William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Presented by: Members of the current and previous National (Australian) SF Convention
For: Excellence in science fiction and speculative criticism
| Nominee | Essays and reviews in <em>Weird Fiction Review</em> | Kat Clay |
| Nominee | Reviews in <em>Tsana's Reads and Reviews</em> | Tsana Dolichva |
| Nominee | Reviews in <em>The Hysterical Hamster</em> | Ian Mond |
| Nominee | Reviews in <em>Randomly Yours, Alex</em> | Alexandra Pierce |
| Nominee | Revisiting Pern, the great McCaffrey reread | Tehani Wessely+Marisol Dunham |
| Nominee | History and Fiction: Writers, Their Research, Worlds and Stories | Gillian Polack |
| Winner | Letters to Tiptree | Alexandra Pierce+Alisa Krasnostein |
| Nominee | The Reviewing New Who series - <a href="http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/tag/new-who-conversations/" target="_blank">[here]</a>. | David McDonald+Tansy Rayner Roberts+Tehani Wessely |
| Nominee | The Rereading the Empire Trilogy review series (at tor.com) | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | SF Women of the 20th Century series - <a href="http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/tag/sf-women-of-the-20thc/" target="_blank">[here]</a>. | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | "Sara Kingdom dies at the end", in Companion Piece (Mad Norwegian Press) | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | Squeeing over Supergirl series - <a href="http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/tag/squeeing-over-supergirl/" target="_blank">[here]</a>. | David McDonald+Tehani Wessely |
| Winner | Does Sex Make Science Fiction "Soft?" | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | Reviews in <I>The Angriest</I> | Grant Watson |
| Nominee | The Eddings Reread series, in <I>A Conversational Life</I> | Tehani Wessely+Jo Anderton+Alexandra Pierce |
| Nominee | Reviews in <I>Adventures of a Bookonaut</I> | Sean Wright (reviewer) |
| Nominee | Reviews in <I>FictionMachine</I> | Grant Watson |
| Nominee | The Reviewing New Who series | David McDonald+Tansy Rayner Roberts+Tehani Wessely |
| Winner | <I>Galactic Suburbia</I> Episode 87: Saga Spoilerific Book Club | Alisa Krasnostein+Alex Pierce+Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Winner | The <I>Reviewing New Who</I> series | David McDonald+Tansy Rayner Roberts+Tehani Wessely |
| Nominee | Reviews in <I>Randomly Yours, Alex</I> | Alexandra Pierce |
| Nominee | "A Puppet's Parody of Joy" : Dolls, Puppets, and Mannikins as Diabolical Other in Ramsey Campbell | Leigh Blackmore |
| Nominee | That Was Then, This Is Now: How My Perceptions Have Changed | George Ivanoff |
| Nominee | "Things Invisible: Human and Ab-Human in Two of Hodgson's Carnacki stories" in <I>Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies</I> #1 edited by Sam Gafford (Ulthar Press) | Leigh Blackmore |
| Winner | "Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let's Unpack That.", in tor.com | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | The Year in Review (The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011) | Liz Grzyb+Talie Helene |
| Winner | Reviews of the Vorkosigan Saga, in Randomly Yours, Alex (http://randomalex.net) | Alexandra Pierce+Tehani Wessely |
| Nominee | 2010 : The Year in Review | Liz Grzyb+Talie Helene |
| Nominee | Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature | Damien Broderick+Van Ikin |
| Nominee | “Reviewing New Who” series, in A Conversational Life (http://thebooknut.wordpress.com/) | David McDonald+Tehani Wessely+Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | “Currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke”, in Metamagician and the Hellfire Club (http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com.au/) | Russell Blackford |
| Winner | for "A Modern Woman's Guide to Classic Who" | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
| Nominee | Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Australian SF Review (Second Series) | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | The Australian Dream Becomes Nightmare - Visions of Suburbia in Australian Science Fiction | Ross Murray |
| Winner | The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms | Helen Merrick |
| Nominee | Reviews on his blog (mondyboy.livejournal.com) | Ian Mond |
| Nominee | For reviews and articles for Eiga: Asian Cinema (www.eigaasiancinema.com) | Grant Watson |
| Nominee | "The Dead Walk! ... Into a Bookstore Near You" (in Eye of Fire No.1 (Brimstone Press)) | Chuck McKenzie |
| Winner | "Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: the Case of Fantasy Fiction" | Kim Wilkins |
| Nominee | "Bad Film Diaries: Sometimes the Brand Burns: Tim Burton and the Planet of the Apes" | Grant Watson |
| Nominee | "Dark Suspense: The End of the Line" | Shane Jiraiya Cummings |
| Nominee | "George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead" | Robert Hood |
| Winner | "The Bad Film Diaries" | Grant Watson |
| Nominee | Aurealis Awards Shortlist Feature Article (Published on <I>ASiF!</I>) | Ben Peek |
| Nominee | editorial for <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?223781"><I>The New Space Opera</I></A> | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nominee | Review of David Conyers' and John Sunseri's <I>The Spiraling Worm</I> (Published on <I>Horrorscope</I>) | Shane Jiraiya Cummings |
| Nominee | Review of Elizabeth Bear's <I>New Amsterdam</I> (Published as Podcast #2 on <I>ASiF!</I>) | Tansy Rayner Roberts+Alexandra Pierce |
| Nominee | "Seriatem, Seriatum, omnia Seriatem" | Ian Nichols |
| Nominee | "The Shadow Thief" (Published by <I>The West Australian</I> Weekend Magazine on 22 September 2007) | Ian Nichols |
| Winner | Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century | Justine Larbalestier |
| Nominee | "Bad Film Diaries--Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld" | Grant Watson |
| Nominee | "Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiji Eiga and Its Metaphorical Undercurrents" | Robert Hood |
| Nominee | Review of <I>Paraspheres</I>, appearing in <i>Horrorscope</I> | Miranda Siemienowicz |
| Nominee | Review of <I>Through Soft Air</I> (on <I>ASif</I>) | Kathryn Linge |
| Winner | Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla | Robert Hood |
| Nominee | The 2005 Snapshot Australian Speculative Fiction writers, editors, publishers (<A HREF="http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/" target="_blank">http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Snapshot/</A>) | Ben Peek |
| Nominee | Body Parts | Chris Lawson |
| Nominee | Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | PK Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror | Rosaleen Love |
| Winner | Review of Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, asking "is this film a ghost story?" <A HREF="http://www.roberthood.net/reviews/weight_of_water.html" target="_blank">[here]</A> | Robert Hood |
| Winner | "Why are publishers afraid of horror", BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004 (view copy <A HREF="http://www.australianhorror.com/articles.php?article=3" target="_blank">[here]</A>.) | Jason Nahrung |
| Nominee | Review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project - <A HREF="http://benpeek.livejournal.com/231224.html" target="_blank">[here]</A>. | Ben Peek |
| Winner | untitled | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | untitled | Lee Battersby |
| Nominee | untitled | Jason Nahrung |
| Nominee | untitled | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nominee | untitled | Grant Watson |
| Winner | untitled | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nominee | untitled | Bill Congreve |
| Nominee | untitled | Justine Larbalestier |
| Nominee | untitled | Tama Leaver |
| Nominee | untitled | Robin Pen |
| Nominee | Insufficient Nominations - Category Cancelled | (********) |
| Winner | Waking Henson: A Jim Henson Retrospective (Presentation) | Grant Watson+Simon Oxwell |
| Nominee | Reviews in Locus Magazine | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nominee | Time Travel, Timescapes and Timescape | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | The Unrelenting Gaze (SF Commentary 76) | Bruce Gillespie |
| Winner | Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction | Russell Blackford+Van Ikin+Sean McMullen |
| Winner | Women of Other Worlds | Helen Merrick+Tess Williams |
| Nominee | Reviews in Locus Magazine | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nominee | The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction | Jonathan Strahan+Steven Paulsen |
| Nominee | Writings on the iam website | Robert Hood |
| Winner | The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy | Paul Collins |
| Nominee | No Axis, No Boundary (Altair, February 1998) | Simon Brown+Sean Williams |
| Nominee | Reviews in The New York Review of Science Fiction | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | Aliens & Savages | Janeen Webb+Andrew Enstice |
| Nominee | Reviews in Locus Magazine | Jonathan Strahan |
| Nominee | Contributions to the MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy | Steven Paulson |
| Winner | Australia: Australian Contemporary Fantasy (in Encyclopedia of Fantasy) | Sean McMullen+Steven Paulsen |
| Nominee | for X-files episode reviews in Frontier | Katharine Maxwell+Darren Maxwell |
| Winner | reviews in Thyme | Alan Stewart |
| Nominee | The Tiger in the Prison House (Science Fiction #37); Reviews of "Distress" (Science Fiction and NYRSF); Jewels in Junk City (Review of Contemporary Fiction) | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | Post Human SF; Lost in Cyberspace (The Festival of Imagination Programme Book) | Janeen Webb |
| Winner | The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction | Bill Congreve+Sean McMullen+Steven Paulsen |
| Nominee | Reading By Starlight | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | No Award Given This Year | (********) |
| Winner | SF Sucks | James Allen |
| Nominee | Silverberg Not Moving | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | Five Bikers of the Apocalypse | Leigh Edmonds |
| Winner | Australian SF Art Turns 50 | Sean McMullen |
| Nominee | Five Go Camping with 12-01 Club | Paul Ewings |
| Nominee | James Morrow and the Erni | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | From SFantasy to Galileo | Sean McMullen |
| Nominee | Reviews in Ethel the Aardvark | Karen Pender-Gunn |
| Winner | Going Commercial | Sean McMullen |
| Nominee | Jonathan Carroll, Storyteller | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | Review of the Fantastic Civil War | Blair Ramage |
| Winner | The Non-SF Novels of Philip K. Dick | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | Analogues of Anomie: Lee Harding's Novels | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | Fantastic World (reviews in the Melbourne Sunday Herald) | Peter Nicholls |
| Nominee | Reviews (in Ethel the Aardvark and SF Commentary) | Alan Stewart |
| Nominee | Insufficient Nominations - Not on ballot | (********) |
| Winner | Australian Science Fiction Review (Articles) | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | Counter Earth/Counter Humanity | Martin Bridgestock |
| Nominee | Sea & Summer | Martin Bridgestock |
| Nominee | Australian Science Fiction Review (Articles) | Janeen Webb |
| Nominee | Speaker for the Dead | Arthur Webster |
| Winner | Mirror Reversals and the Tolkien Writing Game | Van Ikin |
| Nominee | Deconstructing the Demon: John Calvin Batchelor's Novels | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | A Prefilmic, Post-Poststructurialist Prostruction of ALIEN/ALIENS 3 | Richard Erlich+Peter Hall |
| Nominee | Review of TRILLION YEAR SPREE | John Foyster |
| Nominee | Structural Analysis of SF. Why? | Susan Margaret |
| Nominee | I Know Who I Am, But What Is My Brand Name? | Janeen Webb |
| Winner | Debased and Lascivious | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | unknown | Dave Luckett |
| Nominee | unknown | Michael J. Tolley |
| Nominee | Frank's Tank | Margaret Winch |
| Winner | Neuromancer, et al | George Turner |
| Nominee | unknown | Russell Blackford |
| Nominee | unknown | Yvonne Rousseau |
| Nominee | unknown | Norman Talbot |
| Winner | In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel | George Turner |
| Nominee | SF Reviews in The Australian | John Baxter |
| Nominee | SF Reviews in The Age | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | Article on George Turner | John Foyster |
| Winner | No Award | (********) |
| Winner | Kirth Gersen: The Other Demon Prince | Terry Dowling |
| Nominee | The Lever of Life: Winning and Losing in the Fiction of Cordwainer Smith | Terry Dowling |
| Nominee | SF Commentary - The First Year | Bruce Gillespie |
| Winner | Sing a Song of Daniel | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | The Lately Great Alfred Bester | Damien Broderick |
| Nominee | The Labor Day Group | Thomas M. Disch |
| Winner | Frederik Pohl as a Creator of Future Societies | George Turner |
| Nominee | Charting Paradise | Algis Budrys |
| Nominee | Outside the Whale | Christopher Priest |
| Nominee | Four Reasons for Reading Thomas M. Disch | John Sladek |
| Winner | Paradox as Paradigm: A Review of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever | Jack R. Herman |
| Nominee | The Art of Xenography | Terry Dowling |
| Nominee | By Our Fruits | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | The Man Who Filled the Void | Bruce Gillespie |
| Nominee | Delany: A Victim of Great Applause | George Turner |
| Winner | Women and Science Fiction | Susan Wood |
| Nominee | Parergon Papers 10 | John Bangsund |
| Nominee | The Morasses of Academe Revisited | Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
| Nominee | On the Ebb Tide of the New Wave | John McPharlin |
| Winner | The Novels of D.G. Compton | Andrew Whitmore |
| Nominee | Review of "Going" | Van Ikin |
| Nominee | Science Fiction: History Science Vision O.U.P | Robert Scholes+Eric S. Rabkin |
| Nominee | The Martial Art of SF Criticism | George Turner |
| Nominee | The Silverberg Phenomenon | George Turner |
| Winner | The Jonah Kit | George Turner |
| Nominee | Theme as an Element of Fiction | George Turner |
| Nominee | Plumbers of the Cosmos | George Turner+Peter Nicholls |
| Winner | Paradigm and Pattern; Form and Meaning in the Dispossessed | George Turner |
| Nominee | Foundation & Asimov | Algis Budrys |
| Nominee | Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction | James E. Gunn |
| Nominee | New Worlds for Old | David Ketterer |
| Nominee | Philip Dick By 1975 | George Turner |