Aurealis Awards 2025
Now in its 30th year, the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 830 entries across 15 categories, including 34 nominations in the tri-annual Sara Douglass Book Series Award (totalling over 120 books), and record numbers in the Children’s Fiction category.
Congratulations to this year’s finalists. The winners will be celebrated at the 2024 Aurealis Awards ceremony, which will take place online at 4pm AEST on Sunday 4 May 2025.
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
Transported, Kate Fitzpatrick (New Found Books)
Inheritance, Genevieve Gannon (Pantera Press)
The Temp, Martin Livings (self published)
Big Time, Jordan Prosser (University of Queensland Press) *
Temporal Boom, J M Voss (Shawline Publishing Group)
Juice, Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Random House)
Big Time has been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review. For more information, including all the shortlists, click here.