritergoesonajourney.com), edited by Nyssa Pascoe et al.
• ASif! (http://asif.dreamhosters.com), edited by Alisa Krasnostein, Gene Melzack et al.
• Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet (http://bullsheet.sf.org.au), edited by Edwina Harvey and Ted Scribner
• Steam Engine Time, edited by Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie
  Bruce Gillespie is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary. Along with Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, he was a founding editor of Norstrilia Press, which published Greg Egan's first novel.He was fan guest of honor at Aussiecon 3, the...
  
   and Janine Stinson

Best Achievement

• Alisa Krasnostein, Liz Grzyb, Tehani Wessely, Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
   and Kate Williams for the New Ceres Nights booklaunch
• H. Gibbens for the Gamers' Quest CGI-animated book trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCC-l34Fgo
• Ruth Jenkins and Cathy Jenkins-Rutherford for the children's program at Conjecture
• Amanda Rainey for the cover design of Siren Beat/Roadkill (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Gillian Polack
  Gillian Polack
  Gillian Polack is an Australian writer and editor working mainly in the field of speculative fiction. She has published two novels, numerous short stories and nonfiction articles, and is the creator of the New Ceres universe.-Life:...
  
   et al. for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux

Best New Talent

• Pete Kempshall
• Kathleen Jennings
• Thoraiya Dyer
• Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer is a speculative fiction writer from South Australia, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres....
  
  
• Simon Petrie
  Simon Petrie
  Simon Petrie is a speculative fiction writer based in Canberra, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres.In 2010, he won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent....
  
  
• Christopher Green
  Christopher Green (author)
  Christopher Green is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Green is a graduate of Clarion South and currently lives in Geelong, Australia. His first story was published in 2008, entitled "Lakeside" which was published in the anthology Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann....
  
  
• Peter M. Ball

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Chuck McKenzie for “The Dead Walk! … Into a Bookstore Near You”, Eye of Fire #1 (Brimstone Press)
• Ian Mond for reviews on his blog (http://mondyboy.livejournal.com)
• Grant Watson for reviews and articles for Eiga: Asian Cinema (http://www.eigaasiancinema.com)
• Helen Merrick for The Secret Feminist Cabal: a cultural history of science fiction feminisms (Aqueduct Press)

Best Novel

• Death Most Definite, Trent Jamieson (Hachette)
• Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott
  Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.-Biography:McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where she completed a Bachelor of Arts. In 1995 McDermott moved...
  
   (Pan Macmillan)
• Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
   (Voyager)
• Stormlord Rising, Glenda Larke
  Glenda Larke
  Glenda Larke is an Australian writer.Larke was born in Western Australia. She obtained a degree in history and a diploma in education at University of Western Australia and has taught English in Australia, Vienna, Tunisia and Malaysia...
  
   (Voyager)
• Walking the Tree, Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren
  Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit...
  
   (Angry Robot Books)

Best Novella or Novelette

• "Acception", Tessa Kum (Eneit Press)
• "All the Clowns in Clowntown", Andrew J McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan is an Australian speculative fiction writer and Illustrator. He currently lives on the Central Coast with his wife and two children....
  
   (Brimstone Press)
• "Bleed", Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Her Gallant Needs", Paul Haines
  Paul Haines
  Paul Haines is an award-winning New Zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia with this wife and daughter....
  
   (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "The Company Articles of Edward Teach", Thoraiya Dyer (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Short Story

• "All the Love in the World", Cat Sparks
  Catriona Sparks
  Catriona Sparks is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher.As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction...
  
  , Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Bread and Circuses", Felicity Dowker
  Felicity Dowker
  Felicity Dowker is a speculative fiction writer from Victoria, Australia. She is predominantly recognised as a writer in the horror genre.In 2009, she won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent...
  
  , Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "One Saturday Night With Angel", Peter M. Ball, Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "She Said", Kirstyn McDermott, Scenes From the Second Storey (Morrigan Books)
• "The House of Nameless", Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer
  Jason Fischer is a speculative fiction writer from South Australia, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres....
  
  , Writers of the Future XXVI (Galaxy Press)
• "The February Dragon", Angela Slatter
  Angela Slatter
  Angela Slatter is an award-winning writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction, she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005, when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing...
  
   and Lisa L. Hannett, Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)

Best Collected Work

• Baggage, edited by Gillian Polack
  Gillian Polack
  Gillian Polack is an Australian writer and editor working mainly in the field of speculative fiction. She has published two novels, numerous short stories and nonfiction articles, and is the creator of the New Ceres universe.-Life:...
  
   (Eneit Press)
• Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
• Scenes from the Second Storey, edited by Amanda Pillar and Pete Kempshall (Morrigan Books)
• Sprawl, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Worlds Next Door, edited by Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing)

Best Artwork

• Cover art, The Angaelien Apocalypse/The Company Articles of Edward Teach (Twelfth Planet Press), Dion Hamill
• Cover art, Australis Imaginarium (FableCroft Publishing), 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...
  
  
• Cover art, Dead Sea Fruit (Ticonderoga Publications), Olga Read
• Cover art, Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror (P'rea Press), Andrew J McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan
  Andrew J McKiernan is an Australian speculative fiction writer and Illustrator. He currently lives on the Central Coast with his wife and two children....
  
  
• "The Lost Thing" short film (Passion Pictures), Andrew Ruhemann and 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...
  
  

Best Fan Writer

• Robert Hood
  Rob Hood
  Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...
  
  , for Undead Backbrain
• Chuck McKenzie, for work in Horrorscope
• Alexandra Pierce, for body of work including reviews at Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
• Tehani Wessely, for body of work including reviews at Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus

Best Fan Artist

• Rachel Holkner, for Continuum 6 props
• Dick Jenssen, for cover art of Interstellar Ramjet Scoop
• Amanda Rainey, for Swancon 36 logo

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, edited by Alisa Krasnostein et al.
• Bad Film Diaries podcast, Grant Watson
• Galactic Suburbia podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , and Alex Pierce
• Terra Incognita podcast, Keith Stevenson
• The Coode Street podcast, Gary K. Wolfe
  Gary K. Wolfe
  Gary K. Wolfe is a science fiction editor, critic and biographer. He is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Pilgrim Award, the Eaton Award, BSFA award and been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Book. He has had a monthly review column in Locus since 1991...
  
   and Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan
  Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
  
  
• The Writer and the Critic podcast, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond

Best Achievement

• Lisa L. Hannett, cover design for The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Helen Merrick and Andrew Milner
  Andrew Milner
  Andrew Milner , Australian cultural theorist and literary critic, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University....
  
  , Academic Stream for Aussiecon 4
• Amanda Rainey, cover design for Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Kyla Ward
  Kyla Ward
  -Biography:Ward was born in New South Wales, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she gained a BA in communications.-Writing:Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs...
  
  , Horror Stream and The Nightmare Ball for Aussiecon 4
• Grant Watson and Sue Ann Barber, Media Stream for Aussiecon 4
• Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, Rachel Holkner, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , and Tehani Wessely, Snapshot 2010

Best New Talent

• Thoraiya Dyer
• Lisa L. Hannett
• Patty Jansen
• Kathleen Jennings
• Pete Kempshall

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Leigh Blackmore
  Leigh Blackmore
  Leigh David Blackmore is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist and musician. He served as the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association . His work has been nominated twice for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and once for criticism...
  
  , for "Marvels and Horrors: Terry Dowling's Clowns at Midnight" in 21st Century Gothic (Scarecrow Press)
• Damien Broderick
  Damien Broderick
  Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...
  
  , for editing Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian Science Fiction Review (Wildside Press)
• Ross Murray, for "The Australian Dream Becomes Nightmare - Visions of Suburbia in Australian Science Fiction" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 44.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts , and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
  
  , for "A Modern Woman’s Guide to Classic Who"