Aurealis Awards. Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror. Literary Awards Australia.

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The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers of Aurealis Magazine, to recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.

Since 2004, the Aurealis Awards have been administered by Fantastic Queensland in partnership with Chimaera Publications.

It is the intention of the Aurealis Awards to complement the Ditmars and the Australian Children's Book Council Awards. Neither of these awards distinguishes between the different categories of speculative fiction. It is their hope that the Aurealis Awards finalists and winners will increase the profile of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and will provide an essential reading list for anyone with an interest in these genres.

2007 WINNERS

Best science fiction novel

David Kowalski, The Company of the Dead, Pan Macmillan

Best science fiction short story

Cat Sparks, ‘Hollywood Roadkill’, On Spec, #69

Best fantasy novel

Lian Hearn, Heaven’s Net is Wide, Tales of the Otori The First Book, Hachette Livre

Best fantasy short story

Garth Nix, ‘Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz go to War Again’, Jim Baen’s Universe, April 2007

best horror novel

Susan Parisi, Blood of Dreams, Penguin Group (Australia)

Best horror short story

Anna Tambour, ‘The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe’, Subterranean, #7

Best young adult novel

Anthony Eaton, Skyfall, UQP

Best young adult short story

Deborah Biancotti, ‘A Scar for Leida’, Fantastic Wonder Stories, Ticonderoga Publications

Best children’s (8-12 years) long fiction

Kate Forsyth, The Silver Horse, The Chain of Charms 2, Pan Macmillan
Kate Forsyth, The Herb of Grace, The Chain of Charms 3, Pan Macmillan
Kate Forsyth, The Cat’s Eye Shell, The Chain of Charms 4, Pan Macmillan
Kate Forsyth, The Lightning Bolt, The Chain of Charms 5, Pan Macmillan
Kate Forsyth, The Butterfly in Amber, The Chain of Charms 6, Pan Macmillan

Best children’s (8-12 years) short fiction (tied)

Marc McBride, World of Monsters, Scholastic Australia
and
Briony Stewart, Kumiko and the Dragon, UQP

Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence

Terry Dowling, Rynemonn, Coeur de Lion Publications

Terry Dowling has long been a respected writer of science fiction and supporter of the speculative fiction community. In 2007 his book Rynemonn was released. This work is theculmination of the exceptional Tom Rynosseros stories that Dowling haspublished over more than a decade.

His work fits comfortably next to genre fiction writers such as Ray Bradbury or Ursula K. LeGuin. His literary skill and richness of storytelling equally bring to mind comparisons with writers such as Isak Dinesen and Thornton Wilder.

Therefore, the convening judges of the Aurealis Awards 2007 have awarded the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence to Terry Dowling for Rynemonn, his magnum opus of the Tom Rynosseros/Tom Tyson saga.

GOLDEN AUREALIS

Novel:

David Kowalski, The Company of the Dead, Pan Macmillan

Short Story:

Cat Sparks, ‘Hollywood Roadkill’, On Spec, #69