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Award Category: William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review (William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review)

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