The Prix Aurora Award and Anticipation have announced the final ballot for this years award. Voting for the awards, more formally known as the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards, is now open. Ballots are due by 15 July 2009. This year, the awards will be handed out at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, which will be held 6-10 May in Montreal, Quebec. For more information, or to vote, see this page.
This year’s nominees are:
Best Long-Form Work in English:
After the Fires by Ursula Pflug (published by Tightrope Books)
Identity Theft and Other Stories by Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer Press)
Impossibilia by Douglas Smith (PS Publishing)
Defining Diana by Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
Marseguro by Edward Willett (DAW Books)
Best Long-Form Work in French:
Une fêlure au flanc du monde by Éric Gauthier (Alire)
Les vents de Tammerlan by Michèle Laframboise (Éditions Médiaspaul, coll. Jeunesse-Plus)
Best Short-Form Work in English:“All In” by Peter Atwood (Weird Tales, May-June 2008)
“Back” by Susan J. Forest (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2008)
“Ringing in the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta” by Randy McCharles (Tesseracts Twelve; Edge Science Fiction)
“A Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase by Van Gogh” by Douglas Smith (Impossibilia, PS Publishing)
“Doorways” by Douglas Smith (Postscripts Magazine #17)
Best Short-Form Work in French:
“Jos Montferrand et le Grand Brigand des routes” by Alain Ducharme (Solaris 161)
“Ballade sur Pallide” by Michèle Laframboise (Virages 44)
“La révolte des gilets-malins” by Michèle Laframboise (QUAD9 6A)
“Le Dôme de Saint-Macaire” by Jean-Louis Trudel (Solaris 167)
Best Work in English (Other):
The Gaslight Grimoire edited by Jeff Campbell & Charles Prepolec (Edge Science Fiction)
Neo-opsis magazine edited by Karl Johanson
Tesseracts Twelve edited by Claude Lalumière (Edge Science Fiction)
Through the Window: a Journey to the Borderlands of Faerie by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Double Edge Publishing)
On Spec magazine edited by Diane Walton (Managing Editor)
Best Work in French (Other):
Sophie Beaulé by Jean-Louis Trudel (Éditions David)
Solaris edited by Joël Champetier
Artistic Achievement:
Looking for Group by Lar deSouza (online comic)
Cover of Neo-Opsis #14 by Stephanie Ann Johanson
“Imagination” by Michèle Laframboise (from Imagination contre les pigeons spammers, Vermillion)
Fear Agent #22 by Ronn Sutton (Dark Horse)
Cover of JEMMA7729 by David Willicome
Fan Achievement (Fanzine):
The Original Universe edited by Jeff Boman
Opuntia edited by Dale Spiers
Clair/Obscur edited by François-Bernard Tremblay
Brins d’éternité edited by Guillaume Voisine
Fan Achievement (Organizational):
Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest, Renée Bennett (Administrator)
World Fantasy 2008, Kim Greyson (Guest Liaison)
FilKONtario 19, Judith Hayman & Peggi Warner-Lalonde (Co-chairs)
World Fantasy 2008, Randy McCharles, (Chair)
Anime North 2008, David Simmons (Organizer)
Fan Achievement (Other):
World Fantasy 2008 Podcasts, Kurt Armbruster & Ryah Deines (Producers/Ed./Hosts)
Impulse, news bulletin of MonSFFA, Keith Braithwaite (Editor)
Through the Keyhole—25 years of Keycon Memories, Jennifer Ennis (Editor)
Fan Writing, Lloyd Penney
Heather Dale Concert, Joan Sherman (Organizer)