The Prix Aurora Awards finalists have finally been announced. After many weeks of announcements that the ballot will soon be available, it will be available on 8 September. The awards are scheduled to be handed out at VCon, which will be held 19-21 October in British Columbia. Due to the lateness of the ballot, on-site voting will be allowed. The awards, sponsored by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, are the Canadian-only equivalent of the Hugo Awards. The release of the nominees so late in the process has become something of a scandal, as detailed by author Robert J. Sawyer.
The nominees are:
Best Long-Form Work in English:
Regeneration: Species Imperative 3 by Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books)
Children of Chaos by Dave Duncan (Tor Books)
Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff (DAW Books)
Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga by Karl Schroeder (Tor Books)
Blindsight by Peter Watts (Tor Books)
Righteous Anger: Part Two of the Okal Rel Saga by Lynda Williams (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Best Long-Form Work in French:
Samuel de la chasse-galerie by Michel J. Lévesque (Médiaspaul)
Le maître des bourrasques by Laurent McAllister (Médiaspaul)
Reine de Mémoire 3. Le Dragon fou by Elisabeth Vonarburg (Alire)
Reine de Mémoire 4. La Princesse de Vengeance by Elisabeth Vonarburg (Alire)
Best Short-Form Work in English:
“All the Cool Monsters at Once” by James Alan Gardner (Mythspring, Red Deer Press)
“This Ink Feels Like Sorrow” by Karin Lowachee (Mythspring, Red Deer Press)
“Marked Men” by John Mierau (Slipstreams, DAW)
“Biding Time” by Robert J. Sawyer (Slipstreams, DAW)
“Lumen Essence” by Hayden Trenholm (Neo-opsis #9)
Best Short-Form Work in French:
“Le vol de l’abeille” by Michèle Laframboise (Solaris 159)
“Stiletto” by Julie Martel (Solaris 160)
“Le regard du trilobite” by Mario Tessier (Solaris 159)
Best Work in English (Other):
The Hidden Path by Heather Dale [music cd]
Jousting with Jesters: An ABC for the Younger Dragon by Martin Springett (Orca Book Publishers) [children’s alphabet book]
Mythspring: From the Lyrics and Legends of Canada edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Genevieve Kierans (Red Deer Press) [anthology]
Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine edited by Karl Johanson [sf magazine]
Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction edited by Edo Van Belkom & Robert Charles Wilson (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) [anthology]
Best Work in French (Other):
La Décennie charnière directed by Claude Janelle (Alire)
Solaris edited by Joël Champetier
Les Carnets du Futurible by Mario Tessier (Solaris 157-160)
“Aux origines des petits hommes verts” by Jean-Louis Trudel (Solaris 160)
Artistic Achievement:
Kenn Brown
Lar deSouza
Janet Hetherington
Jean-Pierre Normand
Martin Springett
Ronn Sutton
Fan Achievement (Other):
Fractale-Framboise by Éric Gauthier, Christian Sauvé, and Laurine Spehner (blog)
Judith Hayman (filking)
Lloyd Penney (fan writing)
Martin Springett (filking)
Larry Stewart (entertainer)
Peggi Warner-Lalonde (filking)
[Edited 10 September 2007: In addition to on-site voting at V-Con, there will be on-site voting permitted at Con*Cept, a major convention held one week earlier (12-14 October) in Montreal, in an attempt to cover both sides of the country.]
[Edited 22 October 2007: The winners have been announced, and are detailed in this artlce.]