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Where & When: Thylacon, the 44th Australian National Science Fiction Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, Sat 11 Jun 2005
Eligibility Year: 2004

NOVEL

The Crooked Letter, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Voyager Australia)

The Black Crusade, Richard Harland (Chimaera Publications)

Less than Human, Maxine McArthur (Warner Aspect)

NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE

"The Last Days of Kali Yuga", Paul Haines (NFG Aug 2004)

"Catabolic Magic", Richard Harland (Aurealis #32 2004)

"Home by the Sea", Cat Sparks (Orb #6)

"Water Babies", Simon Brown (Agog! Smashing Stories)

"The Whole of the Law", Stephen Dedman (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #13)

SHORT STORY

"Singing My Sister Down", Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)

"The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr. Wu", Rjurik Davidson (Aurealis #33/34/35 2005)

"Number 3 Raw Place", Deborah Biancotti (Agog! Smashing Stories)

"R", Ben Peek (Agog! Smashing Stories)

COLLECTED WORK

Black Juice, Margo Lanagan

Agog! Smashing Stories, Cat Sparks, ed.

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Lyn Triffitt, Edwina Harvey, Andrew Finch & Zarah Baxter, et al

Encounters, Donna Hanson & Maxine McArthur, eds.

Orb #6, Sarah Endacott, ed.

FAN WEBSITE/ZINE

The Australian SF Bullsheet, Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner

Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe, ed.

Gynaezine, Emma Hawkes & Gina Goddard

FAN WRITER

Bruce Gillespie

Edwina Harvey

FAN ARTIST

Sarah Xu

ARTWORK

Kerri Valkova, Cover of The Black Crusade (by Richard Harland; Chimaera Publications)

Les Petersen, Cover of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #12

Les Petersen, Cover of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #16 (cover and internals)

Agog! Smashing Stories, Cat Sparks

Encounters, Les Petersen

NEW TALENT

Paul Haines

Chris Barnes

Stuart Barrow

Grace Dugan

Barbara Robson

Brian Smith

FAN ACHIEVEMENT

Conflux convention committee

Continuum 2 convention committee

Super Happy Robot Hour

WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW (tie)

Robert Hood (review of Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, asking "is this film a ghost story?")

Jason Nahrung ("Why are publishers afraid of horror", BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004)

Ben Peek (review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project)

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Clarion South Team (for negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business)

Cat Sparks (for editing and writing including winning third place in the writers of the future award)

Jonathan Strahan (for work over the year in internationally published reviews and in editing anthologies)

Margo Lanagan (for Black Juice)

Sean Williams (for The Crooked Letter and efforts in teaching)

Tales of the Crypto-System, Geoffrey Maloney (his short story publications)