Aurora Awards

Vencedores 2016

Os Aurora Awards premeiam as melhores obras e actividades feitas e publicadas no Canadá em 2015. Estes são os vencedores nas várias categorias anunciados entre 12 e 14 de Agosto de 2016 na Convention 36, apresentada pela When Worlds Collide em Delta Calgary South, Calgary.

Melhor Romance
Vencedor: A Daughter of No Nation, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
Drowning in Amber, E.C. Bell (Tyche)
Too Far Gone, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
Much Ado about Macbeth, Randy McCharles (Tyche)
Cursed: Black Swan, Ryan T. McFadden (Dragon Moon)
Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
 

Melhor Romance para Jovens Adultos
Vencedor: An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet (Scholastic Canada/Clarion US)

Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond, Jayne Barnard (Tyche)
Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
The Flame in the Maze, Caitlin Sweet (ChiZine)
The Fountain, Suzy Vadori (Evil Alter Ego)
  

Melhor Ficção Curta
Vencedor: “Waters of Versailles”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)
“La Héron”, Charlotte Ashley (F & SF 3-4/15)
“Game Not Over”, Ron Friedman (Galaxy’s Edge 1/15)
“Cosmobotica”, Costi Gurgu & Tony Pi (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
“Super Frenemies”, Stephen Kotowych (Caped: An Anthology of Superhero Tales)
“Looking for Gordo”, Robert J. Sawyer (Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft)

Melhor Poema/Canção
Vencedor: “Origami Crane / Light Defying Spaceship”, Naru Dames Sundar (Liminality #5)
“Elegy for WLC”, David Clink (The Dalhousie Review 94:3)
“Portrait”, David Clink (On Spec #99)
“Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story”, Sandra Kasturi (Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary)
“Venice Letting Go”, Sandra Kasturi (Postscripts to Darkness #6)

Melhor Novela Gráfica
Vencedor: The Lady ParaNorma, Vincent Marcone (ChiZine)
Infinitum: Time Travel Noir, GMB Chomichuk (ChiZine)
Bloodsuckers: Volume 2, J.M. Frey, illustrated by Ryan Cole (Toronto Comics)
Crash and Burn: Prologue, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
West of Bathurst: The Complete Collection, Kari Maaren (self-published)

Melhor Trabalho Relacionado
Vencedor: Second Contacts, Michael Rimar & Hayden Trenholm, eds. (Bundoran)
Playground of Lost Toys, Colleen Anderson & Ursula Pflug, eds. (Exile Editions)
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, Madeline Ashby & David Nickle, eds. (ChiZine)
Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places, J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (EDGE)
nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery & the Macabre, Nancy Kilpatrick & Caro Soles, eds. (EDGE)

Melhor Artista
Vencedor: Erik Mohr
James Beveridge
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
Jeff Minkevics
Dan O’Driscoll

Melhor Série de TV
Vencedor: Orphan Black, Season 3
Bitten, Season 2
Continuum, Season 4
Dark Matter, Season 1
Killjoys, Season 1

Aurora Awards

Nomeações 2016

Os Aurora Awards premeiam as melhores obras e actividades feitas e publicadas no Canadá em 2015. Estes são os nomeados nas várias categorias e os vencedores serão anunciados entre 12 e 14 de Agosto de 2016 na Convention 36, apresentada pela When Worlds Collide em Delta Calgary South, Calgary.

Melhor Romance
Drowning in Amber, E.C. Bell (Tyche)
A Daughter of No Nation, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
Too Far Gone, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
Much Ado about Macbeth, Randy McCharles (Tyche)
Cursed: Black Swan, Ryan T. McFadden (Dragon Moon)
Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)





Melhor Romance para Jovens Adultos

Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond, Jayne Barnard (Tyche)
An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet (Scholastic Canada/Clarion US)
Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
The Flame in the Maze, Caitlin Sweet (ChiZine)
The Fountain, Suzy Vadori (Evil Alter Ego)





Melhor Ficção Curta
“La Héron”, Charlotte Ashley (F & SF 3-4/15)
“Game Not Over”, Ron Friedman (Galaxy’s Edge 1/15)
“Cosmobotica”, Costi Gurgu & Tony Pi (The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk)
“Super Frenemies”, Stephen Kotowych (Caped: An Anthology of Superhero Tales)
“Waters of Versailles”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)
“Looking for Gordo”, Robert J. Sawyer (Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft)

Melhor Poema/Canção
“Elegy for WLC”, David Clink (The Dalhousie Review 94:3)
“Portrait”, David Clink (On Spec #99)
“Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story”, Sandra Kasturi (Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary)
“Origami Crane / Light Defying Spaceship”, Naru Dames Sundar (Liminality #5)
“Venice Letting Go”, Sandra Kasturi (Postscripts to Darkness #6)

Melhor Novela Gráfica
Infinitum: Time Travel Noir, GMB Chomichuk (ChiZine)
Bloodsuckers: Volume 2, J.M. Frey, illustrated by Ryan Cole (Toronto Comics)
Crash and Burn: Prologue, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
West of Bathurst: The Complete Collection, Kari Maaren (self-published)
The Lady ParaNorma, Vincent Marcone (ChiZine)

Melhor Trabalho Relacionado
Playground of Lost Toys, Colleen Anderson & Ursula Pflug, eds. (Exile Editions)
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, Madeline Ashby & David Nickle, eds. (ChiZine)
Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places, J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (EDGE)
nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery & the Macabre, Nancy Kilpatrick & Caro Soles, eds. (EDGE)
Second Contacts, Michael Rimar & Hayden Trenholm, eds. (Bundoran)

Melhor Artista
James Beveridge
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
Jeff Minkevics
Erik Mohr
Dan O’Driscoll

Melhor Série de TV
Bitten, Season 2
Continuum, Season 4
Dark Matter, Season 1
Killjoys, Season 1
Orphan Black, Season 3

Aurora Awards

Vencedores 2015

Os Aurora Awards premeiam as melhores obras e actividades feitas e publicadas no Canadá em 2014. Abaixo ficam os vencedores:

Melhor Romance
Vencedor: A Play of Shadow, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) 
The Peripheral, William Gibson (Penguin Canada)
The Future Falls, Tanya Huff (DAW)
My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor)
Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Melhor Romance para Jovens Adultos
Vencedor: Out of This World, Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada) 
Vencedor: Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor) Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
The Voices in Between, Charlene Challenger (Tightrope)
Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
Rain, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
Twist of the Blade, Edward Willett (Coteau)

 
Melhor Ficção Curta

Vencedor: “Crimson Sky”, Eric Choi (Analog 7-8/14) 
“Jelly and the D-Machine”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
“Soul-Hungry”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
“Mecha-Jesus”, Derwin Mak (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
“No Sweeter Art”, Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/14)

Melhor Poema/Canção

Vencedor: “A Hex, With Bees”, Tony Pi (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen) “The Machine”, David Clink (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
“The Perfect Library”, David Clink (If the World were to Stop Spinning)
“The New Ways”, Amal el-Mohtar (Uncanny 11/14)
“Aversions”, Helen Marshall (Goblin Fruit 10/14)

Melhor Novela Gráfica

Vencedor: It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com) Treadwell, Dominic Bercier (Mirror)
Raygun Gothic Vol. 2, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical)
Cassie & Tonk, Justin Currie & GMB Chomichuk (Chasing Artwork)
Trillium, Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)

Melhor Trabalho Relacionado

Vencedor: On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society) Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction, Suzanne Church (EDGE)
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
Lackington’s, Ranylt Richildis, ed. (lackingtons.com)
Strange Bedfellows, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)

Melhor Artista

Vencedor: Dan O’DriscollJames Beveridge
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk
Erik Mohr
Derek Newman-Stille 

Aurora Awards

Nomeações 2015

Os Aurora Awards premeiam as melhores obras e actividades feitas e publicadas no Canadá em 2014. Abaixo ficam os nomeados:

Melhor Romance
A Play of Shadow, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
The Peripheral, William Gibson (Penguin Canada)
The Future Falls, Tanya Huff (DAW)
My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor)
Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Melhor Romance para Jovens Adultos
Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
The Voices in Between, Charlene Challenger (Tightrope)
Out of This World, Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada)
Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
Rain, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
Twist of the Blade, Edward Willett (Coteau)

 
Melhor Ficção Curta
“Crimson Sky”, Eric Choi (Analog 7-8/14)
“Jelly and the D-Machine”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
“Soul-Hungry”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
“Mecha-Jesus”, Derwin Mak (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
“No Sweeter Art”, Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/14)

Melhor Poema/Canção
“The Machine”, David Clink (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
“The Perfect Library”, David Clink (If the World were to Stop Spinning)
“The New Ways”, Amal el-Mohtar (Uncanny 11/14)
“Aversions”, Helen Marshall (Goblin Fruit 10/14)
“A Hex, With Bees”, Tony Pi (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)

Melhor Novela Gráfica
Treadwell, Dominic Bercier (Mirror)
Raygun Gothic Vol. 2, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical)
Cassie & Tonk, Justin Currie & GMB Chomichuk (Chasing Artwork)
Trillium, Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)

Melhor Trabalho Relacionado
Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction, Suzanne Church (EDGE)
On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
Lackington’s, Ranylt Richildis, ed. (lackingtons.com)
Strange Bedfellows, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)

Melhor Artista
James Beveridge
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk
Erik Mohr
Derek Newman-Stille
Dan O’Driscoll

Aurora Awards

Vencedores 2014

Os Aurora Awards são dados pela Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association a trabalhos feitos e publicados durante o ano anterior. Os prémios são dados desde 1980 e foram apresentados no VCON 39 em Vancouver, a 3 de Outubro de 2014.

Best English Novel
Winner: A Turn of Light by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books

Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada

River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada

The Tattooed Witch by Susan MacGregor, Five Rivers Publishing

Tombstone Blues by Chadwick Ginther, Ravenstone Books

Best English YA (Young Adult) Novel
Winner: The Rising by Kelley Armstrong, Doubleday Canada 

The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate by Marty Chan, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Ink by Amanda Sun, Harlequin Teen

The Lake and the Library by S.M. Beiko, ECW Press

Out of Time by D.G. Laderoute, Five Rivers Publishing

Resolve by Neil Godbout, Bundoran Press

Best English Short Fiction
Winner: “Ghost in the Machine” by Ryan McFadden, The Puzzle Box, EDGE

“A Bunny Hug for Karl” by Mike Rimar, Masked Mosaic, Canadian Super Stories, Tyche Books

“Angela and Her Three Wishes” by Eileen Bell, The Puzzle Box, EDGE

“The Awakening of Master March” by Randy McCharles, The Puzzle Box, EDGE

“The Gift” by Susan Forest, Urban Green Man, EDGE

“Green Man She Restless” by Billie Milholland, Urban Green Man, EDGE

“Living Bargains” by Suzanne Church, When the Hero Comes Home 2, Dragon Moon Press

Best English Poem/Song
Winner: “Night Journey: West Coast” by Kernaghan, Eileen, Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, EDGE

“A City of Buried Rivers” by Clink, David, The Literary Review of Canada, vol. 21, no. 9, November

“Awake” by Peter Storey, Urban Green Man, EDGE

“The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid” by Helen Marshall, Postscripts to Darkness, Issue 4, October

“Lost” by Amal El-Mohtar, Strange Horizons, February

“Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar, Apex Magazine, Issue 55, December

Best English Graphic Novel
Winner: Rock, Paper, Cynic by Peter Chiykowski, webcomic

Looking for Group by Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza, webcomic

Weregeek by Alina Pete, webcomic

Wild Game: Sweet Tooth Vol. 6 by Jeff Lemire, Vertigo

Best English Related Work
Winner: On Spec published by the Copper Pig Writers’ Society

The Puzzle Box by The Apocalyptic Four, EDGE

Urban Green Man edited by Adria Laycraft and Janice Blaine EDGE

Suzenyms by Susan MacGregor, blog suzenyms.blogspot.ca

Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing edited by Sandra Kasturi and Samantha Beiko, ChiZine Publications

Best Artist

Winner: Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications

Melissa Mary Duncan, illustrations and cover art

Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and the SF Aurora banner

Apis Teicher, body of work

Tanya Montini, cover design for The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate

Best Fan Publications

No award will be given out in this category in 2014 due to insufficient eligible nominees

Best Fan Music
Winner: Chris Hadfield for his performance of Space Oddity

Brooke Abbey for writing and publishing 12 songs

Debs & Errol for CTRL+ALT+DUETS, EP

Kari Maaren for Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off, CD

Devin Melanson, Leslie Hudson and, Kari Maaren for Pirate Elves in Space, CD

Best Fan Organizational
Winner: Randy McCharles, chair When Words Collide, Calgary

Evelyn Baker and Alana Otis-Wood, co-chairs Ad Astra, Toronto

S.M. Beiko and Chadwick Ginther, co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Winnipeg

Sandra Kasturi and James Bambury, co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Toronto

Matt Moore, chair Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Ottawa

Rose Wilson, Art Show Director, VCON 38, Vancouver

Best Fan Related Work
Winner: Robert Runté, ”Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading”, Scholar Keynote Address at ACCSFF ’13, Toronto

R. Graeme Cameron, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine

Steve Fahnestalk, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine

Aurora Awards

Nomeações 2014

Os Aurora Awards são dados pela Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association a trabalhos feitos e publicados durante o ano anterior. Os prémios são dados desde 1980 e serão apresentados no VCON 39 em Vancouver, a 3 de Outubro de 2014.

Best English Novel

A Turn of Light by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books

Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada

River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada

The Tattooed Witch by Susan MacGregor, Five Rivers Publishing

Tombstone Blues by Chadwick Ginther, Ravenstone Books

Best English YA (Young Adult) Novel

The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate by Marty Chan, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Ink by Amanda Sun, Harlequin Teen

The Lake and the Library by S.M. Beiko, ECW Press

Out of Time by D.G. Laderoute, Five Rivers Publishing

Resolve by Neil Godbout, Bundoran Press

The Rising by Kelley Armstrong, Doubleday Canada

Best English Short Fiction

“A Bunny Hug for Karl” by Mike Rimar, Masked Mosaic, Canadian Super Stories, Tyche Books

“Angela and Her Three Wishes” by Eileen Bell, The Puzzle Box, EDGE

“The Awakening of Master March” by Randy McCharles, The Puzzle Box, EDGE

“Ghost in the Machine” by Ryan McFadden, The Puzzle Box, EDGE

“The Gift” by Susan Forest, Urban Green Man, EDGE

“Green Man She Restless” by Billie Milholland, Urban Green Man, EDGE

“Living Bargains” by Suzanne Church, When the Hero Comes Home 2, Dragon Moon Press

Best English Poem/Song

“A City of Buried Rivers” by Clink, David, The Literary Review of Canada, vol. 21, no. 9, November

“Awake” by Peter Storey, Urban Green Man, EDGE

“The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid” by Helen Marshall, Postscripts to Darkness, Issue 4, October

“Lost” by Amal El-Mohtar, Strange Horizons, February

“Night Journey: West Coast” by Kernaghan, Eileen, Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, EDGE

“Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar, Apex Magazine, Issue 55, December

Best English Graphic Novel

Looking for Group by Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza, webcomic

Rock, Paper, Cynic by Peter Chiykowski, webcomic

Weregeek by Alina Pete, webcomic

Wild Game: Sweet Tooth Vol. 6 by Jeff Lemire, Vertigo

Best English Related Work

The Puzzle Box by The Apocalyptic Four, EDGE

Urban Green Man edited by Adria Laycraft and Janice Blaine EDGE

On Spec published by the Copper Pig Writers’ Society

Suzenyms by Susan MacGregor, blog suzenyms.blogspot.ca

Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing edited by Sandra Kasturi and Samantha Beiko, ChiZine Publications

Best Artist

Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications

Melissa Mary Duncan, illustrations and cover art

Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and the SF Aurora banner

Apis Teicher, body of work

Tanya Montini, cover design for The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate

Best Fan Publications

No award will be given out in this category in 2014 due to insufficient eligible nominees

Best Fan Music

Brooke Abbey for writing and publishing 12 songs

Debs & Errol for CTRL+ALT+DUETS, EP

Chris Hadfield for his performance of Space Oddity

Kari Maaren for Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off, CD

Devin Melanson, Leslie Hudson and, Kari Maaren for Pirate Elves in Space, CD

Best Fan Organizational

Evelyn Baker and Alana Otis-Wood, co-chairs Ad Astra, Toronto

S.M. Beiko and Chadwick Ginther, co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Winnipeg

Sandra Kasturi and James Bambury, co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Toronto

Randy McCharles, chair When Words Collide, Calgary

Matt Moore, chair Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Ottawa

Rose Wilson, Art Show Director, VCON 38, Vancouver

Best Fan Related Work

R. Graeme Cameron, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine

Steve Fahnestalk, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine

Robert Runté, ”Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading”, Scholar Keynote Address at ACCSFF ’13, Toronto