Ditmar Awards ballot announced

The Ditmar subcommittee has announced the Ditmar Award ballot for works celebrating Australian science fiction.

The shortlisted works include:

Best Novel

• Blood Covenant (Alan Baxter, Cemetery Dance Publications)
• The Escher Man (TR Napper, Titan Books)
• Ghost Cities (Siang Lu, UQP)
• The Medusa Situation (Gabiann Marin, Clan Destine Press)
• The Underhistory (Kaaron Warren, Viper)

Best Novella or Novelette

• Cruel Nights (Jason Nahrung, self-published)
• The Emporium (Kaaron Warren, self-published)
• Ghost of the Neon God (TR Napper, Titan Books)
• ‘Maleficium’ (Kyla Lee Ward, in Discontinue if Death Ensues – tales from the tipping point, Flame Tree Publishing)
• Shattered (Pauline Yates, Black Hare Press)
• Wilder (Pamela Jeffs, Four Ink Press)

Best Collected Work

• Calvaria Fell (Cat Sparks and Kaaron Warren, Meerkat Press)
• Kindling (Kathleen Jennings, Small Beer Press)
• Monsters in the Mills (ed by Lauren Elise Daniels and Christa Carmen, Interactive Publications)
• Nightmare Logic: Tales of the Macabre, Fantastic and Cthulhuesque (Leigh Blackmore, IFWG Publishing)

Best New Talent

• Jeff Clulow
• JJ Carpenter
• KA Burgess
• Sarah K Balstrup.

The full preliminary ballot, including shortlists in several other categories, is available here.

Established in 1969, the Ditmar Awards recognise achievement in Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror. The winners will be announced later this year.

More information is available on the Conflux website.

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