aurealis awards, previous years’ results best science fiction novel year award designation author title series publisher 1995 winner Greg Egan Distress Millennium Sean McMullen Mirrorsun Rising Greatwinter #1.5 Aphelion finalists Kate Orman Set Piece Doctor Who New Adventures #35 Virgin Sean Williams & Shane Dix The Unknown Soldier The Cogal #1 Aphelion 1996 winner Sean Williams Metal Fatigue HarperCollins Australia Simon Brown Privateer HarperCollins finalists Tess Williams Map of Power Random/Arrow 1997 winner Damien Broderick The White Abacus Avon Eos Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes Zones HarperCollins Australia/Moonstone Simon Brown Winter HarperCollins Australia finalists Greg Egan Diaspora Millennium Richard Harland The Dark Edge The Eddon + Vail #1 Pan Macmillan 1998 winner Sean McMullen The Centurion’s Empire Tor Alison Goodman Singing the Dogstar Blues HarperCollins John Marsden The Night Is for Hunting Tomorrow #6 Pan Macmillan finalists Kate Orman The New Adventures: Walking to Babylon Doctor Who – Bernice Virgin Summerfield #10 Sean Williams The Resurrected Man HarperCollins 1999 winner Greg Egan Teranesia Victor Gollancz Rory Barnes & Damien Broderick The Book of Revelation HarperCollins/Voyager Andrew Masterson The Letter Girl Picador finalists Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman Doctor Who: Unnatural History Eigth Doctor Adventures #23 BBC Books Sally Rogers-Davidson Spare Parts Penguin Books 2000 winner Sean McMullen The Miocene Arrow Greatwinter #2 Tor James Bradley The Deep Field Sceptre finalists Sean Williams & Shane Dix The Dying Light Evergence #2 HarperCollins/Voyager Tess Williams Sea as Mirror HarperCollins/Voyager 2001 winner Sean Williams & Shane Dix A Dark Imbalance Evergence #3 HarperCollins/Voyager Peter McAllister Cosmonaut Penguin Books finalists Sean McMullen Eyes of the Calculor Greatwinter #3 Tor Joel Shepherd Crossover Cassandra Kresnov #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2002 winner Damien Broderick Transcension Tor Michelle Marquardt Blue Silence Bantam finalists Sean Williams & Shane Dix Echoes of Earth The Orphans #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2003 winner Jon Blum & Kate Orman Fallen Gods Telos Doctor Who #10 Telos Publishing Jay Caselberg Wyrmhole Jack Stein #1 Penguin/Roc Ian Irvine Terminator Gene Human Rites #2 Simon & Schuster/Earthlight Australia finalists Kate Orman Blue Box Doctor Who: Past Doctor BBC Worldwide Adventures #59 Sean Williams & Shane Dix Orphans of Earth The Orphans #2 HarperCollins/Voyager honourable Paul Collins The Earthborn The Earthborn Wars #1 Tor mention aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2004 winner Maxine McArthur Less than Human Warner Aspect K. A. Bedford Orbital Burn Edge Jack Dann The Rebel HarperCollins/Flamingo finalists Marianne de Pierres Nylon Angel Parrish Plessis #1 Orbit Sean Williams & Shane Dix Heirs of Earth The Orphans #3 HarperCollins/Voyager 2005 winner K. A. Bedford Eclipse Edge John Birmingham Designated Targets World War #2.2 Pan Macmillan Australia finalists Marianne de Pierres Crash Deluxe Parrish Plessis #3 Orbit Sean Williams with Shane Dix Ascent Geodesica #1 HarperCollins/Voyager 2006 winner Damien Broderick K-Machines Avalon K. A. Bedford Hydrogen Steel Edge finalists Andrew McGahan Underground Allen & Unwin Sean Williams with Shane Dix Descent Geodesica #2 HarperCollins/Voyager 2007 winner David Kowalski The Company of the Dead Pan Macmillan Marianne De Pierres Dark Space Sentients of Orion #1 Orbit finalists Jack Heath Remote Control Agent Six of Hearts #2 Pan Macmillan Sean Williams Saturn Returns Astropolis #1 Orbit honourable Rose Michael The Asking Game Transit Lounge mention 2008 K. A. Bedford Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy winner Publishing Marianne de Pierres Chaos Space Sentients of Orion #2 Orbit Simon Haynes Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch Hal Spacejock #4 Fremantle Press finalists Kim Westwood The Daughters of Moab HarperVoyager Sean Williams Earth Ascendant Astropolis #2 Orbit 2009 winner Andrew McGahan Wonders of a Godless World Allen & Unwin finalist Sean Williams The Grand Conjunction Astropolis #3 Orbit 2010 winner Marianne de Pierres Teansformation Space Sentients of Orion #4 Orbit Sara Creasy Song of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #1 EOS Books finalists Marianne de Pierres Mirror Space Sentients of Orion #3 Orbit 2011 winner Kim Westwood The Courier’s New Bicycle HarperCollins Max Barry Machine Man Scribe Publications Sara Creasy Children of Scarabaeus Scarabaeus #2 HarperVoyager finalists Peter Docker The Waterboys Fremantle Press Meg Mundell Black Glass Scribe Publications 2012 winner Daniel O’Malley The Rook The Checquy Files #1 Harper Collins Jo Anderton Suited The Veiled Worlds #2 Angry Robot Nina D’Aleo The Last City The Demon War Chronicles #1 Momentum finalists Andrea K. Höst And All the Stars Self-published Ambelin Kwaymullina The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf The Tribe #1 Walker Books Garth Nix A Confusion of Princes Allen & Unwin 2013 winner Max Barry Lexicon Hachette Andrew Macrae Trunksong Twelfth Planet Press Jane Rawson A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists Transit Lounge finalists Graham Storrs True Path Timesplash #2 Momentum Nike Sulway Rupetta Tartarus Press aurealis awards, previous years’ results 2014 winner Marianne de Pierres Peacemaker Angry Robot Amanda Bridgeman Aurora: Meridian Momentum LynC Nil by Mouth Satalyte Satalyte Nina D’Aleo The White List Momentum Momentum finalists Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner This Shattered World Allen & Unwin Graham Storrs Foresight Momentum 2015 winner Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Illuminae Allen & Unwin Evelyn Blackwell Crossed Self-published James Bradley Clade Penguin finalists Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Their Fractured Light Allen & Unwin Joel Shepherd Renegade Kindle Direct Sean Williams Twinmaker: Fall Allen & Unwin 2016 winner Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Gemina: Illuminae Files 2 Allen & Unwin Jane Abbott Watershed Penguin Random House SK Dunstall Confluence Ace Books finalists DK Mok Squid’s Grief Self-published Daniel O’Malley Stiletto Harper Collins Publisher Rebekah Turner Threader Harlequin Australia 2017 winner Jane Rawson From the Wreck Transit Lounge Sally Abbott Closing Down Hachette Australia Claire G Coleman Terra Nullius Hachette Australia finalists Daniel Findlay Year of the Orphan Penguin Random House Krissy Kneen An Uncertain Grace Text Publishing Cat Sparks Lotus Blue Skyhorse aurealis awards, previous years’ results best science fiction novella issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 2015 winner Garth Nix “By Frogsled and Lizardback to Old Venus Random House Outcast Venusian Lepers” Jack Bridges “Blood and Ink” Prizm Books finalists Sean Monaghan “The Molenstraat Music Festival” Asimov’s Science Fiction 2016 winner Nick T Chan “Salto Mortal” Lightspeed #73 Deborah Biancotti Waking in Winter PS Publishing Thoraiya Dyer “Going Viral” Dimension6 #8 Coeur de lion finalists Rose Mulready The Bonobo’s Dream Seizure Press Simon Petrie “All the Colours of the Tomato” Dimension6 #9 Coeur de lion Tansy Rayner Roberts “Did We Break the End of the World?” Defying Doomsday Twelfth Planet Press 2017 winner Tansy Rayner Roberts Girl Reporter Book Smugglers Stephanie Gunn “This Silent Sea” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 24 Issue 6 Will Kostakis “I Can See the Ending” Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology HarperCollins Australia finalists DK Mok “The Wandering Library” Ecopunk! Ticonderoga Publications Shauna O’Meara “Island Green” Ecopunk! Ticonderoga Publications Simon Petrie Matters Arising from the Identification Peggy Bright Books of the Body aurealis awards, previous years’ results best science fiction short story issue number publisher year award designation author story title publication title (if periodical) (if collection) 1995 winner Greg Egan ‘Luminous’ Asimov’s September 1995 Stephen Dedman ‘From Whom All Blessings Flow’ Asimov’s April 1995 Greg Egan ‘Mr Volition’ Interzone #100 finalists Greg Egan ‘Wang’s Carpets’ New Legends Legend/Random House Sean Williams ‘A Map of the Mines of Barnath’ Eidolon #16 1996 winner Leanne Frahm ‘Borderline’ Borderline MirrorDanse Simon Brown ‘The Mark of Thetis’ Eidolon #21 Terry Dowling ‘The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse’ Interzone #106 finalists Terry Dowling ‘His Own, the Star Alphecca’ Eidolon #20 Geoffrey Maloney ‘The Embargo Traders’ Aurealis #16 1997 winner Janeen Webb & Jack Dann ‘Niagara Falling’ Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures DAW Russell Blackford ‘Lucent Carbon’ Eidolon #25/26 Damien Broderick ‘Schrödinger’s Dog’ Eidolon #22/23 finalists Greg Egan ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful’ Interzone #118 Lucy Sussex ‘Merlusine’ The Horns of Elfland Penguin/Roc 1998 winner David J Lake ‘The Truth About Weena’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Stephen Dedman ‘Transit’ Asimov’s March 98 Greg Egan ‘Oceanic’ Asimov’s August 98 finalists Rosaleen Love ‘Real Men’ Dreaming Down-Under HarperCollins/Voyager Michael Pryor ‘Australian Visions’ Aurealis #20/21 1999 winner Chris Lawson ‘Written in Blood’ Asimov’s June 1999 Terry Dowling ‘The View in Nancy’s Window’ Interzone September 1999 Chris Lawson ‘Chinese Rooms’ Eidolon #28 finalists Kate Orman ‘The Bicycle Net’ Interzone September 1999 Lucy Sussex ‘The Queen of Erewhon’ F&SF September 1999 2000 winner Damien Broderick ‘Infinite Monkey’ Eidolon #29/30 Adam Browne ‘Schrödinger’s Catamaran’ Orb #1 Stephen Dedman ‘The Devotee’ Eidolon #29/30 finalists Margo Lanagan ‘White Time’ White Time Allen & Unwin Sean Williams ‘The Land Itself’ Eidolon #29/30 2001