(Albert Fall’s $100,000 fine would be worth about $1.2 million today.)

Addendum: Ack! My brain was getting tired when I saved the picture and I put the Watergate burglary in 1974 and Nixon’s resignation 4 years later. Corrections have been made.

Best science fiction novel
Andrew McGahan, Wonders of a Godless World, Allen & Unwin
Sean Williams, The Grand Conjunction, Astropolis Book Three, Orbit

Best science fiction short story
Peter M. Ball, ‘Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens’, Abyss & Apex Magazine May 2009
Peter M. Ball, ‘To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament’, Abyss & Apex Magazine October 2009
Christopher Green, ‘A Hundredth Name’, Abyss & Apex Magazine #31
Greg Mellor, ‘Defence of the Realm’, Cosmos #25
Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn, ‘Soulmates’ Asimov’s September 2009

Best fantasy novel
Peter M. Ball, Horn, Twelfth Planet Press
Trudi Canavan, Magician’s Apprentice, Orbit
Glenda Larke, The Last Stormlord, HarperVoyager
K.E. Mills, Witches Incorporated, HarperVoyager
K.J. Taylor, The Dark Griffin, HarperVoyager

Best fantasy short story
Christopher Green, ‘Father’s Kill’, Beneath Ceaseless Skies #24
Ian McHugh, ‘Once a Month, On a Sunday’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
Tansy Rayner Roberts, ‘Siren Beat’, Roadkill/Siren Beat, Twelfth Planet Press
Angela Slatter, ‘Words’ The Lifted Brow #5
Lucy Sussex, ‘Something Better than Death’, Aurealis #42, Chimaera Publications

Best horror novel
Peter M. Ball, Horn, Twelfth Planet Press
Honey Brown, Red Queen, Penguin Australia
Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path, Hachette Australia
Tracey O’Hara, Night’s Cold Kiss, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Kaaron Warren. Slights, Angry Robot Books

Best horror short story
Felicity Dowker, ‘Jesse’s Gift’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
Christopher Green, ‘Having Faith’, Nossa Morte, February 2009
Paul Haines, ‘Wives’, X6, Coeur de Lion Publishing
Paul Haines, ‘Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver’, Slice of Life, The Mayne Press
Andrew J. McKiernan, ‘The Message’, Midnight Echoes, Australian Horror Writers Association

Best anthology
Alisa Krasnostein (editor), New Ceres Nights, Twelfth Planet Press
Keith Stevenson (editor), X6, Coeur de Lion Publishing
Jonathan Strahan (editor), Eclipse 2, Night Shade Books
Jonathan Strahan (editor), Eclipse 3, Night Shade Books
Jonathan Strahan (editor), The New Space Opera 2, Harper Eo

Best collection
Deborah Biancotti & Alisa Krasnostein (editors), A Book of Endings, Twelfth Planet Press
Greg Egan, Oceanic, Gollancz
Paul Haines & Geoff Maloney (editors), Slice of Life, The Mayne Press
Robbie Matthews & Donna Hanson (editors), Johnny Phillips Werewolf Detective, Australian Speculative Fiction

Best illustated book/graphic novel
Nathan Jurevicius, Scarygirl, Allen & Unwin
Bruce Mutard, The Silence, Allen & Unwin
Emily Rodda & Marc McBride, Secrets of Deltora, Scholastic Australia
Madeleine Rosca Hollow Fields, Seven Seas Entertainment

Best young adult novel
Kate Forsyth, The Puzzle Ring, Pan Macmillan
Cassandra Golds, The Museum of Mary Child, Puffin Books
Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, Allen & Unwin
Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan Trilogy: Book One, Penguin
Sean Williams, Scarecrow, HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Best young adult short story
Joanne Anderton, ‘Dragon Bones’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39,Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
Sue Isle, ‘Paper Dragons’, Shiny #5, Twelfth Planet Press
Ian McHugh, ‘Once a Month, on a Sunday’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd
Tansy Rayner Roberts, ‘Like Us, Shiny #5, Twelfth Planet Press
Cat Sparks, ‘Seventeen’, Masques, CSFG

Best children’s novel
Deborah Abela, The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen, Random House Australia
Kate Constable, Cicada Summer, Allen & Unwin
Jen Storer, Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, Penguin/Viking
Gabrielle Wang, A Ghost in My Suitcase, Puffin Books

Best children’s illustrated work/picture book
Graeme Base, Enigma, Penguin/Viking
Anna Fienberg (author), Kim Gamble (illustrator), Tashi and the Golem, Allen & Unwin
Pamela Freeman (author), Kim Gamble (illustrator), Victor’s Challenge, Walker Books Australia
Dan McGuiness, Pilot and Huxley, Omnibus Books
Gregory Rogers, The Hero of Little Street, Allen & Unwin

A. Bertram Chandler Award
Rosaleen Love

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review
Kim Wilkins, “Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction” in the Journal of Australian Studies

Best New Talent
Felicity Dowker

Best Professional Achievement
Angela Challis, for Black, the Australian Dark Culture Magazine

Best Fan Production
ASif!, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Gene Melzack

Best Fan Artist
Cat Sparks for Scary Food Cookbook

Best Fan Writer
Rob Hood, for Undead Backbrain

Best Professional Artwork
Shaun Tan, for Tales from Outer Suburbia

Best Collected Work
Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann

Best Short Story
Tie between Margo Lanagan “The Goosle” and Dirk Flinthart “This is not my story” (ASIM #37)

Best Novella/Novelette
“Painlessness” by Kirstyn McDermott

Best Novel
“Tender Morsels” by Margo Lanagan

Peter McNamara Award
Sean Williams

Congratulations all!

NOVEL

The Changeling, Sean Williams
Daughters of Moab, Kim Westwood
Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams
Economy of Light, Jack Dann
Finnikin of the Rock, Melina Marchetta
How To Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier
Incandescence, Greg Egan
Lamplighter: Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two, David Cornish
The Seance, John Harwood
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
Two Pearls of Wisdom, Alison Goodman

NOVELLA / SHORT STORY

“An Honest Day’s Work”, Margo Lanagan
“Ass-Hat Magic Spider”, Scott Westerfeld
“As We Know It”, Lyn Battersby
“Beyond the Sea Gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarskoe”, Garth Nix
“Creeping in Reptile Flesh”, Robert Hood
“Crystal Nights”, Greg Egan
“Delivery”, Trent Jamieson
“Down to the Silver Spirits”, Kaaron Warren
“Dresses, Three”, Angela Slatter
“Ghost Jail”, Kaaron Warren
“The Goosle”, Margo Lanagan
“Infestation”, Garth Nix
“Lost Continent”, Greg Egan
“Machine Maid”, Margo Lanagan
“The Miner’s Tale”, Lara E. Goodin
“Night of the Firstlings”, Margo Lanagan
“Oh, Russia”, Simon Brown
“Painlessness”, Kirstyn McDermott
“Pale Dark Soldier”, Deb Biancotti
“Sammarynda Deep”, Cat Sparks
“Skinsongs”, Martin Livings
“This Is My Blood”, Chris Lynch and Ben Francisco
“Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose”, Terry Dowling
“Watertight Lies”, Deb Biancotti

COLLECTED WORK

2012, ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, ed. Jonathan Strahan
Canterbury 2100, ed. Dirk Flinthart
Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood
Dark Integers and Other Stories, Greg Egan
Dreaming Again, ed. Jack Dann
Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan
Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams, ed. Russell B. Farr
Midnight Echo, ed. Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, ed. Jonathan Strahan 
Tales of Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
The Year’s Best Australian SF & Fantasy, vol. 4, ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt

ATHELING

“Bad Film Diaries – Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes”, Grant Watson
“Popular genres and the Australian literary community: the case of fantasy fiction”, Kim Wilkins 
Science Fiction entry in Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading, Russell Blackford
“Three Views of Mount Solaris”, Chris Lawson

BEST ARTWORK

COSMOS: “A Place To Call Home”, Jamie Tuffrey
Creeping in Reptile Flesh cover, Cat Sparks
Dragonscarpe cover, Michael Dutkiewicz
Groom Lake #1, Ben Templesmith
COSMOS: “The Noise Machine”, Justin Randall
Tales of Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse #3, Ben Templesmith

BEST FAN PUBLICATION IN ANY MEDIUM

The Scary Food Cookbook, a compendium of gastronomic atrocity, ed. Cat Sparks
Undead Backbrain, Rob Hood
 
BEST FAN WRITER

Rob Hood
Robin Pen

BEST ACHIEVEMENT

Angela Challis for Brimstone Press and for Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazine
Robin Pen for Planet Blog
Wilson da Silva, Alan Finkel, Kylie Ahern and Damien Broderick for COSMOS Magazine