2014 Aurealis Awards Finalists

The 2014 Aurealis Awards finalists have been announced.

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

  • Fireborn, Keri Arthur (Hachette Australia)
  • This Shattered World, Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)
  • The Lascar’s Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette Australia)
  • Dreamer’s Pool, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
  • Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin Australia)
  • Daughters of the Storm, Kim Wilkins (Harlequin Enterprises Australia)

BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY

  • “The Oud”, Thoraiya Dyer (Long Hidden)
  • “Teratogen”, Deborah Kalin (Cemetery Dance 5/14)
  • “The Ghost of Hephaestus”, Charlotte Nash (Phantazein)
  • “The Badger Bride”, Angela Slatter (Strange Tales IV)
  • “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”, Angela Slatter (The Review of Australian Fiction Volume 9, Issue 3)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • Aurora: Meridian, Amanda Bridgeman (Momentum)
  • The White List, Nina D’Aleo (Momentum)
  • Peacemaker, Marianne de Pierres (Angry Robot)
  • This Shattered World, Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)
  • Nil By Mouth, LynC (Satalyte)
  • Foresight, Graham Storrs (Momentum)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY

  • “The Executioner Goes Home”, Deborah Biancotti (Review of Australian Fiction Vol 11 Issue 6)
  • “Wine, Women and Stars”, Thoraiya Dyer (Analog 1-2/14)
  • “The Glorious Aerybeth”, Jason Fischer (On Spec 9/14)
  • “Dellinger”, Charlotte Nash (Use Only As Directed)
  • “Happy Go Lucky”, Garth Nix (Kaleidoscope)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

  • Obsidian, Alan Baxter (HarperVoyager)
  • Book of the Dead, Greig Beck (Momentum)
  • Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)

BEST HORROR SHORT STORY

  • “The Executioner Goes Home”, Deborah Biancotti (Review of Australian Fiction Vol 11 Issue 6)
  • “Skinsuit”, James Bradley (Island Magazine #137)
  • “By the Moon’s Good Grace”, Kirstyn McDermott (Review of Australian Fiction Vol 12 Issue 3)
  • “Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)
  • Home and Hearth, Angela Slatter (Spectral)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

  • The Astrologer’s Daughter, Rebecca Lim (Text)
  • Afterworld, Lynnette Lounsbury (Allen & Unwin)
  • The Cracks in the Kingdom, Jaclyn Moriarty (Pan Macmillan Australia)
  • Clariel, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
  • The Haunting of Lily Frost, Nova Weetman (UQP)
  • Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin Australia)

BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

  • In Hades, Goldie Alexander (Celapene)
  • “Falling Leaves”, Liz Argall (Apex 5/14)
  • “The Fuller and the Bogle”, David Cornish (Tales from the Half-Continent)
  • “Vanilla”, Dirk Flinthart (Kaleidoscope)
  • “Signature”, Faith Mudge (Kaleidoscope)

BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

  • Slaves of Socorro, John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
  • Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, Karen Foxlee (Hot Key)
  • The Last Viking Returns, Norman Jorgensen & James Foley (Fremantle)
  • Withering-by-Sea, Judith Rossell (ABC)
  • Sunker’s Deep, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
  • Shadow Sister, Carole Wilkinson (Black Dog)

BEST COLLECTION

  • The Female Factory, Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Twelfth Planet)
  • Secret Lives, Rosaleen Love (Twelfth Planet)
  • Angel Dust, Ian McHugh (Ticonderoga)
  • Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out Of Hell, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright)
  • The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
  • Black-Winged Angels, Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

  • Kisses by Clockwork, Liz Grzyb, ed. (Ticonderoga)
  • Kaleidoscope, Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
  • Amok, Dominica Malcolm, ed. (Solarwyrm)
  • Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
  • Fearsome Magics, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
  • Phantazein, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED WORK

  • Left Hand Path #1, Jason Franks & Paul Abstruse (Winter City)
  • Awkwood, Jase Harper (Milk Shadow)
  • “A Small Wild Magic”, Kathleen Jennings (Monstrous Affections)
  • Mr Unpronounceable and the Sect of the Bleeding Eye, Tim Molloy (Milk Shadow)
  • The Game, Shane W. Smith (Deeper Meanings)

Winners will be announced in an awards ceremony on April 11, 2015 at the University House in Canberra, Australia.  For more, see the official website.