Local author Garth Nix delivered the keynote speech at the awards ceremony and Australian Shaun Tan was among the winners, taking out the ‘best professional artist' award.
The full list of winners is as follows:
- Best novel (joint winners): The City & The City (China Miéville, Macmillan); The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi, Night Shade)
- Best novella: Palimpsest (Charles Stross, Wireless; Ace; Orbit)
- Best novelette: The Island (Peter Watts, The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
- Best short story: ‘Bridesicle' (Will McIntosh, Asimov's 1/09)
- Best related work: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is ‘I') (Jack Vance, Subterranean)
- Best graphic story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm (Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colours by Cheyenne Wright, Airship Entertainment)
- Best dramatic presentation, long form: Moon screenplay (Nathan Parker, story by Duncan Jones, directed by Duncan Jones, Liberty Films)
- Best dramatic presentation, short form: Doctor Who: ‘The Waters of Mars' (Russell T Davies & Phil Ford, directed by Graeme Harper, BBC Wales)
- Best editor, long form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- Best editor, short form: Ellen Datlow
- Best professional artist: Shaun Tan
- Best semiprozine: Clarkesworld (ed by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan)
- Best fan writer: Frederik Pohl
- Best fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
- Best fan artist: Brad W Foster
- The John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Seanan McGuire.
Bookseller+Publisher magazine will report on AussieCon4 in detail in a future issue.
Published: 08/09/2010
