2012 Ditmar Award Winners

The 2012 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF were announced at the Continuum 8: Craftonomicon, the 51st Australian National SF Convention, June 8-11, 2012. The winners are:

Best Novel

• The Courier’s New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (HarperCollins)
  
• Debris, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
• Burn Bright, Marianne de Pierres (Random House)
• The Shattered City, Tansy Rayner Roberts (HarperCollins)
• Mistification, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)

Best Novella or Novelette

• “The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt”, Paul Haines (The Last Days of Kali Yuga)
• “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living”, Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar)
• “Above”, Stephanie Campisi (Above/ Below)
• “Below”, Ben Peek (Above/ Below)
• “Julia Agrippina’s Secret Family Bestiary”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Love and Romanpunk)

Best Short Story

• “The Patrician”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Love and Romanpunk)
• “Bad Power”, Deborah Biancotti (Bad Power)
• “Breaking the Ice”, Thoraiya Dyer (Cosmos 37)
• “The Last Gig of Jimmy Rucker”, Martin Livings & Talie Helene (More Scary Kisses)
• “Alchemy”, Lucy Sussex (Thief of Lives)
• “All You Can Do Is Breathe”, Kaaron Warren (Blood and Other Cravings)

Best Collected Work

• The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Paul Haines (Brimstone)
  
• Bad Power, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet)
• Nightsiders, Sue Isle (Twelfth Planet)
• Ishtar, Amanda Pillar & K.V. Taylor, eds. (Gilgamesh)
• Love and Romanpunk, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet)

Best Artwork

• “Finishing School”, Kathleen Jennings in Steampunk! (Candlewick)
• Cover art, The Freedom Maze (Small Beer), Kathleen Jennings

Best Fan Writer

• Robin Pen, for “The Ballad of the Unrequited Ditmar“
• Bruce Gillespie, for body of work
• Alexandra Pierce, for body of work
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work
• Sean Wright, for body of work

Best Fan Artist

• Kathleen Jennings, for work in Errantry (tanaudel.wordpress.com) including “The Dalek Game”
• Rebecca Ing, for work in Scape
• Dick Jenssen, for body of work
• Lisa Rye, for the Steampunk Portal series
• Rhianna Williams, for work in the Nullas Anxietas Convention Programme Book

Best Fan Publication in Any Medium

• The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
  
• SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie, ed.
• Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, & Alex Pierce
• Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, & Sean Wright
• The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe

Best New Talent

• Joanne Anderton
• Alan Baxter
• Steve Cameron

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

• Alexandra Pierce & Tehani Wessely, for reviews of the Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex
• Russell Blackford, for “Currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke”, in Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
• Damien Broderick & Van Ilkin, for editing Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (Borgo Press)
• Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, for “2010: The Year in Review”, in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 (Ticonderoga)
• David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts & Tehani Wessely for “Reviewing New Who” series, in A Conversational Life