Aurora Award

The 2015 Prix Aurora Awards were presented November 22 at Canvention 35, hosted by SFContario 6 in Toronto.

Best English Novel

•  A Play of Shadow by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books

Best English YA Novel

(TIE)

• Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, Tor Books
• Out of This World by Charles de Lint, Razorbill Canada

Best English Short Fiction

• “Crimson Sky” by Eric Choi, Analog, July/August

Best English Poem/Song

• “A Hex, With Bees” by Tony Pi, Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen, EDGE

Best English Graphic Novel

• It Never Rains by Kari Maaren, Webcomic

Best English Related Work

• On Spec published by the Copper Pig Writers’ Society

Best Artist

• Dan O’ Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and On Spec magazine

Best Fan Publication

• Speculating Canada edited by Derek Newman-Stille

Best Fan Music

• Kari Maaren, YouTube Channel

Best Fan Organizational

• Sandra Kasturi, Chair, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Toronto

Best Fan Related Work

• Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM

The voting statistics [PDF file] are available. A total of 173 ballots were cast.

(While Brian Z. doubtless would prefer to see William Gibson’s The Peripheral as the winner, he can feel justified by its finishing a close second to the Czerneda novel, 58-54.)

[Via John Scalzi.]