Sir Julius Vogel Awards
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Notes

  • A initiative of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ). The awards are in several categories.

    'The Sir Julius Vogel awards are fan voted awards for various endeavours in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields. Professional nominations can be for novels, short stories, art and others. Fan nominations can be for fanzine, writing, art, Services to Fandom, Services to Science Fiction and more. Voting on the Sir Julius Vogel Awards takes place before and at the National Science Fiction convention each year.'

    Source SFFANZ website, www.sffanz.sf.org.nz (Sighted 23/06/20089)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner (Best Short Story) What Bones These Tides Bring Nikky Lee , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Remains to be Told : Dark Tales of Aotearoa 2023;
joint winner (Best Collected Work) y separately published work icon Remains to be Told : Dark Tales of Aotearoa Lee Murray (editor), Bittern : Clan Destine Press , 2023 27747891 2023 anthology short story

Year: 2023

winner (Best Youth Novel) y separately published work icon The Rarkyn's Familiar Nikky Lee , United States of America (USA) : The Parliament House , 2022 23625186 2022 single work novel fantasy

'An orphan bent on revenge. A monster searching for freedom. A forbidden pact that binds their fates.

'Lyss had heard her father’s screams, smelled the iron-tang of his blood. She witnessed his execution.

'And plotted her revenge.

'Then, a violent encounter traps Lyss in a blood-pact with a rarkyn from the otherworld, imbuing her with the monster’s forbidden magic—a magic that will erode her sanity.

'To break the pact, she and the rarkyn must journey to the heart of the Empire. All that stands in their way are the mountains, the Empire’s soldiers, and Lyss’ uneasy alliance with the rarkyn.

'But horrors await them on the road—horrors even rarkyns fear.

'The most terrifying monster isn’t the one Lyss travels with.

'It’s the one that’s awoken inside her.

'Monsters of a feather flock together.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2018

winner (Best Novella / Novelette) y separately published work icon Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body Simon Petrie , Maroubra : Peggy Bright Books , 2017 12896769 2017 single work novella science fiction detective

'Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why.

'This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society in a hostile environment, in which a young woman's worst enemies may be those around her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2013

winner (Novella / Novelette) y separately published work icon Flight 404 [and] The Hunt for Red Leicester Simon Petrie , Maroubra : Peggy Bright Books , 2012 15586705 2012 selected work novella science fiction mystery

Year: 2008

joint winner (Best Short Story) Mist and Murder Lucy Sussex , 2007 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: New Ceres , no. 2 2007; The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy : Fourth Annual Volume 2008; (p. 98-119) Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies : The Essential Lucy Sussex 2011; (p. 315-368)
with 'Fendraaken' By Kevin G. Maclean
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