{"id":3714,"date":"2013-03-21T06:47:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2013-03-21T06:47:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:47:24","slug":"2012-aurealis-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2013\/03\/21\/2012-aurealis-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Aurealis Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurealisawards.com\/\"> 2012 Aurealis Awards <\/a>have been announced and I&#8217;m delighted to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Edge-Infinity-Alastair-Reynolds\/dp\/1781080569\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363819146&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=edge+of+infinity\">Edge of Infinity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Under-My-Hat-Tales-Cauldron\/dp\/0375868305\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363819168&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=under+my+hat\">Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron<\/a>, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-Science-Fiction-Fantasy-Year\/dp\/1597803456\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363819193&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=best+science+fiction+volume+six+strahan\"> The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six <\/a>have been nominated for Best Anthology, alongside two fine books from Ticonderoga Publications, <a href=\"http:\/\/ticonderogapublications.com\/index.php\/years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror\">The Year&#8217;s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011<\/a> edited by Liz Gryb and Talie Helene, and <a href=\"ticonderogapublications.com\/index.php\/our-books\/142-bloodstones\">Bloodstones <\/a>edited by Amanda Pillar. I&#8217;m delighted to be nominated alongside them, and wish them every succcess on the big night!<\/p>\n<p>I am especially delighted with the news because it was such a pleasure working alongside Jonathan Oliver and the Solaris Team on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Edge-Infinity-Alastair-Reynolds\/dp\/1781080569\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363819146&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=edge+of+infinity\">Edge of Infinity<\/a>, with Jim Thomas and the Random House team and Sara Odedina and the Hot Key team on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Under-My-Hat-Tales-Cauldron\/dp\/0375868305\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363819168&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=under+my+hat\">Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron<\/a>, and with Ross Lockhart and Marty Halpern on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-Science-Fiction-Fantasy-Year\/dp\/1597803456\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363819193&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=best+science+fiction+volume+six+strahan\">The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been extremely fortunate to have such a dedicated, talented and hard working bunch of people there to make me look good.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to acknowledge, though, that the true credit belongs to the wonderful writers who sent me stories and let me print or reprint them in my books &#8211; I&#8217;m very lucky and working with them really is enough reward in itself.<\/p>\n<p>It would be remiss of me, too, to not shout out to all of my friends who are nominated in other categories &#8212; too many to name &#8211; all of whom deserve enormous congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the 2012 Aurealis Awards have been announced and I&#8217;m delighted to see that Edge of Infinity, Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six have been nominated for Best Anthology, alongside two fine books from Ticonderoga Publications, The Year&#8217;s Best Australian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2013\/03\/21\/2012-aurealis-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 Aurealis Awards<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}