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,
WASFF
First awarded 1995
Currently held by Garth Nix
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
1995Greg Egan*"Luminous"Asimov's[7]
1995Stephen Dedman"From Whom All Blessings Flow"Asimov's[7]
1995Greg Egan"Mister Volition"Interzone[7]
1995Greg Egan"Wang's Carpets"Legend (New Legends)[7][8]
1995Sean Williams"A Map of the Mines of Barnath"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[7]
1996Leanne Frahm*"Borderline"MirrorDanse (Borderline)[8][9]
1996Simon Brown"The Mark of Thetis"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[9]
1996Terry Dowling"His Own, The Star Alphecca"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[9]
1996Terry Dowling"The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse"Interzone[9]
1996Geoffrey Maloney"The Embargo Traders"Aurealis[9]
1997Janeen Webb & Jack Dann*"Niagara Falling"DAW (Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures)[8][10]
1997Russell Blackford"Lucent Carbon"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[10]
1997Damien Broderick"Schrödinger's Dog"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[10]
1997Greg Egan"Reasons to be Cheerful"Interzone[10]
1997Lucy Sussex"Merlusine"Roc (The Horns of Elfland)[8][10]
1998David J. Lake*"The Truth About Weena"Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under)[8][11]
1998Stephen Dedman"Transit"Asimov's[11]
1998Greg Egan"Oceanic"Asimov's[11]
1998Rosaleen Love"Real Men"Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under)[8][11]
1998Michael Pryor"Australian Visions"Aurealis[11]
1999Chris Lawson*"Written in Blood"Asimov's[12]
1999Terry Dowling"The View in Nancy's Window"Interzone[12]
1999Chris Lawson"Chinese Rooms"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[12]
1999Kate Orman"The Bicycle Net"Interzone[12]
1999Lucy Sussex"The Queen of Erewhon"F&SF[12]
2000Damien Broderick*"Infinite Monkey"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[13]
2000Adam Browne"Schrödinger's Catamaran"Orb[13]
2000Stephen Dedman"The Devotee"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[13]
2000Margo Lanagan"White Time"Allen & Unwin (White Time)[8][13]
2000Sean Williams"The Land Itself"Eidolon (Australian magazine)[13]
2001Adam Browne*"The Weatherboard Spaceship"Aurealis[14]
2001Michael Barry"The Trojan Rocks"CSFG Publishing (Nor of Human...)[8][14]
2001Jack Dann"The Diamond Pit"F&SF[14]
2001Dirk Strasser"The Skerricks of Truth"Aurealis[14]
2001Lucy Sussex"Absolute Uncertainty"F&SF[14]
2002Sean McMullen*"Walk to the Full Moon"F&SF[15]
2002Shane M. Brown"Late Returns"Redsine[15]
2002Shane M. Brown"Lucy Lucy"Aurealis[15]
2002Geoffrey Maloney"The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover"Agog! (Agog! Fantastic Fiction)[8][15]
2002Chris McMahon"Within Twilight"Redsine[15]
2003Brendan Duffy*"Louder Echo"Agog! (Agog! Terrific Tales)[8][16]
2003Stephen Dedman"Acquired Tastes"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[16]
2003Sue Isle"Amy's Stars"Orb[16]
2003Martin Livings"Sigmund Freud & the Feral Freeway"Agog! (Agog! Terrific Tales)[8][16]
2003Kaaron Warren"State of Oblivion"CSFG Publishing (Elsewhere)[8][16]
2004Brendan Duffy*"Come to Daddy"Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories)[8][17]
2004Stephen Dedman"Desiree"Oceans of the Mind[17]
2004Geoffrey Maloney"Bush of Ghosts"Prime Books (Tales from the Crypto-System)[8][17]
2004Barbara Robson"Absolution"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[17]
2004Cat Sparks"Home by the Sea"Orb[17]
2005Trent Jamieson*"Slow and Ache"Aurealis[18]
2005Rjurik Davidson"The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr. Wu"Aurealis[18]
2005Leanne Frahm"Skein Dogs"Fables and Reflections[18]
2005Lyn Triffitt"The Memory of Breathing"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[18]
2005Kim Westwood"Terning tha Weel"Aurealis[18]
2006Sean Williams*"The Seventh Letter"Bulletin Summer Reading Edition[19]
2006Lee Battersby"Dark Ages"Prime Books (Through Soft Air)[8][19]
2006David Conyers"Aftermath"Agog! (Agog! Ripping Reads)[8][19]
2006Stephen Dedman"Down to the Tethys Sea"Science Fiction Chronicle[19]
2007Cat Sparks*"Hollywood Roadkill"On Spec[20]
2007Simon Brown"Lonely as Life"Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)[8][20]
2007Penelope Love"Whitey"Elise Bunter (Shadow Plays)[8][20]
2007Chris McMahon"The Eyes of Erebus"Agog! (Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters)[8][20]
2007Cat Sparks"Arctica"Ticonderoga Publications (Fantastic Wonder Stories)[8][20]
2008Simon Brown*"The Empire"HarperVoyager (Dreaming Again)[8][21]
2008Nathan Burrage"Black and Bitter, Thanks"Ticonderoga Publications (The Workers' Paradise)[8][21]
2008Trent Jamieson"Delivery"Cosmos[21]
2008Margo Lanagan"The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross"HarperVoyager (Dreaming Again)[8][21]
2008Tansy Rayner Roberts"Fleshy"Twelfth Planet Press (2012)[8][21]
2009Peter M. Ball*"Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens"Apex Magazine[22]
2009Peter M. Ball"To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer's Lament"Apex Magazine[22]
2009Christopher Green"A Hundredth Name"Abyss & Apex[22]
2009Greg Mellor"Defence of the Realm"Cosmos[22]
2009Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn"Soulmates"Asimov's[22]
2010K. J. Bishop*"The Heart of a Mouse"Subterranean Online[23]
2010Matthew Chrulew"The Angaelian Apocalypse"Twelfth Planet Press (The Company Articles of Edward Teach/The Angaelian Apocalypse)[24]
2010Penelope Love"Border Crossing"Ticonderoga Publications (Belong)[24]
2010Ian McHugh"Interloper"Asimov's[24]
2010Tansy Rayner Roberts"Relentless Adaptations"Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl)[24]
2011Robert N. Stephenson*"Rains of la Strange"Coeur de Lion Publishing (Anywhere but Earth)[25]
2011Joanne Anderton"Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden"Kayelle Press (Hope)[26]
2011Rob Hood"Desert Madonna"Coeur de Lion Publishing (Anywhere but Earth)[26]
2011Penelope Love"SIBO"Coeur de Lion Publishing (Anywhere but Earth)[26]
2011Cat Sparks"Dead Low"Midnight Echo[26]
2012Margo Lanagan*"Significant Dust"Twelfth Planet Press (Cracklescape)[27]
2012James Bradley"Visitors"Review of Australian Fiction[28]
2012Greg Mellor"Beyond Winter's Shadow"Ticonderoga Publications (Wild Chrome)[28]
2012Greg Mellor"The Trouble With Memes"Ticonderoga Publications (Wild Chrome)[28]
2012Kaaron Warren"The Lighthouse Keepers' Club"PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 4)[28]
2013Kaaron Warren*"Air, Water, and the Grove"Pandemonimum Press (The Lowest Heaven)[29][30]
2013Joanne Anderton"The Last Tiger"Daily Science Fiction[29]
2013Joanne Anderton"Mah Song"FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories)[29]
2013Thoraiya Dyer"Seven Days in Paris"Twelfth Planet Press (Asymmetry)[29]
2013Lucy Stone"Version 4.3.0.1"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 57[29]
2014Thoraiya Dyer*"Wine, Women, and Stars"Analog[31]
2014Deborah Biancotti"The Executioner Goes Home"Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 11, Issue 6[32]
2014Jason Fischer"The Glorious Aerybeth"On Spec[32]
2014Charlotte Nash"Dellinger"Peggy Bright Books (Use Only As Directed)[32]
2014Garth Nix"Happy Go Lucky"Twelfth Planet Press (Kaleidocscope)[32]
2015Sean Williams*"All the Wrong Places"Solaris (Meeting Infinity)[33]
2015Joanne Anderton"2B"FableCroft Publishing (Insert Title Here)[34]
2015Claire McKenna"The Marriage of the Corn King"Cosmos[34]
2015Charlotte Nash"Alchemy and Ice"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61[34]
2015Kaaron Warren"Witnessing"The Canary Press Story Magazine 6[34]
2016Samantha Murray*"Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart"Clarkesworld 122[35]
2016Jack Dann"Trainspotting in Winesburg"PS Publishing (Concentration)[36]
2016Ian McHugh"The Baby Eaters"Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 40 No. 1[36]
2016Claire McKenna"The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring"FableCroft Publishing (In Your Face)[36]
2016Kaaron Warren"68 Days"Broken Eye Books (Tomorrow's Cthulhu)[36]
2016Jen White"The Least of Things"Aurealis 94[36]
2017Garth Nix*"Conversations with an Armoury"Solaris (Infinity Wars)[37][38]
2017Lyn Battersby"The Missing Years"Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 66[37]
2017Aiki Flinthart"A Little Faith"Mirren Hogan (Like A Woman)[37]
2017Pamela Jeffs"Cards and Steel Hearts"Falstaff Books (Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier)[37]
2017Amie Kaufman"One Small Step"HarperCollins Publishers (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology)[37]
2017Arthur Robinson"Hurk + Dav"Breach Issue #01[37]

Honourable mentions and high commendations

The honourable mentions and high commendations are announced alongside the list of finalists for their respected year of eligibility.[39] 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
2003Shane Brown"The Earth Equation"Vision Writers Group (Glimpses)[8]
2003Grace Dugan"The Wall"Vision Writers Group (Glimpses)[8]
2003Trent Jamieson"Clockwork"Vision Writers Group (Glimpses)[8]
2003Cat Sparks"Cross the Nullabor to the Sea"Vision Writers Group (Glimpses)[8]
2005Tess Williams*"How Green Was Their Love"Borderlands[8]
2007Dirk Flinthart"Truckers"Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine[8]

See also

  • Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969

References

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