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| 1976 |
| Win
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Paradigm and Pattern; Form and Meaning in the Dispossessed
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George Turner
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| Nomination
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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James E. Gunn
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| Nomination
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Foundation & Asimov
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Algis Budrys
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| Nomination
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New Worlds for Old
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David Ketterer
|
| Nomination
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Philip Dick By 1975
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George Turner
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| 1977 |
| Win
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The Jonah Kit
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George Turner
|
| Nomination
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Plumbers of the Cosmos
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George Turner
and
Peter Nicholls
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| Nomination
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Theme as an Element of Fiction
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George Turner
|
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| 1978 |
| Win
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The Novels of D.G. Compton
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Andrew Whitmore
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| Nomination
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Review of "Going"
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Van Ikin
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| Nomination
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Science Fiction: History Science Vision O.U.P
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Robert Scholes
and
Eric S. Rabkin
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| Nomination
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The Martial Art of SF Criticism
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George Turner
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| Nomination
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The Silverberg Phenomenon
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George Turner
|
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| 1979 |
| Win
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Women and Science Fiction
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Susan Wood
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| Nomination
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On the Ebb Tide of the New Wave
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John McPharlin
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| Nomination
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Parergon Papers 10
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John Bangsund
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| Nomination
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The Morasses of Academe Revisited
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Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
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| 1980 |
| Win
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Paradox as Paradigm: A Review of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
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Jack R. Herman
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| Nomination
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By Our Fruits
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Bruce Gillespie
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| Nomination
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Delany: A Victim of Great Applause
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George Turner
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| Nomination
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The Art of Xenography
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Terry Dowling
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| Nomination
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The Man Who Filled the Void
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Bruce Gillespie
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| 1981 |
| Win
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Frederik Pohl as a Creator of Future Societies
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George Turner
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| Nomination
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Charting Paradise
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Algis Budrys
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| Nomination
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Four Reasons for Reading Thomas M. Disch
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John Sladek
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| Nomination
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Outside the Whale
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Christopher Priest
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| 1982 |
| Win
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Sing a Song of Daniel
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
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The Labor Day Group
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Thomas M. Disch
|
| Nomination
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The Lately Great Alfred Bester
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Damien Broderick
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| 1983 |
| Win
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Kirth Gersen: The Other Demon Prince
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Terry Dowling
|
| Nomination
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SF Commentary - The First Year
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
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The Lever of Life: Winning and Losing in the Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
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Terry Dowling
|
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| 1984 |
| Win
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No Award
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-
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| 1985 |
| Win
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In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel
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George Turner
|
| Nomination
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Article on George Turner
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John Foyster
|
| Nomination
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SF Reviews in The Age
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Damien Broderick
|
| Nomination
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SF Reviews in The Australian
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John Baxter
|
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| 1986 |
| Win
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Neuromancer, et al
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George Turner
|
| Nomination
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unknown
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Russell Blackford
|
| Nomination
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unknown
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Yvonne Rousseau
|
| Nomination
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unknown
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Norman Talbot
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| 1987 |
| Win
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Debased and Lascivious
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Russell Blackford
|
| Nomination
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Frank's Tank
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Margaret Winch
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| Nomination
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unknown
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Dave Luckett
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| Nomination
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unknown
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Michael J. Tolley
|
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| 1988 |
| Win
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Mirror Reversals and the Tolkien Writing Game
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Van Ikin
|
| Nomination
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A Prefilmic, Post-Poststructurialist Prostruction of ALIEN/ALIENS 3
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Richard Erlich
and
Peter Hall
|
| Nomination
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Deconstructing the Demon: Three Novels by John Calvin Batchelor
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Russell Blackford
|
| Nomination
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I Know Who I Am, but What's My Brand Name?
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Janeen Webb
|
| Nomination
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Structural Analysis of SF. Why?
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Susan Margaret
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| Nomination
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Trillion Year Spree: A Review
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John Foyster
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| 1989 |
| Win
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Australian Science Fiction Review (Articles)
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Russell Blackford
|
| Nomination
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Australian Science Fiction Review (Articles)
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Janeen Webb
|
| Nomination
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Counter Earth/Counter Humanity
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Martin Bridgestock
|
| Nomination
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Sea & Summer
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Martin Bridgestock
|
| Nomination
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Speaker for the Dead
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Arthur Webster
|
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| 1990 |
| --- Not on ballot -- Insufficient Nominations ------- |
| *
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Insufficient Nominations - Not on ballot
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-
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| 1991 |
| Win
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The Non-SF Novels of Philip K. Dick
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
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Analogues of Anomie: Lee Harding's Novels
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Russell Blackford
|
| Nomination
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Fantastic World (reviews in the Melbourne Sunday Herald)
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Peter Nicholls
|
| Nomination
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Reviews (in Ethel the Aardvark and SF Commentary)
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Alan Stewart
|
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| 1992 |
| Win
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Going Commercial
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Sean McMullen
|
| Nomination
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Jonathan Carroll, Storyteller
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
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Review of the Fantastic Civil War
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Blair Ramage
|
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| 1993 |
| Win
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Australian SF Art Turns 50
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Sean McMullen
|
| Nomination
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Five Go Camping with 12-01 Club
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Paul Ewings
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| Nomination
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From SFantasy to Galileo
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Sean McMullen
|
| Nomination
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James Morrow and the Erni
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
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Reviews in Ethel the Aardvark
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Karen Pender-Gunn
|
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| 1994 |
| Win
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SF Sucks
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James Allen
|
| Nomination
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Five Bikers of the Apocalypse
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Leigh Edmonds
|
| Nomination
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Silverberg Not Moving
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Damien Broderick
|
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| 1995 |
| --- No Award Given This Year ------- |
| *
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No Award Given This Year
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-
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| 1996 |
| Win
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The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction
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Bill Congreve
and
Sean McMullen
and
Steven Paulsen
|
| Nomination
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Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
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Damien Broderick
|
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| 1997 |
| Win
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reviews in Thyme
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Alan Stewart
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| Nomination
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Post Human SF; Lost in Cyberspace (The Festival of Imagination Programme Book)
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Janeen Webb
|
| Nomination
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The Tiger in the Prison House (Science Fiction #37); Reviews of "Distress" (Science Fiction and NYRSF); Jewels in Junk City (Review of Contemporary Fiction)
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Russell Blackford
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| 1998 |
| Win
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Australia: Australian Contemporary Fantasy (in Encyclopedia of Fantasy)
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Sean McMullen
and
Steven Paulsen
|
| Nomination
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for X-files episode reviews in Frontier
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Katharine Maxwell
and
Darren Maxwell
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| 1999 |
| Win
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The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Paul Collins
|
| Nomination
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Aliens & Savages
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Andrew Enstice
and
Janeen Webb
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| Nomination
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Contributions to the MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Steven Paulson
|
| Nomination
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No Axis, No Boundary (Altair #1, February 1998)
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Simon Brown
and
Sean Williams
|
| Nomination
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Reviews in Locus Magazine
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Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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Reviews in The New York Review of Science Fiction
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Damien Broderick
|
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| 2000 |
| Win
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Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction
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Russell Blackford
and
Van Ikin
and
Sean McMullen
|
| Win
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Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism
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Helen Merrick
and
Tess Williams
|
| Nomination
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Reviews in Locus Magazine
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Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction
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Steven Paulsen
and
Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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Writings on the iam website
|
Robert Hood
|
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| 2001 |
| Win
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Waking Henson: A Jim Henson Retrospective (Presentation)
|
Grant Watson
and
Simon Oxwell
|
| Nomination
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George Turner: The Unrelenting Gaze
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
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Reviews in Locus Magazine
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Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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Time Travel, Times Scapes, and Timescape
|
Gregory Benford
and
Russell Blackford
and
Damien Broderick
and
Alison Goodman
and
Sean McMullen
and
Aubrey Townsend
|
| Nomination
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Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
|
Damien Broderick
|
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| 2002 |
| --- Not on ballot -- Insufficient Nominations ------- |
| *
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Insufficient Nominations - Category Cancelled
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-
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| 2003 |
| Win
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Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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Bill Congreve
|
| Nomination
|
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Justine Larbalestier
|
| Nomination
|
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Tama Leaver
|
| Nomination
|
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Robin Pen
|
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| 2004 |
| Win
|
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Bruce Gillespie
|
| Nomination
|
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Lee Battersby
|
| Nomination
|
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Jason Nahrung
|
| Nomination
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Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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Grant Watson
|
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| 2005 |
| Win
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"Why are publishers afraid of horror", BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004 (view copy <A HREF="http://www.australianhorror.com/articles.php?article=3" target="_blank">[here]</A>.)
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Jason Nahrung
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| Win
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Review of Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, asking "is this film a ghost story?" <A HREF="http://www.roberthood.net/reviews/weight_of_water.html" target="_blank">[here]</A>
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Robert Hood
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| Nomination
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Review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project - <A HREF="http://benpeek.livejournal.com/231224.html" target="_blank">[here]</A>.
|
Ben Peek
|
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| 2006 |
| Win
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Divided Kingdom: King Kong Versus Godzilla
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Robert Hood
|
| Nomination
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Body Parts
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Chris Lawson
|
| Nomination
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Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the new Enlightenment
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Damien Broderick
|
| Nomination
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P. K. Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror
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Rosaleen Love
|
| Nomination
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The 2005 Snapshot Australian Speculative Fiction writers, editors, publishers (<A HREF="http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/" target="_blank">http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/</A>)
|
Ben Peek
|
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| 2007 |
| Win
|
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
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Justine Larbalestier
|
| Nomination
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Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and its Metaphorical Undercurrents
|
Robert Hood
|
| Nomination
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Review of <I>Paraspheres</I>, appearing in <i>Horrorscope</I>
|
Miranda Siemienowicz
|
| Nomination
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Review of <I>Through Soft Air</I> (on <I>ASif</I>)
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Kathryn Linge
|
| Nomination
|
Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld
|
Grant Watson
|
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| 2008 |
| Win
|
You're So Vain: Battlefield Earth and the Vanity Project
|
Grant Watson
|
| Nomination
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"The Shadow Thief" (Published by <I>The West Australian</I> Weekend Magazine on 22 September 2007)
|
Ian Nichols
|
| Nomination
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Aurealis Awards Shortlist Feature Article (Published on <I>ASiF!</I>)
|
Ben Peek
|
| Nomination
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editorial for <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?223781"><I>The New Space Opera</I></A>
|
Jonathan Strahan
|
| Nomination
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Review of David Conyers' and John Sunseri's <I>The Spiraling Worm</I> (Published on <I>Horrorscope</I>)
|
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
|
| Nomination
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Review of Elizabeth Bear's <I>New Amsterdam</I> (Published as Podcast #2 on <I>ASiF!</I>)
|
Tansy Rayner Roberts
and
Alexandra Pierce
|
| Nomination
|
Seriatem, Seriatum, Omnia Seriatem
|
Ian Nichols
|
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| 2009 |
| Win
|
"Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: the Case of Fantasy Fiction"
|
Kim Wilkins
|
| Nomination
|
George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead
|
Robert Hood
|
| Nomination
|
Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes
|
Grant Watson
|
| Nomination
|
The End of the Line: Why Lothian Books' 'Dark Suspense' Novels Failed to Resurrect Australian Horror
|
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
|
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| 2010 |
| Win
|
The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
|
Helen Merrick
|
| Nomination
|
"The Dead Walk! ... Into a Bookstore Near You" (in Eye of Fire No.1 (Brimstone Press))
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Chuck McKenzie
|
| Nomination
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For reviews and articles for Eiga: Asian Cinema (www.eigaasiancinema.com)
|
Grant Watson
|
| Nomination
|
Reviews on his blog (mondyboy.livejournal.com)
|
Ian Mond
|
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| 2011 |
| Win
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for "A Modern Woman's Guide to Classic Who"
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Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| Nomination
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Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian SF Review (Second Series)
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Damien Broderick
|
| Nomination
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The Australian Dream Becomes Nightmare: Visions of Suburbia in Australian Science-Fiction
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Ross Murray
|
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| 2012 |
| Win
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Reviews of the Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex (http://randomalex.net)
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Alexandra Pierce
and
Tehani Wessely
|
| Nomination
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Introduction: The Year in Review (The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2010)
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Liz Grzyb
and
Talie Helene
|
| Nomination
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Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature
|
Damien Broderick
and
Van Ikin
|
| Nomination
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“Currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke”, in Metamagician and the Hellfire Club (http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com.au/)
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Russell Blackford
|
| Nomination
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“Reviewing New Who” series, in A Conversational Life (http://thebooknut.wordpress.com/)
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David McDonald
and
Tehani Wessely
and
Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
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| 2013 |
| Win
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"Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let's Unpack That.", in tor.com
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Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| Nomination
|
The Year in Review (The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011)
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Liz Grzyb
and
Talie Helene
|
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| 2014 |
| Win
|
<I>Galactic Suburbia</I> Episode 87: Saga Spoilerific Book Club
|
Alisa Krasnostein
and
Alex Pierce
and
Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| Win
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The <I>Reviewing New Who</I> series
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David McDonald
and
Tansy Rayner Roberts
and
Tehani Wessely
|
| Nomination
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"A Puppet's Parody of Joy": Dolls, Puppets, and Mannikins as Diabolical Other in Ramsey Campbell
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Leigh Blackmore
|
| Nomination
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"Things Invisible: Human and Ab-Human in Two of Hodgson's Carnacki stories" in <I>Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies</I> #1 edited by Sam Gafford (Ulthar Press)
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Leigh Blackmore
|
| Nomination
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Reviews in <I>Randomly Yours, Alex</I>
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Alexandra Pierce
|
| Nomination
|
That Was Then, This Is Now: How My Perceptions Have Changed
|
George Ivanoff
|
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| 2015 |
| Win
|
Does Sex Make Science Fiction "Soft?"
|
Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
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Reviews in <I>Adventures of a Bookonaut</I>
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Sean Wright (reviewer)
|
| *
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Reviews in <I>FictionMachine</I>
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Grant Watson
|
| *
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Reviews in <I>The Angriest</I>
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Grant Watson
|
| *
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The Eddings Reread series, in <I>A Conversational Life</I>
|
Tehani Wessely
and
Jo Anderton
and
Alexandra Pierce
|
| *
|
The Reviewing New Who series
|
David McDonald
and
Tansy Rayner Roberts
and
Tehani Wessely
|
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| 2016 |
| Win
|
Letters to Tiptree
|
Alisa Krasnostein
and
Alexandra Pierce
|
| --- Finalists ------- |
| *
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"Sara Kingdom dies at the end", in Companion Piece (Mad Norwegian Press)
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Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| *
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SF Women of the 20th Century series - <a href="http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/tag/sf-women-of-the-20thc/" target="_blank">[here]</a>.
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Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| *
|
Squeeing over Supergirl series - <a href="http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/tag/squeeing-over-supergirl/" target="_blank">[here]</a>.
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David McDonald
and
Tehani Wessely
|
| *
|
The Rereading the Empire Trilogy review series (at tor.com)
|
Tansy Rayner Roberts
|
| *
|
The Reviewing New Who series - <a href="http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/tag/new-who-conversations/" target="_blank">[here]</a>.
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David McDonald
and
Tansy Rayner Roberts
and
Tehani Wessely
|
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| 2017 |
| Nomination
|
Essays and reviews in <em>Weird Fiction Review</em>
|
Kat Clay
|
| Nomination
|
History and Fiction: Writers, Their Research, Worlds and Stories
|
Gillian Polack
|
| Nomination
|
Reviews in <em>Randomly Yours, Alex</em>
|
Alexandra Pierce
|
| Nomination
|
Reviews in <em>The Hysterical Hamster</em>
|
Ian Mond
|
| Nomination
|
Reviews in <em>Tsana's Reads and Reviews</em>
|
Tsana Dolichva
|
| Nomination
|
Revisiting Pern, the great McCaffrey reread
|
Tehani Wessely
and
Marisol Dunham
|