Ditmar Award
Entry updated 3 October 2022. Tagged: Award.
The Australian SF Awards, familiarly known as the Ditmars, were first given in 1969 and are presented in various categories for sf, fantasy and horror-related work by Australians. Voting resembles the system used for the Hugos but is associated with membership of the annual Australian National Convention ("Natcon") rather than the Worldcon. There have been many category changes over the years, some controversial (like the discontinuing of the International Fiction award since 1989, making the Ditmars purely local to Australia) and some joky (there was a 1991 category for Best Fannish Cat). The trophy normally takes the form of a monolith with sides in 1:4:9 proportions – as made famous in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – decorated with the stars of the Southern Cross.
For the time being, this encyclopedia lists Ditmar winners in the Australian Long Fiction/Novel and International Fiction categories only. See the links below for the current rules and a fuller historical list at Locus Online. [DRL]
Australian Novel/Long Fiction
- 1969: A Bertram Chandler, False Fatherland (1968; vt Spartan Planet 1969)
- 1970: Lee Harding, "Dancing Gerontius" (December 1969 Vision of Tomorrow)
- 1971: A Bertram Chandler, "The Bitter Pill" (June 1970 Vision of Tomorrow)
- 1972: Lee Harding, "Fallen Spaceman" (June 1971 If)
- 1973: John Ossian, "Let It Ring" (in Infinity Three, anth 1972, ed Robert Hoskins)
- 1974: no presentation
- 1975: A Bertram Chandler, The Bitter Pill (1974)
- 1976: A Bertram Chandler, The Big Black Mark (1975)
- 1977: David J Lake, Walkers on the Sky (1976)
- 1978: Cherry Wilder, The Luck of Brin's Five (1977)
- 1979: George Turner, Beloved Son (1978)
- 1980: Robert Ingpen, Australian Gnomes (graph 1979)
- 1981: Damien Broderick, The Dreaming Dragons (1980)
- 1982: David J Lake, The Man Who Loved Morlocks (1981)
- 1983: Terry Dowling, "The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes" (May/June 1982 Omega Science Digest)
- 1984: George Turner, Yesterday's Men (1983)
- 1985: Victor Kelleher, Beast of Heaven (1985)
- 1986: Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985)
- 1987: Keith Taylor, Bard III: The Wild Sea (1986)
- 1988: Terry Dowling, "For as Long as You Burn" (Summer 1986 Aphelion)
- 1989: Damien Broderick, Striped Holes (1988)
- 1990: Wynne Whiteford, Lake of the Sun (1989)
- 1991: Terry Dowling, Rynosseros (coll of linked stories 1990)
- 1992: Terry Dowling, Wormwood (coll of linked stories 1991)
- 1993: Greg Egan, Quarantine (1992)
- 1994: George Turner, The Destiny Makers (1993)
- 1995: Greg Egan, Permutation City (1994)
- 1996: Sean McMullen, Mirrorsun Rising (1995)
- 1997: Lucy Sussex, The Scarlet Rider (1996)
- 1998: Damien Broderick, The White Abacus (1996)
- 1999: Sean Williams, The Resurrected Man (1998)
- 2000: Greg Egan, Teranesia (1999)
- 2001: Sean Williams and Shane Dix, Evergence 2: The Dying Light (2000)
- 2002: Garth Nix, Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001)
- 2003: Sean Williams and Shane Dix, Echoes of Earth (2002)
- 2004: K J Bishop, The Etched City (2003; rev 2004)
- 2005: Sean Williams, The Crooked Letter (2004)
- 2006: Sean Williams and Shane Dix, Geodesica: Ascent (2005)
- 2007: Will Elliott, The Pilo Family Circus (2006)
- 2008: Sean Williams, Saturn Returns (2007)
- 2009: Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels (2008)
- 2010: Kaaron Warren, Slights (2009)
- 2011: Tansy Rayner Roberts, Power and Majesty (2010)
- 2012: Kim Westwood, The Courier's New Bicycle (2011)
- 2013: Margo Lanagan, Sea Hearts (in X6: A Novellanthology, anth 2009, ed Keith Stevenson, as "Sea-Hearts"; exp 2012; vt The Brides of Rollrock Island 2012)
- 2014: Robert Hood, Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead (2013)
- 2015: (tie) Trudi Canavan, Thief's Magic (2014); Glenda Larke, The Lascar's Dagger (2014)
- 2016: Lisa L Hannett, Lament for the Afterlife (2015)
- 2017: Kaaron Warren, The Grief Hole (2016)
- 2018: Thoraiya Dyer, Crossroads of Canopy (2017)
- 2019: Sam Hawke, City of Lies (2018)
- 2020: Gillian Polack, The Year of the Fruit Cake (2019)
- 2021: Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (2020)
- 2022: J S Breukelaar, The Bridge (2021)
International Fiction
- 1969: Thomas M Disch, Camp Concentration (July-October 1967 New Worlds; 1968)
- 1970: Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics (coll of linked stories 1965; trans 1968)
- 1971: no award
- 1972: Larry Niven, Ringworld (1970)
- 1973: Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves (March/April-May-June 1972 Galaxy; 1972)
- 1974: no presentation
- 1975: Larry Niven, Protector (1970)
- 1976: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (June 1972-January 1975 Analog; fixup 1974)
- 1977: Christopher Priest, The Space Machine (1976)
- 1978: J R R Tolkien, The Silmarillion (1977)
- 1979: Anne McCaffrey, The White Dragon (1978)
- 1980: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- 1981: Gregory Benford, Timescape (1980)
- 1982: Christopher Priest, The Affirmation (1981)
- 1983: Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
- 1984: no award
- 1985: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
- 1986: Ursula K Le Guin, The Compass Rose (coll 1982)
- 1989: Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son (1987)
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