Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award

1969–2025 124 winners 415 nominations

1979

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. Beloved Son George Turner Winner Book 1 of Ethical Culture
  2. To Keep the Ship A. Bertram Chandler Nominee Book 10 of John Grimes

Best International Long Fiction

  1. The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey Winner Book 3 of Dragonriders of Pern
  2. Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre Nominee Part of Snake
  3. Stardance II Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson Nominee Part of Stardance
  4. The Far Call Gordon R. Dickson Nominee
  5. The Persistence of Vision John Varley Nominee

1978

Australian Science Fiction, Best Novel

  1. The Luck of Brin's Five Cherry Wilder Winner Book 1 of Torin
  2. The Right Hand of Dextra David Lake^David J. Lake Nominee Book 2 of Breakout
  3. The Weeping Sky Lee Harding Nominee
  4. The Wildings of Westron David Lake Nominee Book 3 of Breakout

Australian Science Fiction, Best Short Fiction

  1. Albert's Bellyful Francis Payne Winner
  2. The Long Fall A. Bertram Chandler Nominee Part of John Grimes

Best International Long Fiction

  1. The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien Winner Part of Middle Earth Universe
  2. A Dream of Wessex^The Perfect Lover Christopher Priest Nominee
  3. Gateway Frederik Pohl Nominee Book 1 of Heechee
  4. Our Lady of Darkness Fritz Leiber Nominee
  5. Silver on the Tree Susan Cooper Nominee Book 5 of The Dark Is Rising
  6. The House of Compassionate Sharers Michael Bishop Nominee Part of Glaktik Komm

1977

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. Walkers on the Sky David Lake Winner Book 1 of Breakout
  2. Future Sanctuary Lee Harding Nominee

Best International Long Fiction

  1. The Space Machine Christopher Priest Winner Part of War of the Worlds Sequels
  2. A World Out of Time Larry Niven Nominee Part of State / Leshy Circuit
  3. Piper at the Gates of Dawn Richard Cowper Nominee Part of The White Bird of Kinship
  4. The Hand of Oberon Roger Zelazny Nominee Book 4 of Chronicles of Amber (Corwin)

1976

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. The Big Black Mark A. Bertram Chandler Winner Book 7 of John Grimes

Best International Long Fiction

  1. The Forever War Joe Haldeman Winner Book 1 of Forever War
  2. Down to a Sunless Sea Cordwainer Smith, Genevieve Linebarger Nominee Part of The Instrumentality of Mankind
  3. Inferno Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Nominee Book 1 of Inferno
  4. The Computer Connection^The Indian Giver Alfred Bester Nominee
  5. The Shockwave Rider John Brunner Nominee

1975

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. The Bitter Pill A. Bertram Chandler Winner
  2. The Soft Kill Colin Free Nominee

Best International Long Fiction

  1. Protector Larry Niven Winner Part of Known Space
  2. Frankenstein Unbound Brian W. Aldiss Nominee Part of Frankenstein Universe
  3. The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin Nominee Part of Hainish

1973

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. Let It Ring John Foyster^John Ossian Winner
  2. The Hard Way Up A. Bertram Chandler Nominee Part of John Grimes

Best International Long Fiction

  1. The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov Winner
  2. Dying Inside Robert Silverberg Nominee
  3. The Gorgon Festival John Boyd Nominee
  4. The IQ Merchant John Boyd Nominee

1972

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. Fallen Spaceman Lee Harding Winner
  2. The Authentic Touch Jack Wodhams Nominee
  3. What You Know A. Bertram Chandler Nominee Part of John Grimes

Best International Long Fiction

  1. Ringworld Larry Niven Winner Book 1 of Ringworld
  2. A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg Nominee
  3. Continued on Next Rock R. A. Lafferty Nominee
  4. The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin Nominee
  5. To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer Nominee Book 1 of Riverworld

1971

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. The Bitter Pill A. Bertram Chandler Winner
  2. Squat David Rome Nominee

Best International Long Fiction

  1. No Award (********) Winner
  2. The Region Between Harlan Ellison Nominee Part of Afterlife of Bailey
  3. Tower of Glass Robert Silverberg Nominee

1970

Best Australian Long Fiction

  1. Dancing Gerontius Lee Harding Winner
  2. The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars A. Bertram Chandler Nominee Part of John Grimes

Best International Long Fiction

  1. Cosmicomics Italo Calvino Winner
  2. The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin Nominee Part of Hainish