Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story
Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in science fiction short stories |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation |
First awarded | 1995 |
Currently held by | |
Website | Official site |
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.[4]
Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.[5]
The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short list of finalists.[2] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[6]
This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best science fiction short story category, as well as short stories that have received honourable mentions or have been highly commended. Since 2003, honourable mentions and high commendations have been awarded intermittently. Brendan Duffy and Sean Williams are the only people to have won the award multiple times, with two wins each. Stephen Dedman holds the record for most nominations and that for most nominations without winning, having been a losing finalist six times.
Winners and nominees[]
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Winners and joint winners
* Nominees on the shortlist
Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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1995 | Greg Egan* | "" | Asimov's | [7] |
1995 | Stephen Dedman | "" | Asimov's | [7] |
1995 | Greg Egan | "" | Interzone | [7] |
1995 | Greg Egan | "Wang's Carpets" | Legend (New Legends) | [7][8] |
1995 | Sean Williams | "" | Eidolon | [7] |
1996 | Leanne Frahm* | "" | MirrorDanse (Borderline) | [8][9] |
1996 | Simon Brown | "" | Eidolon (Australian magazine) | [9] |
1996 | Terry Dowling | "" | Eidolon | [9] |
1996 | Terry Dowling | "" | Interzone | [9] |
1996 | Geoffrey Maloney | "" | Aurealis | [9] |
1997 | Janeen Webb & Jack Dann* | "" | DAW () | [8][10] |
1997 | Russell Blackford | "" | Eidolon | [10] |
1997 | Damien Broderick | "" | Eidolon | [10] |
1997 | Greg Egan | "" | Interzone | [10] |
1997 | Lucy Sussex | "Merlusine" | Roc (The Horns of Elfland) | [8][10] |
1998 | David J. Lake* | "" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [8][11] |
1998 | Stephen Dedman | "" | Asimov's | [11] |
1998 | Greg Egan | "Oceanic" | Asimov's | [11] |
1998 | Rosaleen Love | "" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [8][11] |
1998 | Michael Pryor | "" | Aurealis | [11] |
1999 | Chris Lawson* | "" | Asimov's | [12] |
1999 | Terry Dowling | "" | Interzone | [12] |
1999 | Chris Lawson | "" | Eidolon | [12] |
1999 | Kate Orman | "" | Interzone | [12] |
1999 | Lucy Sussex | "The Queen of Erewhon" | F&SF | [12] |
2000 | Damien Broderick* | "Infinite Monkey" | Eidolon | [13] |
2000 | Adam Browne | "" | Orb | [13] |
2000 | Stephen Dedman | "" | Eidolon | [13] |
2000 | Margo Lanagan | "" | Allen & Unwin () | [8][13] |
2000 | Sean Williams | "" | Eidolon | [13] |
2001 | Adam Browne* | "" | Aurealis | [14] |
2001 | "" | (Nor of Human...) | [8][14] | |
2001 | Jack Dann | "The Diamond Pit" | F&SF | [14] |
2001 | "" | Aurealis | [14] | |
2001 | Lucy Sussex | "Absolute Uncertainty" | F&SF | [14] |
2002 | Sean McMullen* | "" | F&SF | [15] |
2002 | "" | [15] | ||
2002 | "" | Aurealis | [15] | |
2002 | Geoffrey Maloney | "" | Agog! () | [8][15] |
2002 | "" | [15] | ||
2003 | Brendan Duffy* | "" | Agog! () | [8][16] |
2003 | Stephen Dedman | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [16] |
2003 | Sue Isle | "Amy's Stars" | Orb | [16] |
2003 | Martin Livings | "" | Agog! () | [8][16] |
2003 | Kaaron Warren | "" | (Elsewhere) | [8][16] |
2004 | Brendan Duffy* | "" | Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) | [8][17] |
2004 | Stephen Dedman | "" | Oceans of the Mind | [17] |
2004 | Geoffrey Maloney | "" | Prime Books () | [8][17] |
2004 | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [17] | |
2004 | Cat Sparks | "" | Orb | [17] |
2005 | Trent Jamieson* | "" | Aurealis | [18] |
2005 | "" | Aurealis | [18] | |
2005 | Leanne Frahm | "" | [18] | |
2005 | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [18] | |
2005 | Kim Westwood | "" | Aurealis | [18] |
2006 | Sean Williams* | "" | [19] | |
2006 | Lee Battersby | "" | Prime Books (Through Soft Air) | [8][19] |
2006 | David Conyers | "" | Agog! () | [8][19] |
2006 | Stephen Dedman | "" | Science Fiction Chronicle | [19] |
2007 | Cat Sparks* | "" | On Spec | [20] |
2007 | Simon Brown | "" | Ticonderoga Publications () | [8][20] |
2007 | "" | (Shadow Plays) | [8][20] | |
2007 | Chris McMahon | "" | Agog! () | [8][20] |
2007 | Cat Sparks | "" | Ticonderoga Publications () | [8][20] |
2008 | Simon Brown* | "" | HarperVoyager () | [8][21] |
2008 | Nathan Burrage | "" | Ticonderoga Publications () | [8][21] |
2008 | Trent Jamieson | "" | Cosmos | [21] |
2008 | Margo Lanagan | "" | HarperVoyager () | [8][21] |
2008 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "" | () | [8][21] |
2009 | * | "" | Apex Magazine | [22] |
2009 | "" | Apex Magazine | [22] | |
2009 | Christopher Green | "" | Abyss & Apex | [22] |
2009 | "" | Cosmos | [22] | |
2009 | Mike Resnick & | "" | Asimov's | [22] |
2010 | K. J. Bishop* | "" | Subterranean Online | [23] |
2010 | "" | (The Company Articles of Edward Teach/The Angaelian Apocalypse) | [24] | |
2010 | "" | Ticonderoga Publications (Belong) | [24] | |
2010 | Ian McHugh | "" | Asimov's | [24] |
2010 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "" | (Sprawl) | [24] |
2011 | * | "" | (Anywhere but Earth) | [25] |
2011 | "Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden" | Kayelle Press (Hope) | [26] | |
2011 | Rob Hood | "Desert Madonna" | (Anywhere but Earth) | [26] |
2011 | "SIBO" | (Anywhere but Earth) | [26] | |
2011 | Cat Sparks | "Dead Low" | Midnight Echo | [26] |
2012 | Margo Lanagan* | "Significant Dust" | (Cracklescape) | [27] |
2012 | James Bradley | "Visitors" | Review of Australian Fiction | [28] |
2012 | "Beyond Winter's Shadow" | Ticonderoga Publications (Wild Chrome) | [28] | |
2012 | "The Trouble With Memes" | Ticonderoga Publications (Wild Chrome) | [28] | |
2012 | Kaaron Warren | "The Lighthouse Keepers' Club" | PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 4) | [28] |
2013 | Kaaron Warren* | "Air, Water, and the Grove" | (The Lowest Heaven) | [29][30] |
2013 | "The Last Tiger" | Daily Science Fiction | [29] | |
2013 | "Mah Song" | (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) | [29] | |
2013 | "Seven Days in Paris" | (Asymmetry) | [29] | |
2013 | Lucy Stone | "Version 4.3.0.1" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 57 | [29] |
2014 | * | "Wine, Women, and Stars" | Analog | [31] |
2014 | Deborah Biancotti | "The Executioner Goes Home" | Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 11, Issue 6 | [32] |
2014 | Jason Fischer | "The Glorious Aerybeth" | On Spec | [32] |
2014 | "Dellinger" | (Use Only As Directed) | [32] | |
2014 | Garth Nix | "Happy Go Lucky" | (Kaleidocscope) | [32] |
2015 | Sean Williams* | "All the Wrong Places" | Solaris (Meeting Infinity) | [33] |
2015 | "2B" | (Insert Title Here) | [34] | |
2015 | "The Marriage of the Corn King" | Cosmos | [34] | |
2015 | "Alchemy and Ice" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61 | [34] | |
2015 | Kaaron Warren | "Witnessing" | The Canary Press Story Magazine 6 | [34] |
2016 | * | "Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart" | Clarkesworld 122 | [35] |
2016 | Jack Dann | "Trainspotting in Winesburg" | PS Publishing (Concentration) | [36] |
2016 | Ian McHugh | "The Baby Eaters" | Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 40 No. 1 | [36] |
2016 | "The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring" | (In Your Face) | [36] | |
2016 | Kaaron Warren | "68 Days" | (Tomorrow's Cthulhu) | [36] |
2016 | "The Least of Things" | Aurealis 94 | [36] | |
2017 | Garth Nix* | "Conversations with an Armoury" | Solaris (Infinity Wars) | [37][38] |
2017 | "The Missing Years" | Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 66 | [37] | |
2017 | "A Little Faith" | (Like A Woman) | [37] | |
2017 | "Cards and Steel Hearts" | (Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier) | [37] | |
2017 | Amie Kaufman | "One Small Step" | HarperCollins Publishers (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | [37] |
2017 | "Hurk + Dav" | Breach Issue #01 | [37] | |
2018 | * | "The Astronaut" | Aurealis 108 | [39][40] |
2018 | The Sixes, The Wisdom and the Wasp" | Escape Pod 612 | [39] | |
2018 | "The Fallen" | (Red Hour) | [39] | |
2018 | Simon Petrie & | "On the Consequences of Clinically-Inhibited Maturation in the Common Sydney Octopus" | (A Hand of Knaves) | [39] |
2018 | "A Fair Wind off Baracoa" | (A Hand of Knaves) | [39] | |
2019 | "Wreck Diving" | Aurealis 123 | [41][42] | |
2019 | Mike Adamson | "Sky Tears" | Alien Dimensions 17 | [41] |
2019 | Jason Fischer | "Riding the Snails" | Clan Destine Press (War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia) | [41] |
2019 | "Canute" | Cohesion Press (SNAFU: Last Stand) | [41] | |
2019 | "What We Named the Needle" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact Jul/Aug 2019 | [41] | |
2019 | Angela Meyer | "Micro" | Kill Your Darlings Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Showcase 2019 | [41] |
2020 | Fiona Bell | "Mary, Mary" | Aurealis #135 | [43][44] |
2020 | Elaine Cuyegkeng | "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter" | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Omnium Gatherum | [43] |
2020 | Jack Heath | "Pork Belly" | Aurealis #129 | [43] |
2020 | T. R. Napper | "Jack's Fine Dining" | Neon Leviathan, Grimdark Magazine | [43] |
2020 | Ben Peek | "Andrei Tarkovsky" | Dimension6 #20 | [43] |
2020 | Deborah Sheldon | "All the Stars in Her Eyes" | Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #80 | [43] |
Honourable mentions and high commendations[]
The honourable mentions and high commendations are announced alongside the list of finalists for their respected year of eligibility.[45] In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a grey background have been noted as highly commended; those with a white background have received honourable mentions. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Highly commended
* Honourable mentions
Year | Author | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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2003 | "" | (Glimpses) | [8] | |
2003 | "" | (Glimpses) | [8] | |
2003 | Trent Jamieson | "" | (Glimpses) | [8] |
2003 | Cat Sparks | "" | (Glimpses) | [8] |
2005 | * | "" | [8] | |
2007 | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [8] |
See also[]
- Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969
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External links[]
- Aurealis Awards
- Lists of speculative fiction-related award winners and nominees
- Australian science fiction awards
- Short story awards