2020 Aurora Awards
The 2020 Aurora Award ceremony took place online. If you like, you may view the awards ceremony here.
The Winners
- Best Novel: The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books
- Best YA Novel: Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc
- Best Short Fiction: “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Saga Press and Jo Fletcher Books
- Best Graphic Novel: Krampus is My Boyfriend! by S.M. Beiko, Webcomic
- Best Poem/Song (tie): “At the Edge of Space and Time” by Swati Chavda, Love at the Speed of Light, Ancient Hound Books; “Bursts of Fire” by Sora, theme song for book trailers
- Best Related Work: On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society
- Best Visual Presentation: The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Dark Horse Entertainment
- Best Artist: Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and cover for On Spec Magazine #110
- Best Fan Writing and Publication: Polar Borealis, Issues #9 to #12, R. Graeme Cameron (editor)
- Best Fan Organizational: Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can*Con, Ottawa
- Best Fan Related Work: Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada
The Voting Statistics
2020 Aurora Results in Grids (PDF)
The Nominees
Best Novel
- Haunting The Haunted by E. C. Bell, Tyche Books
- The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books
- A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
- The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken, Solaris Books
- Jade War by Fonda Lee, Orbit Books
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey
Best Young Adult Novel
- Wolf’s Bane by Kelley Armstrong, K.L.A. Fricke Inc
- The Brilliant Dark: The Realms of Ancient, Book 3 by S.M. Beiko, ECW Press
- The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Metamorphosis by Marty Chan, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc
- Murder at the World’s Fair by MJ Lyons, Renaissance
Best Short Fiction
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Saga Press
- Clear as Quartz, Sharp as Flint by Maria Haskins, Augur Magazine, issue 2.1
- Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield, Tor.com Publishing
- Little Inn on the Jianghu by Y.M. Pang, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September
- Modigliani Paints the World by Hayden Trenholm, Neo-Opsis, Issue #30
- Blindside by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Amazing Stories, v. 77, issue no. 1, Fall
Best Graphic Novel
- The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault, McClelland & Stewart
- Krampus is My Boyfriend! by S.M. Beiko, Webcomic
- It Never Rains by Kari Maaren, Webcomic
- Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Douglas & McIntyre
- Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls, Conundrum Press
Best Poem/Song
- The Girl Who Loved Birds by Clara Blackwood, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 76, no. 3, Spring
- At the Edge of Space and Time by Swati Chavda, Love at the Speed of Light, Ancient Hound Books
- Steampunk Christmas by David Clink, Star*Line, v. 42, no. 4., Fall
- The Day the Animals Turned to Sand by Tyler Hagemann, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 76, issue no. 3, Spring
- Totemic Ants by Francine P. Lewis, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 77, issue no. 1, Fall
- Beauty, Sleeping by Lynne Sargent, Augur Magazine, issue 2.2
- Bursts of Fire by Sora, theme song for book trailers
Best Related Work
- PodCastle by Jen R. Albert and Cherae Clark, Escape Artists Inc.
- Nothing Without Us by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson, Renaissance
- Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine edited by Karl Johanson
- Lackington’s Magazine, edited by Ranylt Richildis (online)
- Dave Duncan’s Legacy by Robert Runté, On Spec Magazine issue 111
- Augur Magazine, Issue 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 published by Kerrie Seljak-Byrne and Alexander De Pompa
- On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society
Best Visual Presentation
- The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Dark Horse Entertainment
- V Wars (Season 1), William Laurin and Glenn Davis, High Park Entertainment
- Killjoys (Season 5), Michelle Lovretta and Adam Barken, Temple Street Productions
- Murdoch Mysteries (Ep. 10-18/Season 12 and Ep. 1-9/Season 13), Peter Mitchell and Christina Jennings, Shaftesbury Films
- Van Helsing (Season 4), Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Nomadic Pictures
Best Artist
- Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Bursts of Fire
- James F. Beveridge, cover for Fata Morgana and cover for On Spec #112
- Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, A Rivet of Robots in On Spec Magazine and Cartoons in Amazing Stories
- Nathan Fréchette, covers for Renaissance Press
- Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and cover for On Spec Magazine #110
Best Fan Writing and Publications
- R. Graeme Cameron, weekly columns in Amazing Stories (online)
- R. Graeme Cameron, Polar Borealis, Issues #9 to #12, editor
- Jennifer Desmarais, Travelling TARDIS, JenEric Designs
- Steve Fahnestalk, weekly columns in Amazing Stories (online)
- Ron S. Friedman, Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?, Quora
- Christina Vasilevski, Books and Tea
Best Fan Organizational
- KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, ephemera reading series, Toronto
- Brent Jans, Pure Speculation Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, Edmonton
- Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can-Con, Ottawa
- Randy McCharles, chair, When Words Collide, Calgary
- Sandra Wickham, Creative Ink Festival, Burnaby, BC
Best Fan Related Work
- Brandon Crilly and Evan May, Broadcasts from the Wasteland, podcast
- Kari Maaren, Music on YouTube Channel
- Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada
- Joshua Pantalleresco, Just Joshing, podcast
- Edward Willett, The Worldshapers, podcast