2020 Aurora Awards – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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