Ditmar Awards 2005
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Thylacon, the 44th Australian National Science Fiction Convention,
Hobart, Tasmania :
June 11, 2005
Eligibility Year: 2004
Eligibility Year: 2004
Novel
- Winner: The Crooked Letter, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Voyager Australia)
- The Black Crusade, Richard Harland (Chimaera Publications)
- Less than Human, Maxine McArthur (Warner Aspect)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: “The Last Days of Kali Yuga”, Paul Haines (NFG Aug 2004)
- “Catabolic Magic”, Richard Harland (Aurealis #32 2004)
- “Home by the Sea”, Cat Sparks (Orb #6)
- “Water Babies”, Simon Brown (Agog! Smashing Stories)
- “The Whole of the Law”, Stephen Dedman (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #13)
Short Story
- Winner: “Singing My Sister Down”, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)
- “The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr. Wu”, Rjurik Davidson (Aurealis #33/34/35 2005)
- “Number 3 Raw Place”, Deborah Biancotti (Agog! Smashing Stories)
- “R”, Ben Peek (Agog! Smashing Stories)
Collected Work
- Winner: Black Juice, Margo Lanagan
- Agog! Smashing Stories, Cat Sparks, ed.
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Lyn Triffitt, Edwina Harvey, Andrew Finch & Zarah Baxter, et al
- Encounters, Donna Hanson & Maxine McArthur, eds.
- Orb #6, Sarah Endacott, ed.
Fan Website/zine
- Winner: The Australian SF Bullsheet, Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner
- Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe, ed.
- Gynaezine, Emma Hawkes & Gina Goddard
Fan Writer
- Winner: Bruce Gillespie
- Edwina Harvey
Fan Artist
- Winner: Sarah Xu
Artwork
- Winner: Kerri Valkova for The Black Crusade by Richard Harland (Chimaera Publications)
- Les Petersen for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #16 (cover and internals)
- Les Petersen for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #12
- Cat Sparks for Agog! Smashing Stories
- Les Petersen for Encounters
New Talent
Fan Achievement
- Winner: Conflux convention committee
- Continuum 2 convention committee
- Super Happy Robot Hour
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner (tie): Robert Hood (review of Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, asking "is this film a ghost story?")
- Winner (tie): Jason Nahrung ("Why are publishers afraid of horror", BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004)
- Ben Peek (review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project)
Professional Achievement
- Winner: Clarion South Team, for negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business
- Jonathan Strahan, for work over the year in internationally published reviews and in editing anthologies
- Cat Sparks, for editing and writing including winning third place in the writers of the future award
- Margo Lanagan, for Black Juice
- Sean Williams, for The Crooked Letter and efforts in teaching
- Tales of the Crypto-System, Geoffrey Maloney (his short story publications)
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