2011 - Publications in English
IMPORTANT NOTE: Being listed here does NOT constitute a nomination for any award; this is merely a database of works eligible for nomination. Until the official awards administrators release a final voting ballot, no one is a nominee, and ONLY works listed on a final ballot are nominees.
*An asterisk denotes a creator's preferred work, when a creator has more than one work eligible in a given category -- the one they'd like to see nominated, or the one they recommend you read if you're only going to read one of their works. For more information about the asterisk designation, see here.
List as:
Last name, First name. Name of work (Publisher/URL) Date.
or
Last name, First Name. “Name of short story”. Name of Anthology. eds. Editor's Name(s). (Publisher/URL) Date.
Novels
(In the Aurora, Hugo and Nebula rules, a novel is defined as more than 40,000 words. Single-author collections are eligible for the Aurora under the Related Works category but not for the Hugo or the Nebula.)
Bird, Shawn L. Grace Awakening Book One: Awakening Dreams (Lintusen Press) July 2011
Bridgman, Rae. Kingdom of Trolls. (Sybertooth) February 2011
Chane, Lee Arthur (aka Edward Willett). Magebane. (DAW Books) October 2011
Dales, Karen. Shadow of Death: Book Two of The Chosen Chronicles (Dark Dragon Publishing) April 2011
DiLouie, Craig. The Infection (Permuted Press) February 2011
Elder, Joanne. Spectra (MuseItUp Publishing) July 2011
Frey, J.M. Triptych (Dragon Moon Press) April 2011
Files, Gemma. A Rope of Thorns (ChiZine Publications) May 2011
Hayward, Brent. The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter (ChiZine Publications) May 2011
Johansen, K.V. Blackdog (Pyr) September 2011
MacDonald, Susan M. Edge of Time (Breakwater Books) August 2011
Munteanu, Nina. Outer Diverse (Starfire World Syndicate) October 2011
Murphy, Derryl. Napier's Bones (ChiZine Publications) March 2011
Nickle, David. Eutopia (ChiZine Publications) April 2011
Rowe, Michael. Enter, Night (Chizine Publications) October 2011
Sawyer, Robert J. Wonder (Penguin Canada) April 2011
Stanton, Steve. The Bloodlight Chronicles: Retribution (ECW Press) November 2011
Sweet, Caitlin. The Pattern Scars (ChiZine Publications) September 2011
Walton, Jo. Among Others (Tor), January 2011
Novellas
(Between 17,500 and 40,000 words in the Hugo and Nebula rules; the Auroras consider novellas, novelettes, and short stories to all be "short form" works)
Lalumière, Claude. The Door to Lost Pages (ChiZine Publications) April 2011 (this is a novella in stories)
Bell, Eileen: "Victim 18" The 2nd Circle (The 10th Circle Project) December 2011
Novelettes
(between 7,500 and 17,500 words in the Hugo and Nebula rules; the Auroras consider novellas, novelettes, and short stories to all be "short form" works)
Bobet, Leah. "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life", Shadow Unit, June 2011.
* Kotowych, Stephen. "Under the Shield." InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 24, August 2011
Short Stories
(fewer than 7,500 words in the Hugo and Nebula rules; the Auroras consider novellas, novelettes, and short stories to all be "short form" works)
*Anderson, Colleen. "A Book By Its Cover." Mirror Shards. Thomas Carpenter, ed. Bad Moon Books, Aug. 2011.
Anderson, Colleen "It's Only Words." The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies (England). D.F. Lewis, ed. Nemonymous Press, June 2011.
Anderson, Colleen. "Tasty Morsels." Polluto #8 Magazine (England). Victoria Hooper, ed. Aug., 2011.
Bilodeau, Marie. "The Legend of Gluck" When The Hero Comes Home. ed. Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy. (Dragon Moon Press) July 2011.
Black, Richard "A Deserving Master" (5,482 words): Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine #20.
Bobet, Leah. "The Ground Whereon She Stands", Realms of Fantasy, June 2011.
Bobet, Leah. "Stay", Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell -- Lewd Did I Live, Michael Kelly ed., March 2011.
Braun, Shen. "Costumes" Tesseracts 15, Julie Czerneda and Susan McGregor, eds. (Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing), October 2011
Brown, Leslie. "The Slow Plague", Doomology, Bill Tucker and Wayne Goodchild, eds. (Library of Science Fiction & Fantasy Press), March 2011.
Brown, Leslie. "Incursion", Jack-o'-Spec, Karen Romanko, ed. (Raven Electrick Ink Press) Sept., 2011.
Brown, Leslie. "The Windup Heiress", Tesseracts 15, Julie Czerneda and Susan McGregor, eds. (Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing), Oct., 2011.
Church, Suzanne. "The Needle's Eye", Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell -- Lewd Did I Live, Edited by Michael Kelly, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, March 2011.
Darbyshire, Peter. “We Are All Ghosts”, Innsmouth Magazine, Issue 8, October 2011
Durham, Bruce. "The Crane Horror", Lovecraft eZine, Issue 1, February, 2011
Durham, Bruce. "Plains of Hell", Lawyers in Hell. ed. Janet Morris (Kerlak Publishing) July 2011
Durham, Bruce. "The Case of the Galloway Eidolon". Lovecraft eZine, Issue 5, June 2011
Forest, Susan. "Turning It Off", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, ed. Stanley Schmidt (Dell Magazines, New York) December, 2011.
Frey, J.M. "The Once And Now-ish King" When The Hero Comes Home. ed. Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy. (Dragon Moon Press) July 2011.
Friedman, Ron S. "Unveiled". Daily Science Fiction; May 2011.
Ginther, Chadwick. "First Light", On Spec, Summer 2011
Grant, Glenn. "Flowers of Avalon", Burning Days (Nanopress), January 2011
Kasturi, Sandra. "Foxford"; Chilling Tales, ed. Michael Kelly, Calgary: EDGE Books, 2011
Kasturi, Sandra. "Mrs. Kong" World Horror Convention 2011 Programme Book, Austin, Texas, April 2011
*Kasturi, Sandra. "The Slowing of the World" Evolve 2, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick, Calgary: EDGE Books, 2011
Kotowych, Stephen. "A Time for Raven." Interzone #236, September/October 2011
Kress, Adrienne. "The Clockwork Corset", Corsets & Clockwork. ed. Trisha Telep (Running Press Kids) May 2011
Künsken, Derek. "The Gifts of Li Tzu-Ch'eng", Black Gate Magazine #15, 2011.
Künsken, Derek. "The God Thieves", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #84, December, 2011.
*Künsken, Derek. "To Live and Die in Gibbontown", Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011.
Marlowe, Paul. "Alpha & Omega". Something Wicked magazine. July 2011.
Marlowe, Paul. "Cotton Avicenna B iv". Something Wicked magazine. September 2011.
Marshall, Helen. “Skin”, Future Lovecraft, Innsmouth Free Press, 2011.
Matheson, Michael. "Rubedo, an Alchemy of Madness", Future Lovecraft, Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles, eds., (Innsmouth Free Press), December 2011
McCharles, Randy. "One Horrible Day" The 2nd Circle (The 10th Circle Project), December 2011
Moore, Matt. "Ascension", AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, August 2011.
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “A Handful of Earth”, Expanded Horizons, Issue 30, July 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “A Puddle of Blood”, EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead, Nancy Kilpatrick, ed., (EDGE) August 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “At the Edge”, Space and Time, January 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “The Death Collector”, AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, February 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “The English Cemetery”, Coffinmouth, September 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “The Gan Wait”, AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, November 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “Memory”, Expanded Horizons, Issue 33 December 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “Scales as Pale as Moonlight”, Carter V. Cooper Anthology and Exile Quarterly, May 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “Shade of the Ceibra Tree”, Kaleidotrope, May 2011
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. “This Strange Way of Dying”, GigaNotoSaurus, August 2011 (Audio version released through Podcastle, November 2011)
Pawlowski, Owen: The Grandmother Tree (2,408 words): Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine: Issue 20.
Rimar, Mike. "Four Wizards and a Funeral" InterGalactic Medicine Show, June 2011
Rimar, Mike, "From the Files of the E.F.P.D." Mother Goose is Dead: Modern Stories of Myths, Fables and Fairy Tales. Michele Acker and Kirk Dougal, eds. (DamnationBooks) September 2011.
Rimar, Mike, "My Name is Tommy" Tesseracts Fifteen:A Case of Quite Curious Tales. Julie Czerneda and Susan McGregor, eds. (Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing) September 2011
Rimar, Mike, "Chicka-Chicka-Bow-Wow" Cucurbital 2, Lawrence Schoen, ed. (Paper Golem) November 2011
Stanton, Steve, "Hedge of Protection", On Spec #85, Summer 2011.
Stanton, Steve, "White World", Ray Gun Revival, March 2011.
Stanton, Steve, "Gathering Glory", Daily Science Fiction, February 2011.
Stanton, Steve, "Eternal Virus", Ray Gun Revival, October 2011.
Poetry and Song Lyrics
(In the Aurora, this category includes poems or songs first published or performed in the calendar year in question)
*Anderson, Colleen. "A Good Catch." Polu Texni. Dawn Albright, ed. April, 2011.
Anderson, Colleen. "Darkside." Chizine. Sandra Kasturi, ed. May, 2011.
Anderson, Colleen. "Shadow Relams." Witches & Pagans #23. Anne Newkirk Niven, ed. BBI Media. Aug. 2011.
Anderson, Colleen. "Sundance." Chizine. Sandra Kasturi, ed. June, 2011.
*Clink, Carolyn. "Zombie Bees of Winnipeg" Chiaroscuro/ChiZine.com 47, 2011.
Clink, Carolyn. "10 things to know about staplers" Star*Line January/March 2011.
*Kasturi, Sandra. "A Man in His Car, Beside His Beautiful Wife" Coffee House Poetry, 2011
Kasturi, Sandra. "Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm" Chiaroscuro/ChiZine.com 47, 2011
* Marshall, Helen. Skeleton Leaves: a Collection, Kelp Queen Press, Toronto, 2011. [please e-mail helen@chizinepub.com to request PDF]
Marshall, Helen. “Beautiful Monster”, Paper Crow. (Fall Issue) 2011.
Marshall, Helen. “The Oak Girl”, Tesseracts 15, 2011.
Marshall, Helen.“One Quarter Gorgon”, Chiaroscuro 47, 2011
Marshall, Helen. “Strict Nominalism”, Chiaroscuro 49, 2011.
Other Works (Including Single-Author Collections and Anthologies)
(The Aurora Awards category "Best Related Work" is defined as "Best Science Fiction or Fantasy literary criticism, book review, critical editions, screenplay, anthology, CD or a single-author collection released as a book." The Hugos have a category for "Best Related Book," defined as "Any work whose subject is related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, appearing for the first time in book form during the year in question, and which is either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text.")
Dale, Heather, Fairy Tale CD, 2011
Grant, Glenn. Burning Days (Nanopress) January 2011
Johanson, Karl. Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine Issue 20.
Kovacs, Christopher S. The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny [Zelazny-signed, lettered, traycased edition] Camelot Books, March 2011
Kovacs, Christopher S. Fallen Books and Other Subtle Clues in Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. The New York Review of Science Fiction #280, December 2011; p 1;4-6
Kovacs, Christopher S and MacDonald, Susan M. Medical Myths and Errors in Science Fiction and Fantasy. The New York Review of Science Fiction #277, September 2011; p 1;4-9
Kress, Adrienne. "The Inevitable Decline of Decadence", in The Girl Who Was On Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy. edited by Leah Wilson (Smart Pop / BenBella Books) April 2011
Matheson, Michael. Review: The Secret of Crickley Hall (TOR Reissue), Innsmouth Free Press, September 14, 2011
Matheson, Michael. Apocalypse Week: Review: Evolve Two, Innsmouth Free Press, October 31, 2011
Artistic Achievement
(The Aurora definition of the Artistic Achievement category: For a work or body of work produced by a Canadian artist within the calendar year in question.)
Blaine, Janice. Cover of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 20
Bridgman, Rae. Interior illustrations for Kingdom of Trolls. (Sybertooth) February 2011.
Choi, Connie. Cover art for The Black Box. (Sybertooth) February 2011.
Dales, Evan. The cover art for Shadow of Death: Book Two of The Chosen Chronicles and the covers for the reissues of Changeling: Prelude to the Chosen Chronicles (May 2011) and Angel of Death: Book One of the Chosen Chronicles (May 2011) published by Dark Dragon Publishing
Gurgu, Costi. Cover art for Outer Diverse. (Starfire World Syndicate) October 2011.
Fan Filk
(Activities by a Canadian filker in areas such as album, song-writing, performance or sound engineering. Filk is fan music based on science fiction or fantasy)
Hayman, Judith. For her GoH concert at Con*Cept, 2011
Mills, Phil. Body of Work - 40+ songs published online in 2011 including songs written for FAWM and 50/90
Scrimgeor, Howard and Hayman, Judith. For the Audio Visual presentation of the Space Concert at Confusion 2011
Sloman, Alegra. For her songs Meet The Crew and 40,000 Light Years.
Warner_Lalonde, Peggi. For her performance of Janis Ian's "Welcome Home" at the Aurora Awards at SFContario.
Potential John W. Campbell Award Nominees
(presented at the World Science Fiction Convention; for writers whose first professional publications were in the preceding two years.)
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