E-mail Locus

Where & When: Conjure, the 45th Australian national SF convention, Brisbane, Australia, Sat 15 Apr 2006
Eligibility Year: 2005

NOVEL

Geodesica: Ascent, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (Ace)

The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday, Garth Nix (HarperCollins)

Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)

Midnighters, Book Two: Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld (Eos)

Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill)

Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)

NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE

"The Grinding House", Kaaron Warren (The Grinding House)

"Countless Screaming Argonauts", Chris Lawson (Realms of Fantasy Aug 2005)

"The Memory of Breathing", Lyn Triffitt (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)

"Passing of the Minotaurs", Rjurik Davidson (Sci Fiction 20 Apr 2005)

"The Red Priest's Homecoming", Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)

SHORT STORY

"Fresh Young Widow", Kaaron Warren (The Grinding House)

"Leviathan", Simon Brown (Eidolon SF: Online)

"Matricide", Lucy Sussex (Sci Fiction 2 Feb 2005)

"Once Giants Roamed the Earth", Rosaleen Love (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales)

"Summa Seltzer Missive", Deborah Biancotti (Ticonderoga Online #6)

COLLECTED WORK

Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales, Robert Hood & Robin Penn, eds. (Agog! Press)

The Grinding House, Kaaron Warren, edited by Donna Maree Hanson (CSFG Publishing)

Shadowed Realms (www.shadowedrealms.com.au), Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings, eds.

A Tour Guide in Utopia, Lucy Sussex (MirrorDanse Books)

Years Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, eds. (MirrorDanse Books)

FAN PRODUCTION

The Australian SF Bullsheet (website and newsletter), Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner

Conflux Committee (Conflux 2. Conflux 2 convention)

Continuum Committee (Continuum 3. Continuum 3 convention)

ASif!: Australian Specfic In Focus (http://asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php), Alisa Krasnostein

Inkspillers (http://www.inkspillers.com), Tony Plank

FANZINE

Ticonderoga Online, Russell B. Farr

Horrorscope (http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com), Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Bill Wright, ed.

FAN WRITER

Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope)

Bruce Gillespie (Writer/reviewer, Steam Engine Time and Science Fiction Commentary)

Stephanie Gunn (Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope)

Martin Livings (Skeletor_Hordak, LiveJournal web comic)

Bill Wright (Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Published by Bill Wright)

FAN ARTIST

Shane Parker (Conflux Poster Art, Conflux)

Dick Jenssen (Artwork in American fan Earl Kemp's ezines eI20 (June 2005) and eI23 (Dec 2005), Published via efanzines.com)

Elaine Kemp (ConSensual a Trois interior artwork, ConSensual a Trois, April 2005)

ARTWORK

Nick Stathopoulos, Cover of Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview (by Donna Hanson)

Greg Bridges, Cover of The Blood Debt (by Sean Williams; HarperCollins Australia)

Ben Templesmith, Cover of Fell #3 (by Warren Ellis & Ben Templesmith; Image Comics)

Robin Evans, Cover of The Grinding House (by Kaaron Warren; CSFG Publishing)

NEW TALENT

Rjurik Davidson

Lyn Battersby/Triffit

Karen Miller

WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW

"Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla", Robert Hood (King Kong is Back)

The 2005 Snapshot Australian Speculative Fiction writers, editors, publishers (http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/), Ben Peek

Body Parts, Chris Lawson (Borderlands Press)

Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Damien Broderick (Wildside Press)

PK Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror, Rosaleen Love (Borderlands Press)

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Robert Dobson, Robert Hoge, Kate Eltham & Heather Gammage (Clarion South 2005, Clarion South Workshop)

Michael Rymer (Screenwriting and directing, Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.0 Sci-Fi Channel)

Jonathan Strahan (for co-editing Best Short Novels: 2005 (SFBC), Science Fiction: Best of 2004 (ibooks), and Fantasy: Best of 2004 (ibooks))

Australian Speculative Fiction: a genre overview, Donna Maree Hanson

COSMOS Magazine, Damien Broderick, Wilson de Silva & Kylie Ahern