The 2020 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced. The awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, for Science Fiction / Fantasy works done in 2019 by Canadians. The top five nominated works were selected.  Additional works were included where there was a tie for fifth place. 

The Aurora Awards voters’ package will be available for CSFFA members to download on the week of May 18^th. Voting for the awards will begin on June 20.  Both the voters’ package and the ballot close at 11:59 pm EDT on July 25.

The awards ceremony will be held online in conjunction with When Words Collide (Calgary) on August 15.  

Best Novel

• Haunting The Haunted by E. C. Bell, Tyche Books
• The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books
• A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
• The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken, Solaris Books
• Jade War by Fonda Lee, Orbit Books
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey

Best Young Adult Novel

• Wolf’s Bane by Kelley Armstrong, K.L.A. Fricke Inc
• The Brilliant Dark: The Realms of Ancient, Book 3 by S.M. Beiko, ECW Press
• The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Metamorphosis by Marty Chan, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc
• Murder at the World’s Fair by MJ Lyons, Renaissance

Best Short Fiction

• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Saga Press
• Clear as Quartz, Sharp as Flint by Maria Haskins, Augur Magazine, issue 2.1
• Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield, Tor.com Publishing
• Little Inn on the Jianghu by Y.M. Pang, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September
• Modigliani Paints the World by Hayden Trenholm, Neo-Opsis, Issue #30
• Blindside by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Amazing Stories, v. 77, issue no. 1, Fall

Best Graphic Novel

• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault, McClelland & Stewart
• Krampus is My Boyfriend! by S.M. Beiko, Webcomic
• It Never Rains by Kari Maaren, Webcomic
• Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Douglas & McIntyre
• Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls, Conundrum Press

Best Poem/Song

• The Girl Who Loved Birds by Clara Blackwood, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 76, no. 3, Spring
• At the Edge of Space and Time by Swati Chavda, Love at the Speed of Light, Ancient Hound Books
• Steampunk Christmas by David Clink, Star*Line,  v. 42, no. 4., Fall
• The Day the Animals Turned to Sand by Tyler Hagemann, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 76, issue no. 3, Spring
• Totemic Ants by Francine P. Lewis, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 77, issue no. 1, Fall 
• Beauty, Sleeping by Lynne Sargent, Augur Magazine, issue 2.2
• Bursts of Fire by Sora, theme song for book trailers

Best Related Work

• PodCastle by Jen R. Albert and Cherae Clark, Escape Artists Inc.
• Nothing Without Us by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson, Renaissance
• Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine edited by Karl Johanson
• Lackington’s Magazine,edited by Ranylt Richildis (online)
• Dave Duncan’s Legacy by Robert Runté, On Spec Magazine issue 111
• Augur Magazine, Issue 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 published by Kerrie Seljak-Byrne
• On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society

Best Visual Presentation

• The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Dark Horse Entertainment
• V Wars (Season 1), William Laurin and Glenn Davis, High Park Entertainment
• Killjoys (Season 5), Michelle Lovretta and Adam Barken, Temple Street Productions
• Murdoch Mysteries (Ep. 10-18/Season 12 and Ep. 1-9/Season 13), Peter Mitchell and Christina Jennings, Shaftesbury Films
• Van Helsing (Season 4), Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Nomadic Pictures

Best Artist

• Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Bursts of Fire
• James F. Beveridge, cover for Fata Morgana and cover for On Spec #112
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, A Rivet of Robots in On Spec Magazine and Cartoons in Amazing Stories
• Nathan Fréchette, covers for Renaissance Press
• Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and cover for On Spec Magazine #110

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• R. Graeme Cameron, weekly columns in Amazing Stories (online)
• R. Graeme Cameron, Polar Borealis, Issues #9 to #12, editor
• Jennifer Desmarais, Travelling TARDIS, JenEric Designs
• Steve Fahnestalk, weekly columns in Amazing Stories (online)
• Ron S. Friedman, Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?, Quora
• Christina Vasilevski, Books and Tea

Best Fan Organizational

• KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, ephemera reading series, Toronto
• Brent Jans, Pure Speculation Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, Edmonton
• Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can-Con, Ottawa
• Randy McCharles, chair, When Words Collide, Calgary
• Sandra Wickham, Creative Ink Festival, Burnaby, BC

Best Fan Related Work

• Brandon Crilly and Evan May, Broadcasts from the Wasteland, podcast
• Kari Maaren, Music on YouTube Channel
• Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada
• Joshua Pantalleresco, Just Joshing, podcast
• Edward Willett, The Worldshapers, podcast