Wednesday 19 November 2014

2014 Aurora Awards: Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards winners


The 2014 Auroras, a.k.a. Aurora Award and Prix Aurora, Canada's Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards since 1980, were recently awarded by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). 


Awards were presented in ten categories this year:

  1. Best Novel
  2. Best YA Fiction
  3. Best Short Fiction
  4. Best Poem / Song
  5. Best Graphic Novel
  6. Best Related Work
  7. Best Artist
  8. Best Fan Music
  9. Best Fan Organizational
  10. Best Fan Related Work


The nominees for the YA award were announced in May, with voting extended to September.  These were the nominated titles:


Best English YA (Young Adult) Novel


The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate 
by Marty Chan
Fitzhenry & Whiteside


Ink 
by Amanda Sun
Harlequin Teen


The Lake and the Library 
by S.M. Beiko
ECW Press


Out of Time 
by D. G. Laderoute
Five Rivers Publishing


Resolve 
by Neil Godbout
Bundoran Press


The Rising 
by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada 

 










The winner of the 2014 Aurora Award for Young Adult Fiction, presented at Canvention 34 in Vancouver on October 3, 2014 is:


Kelley Armstrong

for 

The Rising
Dark Rising Book 3
Doubleday Canada
432 pp.
Ages 12+
2013


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