Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel

Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel
The Aurealis Award design is often placed on the winning book's cover as a promotional tool.[1]
Awarded for	Excellence in science fiction novels
Country	Australia
Presented by	Chimaera Publications, WASFF
First awarded	1995
Currently held by	Jane Rawson
Website	Official site

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".^[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;^[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.^[4]

Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.^[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.^[5]

The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists.^[2] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.^[6]

This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best science fiction novel category, as well as novels that have received honourable mentions. Since 2003, honourable mentions have been awarded intermittently. Damien Broderick has won the award three times, while six have won it twice – K. A. Bedford, Greg Egan, Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Sean McMullen, and Sean Williams. Williams holds the record for most nominations with 14. Rory Barnes, James Bradley, Simon Brown, Sara Creasy, Nina D'Aleo, Joel Shepherd, Meagan Spooner, Graham Storrs, and Tess Williams share the record for most nominations without winning, each having been nominated twice.

Contents

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  1 Winners and nominees
  


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  2 Honourable mentions
  


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  3 See also
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 External links
  

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.

  *   Winners and joint winners
  *   Nominees on the shortlist

Year	Author(s)	Novel	Publisher	Ref
1995	Greg Egan*	Distress	Millennium	[7]
1995	Sean McMullen	Mirrorsun Rising	Aphelion Publications	[7]
1995	Kate Orman	Set Piece	Virgin Books	[7]
1995	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	The Unknown Soldier	Aphelion Publications	[7]
1996	Sean Williams*	Metal Fatigue	HarperCollins	[8]
1996	Simon Brown	Privateer	HarperCollins	[8]
1996	Tess Williams	Map of Power	Arrow Books	[8]
1997	Damien Broderick*	The White Abacus	Avon Eos	[9]
1997	Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes	Zones	Moonstone	[9]
1997	Simon Brown	Winter	HarperCollins	[9]
1997	Greg Egan	Diaspora	Millennium	[9]
1997	Richard Harland	The Dark Edge	Pan Macmillan	[9]
1998	Sean McMullen*	The Centurion's Empire	Tor Books	[10]
1998	Alison Goodman	Singing the Dogstar Blues	HarperCollins	[10]
1998	John Marsden	The Night Is for Hunting	Pan Macmillan	[10]
1998	Kate Orman	The New Adventures: Walking to Babylon	Virgin Books	[10]
1998	Sean Williams	The Resurrected Man	Voyager Books	[10]
1999	Greg Egan*	Teranesia	Gollancz	[11]
1999	Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman	Doctor Who: Unnatural History	BBC Books	[11]
1999	Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes	The Book of Revelation	HarperCollins	[11]
1999	Andrew Masterson	The Letter Girl	Picador	[11]
1999	Sally Rogers-Davidson	Spare Parts	Penguin Books	[11]
2000	Sean McMullen*	The Miocene Arrow	Tor Books	[12]
2000	James Bradley	The Deep Field	Sceptre	[12]
2000	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	The Dying Light	Voyager Books	[12]
2000	Tess Williams	Sea as Mirror	Voyager Books	[12]
2001	Sean Williams & Shane Dix*	The Dark Imbalance	Voyager Books	[13]
2001	Peter McAllister	Cosmonaut	Penguin Books	[13]
2001	Sean McMullen	Eyes of the Calculor	Tor Books	[13]
2001	Joel Shepherd	Crossover	Voyager Books	[13]
2002	Damien Broderick*	Transcension	Tor Books	[14]
2002	Michelle Marquardt	Blue Silence	Bantam Books	[14]
2002	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	Echoes of Earth	Voyager Books	[14]
2003	Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman*	Fallen Gods	Telos Publishing	[15]
2003	Jay Caselberg	Wyrmhole	Roc Books	[15]
2003	Ian Irvine	Terminator Gene	Simon & Schuster	[15]
2003	Kate Orman	Blue Box	BBC Worldwide	[15]
2003	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	Orphans of Earth	Voyager Books	[15]
2004	Maxine McArthur*	Less Than Human	Warner Aspect	[16]
2004	K. A. Bedford	Orbital Burn	Edge Publishing	[16]
2004	Jack Dann	The Rebel	Flamingo	[16]
2004	Marianne de Pierres	Nylon Angel	Orbit Books	[16]
2004	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	Heirs of Earth	Voyager Books	[16]
2005	K. A. Bedford*	Eclipse	Edge Publishing	[17]
2005	John Birmingham	Designated Targets	Pan Macmillan	[17]
2005	Marianne de Pierres	Crash Deluxe	Orbit Books	[17]
2005	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	Ascent	Voyager Books	[17]
2006	Damien Broderick*	K-Machines	Avalon Publishing Group	[18]
2006	K. A. Bedford	Hydrogen Steel	Edge Publishing	[18]
2006	Andrew McGahan	Underground	Allen & Unwin	[18]
2006	Sean Williams & Shane Dix	Descent	Voyager Books	[18]
2007	David Kowalski*	The Company of the Dead	Pan Macmillan	[19]
2007	Marianne de Pierres	Dark Space	Orbit Books	[19]
2007	Jack Heath	Remote Control	Pan Macmillan	[19]
2007	Sean Williams	Saturn Returns	Orbit Books	[19]
2008	K. A. Bedford*	Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait	Edge Publishing	[20]
2008	Marianne de Pierres	Chaos Space	Orbit Books	[20]
2008	Kim Westwood	The Daughters of Moab	HarperVoyager	[20]
2008	Sean Williams	Earth Ascendant	Orbit Books	[20]
2008	Simon Haynes	Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch	Fremantle Press	[20]
2009	Andrew McGahan*	Wonders of a Godless World	Allen & Unwin	[21]
2009	Sean Williams	The Grand Conjunction	Orbit Books	[21]
2010	Marianne de Pierres*	Transformation Space	Orbit Books	[22]
2010	Sara Creasy	Song of Scarabaeus	EOS Books	[23]
2010	Marianne de Pierres	Mirror Space	Orbit Books	[23]
2011	Kim Westwood*	The Courier's New Bicycle	HarperVoyager	[24]
2011	Max Barry	Machine Man	Scribe Publications	[25]
2011	Sara Creasy	Children of Scarabaeus	HarperVoyager	[25]
2011	Peter Docker	The Waterboys	Fremantle Press	[25]
2011	Meg Mundell	Black Glass	Scribe Publications	[25]
2012	Daniel O'Malley*	The Rook	HarperCollins	[26]
2012	Jo Anderton	Suited	Angry Robot Books	[27]
2012	Nina D'Aleo	The Last City	Momentum	[27]
2012	Andrea K. Höst	And All the Stars	Andrea K. Hosth	[27]
2012	Ambelin Kwaymullina	The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf	Walker Books	[27]
2012	Garth Nix	A Confusion of Princes	Allen & Unwin	[27]
2013	Max Barry*	Lexicon	Hachette	[28][29]
2013	Andrew Macrae	Trucksong	Twelfth Planet Press	[28]
2013	Jane Rawson	A Wrong Turn At The Office Of Unmade Lists	Transit Lounge	[28]
2013	Graham Storrs	True Path	Momentum	[28]
2013	Nike Sulway	Rupetta	Tartarus Press	[28]
2014	Marianne de Pierres*	Peacemaker	Angry Robot	[30]
2014	Amanda Bridgeman	Aurora: Meridian	Momentum	[31]
2014	LynC	Nil By Mouth	Satalyte Publishing	[31]
2014	Nina D'Aleo	The White List	Momentum	[31]
2014	Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner	Their Shattered World	Allen & Unwin	[31]
2014	Graham Storrs	Foresight	Momentum	[31]
2015	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff*	Illuminae	Allen & Unwin	[32]
2015	Evelyn Blackwell	Crossed	(self-published)	[33]
2015	James Bradley	Clade	Penguin	[33]
2015	Amy Kaufman and Meagan Spooner	Their Fractured Light	Allen & Unwin	[33]
2015	Joel Shepherd	Renegade	Kindle Direct	[33]
2015	Sean Williams	Twinmaker: Fall	Allen & Unwin	[33]
2016	Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff*	Gemima: The Illuminae Files 2	Allen & Unwin	[34]
2016	Jane Abbott	Watershed	Penguin Random House	[35]
2016	S. K. Dunstall	Confluence	Ace Books	[35]
2016	D. K. Mok	Squid's Grief	(self-published)	[35]
2016	Daniel O'Malley	Stiletto	HarperCollins Publishers	[35]
2016	Rebekah Turner	Threader	Harlequin Australia	[35]
2017	Jane Rawson*	From the Wreck	Transit Lounge	[36][37]
2017	Sally Abbott	Closing Down	Hachette Australia	[36]
2017	Claire G. Coleman	Terra Nullius	Hachette Australia	[36]
2017	Daniel Findlay	Year of the Orphan	Penguin Random House Australia	[36]
2017	Krissy Kneen	An Uncertain Grace	Text Publishing	[36]
2017	Cat Sparks	Lotus Blue	Skyhorse	[36]

Honourable mentions

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article.

Year	Author	Novel	Publisher	Ref
2003	Paul Collins	The Earthborn	Tor Books	[38]
2007	Rose Michael	The Asking Game	Transit Lounge	[38]

See also

• 
  Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969

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External links

• Aurealis Awards official site

v t e Aurealis Awards
Anthology Children's Collection Convenors’ award Fantasy (novel, novella, short story) Horror (novel, novella, short story) Illustrated book or graphic novel Science fiction (novel, novella, short story) Young adult (novel, short story)
Retired or merged awards: Children's (primarily through words, primarily through pictures) Golden Aurealis (novel, short story)

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