Avustralya’nın en önemli ödüllerinden Ditmar Ödülleri’nin 2013 adayları oylamaya sunuldu.
Aday listesi:
En İyi Roman
- Suited, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
- The Corpse-Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot)
- Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
- Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
- Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet)
En İyi Kısa Roman
- “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)
- “Flight 404”, Simon Petrie (Flight 404/The Hunt for Red Leicester)
- “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
En İyi Kısa Hikaye
- “The Bone Chime Song”, Joanne Anderton (Light Touch Paper Stand Clear)
- “Sanaa’s Army”, Joanne Anderton (Bloodstones)
- “The Wisdom of Ants”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12)
- “Oracle’s Tower”, Faith Mudge (To Spin a Darker Stair)
En İyi Toplu Çalışma
- The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga)
- Midnight and Moonshine, Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)
- Light Touch Paper Stand Clear, Edwina Harvey & Simon Petrie, eds. (Peggy Bright Books)
- Cracklescape, Margo Lanagan (Twelfth Planet)
- Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet)
- Epilogue, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)
En İyi Sanat Çalışması
- Illustrations, Adam Browne, for Pyrotechnicon (Coeur de Lion)
- Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga )
- Cover art and illustrations, Kathleen Jennings, for To Spin a Darker Stair (FableCroft)
- Cover art, Les Petersen, for Light Touch Paper Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books)
- Cover art, Nick Stathopoulos, for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 (ASIM Collective)
En İyi Hayran Yazar
- Alex Pierce, for body of work including reviews in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
- Grant Watson, for body of work including the “Who50” series in The Angriest
- Sean Wright, for body of work including reviews in Adventures of a Bookonaut
En İyi Hayran Çizer
- Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including “The Dalek Game” and “The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook”
Medyada En İyi Hayran Yayını/Yazısı
- Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus, Alisa Krasnostein, Tehani Wessely, et. al.
- Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Sean Wright
- Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Pierce
- Snapshot 2012, Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung et. al.
- The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
- Antipodean SF, Ion Newcombe
- The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
En İyi Yeni Yetenek
- Steve Cameron
- Stacey Larner
- David McDonald
- Faith Mudge
William Atheling Jr. için Eleştiri ve Yorum Ödülü
- Rjurik Davidson, for “An Illusion in the Game for Survival”, a review of Reamde by Neal Stephenson (The Age)
- Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, for “The Year in Review” (The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011)
- Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, and Tehani Wessely, for review of Mira Grant’s Newsflesh (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus)
- David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely, for the “New Who in Conversation” series
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.” (Tor.com)
Ditmar Ödülleri oylama kurallarına uygun olarak yapılmaktadır ve Conflux 9 üyeleri ile destekçilerine ve 2011 ödüllerinde oy kullanabilmiş nitelikli kişilerden Continuum 8 üyelerinin oylamasına açıktır. Oylama 25 Nisan 2013 tarihinde sona erecektir.
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.