Awards season is upon us again! The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are New Zealand’s only voted awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Nominations are currently open for this year’s final ballot, and Paper Road Press has several eligible works …
BEST NOVEL
Sneaking in at the end of the calendar year, the sequel to the winner of the 2015 SJV Award for Best Novel is eligible for the 2016 award. Check out the ebook today:
Pisces of Fate, by Paul Mannering
BEST NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE
All six of the SHORTCUTS stories are eligible for this award:
Mika, by Lee Murray and Piper Mejia
Bree’s Dinosaur, by AC Buchanan
Pocket Wife, by IK Paterson-Harkness
The Ghost of Matter, by Octavia Cade
BEST COLLECTED WORK
And because the SHORTCUTS stories were published as a collection as well as standalone novellas, we’ve got a look-in for this category as well:
SHORTCUTS: Track 1, edited by Marie Hodgkinson
BEST ARTWORK
Books need covers, so (click on thumbnail to see full version):
Cover artwork of SHORTCUTS: Track 1, by KC Bailey
Cover artwork of Pisces of Fate, by Henry Christian-Slane
Nominations close 28 February, and it’s free to nominate any work. More details and instructions on how to nominate your favourite publications from 2015 can be found here on the SFFANZ website.