(Från SF Awards Watch. En ganska lång lista. --AE) The 012 Ditmars and Australian SF Awards were awarded at Continuum :: Craftonomicon, the 1sst Australian National SF Convention. And those winners are: The A Bertram Chandler Award: Richard Harland The Norma K Hemming Award: AA Bell, for Hindsight, and Sara Douglass, for The Devil?s Diadem The Peter McNamara Award: Bill Congreve The Chronos Awards: Best Long Fiction: The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Paul Haines (Brimstone Press) Best Short Fiction: The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt, Paul Haines (in The Last Days of Kali Yuga) Best Fan Writer: Jason Nahrung Best Fan Artist: Rachel Holkner Best Fan Written Work: Tiptree, and a collection of her short stories, Alexandra Pierce (in Randomly Yours, Alex) Best Fan Artwork: Blue Locks, Rebecca Ing (Scape )) Best Fan Publication: The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond Best Achievement: Conquilt, Rachel Holkner and Jeanette Holkner (Continuum )) The Infinity Award, for overwhelming contribution to Australian SF: Merv Binns The Ditmar Awards: Best Novel The Courier?s New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (HarperCollins) Best Novella or Novelette ?The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt?, Paul Haines, in The Last Days of Kali Yuga(Brimstone Press) Best Short Story ?The Patrician?, Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Love and Romanpunk (Twelfth Planet Press) Best Collected Work The Last Days of Kali Yuga by Paul Haines, edited by Angela Challis (Brimstone Press) Best Artwork ?Finishing School?, Kathleen Jennings, in Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (Candlewick Press) Best Fan Writer Robin Pen, for ?The Ballad of the Unrequited Ditmar? Best Fan Artist Kathleen Jennings, for work in Errantry (tanaudel.wordpress.com) including ?The Dalek Game? Best Fan Publication in Any Medium The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond Best New Talent Joanne Anderton William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review Alexandra Pierce and Tehani Wessely, for reviews of Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex -- ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx / Be an @SFJournalen Twitter Follower for all the latest news in short form! / Gå med i SKRIVA - för författande, sf, fantasy, kultur (skriva-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, subj: subscribe) / Om Ahrvids novellsamling Mord på månen: http://www.zenzat.se/zzfaktasi.html C Fuglesang: "stor förnöjelse...jättebra historier i mycket sannolik framtidsmiljö"! Nu som ljudbok: http://elib.se/ebook_detail.asp?id_type=ISBN&id6081462 / Läs även AE i nya Vildsint Skymningslandet, årets mest spännande antologi - finns bl a på SF-Bokhandeln! / YXSKAFTBUD, GE VÅR WCZONMÖ IQ-HJÄLP! (DN NoN 0..2..7)) ----- SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistan grundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravewriting.com eller skriva- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe).