Aurora Award Winners

The Aurora Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy works.

Updated April 29, 2024
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The rising
Armstrong, Kelley.
Paper Book
The heart-stopping final book in the Darkness Rising trilogy, from New York Times-bestselling author Kelley Armstrong!      Things are getting desperate for Maya and her friends. Hunted by two powerful Cabals, they're quickly running out of places to hide. And with the whole world...
Angel Catbird
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year.On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat...
Women of the Apocalypse
Bell, Eileen, Felix, Roxanne, Milholland, Billie, McFadden,
Paper Book
Phaos: Cyber-Opera en Trois Actes et Deux Intermedes
Bergeron, Alain
Paper Book
An inheritance of ashes : a novel
Bobet, Leah.
Paper Book
A rich and compelling epic fantasy with a touch of the strange, from the author of Above. The strange war down south - with its rumours of gods and monsters - is over. And while 16-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to...
A play of shadow : Mellynne
Czerneda, Julie
Paper Book
Winner of the 2015 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Novel What would you risk for family? In the second installment of Night's Edge, Bannan Larmensu, the truthseer who won Jenn Nalynn's heart, learns his brother-in-law was sent as a peace envoy to Channen, capitol...
La Tueuse de Dragons
Côté, Héloïse
Paper Book
A daughter of no nation
Dellamonica, A. M.
Paper Book
As soon as Sophie Hansa returned to our world, she is anxious to once again go back to Stormwrack. Unable to discuss the wondrous sights she has seen, and unable to tell anyone what happened to her in her time away, Sophie is in a holding pattern, focused entirely on her eventual chance to return...
Funeral songs for dying girls
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series. Winifred has lived in the apartment above the...
Children of chaos
Duncan, Dave
Paper Book
On a dodecahedral world in thrall to the tyrannical, war-obsessed Hrag dynasty, no one could stop the Bloodlord from sending troops over the Edge to Florengia, invading its major cities, and offering them a choice between strict colonial rule and immediate and total destruction. When the doge of...
This is how you lose the time war
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters--and fall in love...
Bursts of Fire
Forest, Susan
Paper Book
Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2019 selection. Recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Bursts of Fire begins an epic political fantasy of revenge, addictions, and redemption for three magiel sisters in an empire...
Strangers among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
Forest, Susan
Paper Book
There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness . . . Who are the STRANGERS AMONG US? We are your fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and lovers. We staff your stores, cross your streets, and study in your schools, invisible among...
The imago stage
Georges, Karoline
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award A woman must emerge from the virtual world she's created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family. Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the...
De Synthèse
Georges, Karoline
Paper Book
Virtual light
Gibson, William
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller * 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response...
Les Cendres de Sedna
Gélinas, Ariane
Paper Book
Armed in her fashion
Heartfield, Kate
Paper Book
In 1328, Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras-humans mixed with animals or armour, forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast. At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows. Margriet de Vos learns she's a widow...
The embroidered book
Heartfield, Kate
Paper Book
*Shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best Novel* 'Spellbinding' JJA Harwood 'An entertaining and dark read' Stylist 'An absorbing novel' Guardian 'Beautifully written' Elizabeth Chadwick 'Power is not something you are...
The valkyrie
Heartfield, Kate.
Paper Book
*Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel* From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious, lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics 'With a brilliant heroine at the helm, this richly detailed, character-driven story...
The new moon's arms
Hopkinson, Nalo.
Paper Book
In the bestselling tradition of Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Alice Walker comes the breakthrough work by award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson about the unexpected discovery of a mysterious orphaned child and the disruption it causes in the life of a Caribbean woman. ...
The silvered
Huff, Tanya.
Paper Book
Winner of the 2013 Aurora Award! From the author of the bestselling Blood books, a brilliant new tale of shape-changers, mages, soothsayers,and a power-mad emperor. The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five...
Tigana
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book
Guy Gavriel Kay's masterful novel about the road to rebellion is an epic filled with intensely realized characters and powerful emotions. An enduring classic of Canadian literature, Tigana is a powerful exploration of memory and lost identity, tyranny and freedom. Two...
The wandering fire
Kay, Guy Gavriel.
Paper Book
In the second novel of Kay's critically acclaimed trilogy, Fionavar is locked in an unnaturally prolonged winter while anancient evil, freed from captivity, threatens the destiny of the first world and all others, including our own.
Walking in two worlds
Kinew, Wab
Paper Book
An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series. In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous...
Cross fire
Lee, Fonda
Paper Book
It's time to take back Earth.Earth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new...
Exo
Lee, Fonda
Paper Book
"A deeply immersive story that balances fantastic, original world building with spine-tingling adventure." --Sabaa Tahir, author of the New York Times bestselling series An Ember in the AshesIt's been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the...
Jade city
Lee, Fonda
Paper Book
* One of TIME's 100 best fantasy books of all time  * One of the best fantasy books of 2017 according to NPR, B&N, Locus,The Verge, and more!  * World Fantasy Award winner  ...
Jade legacy
Lee, Fonda
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL, 2022  "Lee's series will stand as a pillar of epic fantasy and family drama." --Library Journal (starred review) The Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control...
The annual migration of clouds
Mohamed, Premee
Paper Book
AURORA AWARD WINNER "This packs a punch." -- Publishers Weekly "One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction." -- Booklist "In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes...
Mexican Gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "It's Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird."--The Guardian   ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * WINNER OF THE LOCUS...
Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century
Robert Charles Wilson
Paper Book
Flashforward
Sawyer, Robert J.
Audiobook
An experiment in particle physics goes awry and for a few moments, everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. When the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
Golden fleece
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
Aboard A rgo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close - there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot...
Quantum night
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2017 2017 AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL  Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be "a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation" (The New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author...
Starplex
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
The Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print! The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a journey covering billions of...
Wake
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math--and blind. But, she can surf the Net with the best of them, following its complex paths in her mind. When a Japanese researcher develops a new signal-processing implant that might give her sight, she jumps at the chance, flying to Tokyo...
Watch
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter received the gift of sight with the aid of a signal-processing retinal implant. The technology also gave her an unexpected side effect--the ability to "see" the digital data streams of the World Wide Web. And within the Web she perceived an extraordinary presence,...
Wonder
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
The advent of Webmind--a vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web--is changing everything. From curing cancer to easing international tensions, Webmind seems a boon to humanity. But Colonel Peyton Hume, the Pentagon's top expert on artificial...
Lockstep
Schroeder, Karl
Paper Book
When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he's orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he's surprised to discover a...
Permanence
Schroeder, Karl
Paper Book
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact - a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars - is running for her life from her bullying brother, Jentry, who has stolen her family inheritance and threatens to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and...
Reine de Mémoire 1 - la Maison D'Oubli
Vonarburg, Elisabeth
Paper Book
Les Voyageurs Malgré Eux
Vonarburg, Elisabeth
Paper Book
Blind Lake
Wilson, Robert Charles
Paper Book
Blind Lake
Wilson, Robert Charles
Paper Book
Robert Charles Wilson, says The New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." His Darwinia won Canada's Aurora Award; his most recent novel, The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Now he tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human love...
Darwinia
Wilson, Robert Charles
Paper Book
In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle was an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. ...

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