2009 Aurealis Award Shortlists

The shortlisted works for the 2009 Aurealis Awards have been announced.  These awards are presented to the best Australian sf and fantasy across a number of categories.  The shortlisted works are:

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Andrew McGahan, Wonders of a Godless World, Allen & Unwin
• Sean Williams, The Grand Conjunction, Astropolis Book Three, Orbit

Best Science Fiction Short Story

• Peter M. Ball, 'Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens', Apex Magazine May 2009
• Peter M. Ball, 'To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer's Lament', Abyss & Apex Magazine October 2009
• Christopher Green, 'A Hundredth Name', Abyss & Apex Magazine #31
• Greg Mellor, 'Defence of the Realm', Cosmos #25
• Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn, 'Soulmates' Asimov's September 2009

Best Fantasy Novel

• Peter M. Ball, Horn, Twelfth Planet Press
• Trudi Canavan, Magician's Apprentice, Orbit
• Glenda Larke, The Last Stormlord, HarperVoyager
• K.E. Mills, Witches Incorporated, HarperVoyager
• K.J. Taylor, The Dark Griffin, HarperVoyager

Best Fantasy Short Story

• Christopher Green, 'Father's Kill', Beneath Ceaseless Skies #24
• Ian McHugh, 'Once a Month, On a Sunday', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, 'Siren Beat', Roadkill/Siren Beat, Twelfth Planet Press
• Angela Slatter, 'Words' The Lifted Brow #5
• Lucy Sussex, 'Something Better than Death', Aurealis #42, Chimaera Publications

Best Horror Novel

• Peter M. Ball, Horn, Twelfth Planet Press
• Honey Brown, Red Queen, Penguin Australia
• Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path, Hachette Australia
• Tracey O'Hara, Night's Cold Kiss, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Kaaron Warren. Slights, Angry Robot Books

Best Horror Short Story

• Felicity Dowker, 'Jesse's Gift', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
• Christopher Green, 'Having Faith', Nossa Morte, February 2009
• Paul Haines, 'Wives', X6, Coeur de Lion Publishing
• Paul Haines, 'Slice of Life - A Spot of Liver', Slice of Life, The Mayne Press
• Andrew J. McKiernan, 'The Message', Midnight Echoes, Australian Horror Writers Association

Best Anthology

• Alisa Krasnostein (editor), New Ceres Nights, Twelfth Planet Press
• Keith Stevenson (editor), X6, Coeur de Lion Publishing
• Jonathan Strahan (editor), Eclipse 2, Night Shade Books
  
• Jonathan Strahan (editor), Eclipse 3, Night Shade Books
• Jonathan Strahan (editor), The New Space Opera 2, Harper Eos
  

Best Collection

• Deborah Biancotti & Alisa Krasnostein (editors), A Book of Endings, Twelfth Planet Press
• Greg Egan, Oceanic, Gollancz
• Paul Haines & Geoff Maloney (editors), Slice of Life, The Mayne Press
• Robbie Matthews & Donna Hanson (editors), Johnny Phillips Werewolf Detective, Australian Speculative Fiction

Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel

• Nathan Jurevicius, Scarygirl, Allen & Unwin
• Bruce Mutard, The Silence, Allen & Unwin
• Emily Rodda & Marc McBride, Secrets of Deltora, Scholastic Australia
• Madeleine Rosca, Hollow Fields, Seven Seas Entertainment

Best Young Adult Novel

• Kate Forsyth, The Puzzle Ring, Pan Macmillan
• Cassandra Golds, The Museum of Mary Child, Puffin Books
• Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, Allen & Unwin
• Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan Trilogy: Book One, Penguin
• Sean Williams, Scarecrow, HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Best Young Adult Short Story

• Joanne Anderton, 'Dragon Bones', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
• Sue Isle, 'Paper Dragons', Shiny #5, Twelfth Planet Press
• Ian McHugh, 'Once a Month, on a Sunday', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, 'Like Us, Shiny #5, Twelfth Planet Press
• Cat Sparks, 'Seventeen', Masques, CSFG

Best Children's Novel

• Deborah Abela, The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen, Random House Australia
• Kate Constable, Cicada Summer, Allen & Unwin
• Jen Storer, Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, Penguin/Viking
• Gabrielle Wang, A Ghost in My Suitcase, Puffin Books

Best Children's Illustrated Work/Picture Book

• Graeme Base, Enigma, Penguin/Viking
• Anna Fienberg (author), Kim Gamble (illustrator), Tashi and the Golem, Allen & Unwin
• Pamela Freeman (author), Kim Gamble (illustrator), Victor's Challenge, Walker Books Australia
• Dan McGuiness, Pilot and Huxley, Omnibus Books
• Gregory Rogers, The Hero of Little Street, Allen & Unwin

The winners will be anounced at a ceremony at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane on Saturday 23 January 2010.