An interview conducted by Aurealis Art Director, Andrew McKiernan with Alastair Reynolds can be found at the interviews section of the website.

Alastair Reynolds was in Australia this year to promote his new books, Galactic North and Pushing Ice published by Gollancz. Born in North Wales, Alastair Reynolds has a Ph.D. in astronomy and since 1991 has lived in the Netherlands where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. His books have been short listed for major British SF awards. Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.

We've added two new sections to the Aurealis website.

Go to Aurealis interviews and read interviews with top Australian and international SF authors such as Damien Broderick and Aurealis "old girl" Trudi Canavan. Coming in March is an interview with internatinally renowned Hard SF author Alastair Reynolds.

Go to the book reviews section of the website to access rviews of the latest SF books form Australia and around the world.

Subscribers are able to access these features in aurealisXpress, our monthly ebulletin months before all regular visitors to the website.

Subscribers also have the benefit of winning great prizes in aurealisXpress each month. Next month we'll be giving away an entire collection of Alastair Reynolds books, including Revelation Space and Pushing Ice, thanks to Gollancz and Hachette Livre Australia. Two lucky winners this month will each win two Doctor Who audio books, courtesy of ABC Books.

Be sure to subscribe to Aurealis to access these benefits.

The 2006 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Brisbane on the 27th of January. All of us involved with Aurealis magazine and Chimaera Publications heartily congratulate award winners and all who entered their work into the Aurealis Awards.

The winners for 2006 are:
Science Fiction novel
K-Machines by Damien Broderick (Avalon)

Science Fiction short story
"The Seventh Letter" by Sean Williams (Bulletin Summer Reading Edition)

Fantasy novel
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan)

Fantasy short story
"A Fine Magic" by Margo Lanagan (Eidolon 1)

Horror novel [tie]
The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott (ABC Books)
Prismatic by Edwina Grey (Lothian)

Horror short story
"Dead of Winter" by Stephen Dedman (Weird Tales)

Young Adult novel
Monster Blood Tattoo by DM Cornish (Omnibus

Young Adult short story
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian)

Childrens novel
Melissa, Queen of Evil by Mardi McConnochie (Pan Macmillan)

Childrens short story [tie]
"The True Story of Mary Who Wanted to Stand on Her Head" by Jane Godwin (Allen & Unwin)
"Woolvs in the Sitee" by Margaret Wild & Anne Spudvilas (Penguin)

Golden Aurealis novel
The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott (ABC Books)

Golden Aurealis short story
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian)

Peter McNamara Convenors Award
Bill Congreve

Aurealis magazine has been successful in its grant application from the Australia Council Literature Board for 2007. This will mean increased pay rates for authors appearing in issues #38 and #39 to be published in 2007. Now is the time to send us your best story for consideration. See our guidelines. Now is also the time to take out a subscription to Aurealis as our policy has always been to fast-track the reading and evaluation of submissions from subscribers.

The 11th annual Aurealis Awards Ceremony will be at 6.00pm on Saturday 27th January 2007 at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Queensland.  This event will be teeming with authors, publishers, literary agents and readers, including hosts Kim Wilkins and Sean Williams, US editor Gardner Dozois and Aurealis magazine editor Stuart Mayne.

Everyone is welcome at this celebration of Australian achievement in speculative fiction brought to you by Fantastic Queensland.  Tickets are $27.50 and include post-ceremony tail function where drinks and food will be served. They can be purchased online from the Judith Wright Centre box office (www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au and find the Aurealis Awards under ‘what's on’) or in person from the Judith Wright Centre box office (Ph 07 3872 9000 Monday to Friday 12noon-4pm) or in person from Pulp Fiction bookshop, Brisbane, (Ph 07 3236 2750).  The 2006 Aurealis Awards Short Lists are available on http://www.fantasticqueensland.com/~aurealisawards/home.html.

 

Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space and other hard science fiction novels will be in Canberra and Sydney during January 2007 to coincide with the release of his two new titles Pushing Ice and Galactic North.

Friday 5th January
5pm Gaslight Books Signing
E-mail:gasbooks@gaslightbooks.com.au
Address: Unit 10, 83 Wollongong St, Fyshwick, Canberra, ACT
Details: public signing/meet-and-greet.

Saturday 6th January
2pm Infinitas Books Signing
E-mail: bookshop@infinitas.com.au
Address: Shop 22 Civic Arcade 48-50 George St, Parramatta
Details: public signing/meet-and-greet

Thursday 11th January
5pm Galaxy Books Talk & Signing
E-mail: davidl@galaxybooks.com.au
Address: 143 York St, Sydney, 2000
Details: In-store Talk & Signing

Alastair Reynolds was born in South Wales. He has a Ph.D. in astronomy and since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. His books have been short listed for the major SF prizes including the Arthur C. Clarke and the British SF Awards. Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.

Unlocked from the imagination of one of the world's most original directors, Guillermo Del Toro (Blade II, Hellboy), "Pan's Labyrinth" is a gothic story that journeys between reality and a magical underground realm both beautiful and dazzling. Harnessing classic folklore and historic themes against the backdrop of the bloody times during 1940's fascist Spain, "Pan's Labyrinth" is a timeless tale of good and evil, bravery and sacrifice, love and loss.

If you love dark fantasy then come along to a discounted advanced screening of Pan's Labrynith on Monday 18 December 6.30pm at Kino Dendy Cinemas, 45 Collins St Melbourne, at $12 per ticket, or call (03)9650 2100.

For further information on Pan's Labryinth or to view the trailer please visit www.panslabyrinth.com

Alexandra Adornetto, a MacRobertson Girls High School student has been signed to a two book deal by HarperCollins' Children's publisher Lisa Berryman. Having finished The Shadow Thief and sent to HarperCollins' slush pile, Alexandra had to wait almost a year before she had heard that the publisher had picked up her novel.

The novel tells the story of Millipop and Ernest who live in Drabville, where residents are having their shadows stolen.

    The editors have implemented new submission guidelines to make it easier for writers to submit to Aurealis magazine.

Visit http://www.aurealis.com.au/submissions.php for more details. 

The publishers of Aurealis are pleased to announce that Stephen Higgins and Stuart Mayne are the new editors of Aurealis.

Stephen Higgins needs little introduction. Co-founder of Aurealis magazine, with Dirk Strasser in 1990, Stephen has decided to return to the magazine he loves with a passion. Stephen is looking to return Aurealis to the forefront of Australian speculative fiction.

Stuart Mayne has been working with Chimaera Publications for the past three years, marketing the book list and editing aurealisXpress. He has worked as a book and magazine editor since 1991. He is an expert on Australian crime fiction author, Arthur Upfield, editing Upfield's last published novel.