The 2018 Aurora Award winners were announced at VCON 42 on October 6.

The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. Eligible were “works done in 2017 by Canadians.”

Best Novel

Jade City by Fonda Lee, Orbit

Best Young Adult Novel (Tie)

Exo by Fonda Lee, Scholastic Press

by Fonda Lee, Scholastic Press Houses of the Old Blood by Elizabeth Whitton, Kettlescon Press

Best Short Fiction

Gone Flying by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, Laksa Media

Best Graphic Novel

Rock Paper Cynic by Peter Chiykowski, Webcomic

Best Poem/Song

Heaven Is The Hell Of No Choices by Matt Moore, Polar Borealis #4

Best Related Work

The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media

Best Visual Presentation

Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve, Alcon Entertainment

Best Artist

Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press

Best Fan Writing and Publications

Speculating Canada edited by Derek Newman-Stille

Best Fan Organizational

Randy McCharles, chair When Words Collide, Calgary

Best Fan Related Work

Joshua Pantalleresco, Just Joshing (Podcast)

Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association #CSFFA Hall of Fame inductees

Dr. Jaymie Matthews (UBC Dept. of Astronomy)

(UBC Dept. of Astronomy) Candas Jane Dorsey

Robert Charles Wilson

[Via Robin Shantz.]