Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story

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Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story
Awarded forExcellence in science fiction short stories
CountryAustralia
Presented byChimaera Publications,
Continuum Foundation
First awarded1995
Currently held by
WebsiteOfficial 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
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
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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