Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm start

Date: Saturday 27th January, 2007

Venue: the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Queensland

Cost: $27.50

Tickets can be purchased from Pulp Fiction Bookshop, Brisbane, Tel: 07 3236 2750

or

The Judith Wright Centre Box Office, Tel: 07 3872 9000, Monday to Friday, 12noon-4pm

All tickets include entry to the post-ceremony cocktail function where drinks and food will be served and are available on a first in, best dressed basis.

The Aurealis Awards short list:

SCIENCE FICTION

Novels:

Hydrogen Steel. K. A. Bedford (Edge)

K-Machines. Damien Broderick (Avalon)

Underground. Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)

Geodesica: Descent. Sean Williams with Shane Dix (Harper Collins)

Short Stories:

Dark Ages. Lee Battersby (Through Soft Air)

Aftermath. David Conyers (Agog! Ripping Reads)

Down to the Tethys Sea. Stephen Dedman (Science Fiction Chronicle #266)

The Seventh Letter. Sean Williams (Bulletin Summer Reading Edition)

FANTASY

Novels:

The Silver Road. Grace Dugan (Penguin)

Heart of the Mirage. Glenda Larke (Harper Collins)

Wildwood Dancing. Juliet Marillier (Pan MacMillan)

Voidfarer. Sean McMullen (Tor)

Blaze of Glory. Michael Pryor (Random House)

Honourable Mentions:

White Tiger. Kylie Chan (Harper Collins)

Harsh Cry of the Heron. Lian Hearn (Hachette Livre)

Short Stories:

Dark Ages. Lee Battersby (Through Soft Air)

Why the Balloon Man Floats Away. Stephanie Campisi (Fantasy Magazine #4)

A Fine Magic. Margo Lanagan (Eidolon I)

The Revenant. Lucy Sussex (Eidolon I)

See Here, See There. Anna Tambour (Agog! Ripping Reads)

Honourable Mentions:

Ghosts of 1930. Lily Chrywenstrom (Borderlands #6)

The Bridal Bier. Carol Ryles (Eidolon I)

HORROR

Novels:

The Pilo Family Circus. Will Elliott (ABC Books)

Prismatic. Edwina Grey (Lothian)

Carnies. Martin Livings (Lothian)

The Mother. Brett McBean (Lothian)

Short Stories:

Dead of Winter. Stephen Dedman (Weird Tales #339)

Winkie. Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)

Hieronymous Boche. Chris Lawson (Eidolon I)

Dead Sea Fruit. Kaaron Warren (Fantasy Magazine #4)

Woman Train. Kaaron Warren (The Outcast)

Honourable Mentions:

Love Affair. Jacinta Butterworth (C0ck)

One Night Stand. Dirk Flinthart (Agog! Ripping Reads)

Under Hell, Over Heaven. Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)

Mosquito Story.A.M. Muffaz (Fantasy Magazine #4)

YOUNG ADULT

Novel:

Monster Blood Tattoo: Book One. Foundling. D.M. Cornish (Omnibus)

The King's Fool. Amanda Holohan (ABC Books)

Magic Lessons. Justine Larbalestier (Penguin)

Wildwood Dancing. Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan)

The Last Days. Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)

Short Stories:

The Dying Light. Deborah Biancotti (Eidolon I)

Leviathan. Simon Brown (Eidolon I)

A Feather in the Breast of God. Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)

Baby Jane. Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)

Forever Upward. Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)

The Arrival. Shaun Tan (Lothian)

CHILDREN

Novels:

A Fox Called Sorrow. Isobelle Carmody (Penguin)

Oakleaf Bearers. John Flanagan (Random House)

Melissa Queen of Evil. Mardi McConnochie (Pan Macmillan)

Twighlight in the Land of Nowhen. Nury Vittachi (Allen & Unwin) Fantastica Quartet. Kim Wilkins (Omnibus)

Short Stories:

The True Story of Mary Who Wanted to Stand on Her Head. Jane Godwin (Allen &
Unwin)

Woolvs in the Sitee. Margaret Wild, Anne Spudvilas (Penguin)

The Magic Violin. Victor Kelleher, Stephen Michael King (Penguin)