Aurora Awards 2013
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Can-Con,
Ottawa :
October 4, 2013
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October 6, 2013
Eligibility Year: 2012
Eligibility Year: 2012
Novel In English
- Winner: The Silvered, Tanya Huff (DAW)
- Destiny's Fall, Marie Bilodeau (Dragon Moon Press)
- Food for the Gods, Karen Dudley (Ravenstone Books)
- Healer's Sword: Part 7 of the Okal Rel Saga, Lynda Williams (EDGE)
- Thunder Road, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone Books)
- Triggers, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
Ya Novel In English
- Winner: Under My Skin, Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada)
- Above, Leah Bobet (Scholastic/Levine)
- The Calling, Kelley Armstrong (HarperTeen)
- Dissolve, Neil Godbout (Bundoran Press)
- Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero, Michell Plested (Five Rivers)
- Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
Short Fiction In English
- Winner: “The Walker of the Shifting Borderland”, Douglas Smith (On Spec #90, Fall 2012)
- “Delta Pi”, Matt Moore (Torn Realities Post Mortem Press)
- “Happily Ever After”, Marie Bilodeau (When the Villain Comes Home Dragon Moon Press)
- “Knights Exemplar”, Al Onia (On Spec #90, Fall 2012)
- “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop”, Suzanne Church (Clarkesworld #68, May 2012)
Related Work In English
- Winner: Blood and Water, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran Press)
- Hair Side, Flesh Side, Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
- Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, Sandra Kasturi & Halli Villegas, eds. (ChiZine Publications)
- On Spec, Copper Pig Writers' Society
- Shanghai Stream, Ace Jordyn, Calvin D. Jim & Ren�e Bennett, eds. (EDGE)
Graphic Novel In English
- Winner: Weregeek, Alina Pete (webcomic)
- Goblins, Tarol Hunt (webcomic)
- Looking for Group, Ryan Sohmer & Lar DeSouza (webcomic)
- Raygun Gothic, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical Press)
- West of Bathurst, Kari Maaren (webcomic)
Poem/song In English
- Winner: “A sea monster tells his story”, David Clink (The Literary Review of Canada Jul/Aug 2012)
- “The Ghost of Birds”, Helen Marshall (Phantom Drift 2: Valuable Estrangements Wordcraft of Oregon)
- “Hold Fast”, Leah Bobet (Strange Horizons 11 Jun 2012)
- “Roc”, Sandra Kasturi (Come Late to the Love of Birds Tightrope Books)
- “Zombie Descartes Writes a Personal Ad”, Carolyn Clink (Tesseracts Sixteen EDGE)
Artist
- Winner: Erik Mohr, for cover art for ChiZine Publications
- Richard Bartrop, for illustrations for fiction on Reality Skimming blog
- GMB Chomichuk, for Raygun Gothic, Alchemical Press
- Costi Gurgu, for cover art for Inner Diverse, Starfire World Syndicate
- Michelle Milburn, for cover art for Gathering Storm and Healer's Sword, EDGE
Fan Publication
- Winner: Specualting Canada blog, Derek Newman-Stille, ed.
- BCSFAzine, Felicity Walker, ed.
- Broken Toys, Taral Wayne, ed.
- In Places Between: The Robyn Herrington Short Story Contest, Ren�e Bennett, ed.
- Reality Skimming Blog, Michelle Carraway, content coordinator
- Space Cadet, R. Graeme Cameron, ed.
Fan Organizational
- Winner: Randy McCharles (chair and programming, When Worlds Collide, Calgary)
- Evelyn Baker, Amy De Ruyte & Peter Halasz (executive committee of WFC Toronto, 2012)
- Andrew Gurudata (organizing the Constellation Awards, Toronto)
- Sandra Kasturi & Laura Marshall (co-chairs, Toronto SpecFic Colloquium: Beyond the Human)
- Sandra Kasturi, Helen Marshall & James Bambury (co-chairs, Chiaroscuro reading series, Toronto)
Fan Filk
- Winner: Kari Maaren, for body of work
- Morva Bowman & Alan Pollard, for concert at FilkONtario 22
- Deborah Linden & Errol Elumir, for Songs in the Key of Geek CD
- Brooke Lunderville, for International Guest of Honour Concert at Consonance
- Peggi Warner-Lalonde, for concert at NEFilk 22 ConCertino 2012
Fan Related Work
- Winner: Ron Friedman (conception and delivery of the Aurora Awards voter package)
- Helen Marshall ("The Book is Dead; Long Live the Book!": Some Thoughts on the Coming of eBooks -- lecture at the 2012 Toronto SpecFic Colloquium)
- Michael Matheson (compilation and maintenance of the Can Spec Fic List)
- Lloyd Penney (for fanwriting and letter and article writing for fanzines and e-fanzines)
- Peter Watts ("Hive Minds, Mind Hives" - lecture at Toronto SpecFic Colloquium)
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: Robert J. Sawyer
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