The 2010 Ditmar Awards were handed out Friday night at Aussiecon 4, this year’s WorldCon, which also served as Dudcon III, this year’s Australian National Convention. The Ditmars are the Australian version of the Hugo Award: fan voted awards for sf works published in the previous year.
This year’s winners are:
Best Novel: Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
Best Novella or Novelette: “Wives” by Paul Haines (X6/Couer de Lion)
Best Short Story: “Seventeen” by Cat Sparks (Masques)
Best Collected Work: Slice of Life, Paul Haines edited by Geoffrey Maloney (The Mayne Press)
Best Artwork: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #42 by Lewis Morley [cover]
Best Fan Writer: Robert Hood for Undead Backbrain
Best Fan Artist: Dick Jenssen for body of work
Best Fan Publication in Any Medium: Steam Engine Time edited by Bruce Gillespie and Janine Stinson
Best Achievement: Gillian Polack et al for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux
Best New Talent: Peter M. Ball
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review: Helen Merrick for The Secret Feminist Cabal: a Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms (Aqueduct Press)
A. Bertram Chandler Award: Damien Broderick
Norma K. Hemming Award: Maria Quinn for The Gene Thieves (HarperCollins)
Peter McNamara Award: Janine Webb
Best Fannish Cat: Peri Peri Canavan
The nominees were detailed in this article.