Kanadalıların ve yerleşik göçmenlerin BKF eserlerinin değerlendirildiği 2014 Aurora Ödülleri için adaylar açıklandı. CSFFA (Kanada Bilimkurgu ve Fantazi Derneği) üyeleri oylamaya 3 Mayıs tarihinde başlayıp 6 Eylül 2014, Cumartesi günü EDT geceyarısında sonlandıracak. Ödüller 3 – 5 Ekim 2014 tarihlerinde Vancouver’da düzenlenecek 39. VCON (www.vcon.ca) etkinliğinde verilecek.
Gelin adaylara bir göz atalım:
Roman – İngilizce
- A Turn of Light, Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books
- Red Planet Blues, Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada
- River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
- The Tattooed Witch, Susan MacGregor, Five Rivers Publishing
- Tombstone Blues, Chadwick Ginther, Ravenstone Books
Genç Yetişkin Roman – İngilizce
- The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate, Marty Chan, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Ink, Amanda Sun, Harlequin Teen
- The Lake and the Library, S.M. Beiko, ECW Press
- Out of Time, D.G. Laderoute, Five Rivers Publishing
- Resolve, Neil Godbout, Bundoran Press
- The Rising, Kelley Armstrong, Doubleday Canada
Kısa Kurgu – İngilizce
- “A Bunny Hug for Karl”, Mike Rimar, Masked Mosaic, Canadian Super Stories, Tyche Books
- “Angela and Her Three Wishes”, Eileen Bell, The Puzzle Box, EDGE
- “The Awakening of Master March”, Randy McCharles, The Puzzle Box, EDGE
- “Ghost in the Machine”, Ryan McFadden, The Puzzle Box, EDGE
- “The Gift”, Susan Forest, Urban Green Man, EDGE
- “Green Man She Restless”, Billie Milholland, Urban Green Man, EDGE
- “Living Bargains”, Suzanne Church, When the Hero Comes Home 2, Dragon Moon Press
Şiir/Şarkı – İngilizce
- “A City of Buried Rivers”, Clink, David, The Literary Review of Canada, vol. 21, no. 9, November
- “Awake”, Peter Storey, Urban Green Man, EDGE
- “The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid”, Helen Marshall, Postscripts to Darkness, Issue 4, October
- “Lost”, Amal El-Mohtar, Strange Horizons, February
- “Night Journey: West Coast”, Kernaghan, Eileen, Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, EDGE
- “Turning the Leaves”, Amal El-Mohtar, Apex Magazine, Issue 55, December
Grafik Roman – İngilizce
- Looking for Group, Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza, webcomic
- Rock, Paper, Cynic, Peter Chiykowski, webcomic
- Weregeek, Alina Pete, webcomic
- Wild Game: Sweet Tooth Vol. 6, Jeff Lemire, Vertigo
İlgili Eser – İngilizce
- The Puzzle Box, The Apocalyptic Four, EDGE
- Urban Green Man edited, Adria Laycraft and Janice Blaine EDGE
- On Spec published, the Copper Pig Writers’ Society
- Suzenyms, Susan MacGregor, blog suzenyms.blogspot.ca
- Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing edited, Sandra Kasturi and Samantha Beiko, ChiZine Publications
Sanatçı
- Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications
- Melissa Mary Duncan, illustrations and cover art
- Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and the SF Aurora banner
- Apis Teicher, body of work
- Tanya Montini, cover design for The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate
Hayran Müziği
- Brooke Abbey for writing and publishing 12 songs
- Debs & Errol for CTRL+ALT+DUETS, EP
- Chris Hadfield for his performance of Space Oddity
- Kari Maaren for Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off, CD
- Devin Melanson, Leslie Hudson and, Kari Maaren for Pirate Elves in Space, CD
Hayran Organizasyonu
- Evelyn Baker and Alana Otis-Wood, co-chairs Ad Astra, Toronto
- S.M. Beiko and Chadwick Ginther, co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Winnipeg
- Sandra Kasturi and James Bambury, co-chairs Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Toronto
- Randy McCharles, chair When Words Collide, Calgary
- Matt Moore, chair Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiSeries Ottawa
- Rose Wilson, Art Show Director, VCON 38, Vancouver
Hayran İlgili Çalışması
- R. Graeme Cameron, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine
- Steve Fahnestalk, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine
- Robert Runté, ”Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading”, Scholar Keynote Address at ACCSFF ’13, Toronto