Finally, having blogged personal excitement, I want to congratulate all the finalists on making the shortlists. Well done too judges – it’s never an easy job, but someone has to do it!
The full list, courtesy of the website:
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best science fiction novel |
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K A Bedford, Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing |
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Marianne de Pierres, Chaos Space, Book Two of the Sentients of Orion, Orbit |
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Simon Haynes, Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Fremantle Press |
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Kim Westwood, The Daughters of Moab, HarperVoyager |
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Sean Williams, Earth Ascendant, Astropolis Book Two, Orbit |
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best science fiction short story |
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Simon Brown, ‘The Empire’, Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager |
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Nathan Burrage, ‘Black and Bitter, Thanks’, The Workers’ Paradise, Ticonderoga Publications |
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Trent Jamieson, ‘Delivery’, Cosmos, #21 |
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Margo Lanagan, ‘The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross’, Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager |
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Tansy Rayner Roberts, ‘Fleshy’, 2012, Twelfth Planet Press |
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best fantasy novel |
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Alison Goodman, The Two Pearls of Wisdom, HarperCollins |
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Sylvia Kelso, Amberlight, Juno Books |
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Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, Allen & Unwin |
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Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters, Macmillan Australia |
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Karen Miller, The Riven Kingdom, Godspeaker Book Two, HarperVoyager |
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best fantasy short story |
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Thoraiya Dyer, ‘Night Heron’s Curse’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #37 |
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Karen Maric, ‘The Last Deflowerer’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #32 |
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Angela Slatter, ‘Dresses, Three’, Shimmer, Vol 2 #4 |
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Cat Sparks, ‘Sammarynda Deep’, Paper Cities, Senses 5 Press |
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Kim Westwood, ‘Nightship’, Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager |
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best horror novel |
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Jack Dann, The Economy of Light, PS Publishing |
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Nick Gadd, Ghostlines, Scribe Publications |
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John Harwood, The Séance, Jonathan Cape |
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best horror short story |
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Lee Battersby, ‘In From the Snow’, Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager |
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Deborah Biancotti, ‘Pale Dark Soldier’, Midnight Echo, #1 |
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Trent Jamieson, ‘Day Boy’, Murky Depths, #4 |
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Kirstyn McDermott, ‘Painlessness’, Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD), #2 |
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Ian McHugh, ‘Bitter Dreams’, L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol XXIV |
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best anthology |
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Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt (editors), The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Volume, MirrorDanse Books |
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Jack Dann (editor), Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager |
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Jonathan Strahan (editor), The Starry Rift, Viking Children’s Books |
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best collection |
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Robert Hood, Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Altair Australia Books |
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Sean Williams and Russell B. Farr (editor), Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams, Ticonderoga Publications |
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best illustrated book / graphic novel |
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Steve Hunt & David Richardson, The Cloudchasers, ABC Books |
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Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia, Allen & Unwin |
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Colin Thompson, The Floods Family Files, Random House Australia |
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Julie Watts, The Art of Graeme Base, Penguin/Viking |
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best young adult novel |
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Isobelle Carmody, The Stone Key, Obernewtyn Chronicles, Volume Five, Penguin/Viking |
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David Cornish, Lamplighter, Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two, Omnibus Books |
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Alison Goodman, The Two Pearls of Wisdom, HarperCollins |
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Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock, Penguin/Viking |
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Sean Williams, The Changeling, The Changeling series book one, Angus & Robertson |
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best young adult short story |
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Deborah Biancotti, ‘The Tailor of Time’, Clockwork Phoenix, Norilana Books |
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Dirk Flinthart, ‘This Is Not My Story’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #37 |
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Trent Jamieson, ‘Cracks’, Shiny, #2 |
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Kevin MacLean, ‘Eye of the Beholder’, Misspelled, DAW Books |
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best children’s (8-12 years) long fiction |
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Simon Higgins, Moonshadow, Eye of the Beast, Random House Australia |
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Sophie Masson, Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts, Hodder Children’s |
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Emily Rodda, The Wizard of Rondo, Omnibus Books |
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Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Dawn, Black Dog Books |
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Sean Williams, The Changeling and The Dust Devils, The Changeling series books one and two, Angus & Robertson |
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best children’s (8-12 years) short fiction |
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Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble, Tashi and the Phoenix, Allen & Unwin |
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Richard Harland & Laura Peterson (illustrator), Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, The Heavy Crown, The Wolf Kingdom series, Omnibus Books |
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Ian Irvine & David Cornish (illustrator), Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Crypt, Wizardry Crag, The Sorcerer’s Tower series, Omnibus Books |
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Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin and Blaze Kwaymullina & Adam Hill (illustrator), Curly and the Fent, Random House Australia |
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Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton (illustrator), Twisted Tales, Random House Australia |
The Aurealis Awards are held in Brisbane on January 24, 2008.
