The 2025 Aurealis Awards winners, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.
Best Science Fiction Novel
- WINNER: Wastelands, Samira Lloyd (Arianhrod)
- Letters to Our Robot Son, Cadance Bell (Ultimo)
- Arborescence, Rhett Davis (Fleet UK)
- Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom)
- Dark Sands, J.S. Harman (self-published)
- All We Have, Tony Shillitoe (Millswood)
Best Science Fiction Novella
- WINNER: “The Hidden God”, T.R. Napper (Asimov’s 3-4/25)
- Quiet Like Fire, Cameron Cooper (Stories Rule)
- “Photo in the Chip”, Callum Lewis (Andromeda Spaceways Spring ’25)
- Homecoming, Thomas K Slee (Refraction)
- All My Guns are Trans and Gay and They’re Ruining My Fucking Life, Maddison Stoff & Corey Jae White (self-published)
You can read anbout the winners in other categories in this article from Locus magazine:
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-aurealis-awards-winners/
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