The Natcon website has released the shortlist for this year’s Ditmar Awards. Congratulations to all nominees and may the artists most bristling with nanoweaponry win.

Thx to Cat Sparks for the link. Full list (with corrections and better formatting) after the break.

The presentation of the Ditmar Awards, for work published in the previous calendar year (2006), will be held Saturday 9th June, at Convergence 2, the 46th National SF Convention.

Novel

Carnies, Martin Livings, Lothian

Prismatic, Edwina Grey, Lothian

The Mother, Brett McBean, Lothian

The Pilo Family Circus, Will Elliot, ABC Books

The Silver Road, Grace Dugan, Penguin

Novella/Novelette

“Aftermath”, David Conyers, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

“The Dead of Winter”, Stephen Dedman, Weird Tales #339

“The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or how I found God inside my wife)”, Paul Haines, C0ck, Coeur de Lion Publishing

“The Souls of Dead Soldiers are for Blackbirds, Not Little Boys”, Ben Peek, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

“Under the Red Sun”, Ben Peek, Fantasy Magazine #4, Prime Books

“World’s Whackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disasters Dating Game”, Brendan Duffy, Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press

(Fifth place nomination a tie)

Short Story

“Burning from the Inside”, Paul Haines, Doorways for the Dispossessed, Prime Books

“Cold”, Kirstyn McDermott, Shadowed Realms #9

“Honeymoon”, Adam Browne and John Dixon, C0ck, Coeur de Lion Publishing

“Surrender 1: Rope Artist”, Deborah Biancotti, Shadowed Realms #9

“The Bat’s Boudoir”, Kyla Ward, Shadowed Realms #9

“The Fear of White”, Rjurik Davidson, Borderlands #7

(Fifth place nomination a tie)

Collected Work

Agog! Ripping Reads edited by Cat Sparks, Agog! Press

C0ck edited by Keith Stevenson & Andrew Macrae, Coeur de Lion Press.

Doorways to the Dispossessed edited by Paul Haines and Geoffrey Maloney, Prime Books

The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol.2 edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, Mirrordanse Books

Eidolon I edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne, Eidolon Books

Artwork

“26Lies/1Truth”, cover art by Andrew MacRae, Wheatland Press

“Agog! Ripping Reads”, cover art by Cat Sparks, Agog! Press

“Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century” cover art by Cat Sparks, Wesleyan University Press

“The Devoured Earth”, cover art by Greg Bridges, HarperCollins

The Arrival, by Shaun Tan, Lothian

Fan Writer

Stephanie Gunn

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Danny Oz

Miranda Siemienowicz

Mark Smith-Briggs

Matthew Tait

(Fifth place nomination a tie)

Fan Artist

Christopher Johnstone

Jon Swaby

Fan Production

ASif website, Alisa Krasnostein

Inkspillers website, Tony Plank

Outland, directed by John Richards

Tabula Rasa website, David Carroll

The Bullsheet website & ezine, Edwina Harvey & Ted Scribner

Fanzine

AntipodeanSF, editor Ion Newcombe

ASIF – Australian Specfic in Focus, editor Alisa Krasnostein

Captain’s Log, Austrek clubzine

Ethel the Aardvark, MSFC clubzine

HorrorScope, editor Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Professional Achievement

Angela Challis for establishing Brimstone Press as a mass market publisher

Bill Congreve for Mirrordanse Press and 2 issues of The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy

Russell B Farr for Ticonderoga Publications

Gary Kemble for work on ABC’s Articulate and promoting the genre through radio and other media

Alisa Krasnostein for providing new paying markets for readers and writers of both fiction/non-fiction, art as well as forums for reviews/interviews within the speculative fiction genre, enhancing the profile of Australian speculative fiction

Justine Larbalestier, for editing Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Fan Achievement

Marty Young for his work establishing and promoting the Australian Horror Writers Association

Alisa Krasnostein for establishing ASIf

Tony Plank for establishing and maintaining the Inkspillers website

New Talent

Stephanie Campisi

David Conyers

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Alisa Krasnostein

Brett McBean

The William Atheling Jr Award

Review of Paraspheres, Miranda Siemienowicz, Horrorscope

Daughters of Earth: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Justine Larbalestier, Wesleyan University Press

“Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and its Metaphorical Undercurrents”, Robert Hood, Borderlands #7

“Bad Film Diaries - Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld”, Grant Watson, Borderlands #8

Review of Through Soft Air, Kathryn Linge, ASif