NOMINEES: 2008 Aurealis Awards

The nominees for the 2008 Aurealis Awards, given to works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have been announced:

• Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K.A. Bedford (published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
• Chaos Space (Book Two of The Sentients of Orion) by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
• Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch by Simon Haynes (Fremantle Press)
• The Daughters of Moab by Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager)
• Earth Ascendant (Astropolis Book Two) by Sean Williams (Orbit)

• The Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)
• Amberlight by Sylvia Kelso (Juno Books)
• Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier (Macmillan Australia)
• The Riven Kingdom (Godspeaker Book Two) by Karen Miller (HarperVoyager)

• The Economy of Light by Jack Dann (PS Publishing)
• Ghostlines by Nick Gadd (Scribe Publications)
• The Seance by John Harwood (Jonathan Cape)

• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Volume, edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt (MirrorDanse Books)
• Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann (HarperVoyager)
• The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan (Viking Children’s Books)

• Creeping in Reptile Flesh by Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books)
• Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams by Sean Williams, edited by Russell B. Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)

• The Cloudchasers by Steve Hunt (illustrator/co-author) & David Richardson (co-author) (ABC Books)
• Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
• The Floods Family Files by Colin Thompson (Random House Australia)
• The Art of Graeme Base by Julie Watts (author) & Graeme Base (illustrator) (Penguin/Viking)

• The Stone Key (Obernewtyn Chronicles, Volume Five) by Isobelle Carmody (Penguin/Viking)
• Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two) by David Cornish (Omnibus Books)
• The Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)
• Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta (Penguin/Viking)
• The Changeling (The Changeling series book one) by Sean Williams (Angus & Robertson)

• Moonshadow, Eye of the Beast by Simon Higgins (Random House Australia)
• Thomas Trew and the Island of Ghosts by Sophie Masson (Hodder Children’s)
• The Wizard of Rondo by Emily Rodda (Omnibus Books)
• Dragon Dawn by Carole Wilkinson (Black Dog Books)
• The Changeling and The Dust Devils (The Changeling series books one and two) by Sean Williams (Angus & Robertson)

• Tashi and the Phoenix by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble (Allen & Unwin)
• The Wolf Kingdom series: Escape!, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins, and The Heavy Crown by Richard Harland, illustrated by Laura Peterson (Omnibus Books)
• The Sorcerer’s Tower series: Thorn Castle, Giant’s Lair, Black Crypt, and Wizardry Crag by Ian Irvine, illustrated by David Cornish (Omnibus Books)
• Curly and the Fent by Sally Morgan with Ezekiel, Ambelin, and Blaze Kwaymullina, illustrated by Adam Hill (Random House Australia)
• Twisted Tales by Richard Tulloch, illustrated by Terry Denton (Random House Australia)

• “The Empire” by Simon Brown (Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager)
• “Black and Bitter, Thanks” by Nathan Burrage (The Workers’ Paradise, Ticonderoga Publications)
• “Delivery” by Trent Jamieson (Cosmos #21)
• “The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross” by Margo Lanagan (Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager)
• “Fleshy” by Tansy Rayner Roberts (2012, Twelfth Planet Press)

• “Night Heron’s Curse” by Thoraiya Dyer (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
• “The Last Deflowerer” by Karen Maric (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #32)
• “Dresses, Three” by Angela Slatter (Shimmer, Volume 2, Number 4)
• “Sammarynda Deep” by Cat Sparks (Paper Cities, Senses 5 Press)
• “Nightship” by Kim Westwood (Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager)

• “In From the Snow” by Lee Battersby (Dreaming Again, HarperVoyager)
• “Pale Dark Soldier” by Deborah Biancotti (Midnight Echo #1)
• “Day Boy” by Trent Jamieson (Murky Depths #4)
• “Painlessness” by Kirstyn McDermott (Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2)
• “Bitter Dreams” by Ian McHugh (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol XXIV)

• “The Tailor of Time” by Deborah Biancotti (Clockwork Phoenix, Norilana Books)
• “This is Not My Story” by Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37)
“Cracks” by Trent Jamieson (Shiny #2)
• “Eye of the Beholder” by Kevin MacLean (Misspelled, DAW Books)

[via SF Scope]

See also: Pst winners

Related posts:

1. NOMINEES: 2006 Aurealis Awards
2. WINNERS: 2006 Aurealis Awards
3. WINNERS: 2007 Aurealis Awards
4. NOMINEES: 2008 Philip K. Dick Award
5. NOMINEES: World Fantasy Awards

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