Friday, September 07, 2007

Aurora Award nominations are out

Aurora award nomination are out! These are the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association awards and a couple of my favorite authors Peter Watts and Robert Sawyer are in the running with Blindsight from TOR books.

2007 Finalists (book links)

Best Long-Form Work in English

  • Regeneration : Species Imperative 3, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books)
  • Children of Chaos, Dave Duncan (Tor Books)
  • Smoke and Ashes, Tanya Huff (DAW Books)
  • Sun of Suns : Book One of Virga, Karl Schroeder (Tor Books)
  • Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor Books)
  • Righteous Anger : Part Two of the Okal Rel Saga, Lynda Williams (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)

Best Short-Form Work in English

  • "All the Cool Monsters at Once", James Alan Gardner (Mythspring, Red Deer Press)
  • "This Ink Feels Like Sorrow", Karin Lowachee (Mythspring, Red Deer Press)
  • "Marked Men", John Mierau (Slipstreams, DAW)
  • "Biding Time", Robert J. Sawyer (Slipstreams, DAW)
  • "Lumen Essence", Hayden Trenholm (Neo-opsis SF Magazine 9)

The Aurora awards are closest to the style of the Hugo awards (which are presented by the SF Worldcon) in the method by which they are selected. First there is a nomination phase to select a short list. Then a voting phase to pick the winner from the short list using the Australian voting method (this method has the voter rank their choices in each category).

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