Avustralya BK eserlerine verilen Ditmar Ödülleri‘nin 2014 yılı kazananları açıklandı.
1969 yılından beri Natcon’da dağıtılan Ditmar Ödülleri ( Geçmişte Avustralya Bilimkurgu Başarı Ödülleri olan ve resmi adı Avustralya SF (“Ditmar”) Ödülleri olarak geçen) Avustralya’da Bilimkurgu ( fantazya ve korku türlerini de kapsayan) ve Bilimkurgu fandom dallarında en büyük başarı olarak kabul edilmektedir. Ödüllerin isim babası ise, organizasyonu finanse eden Avustralyalı ünlü fan ve sanatçı Ditmar “Dick” Jenssen’dır.
Gelin kazananlara ve adaylara bir göz atalım.
En İyi Roman
- Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead, Robert Hood (Wildside)
- Ink Black Magic, Tansy Rayner Roberts (FableCroft)
- The Beckoning, Paul Collins (Damnation Books)
- Trucksong, Andrew Macrae (Twelfth Planet)
- The Only Game in the Galaxy: The Maximus Black Files 3, Paul Collins (Ford Street)
En İyi Kısa Roman
- “The Home for Broken Dolls”, Kirstyn McDermott (Caution: Contains Small Parts)
- “Prickle Moon”, Juliet Marillier (Prickle Moon)
- “The Year of Ancient Ghosts”, Kim Wilkins (The Year of Ancient Ghosts)
- “By Bone-Light”, Juliet Marillier (Prickle Moon)
- “What Amanda Wants”, Kirstyn McDermott (Caution: Contains Small Parts)
En İyi Kısa Hikaye
- “Scarp”, Cat Sparks (The Bride Price)
- “Mah Song”, Joanne Anderton (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories)
- “Air, Water and the Grove”, Kaaron Warren (The Lowest Heaven)
- “Seven Days in Paris”, Thoraiya Dyer (Asymmetry)
- “Not the Worst of Sins”, Alan Baxter (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #133)
- “Cold White Daughter”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (One Small Step)
En İyi Toplu Çalışma
- The Bride Price, Cat Sparks (Ticonderoga)
- The Back of the Back of Beyond, Edwina Harvey (Peggy Bright Books)
- Asymmetry, Thoraiya Dyer (Twelfth Planet)
- Caution: Contains Small Parts, Kirstyn McDermott (Twelfth Planet)
- The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories, Joanne Anderton (FableCroft)
En İyi Sanat Eseri
- Rules of Summer, Shaun Tan (Hachette Australia)
- Cover art, Eleanor Clarke, for The Back of the Back of Beyond (Peggy Bright Books)
- Illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, for Eclipse Online (Nightshade)
- Cover art, Shauna O’Meara, for Next (CSFG)
- Cover art, Cat Sparks, for The Bride Price (Ticonderoga)
- Cover art, Pia Ravenari, for Prickle Moon (Ticonderoga)
En İyi Hayran Yazar
- Sean Wright, tüm eserleri, Adventures of a Bookonaut’daki incelemeleri dahil
- Tsana Dolichva, tüm eserleri, Tsana’s Reads and Reviews’daki inceleme ve röportajları dahil
- Grant Watson, tüm eserleri, The Angriest’deki incelemeleri dahil
- Foz Meadows, tüm eserleri, Shattersnipe: Malcontent & Rainbows’daki incelemeleri dahil
- Alexandra Pierce, tüm eserleri, Randomly Yours, Alex’deki incelemeleri dahil
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, tüm eserleri, www.tansyrr.com‘daki makale ve incelemeleri dahil
En İyi Hayran Çizer
- Kathleen Jennings, tüm eserleri, “Illustration Friday” dahil
- Nalini Haynes, tüm eserleri, Dark Matter’daki “Defender of the Faith”, “The Suck Fairy“, “Doctor Who Vampire”, ve “The Last Cyberman” dahil
- Dick Jenssen, tüm eserleri, Interstellar Ramjet Scoop ve SF Commentary kapak çalışması dahil
Medyada En İyi Hayran Yayını/Yazısı
- Galactic Chat Podcast, Sean Wright, Alex Pierce, Helen Stubbs, David McDonald, & Mark Webb
- Dark Matter Zine, Nalini Haynes
- SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott & Ian Mond
- The Coode Street Podcast, Gary K. Wolfe & Jonathan Strahan
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, & Tansy Rayner Roberts
En İyi Yeni Yetenek
- Zena Shapter
- Michelle Goldsmith
- Faith Mudge
- Jo Spurrier
- Stacey Larner
William Atheling Jr. Eleştiri ve Yorum Ödülü (berabere)
- The Reviewing New Who series, David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, & Tehani Wessely
- Galactic Suburbia Episode 87: Saga Spoilerific Book Club, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, & Tansy Rayner Roberts
- Reviews in Randomly Yours, Alex, Alexandra Pierce
- “Things Invisible: Human and Ab-Human in Two of Hodgson’s Carnacki stories”, Leigh Blackmore, Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies #1 (Ulthar)
- “A Puppet’s Parody of Joy: Dolls, Puppets and Mannikins as Diabolical Other”, Leigh Blackmore, Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Master of Modern Horror (Scarecrow)
- “That was then, this is now: how my perceptions have changed”, George Ivanoff, Doctor Who and Race (Intellect)
Peter McNamara Ödülü
- Garth Nix
Norma K Hemming Ödülü
- Rupetta, N. A. Sulway (Tartarus UK)
- A Very Unusual Pursuit – City of Orphans, Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin)
- Caution: Contains Small Parts, Kirstyn McDermott (Twelfth Planet)
- Dark Serpent, Kylie Chan (HarperVoyager)
- Fairytales for Wilde Girls, Allyse Near (Random House)
- Trucksong, Andrew Macrae (Twelfth Planet)