Ditmar Awards 2006
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Conjure, the 45th Australian national SF convention,
Brisbane, Australia :
April 15, 2006
Eligibility Year: 2005
Eligibility Year: 2005
Novel
- Winner: Geodesica: Ascent, Sean Williams & Shane Dix (Ace)
- The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3: Drowned Wednesday, Garth Nix (HarperCollins)
- Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
- Midnighters, Book Two: Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld (Eos)
- Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill)
- Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
Novella Or Novelette
- Winner: “The Grinding House”, Kaaron Warren (The Grinding House)
- “Countless Screaming Argonauts”, Chris Lawson (Realms of Fantasy Aug 2005)
- “The Memory of Breathing”, Lyn Triffitt (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)
- “Passing of the Minotaurs”, Rjurik Davidson (Sci Fiction 20 Apr 2005)
- “The Red Priest's Homecoming”, Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17)
Short Story
- Winner: “Fresh Young Widow”, Kaaron Warren (The Grinding House)
- “Leviathan”, Simon Brown (Eidolon SF: Online)
- “Matricide”, Lucy Sussex (Sci Fiction 2 Feb 2005)
- “Once Giants Roamed the Earth”, Rosaleen Love (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales)
- “Summa Seltzer Missive”, Deborah Biancotti (Ticonderoga Online #6)
Collected Work
- Winner: Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales, Robert Hood & Robin Penn, eds. (Agog! Press)
- The Grinding House, Kaaron Warren, edited by Donna Maree Hanson (CSFG Publishing)
- Shadowed Realms (http://www.shadowedrealms.com.au), Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings, eds.
- A Tour Guide in Utopia, Lucy Sussex (MirrorDanse Books)
- Years Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, eds. (MirrorDanse Books)
Fan Production
- Winner: The Australian SF Bullsheet (website and newsletter), Edwina Harvey & Edwin Scribner
- Conflux Committee (Conflux 2. Conflux 2 convention)
- Continuum Committee (Continuum 3. Continuum 3 convention)
- ASif!: Australian Specfic In Focus (http://asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php), Alisa Krasnostein
- Inkspillers (http://www.inkspillers.com), Tony Plank
Fanzine
- Winner: Ticonderoga Online, Russell B. Farr
- Horrorscope (http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com), Shane Jiraiya Cummings
- Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Bill Wright, ed.
Fan Writer
- Winner: Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope)
- Martin Livings (Skeletor_Hordak, LiveJournal web comic)
- Bill Wright (Interstellar Ramjet Scoop, Published by Bill Wright)
- Bruce Gillespie (Writer/reviewer, Steam Engine Time and Science Fiction Commentary)
- Stephanie Gunn (Writer/reviewer, Horror Scope)
Fan Artist
- Winner: Shane Parker (Conflux Poster Art, Conflux)
- Dick Jenssen (Artwork in American fan Earl Kemp's ezines eI20 (June 2005) and eI23 (Dec 2005), Published via efanzines.com)
- Elaine Kemp (ConSensual a Trois interior artwork, ConSensual a Trois, April 2005)
Artwork
- Winner: Nick Stathopoulos for Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview by Donna Hanson
- Greg Bridges for The Blood Debt by Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)
- Fell #3, Ben Templesmith (Image Comics)
- Robin Evans for The Grinding House by Kaaron Warren (CSFG Publishing)
New Talent
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla”, Robert Hood (King Kong Is Back!)
- The 2005 Snapshot Australian Speculative Fiction writers, editors, publishers (http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/), Ben Peek
- Body Parts, Chris Lawson (Borderlands Press)
- Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Damien Broderick (Wildside Press)
- PK Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror, Rosaleen Love (Borderlands Press)
Professional Achievement
- Winner: Robert Dobson, Robert Hoge, Kate Eltham & Heather Gammage (Clarion South 2005, Clarion South Workshop)
- Jonathan Strahan, for co-editing Best Short Novels: 2005 (SFBC), Science Fiction: Best of 2004 (ibooks), and Fantasy: Best of 2004 (ibooks)
- Michael Rymer (Screenwriting and directing, Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.0 Sci-Fi Channel)
- Australian Speculative Fiction: a genre overview, Donna Maree Hanson
- COSMOS Magazine, Damien Broderick, Wilson de Silva & Kylie Ahern
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