The winners for the 2008 Ditmar and Tin Dick Awards were announced tonight at Swancon, the 2008 national SF convention.

The winners are:

DITMAR AWARDS

Best Novel
Saturn Returns by Sean Williams (Orbit)

Best Novella/Novelette
"A Lady of Adestan" by Cat Sparks (Orb #7)

Best Short Story
"The Dark and What It Said" by Rick Kennett (ASIM #28)

Best Collected Work (tie)
The New Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan & Gardner Dozois (HarperCollins)
Fantastic Wonder Stories, edited by Russell B. Farr (Ticonderoga Publications)

Best Art Work
Nick Stathopolous for the Rynemonn Cover (Coeur De Lion)

Best Fan Writer
Robert Hood

Best Fan Art
‘Exterminate!’ Dalek Postcards – Kathryn Linge

Best Fan Production
2007 Snapshot Project, by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Kathryn Linge, Kaaron Warren and Rosie Clarke.

Best Fanzine
Not If You Were the Last Short Story on Earth, edited by Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts.

Best Professional Achievement
Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Operative Ltd

Best Fan Achievement
Alisa Krasnostein for ASiF! (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus!)

Best New Talent
Tehani Wessely

William Atheling Jr Award
Grant Watson for “The Bad Film Diaries” (Borderlands #9.)

TIN DUCKS

Best WA Professional Long Work
Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts, by Simon Haynes (Fremantle Press)

Best WA Professional Short Work
“The Sun People,” by Sue Isle (Shiny #2)

Best WA Professional Production
The New Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan & Gardner Dozois (HarperCollins)

Best WA Fan Production
ASiF!, edited by Alisa Krasnostein

Best WA Fan Written Work (tie)
Alisa Krasnostein, Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
Sarah Parker, Blog Like It's The End Of The World

Best WA Professional Artwork
Sarah Xu

Best WA Fan Art (tie)
John Parker
Sarah Xu

SPECIAL AWARDS

Peter MacNamara Achievement Award
Bruce Gillespie

Marg Hughes (Mumfan) Award
Alicia Smith and Rob Masters

Silver Swan Award
Danny Oz

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