2008 Ditmar Award Winners

The winners of the 2008 Ditmar Awards have been announced.

Best Novel
Saturn Returns by Sean Williams (Published by Orbit)

Best Novella/Novelette
"Lady of Adestan" by Cat Sparks (Published by in "Orb" #7 edited by Sarah Endacott)

Best Short Story
"The Dark and What It Said" by Rick Kennett (Published in "Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine" #28 edited by Zara Baxter)

Best Collected Work
(tie) The New Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan (Published
by HarperCollins Australia)
Fantastic Wonder Stories edited by Russell B. Farr (Published by Ticonderoga Publications)

Best Art Work
Nick Stathopolous for the Rhinemonn cover

Best Fan Writer
Rob Hood for film reviews on his website

Best Fan Art '
Exterminate!' Dalek Postcards - Katherine Linge <
B>Best Fan Production
2007 Snap Shot Project - interviews with influential members of the Australian speculative fiction scene conducted by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Kathering Linge, Kaaron Warren and Rosie Clark

Best Fanzine
"Not If You Were the Last Short Story on Earth" edited by Alisa Krasnstein, Ben Payne,
Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts

Best Professional Achievement
Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Operative Ltd for five issues in 2007, including three electronic Best Of anthologies

Best Fan Achievement
Alisa Krasnostein for "ASiF! Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus"

Best New Talent
Tehani Wessely

William Atheling Jr Award
Grant Watson for "The Bad Film Diaries" (Published in "Borderlands" #9.)

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