Aurora!

[leahbobet]

Okay, since I was stupid and lost track of time, I didn't post a reminder to vote for the Aurora Awards. However, they were awarded this weekend at Keycon, and here's the results:

Best Long-Form Work in English:
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)

Best Long-Form Work in French:
Cimetière du musée by Diane Boudreau (du Phoenix)

Best Short-Form Work in English:
"Like Water in the Desert" by Hayden Trenholm (Challenging Destiny)

Best Short-Form Work in French:
"Sur la plage des Èpaves" by Laurent MacAllister (Solaris)

Best Work in English (Other):
Under Cover of Darkness edited by Julie E. Czerneda & Jana Paniccia (DAW)

Best Work in French (Other):
No nominations.

Artistic Achievement:
Lar deSouza

Fan Achievement (Fanzine):
No award.

Fan Achievement (Organizational):
Penny Lipman

Fan Achievement (Other):
Paul Bobbitt (editor of The Voyageur)

Lifetime Achievement:
Dennis Mullin

I am thrilled that The New Moon's Arms won this year, since it was one of my favourite books of 2007 and, I felt, just all-around one of the best books that came out, Canadian or not, in the whole year. I whooped. :)

I am also thrilled that Under Cover of Darkness was recognized, since thesandtiger and Julie Czerneda did such a great job putting the book together and working to promote it in ways that were fun (obligatory disclosure: I was one of the planners for the ARG run at Ad Astra 2007 to do said promotion. And it was fun!).

Congrats to all the winners and nominees both!

Comments

[deakat]

More books to read. Sigh. I really *must* start buying lottery tickets again, because early retirement is the only way to get through them all.

Thanks for the recommendations!

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for posting these. :)

What was the Hopkinson book about? I have only read Brown Girl in the Ring.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Family, and growing old, and subtle magic, and reconciliation, and selkies.

It could only be more wonderful (literally and figuratively) if there were fifty of it.

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

I shall look into it then.

[thesandtiger.livejournal.com]

I am still giddy.

Thank YOU for helping with the ARG. It was a ton of fun, and one of the reasons I think my whole experience with UNDER COVER was perfect.

Jana

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*confetti!*

We must take you out for drinks or something. :)

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

So happy for Nalo! I'm glad I got to tell her a couple of weeks back how much that book meant to me.