Como cada año, os traigo el listado de nominados a los australianos premios Aurealis, son los siguientes:
Mejor ficción infantil
Andromache Between Worlds, Gabriel Bergmoser (HarperCollins Publishers)
The Bother with the Bonkillyknock Beast, Karen Foxlee & Freda Chiu (ill.) (Allen & Unwin)
The Apprentice Witnesser, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
Landovel, Emily Rodda (Allen & Unwin)
The Midwatch, Judith Rossell (Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing)
Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria, L M Wilkinson & Lavanya Naidu (ill.) (Albert Street Books)
Mejor relato corto juvenil
“Time’s Key”, Emily Larkin (Stepping Sideways: Worlds of Steampunk & Dystopia, Rhiza Edge)
“Maiden’s Dawn”, Nikky Lee (A Night So Dark and Full of Stars, Deadset Press)
“The Audition”, Juliet Marillier (Borderlands: Riding the Slipstream, Ford Street Publishing)
“In a League of Her Own”, Jeanette O’Hagan (Stepping Sideways: Worlds of Steampunk & Dystopia, Rhiza Edge)
Waking Flora, Tansy Rayner Roberts (autopublicado)
“What are False Stars to a God?”, Alexander Te Pohe (Avast!, Fremantle Press)
Mejor relato corto de terror
“Hackles”, Jeff Clulow (Remixed Myths, Third Eye Press)
“Changeling”, Michael Gardner (Aurealis #167, Chimaera Publications)
“Flesh of My Flesh”, Ben Matthews (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, IFWG Publishing)
“These Pale Shadows”, Kirstyn McDermott (Nosferatu Unbound, IFWG Publishing)
“Envelopes”, Matt Tighe (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, IFWG Publishing)
“An Object of Vision”, Guan Un (Fission #4, British Science Fiction Association)
Mejor relato corto de fantasía
“The Beautiful Thing You Once Were”, J Ashley-Smith (Bourbon Penn 33)
“Lacebound”, Eliza Baker (Aurealis #170, Chimaera Publications)
“Remembering the Hungry Ghosts”, Emmi Khor (Best Australian Yarn 2024, The West Australian Newspaper)
Bonnets at Dawn, Tansy Rayner Roberts (autopublicado)
“Market of Loss”, Matt Tighe (Aurealis #176, Chimaera Publications)
“Before the Forest”, Kell Woods (Reactor Magazine)
Mejor relato corto de ciencia ficción
“The Combat Pilot’s Dictionary”, Arden Baker (Aurealis #167, Chimaera Publications)
“Dog of War”, Colin Clark (Aurealis #170, Chimaera Publications)
“The Last Reader”, Greg Foyster (Conflux 2024, CSFG/Conflux)
“The Station”, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker (New Australian Fiction 2024, New South Books)
“Life In The Dirt”, Henry Neilsen (Aurealis #173, Chimaera Publications)
“In War with Time for Love of You”, Carol Ryles (Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies, IFWG Publishing)
Mejor novela gráfica/trabajo ilustrado
Action Tank: Book 3, Mike Barry (Mike Barry Was Here)
The Star Tide Shores, Henry Goeldner (Kickstarter)
In Utero, Chris Gooch (Top Shelf)
Your Highness, Your Highness, N S Kane, Chris Pitcairn (ill.) (N S Kane Comics)
The Sweetness Between Us, Sarah Winifred Searle (Allen & Unwin)
Titans: Out of the Shadows, Tom Taylor, Nicola Scott (ill.) (DC Comics)
Mejor colección
Pick Your Potion, Ephiny Gale (Foxgrove Press)
Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer Press)
The Heart of the Labyrinth and Other Stories, D K Mok (self-published)
Mejor antología
Fission #4, Eugen Bacon & Gene Rowe (Eds.) (The British Science Fiction Association)
Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, Andrew Cull & Gabino Iglesias (Eds.) (Vermilion To One Press)
Celestial Bodies, Aidan Demmers (Ed.) (Tiny Owl Workshop)
Far-Flung, Samuel Maguire (Ed.) (Tiny Owl Workshop)
Calvaria Fell: Stories, Cat Sparks & Kaaron Warren (Meerkat Press)
New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan (Ed.) (Tachyon Publications)
Mejor novela juvenil
Plagued Lands, Nikki Brooke (Crow Knight Film & Publishing Realm)
Aisle Nine, Ian X Cho (HarperCollins Publishers)
They Watch From Below, Katya de Becerra (Page Street YA)
Liar’s Test, Ambelin Kwaymullina (Text Publishing)
Anomaly, Emma Lord (Affirm Press)
Deep is the Fen, Lili Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin)
Mejor novela corta de horror
“We Who Remain”, Nikky Lee (A Night So Dark and Full of Stars, Deadset Press)
“A Daredevil Duchess’s Guide to Castle Hauntings”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Castle of Secrets, autopublicado)
“Bell, Book and Lamp”, Angela Slatter (Bound in Blood, Titan Books)
“Maleficium”, Kyla Lee Ward (Discontinue If Death Ensues, Flame Tree Publishing)
Shattered, Pauline Yates (Black Hare Press)
Mejor novela corta de fantasía
“Another Tide”, Will Greatwich (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Firkin Press)
“Doors”, Nikky Lee (Don’t Forget to Shut the Gate, Northshore Press)
Talon Marked, Sue-Ellen Pashley (Deadset Press)
“A Daredevil Duchess’s Guide to Castle Hauntings”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Castle of Secrets, autopublicado)
Hotel Charybdis, Tansy Rayner Roberts (autopublicado)
“The Good Old Days”, Craig Rosenberg (Uncertainties VII, Swan River Press)
Mejor novela corta de ciencia ficción
The Javan War, John Birmingham & Jason Lambright (Gigantic Bombs Corporation)
“Captain Santiago and the Sky Dome”, Tracy Cooper-Posey, (Celestial Hearts, Tandy Lion)
“We Who Remain”, Nikky Lee (A Night So Dark and Full of Stars, Deadset Press)
“Daisie and Maisie, External Hull Repair Experts”, Sean Monaghan (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, Dell Magazines)
Ghost of the Neon God, T R Napper (Titan Books)
“Shadow Films”, Ben Peek (Lightspeed #164)
Mejor novela de terror
Remedy, J S Breukelaar (PS Publishing)
Rock Zombie, A B Finlayson (autopublicado)
The Count, David-Jack Fletcher (Slashic Horror Press)
Jasper Cliff, Josh Kemp (Fremantle Press)
Carve Your Soul to Pieces, Ben Pienaar (autopublicado)
Bodily Harm, Deborah Sheldon (Undertaker Books)
Mejor novela de fantasía
Thoroughly Disenchanted, Alexandra Almond (HarperCollins Publishers)
Kavithri, Aman J Bedi (Gollancz)
The She-Wolf of Baker Street, Narrelle M Harris (Clan Destine Press)
The End and Everything Before It, Finegan Kruckemeyer (Text Publishing)
The Briar Book of the Dead, A G Slatter (Titan Books)
Skysong, C A Wright (Pantera Press)
Mejor novela de ciencia ficción
Transported, Kate Fitzpatrick (New Found Books)
Inheritance, Genevieve Gannon (Pantera Press)
The Temp, Martin Livings (autopublicado)
Big Time, Jordan Prosser (University of Queensland Press)
Temporal Boom, J M Voss (Shawline Publishing Group)
Juice, Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Random House)
Premio Sara Douglas a la mejor serie de libros
The Aurora Cycle: Aurora Rising (2019) / Aurora Burning (2020) / Aurora’s End (2021), Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
Warrior Bards: The Harp of Kings (2019) / A Dance with Fate (2020) / A Song of Flight (2021), Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
The Last Binding: A Marvellous Light (2021) / A Restless Truth (2022) / A Power Unbound (2023), Freya Marske (Tor)
Deepwater Trilogy: Monstrous Heart (2020) / Deepwater King (2021) / Firetide Coast (2022), Claire McKenna (Harper Voyager UK / Harper Collins Australia)
The Old Kingdom: Sabriel (1994) / Lirael (2001) / Abhorsen (2003) / Clariel (2014) / Goldenhand (2016) / Terciel and Elinor (2021), Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
The Radiant Emperor: She Who Became the Sun (2021) / He Who Drowned the World (2023), Shelley Parker-Chan (Mantle)
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!