Left to right: Derwin Mak, Tony Pi, and Eric Choi with the Aurora Award trophies for The Dragon and the Stars.
The Dragon and the
Stars won the Aurora Award for Best Related Work in English. The Aurora
Awards, Canada's
national science fiction awards for science fiction, were handed out at
SFContario 2, which served as this year's Canadian National Science Fiction
Convention, on November 20, 2011. The short-list of nominees and the winners
were decided by voting of Canadian science fiction readers.
This is the probably the first time that a Chinese-theme
anthology of science fiction and fantasy has won a national science fiction
award outside China.
Hopefully, the success of The Dragon and
the Stars will encourage the publishing of more science fiction and fantasy
inspired by the various cultures and traditions of the world.
The editors Derwin Mak and Eric Choi thanked Dr. Wu Yan of Beijing Normal University,
Canadian author Julie Czerneda, John Helfers of Tekno Books, Sheila Gilbert of
DAW Books, and the authors of the anthology. Tony Pi, who wrote the story
"The Character of the Hound", represented the authors at the
ceremony.
Thanks to all the persons who voted in the Aurora Awards.
Thanks to all the persons who voted in the Aurora Awards.
May science fiction and fantasy flourish in Canada
and the Chinese communities around the world for ten thousand years!
Left to right: Eric Choi, Derwin Mak, and Tony Pi.
Derwin Mak with author J.M. Frey, a presenter at the Aurora
Awards. Publishers' Weekly listed
J.M.'s novel Triptych as one of the
five best science fiction or fantasy novels of 2011.
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