SF NOVEL

• The White Abacus, Damien Broderick (Avon)
• The Dark Edge, Richard Harland (Pan Macmillan)
• Diaspora, Greg Egan (Millennium)
• Winter, Simon Brown (HarperCollins)
• Zones, Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes (HarperCollins/Moonstone)

SF SHORT STORY

• "Niagara Falling", Janeen Webb & Jack Dann (Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures)
• "Lucent Carbon", Russell Blackford (Eidolon #25/26 Spring 1997)
• "Merlusine", Lucy Sussex (The Horns of Elfland)
• "Reasons to be Cheerful", Greg Egan (Interzone #118 Apr 1997)
• "Schrödinger's Dog", Damien Broderick (Eidolon #22/23 Spring 1996)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Infernal, Kim Wilkins (Random House)
• Black Ice, Lucy Sussex (Hodder Headline)
• Darkfall: Book One of the Legendsong, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin)
• Dragonclaw: Book One of The Witches of Eileanan, Kate Forsyth (Random House Arrow Australia)
• Sinner: Book One of the Wayfarer Redemption, Sara Douglass (HarperCollins)

FANTASY SHORT STORY

• "Merlusine", Lucy Sussex (The Horns of Elfland)
• "Death at the Blue Elephant", Janeen Webb (Enter: HQ)
• "Jackie Chan", Chris Gregory (Twins)
• "Nicholas Afalling", Jodie Kewley (Eidolon #24 Fall 1997)
• "The River of Dreams", Le Hang (Influence: Australian Voices)

HORROR NOVEL

• The Infernal, Kim Wilkins (Random House)
• The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (Tor)
• The Dark Edge, Richard Harland (Pan Macmillan)
• Dead Set, Emma Tom (Random House)

HORROR SHORT STORY

• "Jenny Come to Play", Terry Dowling (Eidolon #25/26 Spring 1997)
• "The Freezing of Sarah", Sean Williams (Bloodsongs #9)
• "The Mullet That Screwed John West", Bill Congreve (Epiphanies of Blood: Tales of Desperation and Thirst)
• "Ten Minutes of Midnight", J M Earle (Aurealis #18 1996)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL (tie)

• Eye to Eye, Catherine Jinks (Penguin/Puffin)
• Greylands, Isobelle Carmody (Penguin/Puffin)
• The Outcast, Patricia Bernard (HarperCollins/Moonstone)
• Shade's Children, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• Zones, Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes (HarperCollins/Moonstone)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

• "The Twist in the Tale", Ruth Starke (Lothian Books)
• "Hanging by a Thread", Julie Ireland (Hanging by a Thread and Other Stories)
• "The Peppercorn Tree", Sheryl Gardner (Lothian Books)