Aurealis Awards 2005
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2004
Golden Aurealis Novel
- Winner: The Black Crusade, Richard Harland (Chimaera Publications)
Golden Aurealis Short Story
- Winner: “Singing My Sister Down”, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)
Sf Novel
- Winner: Less Than Human, Maxine McArthur (Warner Aspect)
- Heirs of Earth, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (HarperCollins)
- Nylon Angel, Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
- Orbital Burn, K. A. Bedford (Edge Publishing)
- The Rebel, Jack Dann (HarperCollins)
Sf Short Story
- Winner: “Come to Daddy”, Brendan Duffy (Agog! Smashing Stories)
- “Absolution”, Barbara Robson (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #15)
- “Bush of Ghosts”, Geoffrey Maloney (Tales from the Crypto-System)
- “Desiree”, Stephen Dedman (Oceans of the Mind #10)
- “Home by the Sea”, Cat Sparks (Orb #6)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Crooked Letter, Sean Williams (HarperCollins)
- Brilliance of the Moon, Lian Hearn (Hodder)
- Giants of the Frost, Kim Wilkins (HarperCollins)
- Snow, Fire, Sword, Sophie Masson (Random House)
- Tainted, Glenda Larke (HarperCollins)
Fantasy Short Story
- Winner (tie): “Catabolic Magic”, Richard Harland (Aurealis #32 2004)
- Winner (tie): “Weavers of Twilight”, Louise Katz (Agog! Smashing Stories)
- “Alsiso”, K. J. Bishop (The Alsiso Project)
- “The Gift of Hindsight”, Paul Haines (Aurealis #32 2004)
- “Tales of Nireym”, Lee Battersby (Orb #6)
Horror Novel
- Winner: The Black Crusade, Richard Harland (Chimaera Publications)
- Fire in the Shell, Josephine Pennicott (Simon & Schuster)
- Giants of the Frost, Kim Wilkins (HarperCollins)
Horror Short Story
- Winner: “The Last Days of Kali Yuga”, Paul Haines (NFG #14)
- “The Border”, Richard Harland (Agog! Smashing Stories)
- “Dr Who (or the day I learned to love Tom Baker)”, Ben Peek (Forever Shores)
- “Kathleen, Furnished with Bees”, Alinta Thornton (Dark Animus #5)
- “Twilight of the Idols”, Stephen Dedman (Conqueror Fantastic)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Midnighters, Book One: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfeld (HarperCollins/Eos)
- Flesh & Blood, Jackie French (HarperCollins)
- Hot Nights, Cool Dragons, Matt Zurbo (Allen & Unwin)
- Undine, Penni Russon (Random House)
Young Adult Short Story
- Winner: “Singing My Sister Down”, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)
- “The Glass Flower”, Chris Barnes (Encounters)
- “Rite of Spring”, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)
- “The Shooter at the Heartrock Waterhole”, Bill Congreve (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm)
Children's Long Fiction
- Winner: How To Live Forever, Colin Thompson (Random House)
- Claire de Lune, Cassandra Golds (Penguin)
- The Pearl of Tiger Bay, Gabrielle Wang (Penguin)
- Ranger's Apprentice, The Ruins of Gorlan, John Flanagan (Random House)
- Snow, Fire, Sword, Sophie Masson (Random House)
Children's Short Fiction
- Winner: Beneath the Surface, Gary Crew & Steven Woolman (Hodder)
- The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard, Gregory Rogers (Allen & Unwin)
- Emily Eyefinger and the Ghost Ship, Duncan Ball (HarperCollins)
- There Was Once a Boy Called Tashi, Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg & Kim Gamble, illus3 (Allen & Unwin)
- The Very Messy Inspection, Stephen Axelsen (Random House)
Peter Mcnamara Convenors' Award
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