The ballot for the 2009 Ditmar Awards has been announced, and I'm pleased to report that Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch is a finalist in the Best Novel category. All winners will be announced at the National Science Fiction Convention later in the year.
What with Hal 4 being a finalist in the Aurealis Awards AND winning the WASFF award at Swancon, this is definitely the best result yet for the series. The downside is that I now have to top the novel with Hal Spacejock books 5 and 6!
Best Novel
- Fivefold, Nathan Burrage
- Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, Simon Haynes
- Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
- How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier
- Daughter of Moab, Kim Westwood
- Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams
Best Novella or Novelette
- "Soft Viscosity", David Conyers
- "Night Heron's Curse", Thoraiya Dyer
- "Angel Rising, Dirk Flinthart
- "Creeping in Reptile Flesh", Robert Hood
- "Painlessness", Kirstyn McDermott
Best Short Story
- "Pale Dark Soldier", Deborah Biancotti
- "This Is Not My Story", Dirk Flinthart
- "The Goosle", Margo Lanagan
- "Her Collection of Intimacy", Paul Haines
- "Moments of Dying", Robert Hood
- "Sammarynda Deep", Cat Sparks
- "Ass-Hat Magic Spider", Scott Westerfeld
Best Collected Work
- Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann
- Canterbury 2100, edited by Dirk Flinthart
- 2012, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne
- Midnight Echo, edited by Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
- Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine, edited by Angela Challis
- Creeping In Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood
- The Starry Rift, edited by Jonathon Strahan
Best Artwork
- Aurealis #40 cover, Adam Duncan
- The Last Realm, Book 1: Dragonscarpe, Michael Dutkiewics
- Gallery in Black Box, Andrew McKiernan
- Creeping In Reptile Flesh cover, Cat Sparks
- 2012 cover, Cat Sparks
- Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
Best Fan Writer
- Craig Bezant, for work in Horrorscope
- Edwina Harvey, for work in The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet
- Robert Hood, for work in Undead Backbrain
- Chuck McKenzie, for work in Horrorscope
- Mark Smith-Briggs, for work in Horrorscope
- Brenton Tomlinson, for work in Horrorscope
Best Fan Artist
- Rachel Holkner, for "Gumble Soft toy" and other works
- Nancy Lorenz, for body of work
- Andrew McKiernan, for body of work
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, for "Daleks are a girl's best friend"
- David Schembri, for body of work
- Cat Sparks, for Scary Food Cookbook
- Anna Tambour, for "Box of Noses" and other works
Best Fan Publication
- Horrorscope, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.
- Scary Food Cookbook, edited by Cat Sparks
- Asif! (Australian Speculative Fiction In Focus), edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Gene Melzack
- The Australian SF Bullsheet, edited by Edwina Harvey and Ted Scribner
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
- "Dark Suspense: The End of the Line" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (in Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #3)
- "George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead" by Robert Hood (in Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine #2)
- "Bad Film Diaries - Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes" by Grant Watson (in Borderlands #10)
- "Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction" by Kim Wilkins (in Journal of Australian Studies)
Best Achievement
- Angela Challis, for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine and Brimstone Press
- Marty Young and the AHWA Committee, for promoting horror through the Australian Horror Writers Association
- Talie Helene, for her work as AHWA News Editor
- Steven Clark, for Tasmaniac Productions
- Damien Broderick, for fiction editing in Cosmos magazine
- James Doig, for preserving colonial Australian horror fiction, and for his anthologies Australian Gothic and Australian Nightmares
- James "Jocko" Allen and K'Rin Pender-Gunn, for "The Gunny Project: A tribute to Ian Gunn 1959-1998" (MSFC presentation)
Best New Talent
- Peter M. Ball
- Felicity Dowker
- Jason Fischer
- Gary Kemble
- Amanda Pillar
Tags: Ditmars,Awards,Hal 4
Posted 09 May, 2009 . . .
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