The finalists for the 2006 Prix Aurora Awards (the "Canadian Hugos," as they've sometimes been called) have just been announced. And the nominees in the English-language categories are:

Best Long-Form Work in English

• Migration (Species Imperative 2), Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books, May/2005)
• Cagebird, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect, Apr/2005)
• Mindscan, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, Apr/2005)
• Silences of Home, Caitlin Sweet (Penguin, Feb/2005)
• Lone Wolf, Edo van Belkom (Tundra Books, Oct/2005)
• Spin, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, Apr/2005)

Best Short-Form Work in English

• "She's Such a Nasty Morsel", Julie E. Czerneda (Women of War, DAW)
• "Transubstantiation", Derwin Mak (Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology, Windstorm Creative)
• "Identity Theft", Robert J. Sawyer (Down These Dark Spaceways, Science Fiction Book Club)
• "Alexander's Road", Karl Schroeder (The Engine of Recall, Robert J. Sawyer Books)
• "Going Harvey in the Big House", Douglas Smith (Cicada, Jan/Feb 2005)
• "Like Monsters of the Deep", Hayden Trenholm (On Spec #61 Summer/2005)
• "Mayfly", Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy (Tesseracts Nine, Edge)