continued his dominance of the Prix Aurora Awards November 20th at the Canadian National Science Fiction Convention, hosted this year by SFContario in Toronto. The Auroras celebrate the best of both Canadian speculative fiction and its fandom. Sawyer's novel Watch, the second in his WWW trilogy about the World Wide Web gaining consciousness, has duplicated the feat of its predecessor, Wake, winning the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.The award was Sawyer's sixth in the category, and twelfth overall.
Sawyer's wife won the Prix Aurora's inaugural poetry award for her piece The ABCs of the End of the World. , a nominee alongside Sawyer in the Long Form English category won for Best Short Form work with his story The Burden of Fire. In the fan categories, and won Best Fan Organizational for 2010's Toronto SpecFic Colloquium and Winnipeggers and Keycon (Manitoba's premiere SF&F convention) stalwarts and won in the Fan Other category for the conception of the Aurora Award pins handed out to all nominees.
A complete list of winners in all categories may be found here:
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