Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award

1969–2025 124 winners 415 nominations

2025

Best Novel

  1. The Underhistory Kaaron Warren Winner
  2. Blood Covenant Alan Baxter Nominee
  3. Ghost Cities Siang Lu Nominee
  4. The Escher Man T. R. Napper Nominee
  5. The Medusa Situation Gabiann Marin Nominee

2024

Best Novel

  1. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath Garth Nix Winner Book 2 of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
  2. Dream Weaver Steven Paulsen Nominee
  3. Polyphemus Zachary Ashford Nominee
  4. The Tangled Lands Glenda Larke Nominee
  5. Traitor's Run Keith Stevenson Nominee Book 1 of The Lenticular
  6. When Dark Roots Hunt Zena Shapter Nominee

Best Collected Work

  1. The Measure of Sorrow J. Ashley-Smith Winner
  2. Body of Work C. Z. Tacks Nominee Part of Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild Anthologies

2023

Best Novel

  1. 36 Streets T. R. Napper Winner
  2. Sallow Bend Alan Baxter Nominee
  3. Scavengers Robert Hood Nominee
  4. The Stone Road Trent Jamieson Nominee
  5. Through the Unfolded Earth Jason Franks Nominee Part of X-Dimensional Assassin Zai

2022

Best Novel

  1. The Bridge J. S. Breukelaar Winner
  2. A Marvellous Light Freya Marske Nominee Book 1 of The Last Binding
  3. All the Murmuring Bones Angela Slatter Nominee Part of Sourdough Universe
  4. Papa Lucy & the Boneman Jason Fischer Nominee Book 1 of Books of Before & Now
  5. She Who Became the Sun Shelley Parker-Chan Nominee Book 1 of The Radiant Emperor
  6. The Councillor E. J. Beaton Nominee
  7. The Rose Daughter Maria Lewis Nominee

Best Novella or Novelette

  1. Ariadne, I Love You J. Ashley Smith Winner
  2. Ghost Recall Alan Baxter Nominee Book 3 of Eli Carver

2021

Best Novel

  1. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Garth Nix Winner Book 1 of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
  2. Hollow Empire Sam Hawke Nominee Book 2 of Poison War
  3. Monstrous Heart Claire McKenna Nominee Book 1 of The Deepwater Trilogy
  4. Poison & Light Gillian Polack Nominee
  5. Repo Virtual Corey J. White Nominee
  6. The Animals in That Country Laura Jean McKay Nominee
  7. The Crying Forest Venero Armanno Nominee

Best Novella or Novelette

  1. Flyaway Kathleen Jennings Winner
  2. The Roo Alan Baxter Nominee

Best Collected Work

  1. Dark Harvest Cat Sparks Winner
  2. The Zookeeper's Tales of Interstellar Oddities Aiki Flinthart, Pamela Jeffs Nominee

2020

Best Novel

  1. The Year of the Fruit Cake Gillian Polack Winner
  2. Claiming T-Mo Eugen Bacon Nominee Book 1 of Outbreeds