This year’s Ditmars were handed out in Perth on Sunday evening. The results have been posted on ASif! There are years, in a community the size of Australia’s, when the competition is, shall we say, not as fierce as it could be (no years or names shall be expressly identified*). Not this year. Every winner is of the highest quality and even the nominated works were very strong.

Full results after the break:

* What, you think I’m crazy?

Best Novel
Saturn Returns by Sean Williams (Published by Orbit.)

Best Novella/Novelette
“A Lady of Adestan” by Cat Sparks (Published by Orb Publications in Orb #7 edited by Sarah Endacott.)

Best Short Story
“The Dark and What It Said” by Rick Kennett (Published by Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine in ASIM #28 edited by Zara Baxter)

Best Collected Work (tie)
The New Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois. (Published by HarperCollins Australia.)
Fantastic Wonder Stories edited by Russell B. Farr. (Published by Ticonderoga Publications.)

Best Art Work
Nick Stathopolous for the Rynemonn Cover

Best Fan Writer
Rob Hood for film reviews on his website.

Best Fan Art
‘Exterminate!’ Dalek Postcards – Kathryn Linge

Best Fan Production
2007 Snap Shot Project – interviews with influential members of the Australian speculative fiction scene conducted by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Kathryn Linge, Kaaron Warren and Rosie Clarke.

Best Fanzine
Not If You Were the Last Short Story on Earth edited by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts

Best Professional Achievement
Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Operative Ltd for five issues in 2007, as well as three electronic Best Of anthologies.

Best Fan Achievement
Alisa Krasnostein for ASiF! Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus

Best New Talent
Tehani Wessely

William Atheling Jr Award
Grant Watson for “The Bad Film Diaries” (Published in Borderlands #9.)

The Peter MacNamara
Bruce Gillespie

Mum Fan
Alicia Smith and Rob Masters

Silver Swan
Danny Oz