The Prix Aurora Award and Keycon 27 / Canvention 30 have announced the final ballot for this year’s award. Voting for the awards, more formally known as the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards, is now open. Ballots are due by 22 May 2010. This year, the awards will be handed out at Keycon 27, which will be held 21-23 May in Winnpieg, Manitoba. For more information, or to vote, see this page.
This year’s nominees are:
Best Novel in English:
The Amulet of Amon-Ra by Leslie Carmichael (published by CBAY Books)
Druids by Barbara Galler-Smith and Josh Langston (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy)
WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
Steel Whispers by Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
Terra Insegura by Edward Willett (DAW Books)
Best Novel In French:
Le protocole Reston by Mathieu Fortin, (Coups de tête)
L’axe de Koudriss by Michèle Laframboise (Médiaspaul)
Suprématie by Laurent McAllister (Bragelonne)
Un tour en Arkadie by Francine Pelletier (Alire)
Filles de lune 3: Le talisman de Maxandre by Élisabeth Tremblay (De Mortagne)
Best Short-Form Work in English:
“Pawns Dreaming of Roses” by Eileen Bell (published in Women of the Apocalypse)
“Here There Be Monsters” by Brad Carson (Ages of Wonder)
“Little Deaths” by Ivan Dorin (Tesseracts Thirteen)
“Radio Nowhere” by Douglas Smith (Campus Chills)
“The World More Full of Weeping” by Robert J. Wiersema (ChiZine Publications)
Best Short-Form In French:
“Ors blancs” by Alain Bergeron (Solaris 171)
“De l’amour dans l’air” by Claude Bolduc (Solaris 172)
“La vie des douze Jésus” by Luc Dagenais (Solaris 172)
“Billet de faveur” by Michèle Laframboise (Galaxies 41)
“Grains de silice” by Mario Tessier (Solaris 170)
“La mort aux dés” by Élisabeth Vonarburg (Solaris 171)
Best Work in English (Other):
Women of the Apocalypse by Eileen Bell, Roxanne Felix, Billie Milholland and Ryan McFadden (Absolute Xpress)
Ages of Wonder edited by Julie E. Czerneda & Robert St. Martin (DAW Books)
Neo-Opsis Magazine edited by Karl Johanson
On Spec Magazine edited by Diane Walton (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)
Distant Early Warnings: Canada’s Best Science Fiction edited by Robert J. Sawyer (Robert J. Sawyer Books/Red Deer Press)
Best Work In French (Other):
“Critiques” by Jérôme-Olivier Allard (Solaris 169-172)
“Revue” by Joel Champetier (Solaris)
Le jardin du general (manga) by Michele Laframboise (Fichtre)
“Rien à voir avec la fantasy” by Thibaud Sallé (Solaris 169)
“Les Carnets du Futurible” by Mario Tessier (Solaris 169-171)
Artistic Achivement:
Kari-Ann Anderson for cover of Nina Kimberly the Merciless (Dragon Moon Press)
Jim Beveridge for “Xenobiology 101: Field Trip” (Neo-Opsis #16)
Lar de Souza for Looking for Group (webcomic)
Tarol Hunt for Goblins (webcomic)
Dan O’Driscoll for the cover of Steel Whispers (Bundoran Press)
Fan Accomplishment (Fanzine):
Jeff Boman for The Original Universe
Richard Graeme Cameron for WCFSAZine
Dale Speirs for Opuntia
Guillaume Voisine for Brins d’Éternité
Felicity Walker for BCSFAzine
Fan Accomplishment (Organization):
Renée Benett for “In Spaces Between” at Con-Version 25
Robbie Bourget and René Walling, Chairs of Anticipation, the 67th WorldCon
David Hayman, organization Filk Hall of Fame
Roy Miles, work on USS Hudson Bay Executive
Kirstin Morrell, Programming for Con-Version 25
Fan Accomplishment (Other):
Roy Badgerow, Astronomy Lecture at USS Hudson Bay
Ivan Dorin, “Gods Anonymous” (Con-Version 25 radio play)
Judith Hayman and Peggi Warner-Lalonde, organization of the filk track at Anticipation
Tom Jeffers and Sue Posteraro, filk concert at Anticipation
Lloyd Penney, fanwriting