Aurealis Awards 2023

List of all winners at https://locusmag.com/2024/05/2023-aurealis-award-winners/
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.

Best Science Fiction Novel

• WINNER: Time of the Cat, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)

• Minds of Sand and Light, Kylie Chan (HarperCollins)
• The Comforting Weight of Water, Roanna McClelland (Wakefield)
• Aliens: Bishop, T.R. Napper (Titan)
• Dronikus, Marko Newman (AndAlso)
• Traitor’s Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)

Best Fantasy Novel

• WINNER: The Will of the Many, James Islington (Text)

• Shadow Baron, Davinia Evans (Orbit / Hachette)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• Of Knives and Night-blooms, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
• The Blood-Born Dragon, J.C. Rycroft (BattleWarrior)
• How to be Remembered, Michael Thompson (Allen & Unwin)