Ditmar Awards 1997
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1996
Australian Long Fiction
- Winner: The Scarlet Rider, Lucy Sussex (Tor/Forge)
- Dream Weavers, Paul Collins, ed. (Penguin)
- The Memory Cathedral, Jack Dann (Bantam)
- Metal Fatigue, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)
Australian Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Sword of God”, Russell Blackford (Dream Weavers)
- After Dark #5: The Stray Cat, Steven Paulsen (Lothian Books)
- “Borderline”, Leanne Frahm (Borderline)
- “The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse”, Terry Dowling (Interzone #106 Apr 1996)
Fanzine
- Winner: Thyme, Alan Stewart
- The Communicator, Derek Screen
- Emerald City, Cheryl Morgan
- Oscillation Overthruster, Sue Ann Barber
- Pinkette, Karen Pender-Gunn
- Science Fiction, Van Ikin
Fan Writer
Fan Artist
Professional Artwork
- Winner: Elizabeth Kyle for Dream Weavers by Paul A. Collins
- Trudi Canavan, for art in Aurealis #17 1996 and Eidolon #22/23
- Jason Towers for Australian Realms #28
- Mr. Squiggle, Norm and Margaret Hetherington (ABC TV)
- Shaun Tan, for artwork in Eidolon and cover of The Stray Cat
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: Alan Stewart, for reviews in Thyme
- “Post Human SF: Lost in Cyberspace”, Janeen Webb (The Festival of Imagination Programme Book)
- "The Tiger in the Prison House" Science Fiction #37, Reviews of Distress in Science Fiction and NYRSF and "Jewels in Junk City" in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Russell Blackford
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