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  Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
This Hugo Award is given to writers whose work appears in non- or low-paying publications.
While a Hugo award for best fanzine had existed in various forms through the years since 1955, it was not until 1967 that Hugo Awards were created specifically for fan writing and fan art.
Thus, this Hugo is jocularly referred to as the "Hugo Award for Best David Langford".
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  Hugo Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation.
The Hugo Award itself was co-designed by longtime SF fan and booster Benedict Jablonski who based the trophy on a rocket-shaped hood ornament from an Oldsmobile 88.
While "bests" had been voted upon at all conventions there were no awards until the 11th Worldcon (Philadelphia, 1953) and this was, at the time, considered a one-time event.
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 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
The Hugo Awards, the most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy, are given every year for the best fiction of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation.
The Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist is given to an artist whose work appears in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines; this category is thus distinguished from that for professional artists.
Since this award was established, Tim Kirk and Brad W. Foster have both won this award five times each; Bill Rotsler, Teddy Harvia (David Thayer) and Alexis Gilliland have each won four times.
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 : RevolutionSF - The 2001 Hugo Awards, in a Nutshell : Event
This year's award for best Short Story went to Greg Egan for "Oceanic." Egan was not present, so the award was accepted by Sean McMullen, clad in his trademark leather jacket.
The Campbell Award is given annually to the best SF novel by a new writer (writers have 2 years of eligibility).
Best Editor went to Gardner Dozios, who picked up his 13th Hugo Award in the last 14 years for his work on Asimov's (the only year he didn't win, the award went to Kristine Kathryn Rusch for her work with The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction).
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 Hugo Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
While the World Science Fiction Society rules state that the award is for works of science fiction and fantasy, in practice it has almost always gone to science fiction works.
This precedent led to complaints when the 2001 Hugo for best novel was given to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a fantasy novel aimed at young adults.
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (awarded since 1961)
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 Encyclopedia: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is one of the annual Hugo Award categories, presented by members of the World Science Fiction Convention.
Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year.
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form is one of the annual Hugo Award categories, presented by members of the World Science Fiction Convention.
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 Hugo Award -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The award is named after (Click link for more info and facts about Hugo Gernsback) Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine (Click link for more info and facts about Amazing Stories) Amazing Stories.
The Hugo Award itself was co-designed by longtime SF fan and booster (Click link for more info and facts about Benedict Jablonski) Benedict Jablonski who based the trophy on a rocket-shaped hood ornament from an (Click link for more info and facts about Oldsmobile 88) Oldsmobile 88.
This award is sponsored by the publishers of (Something having the property of being analogous to something else) Analog, the magazine (United States mythologist (1904-1987)) Campbell edited.
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 Encyclopedia: Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, and essayist.
(awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which World Conventions didn't give awards) Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is the longeset running science fiction convention having been held from 1939 to 1941 and, after the interruption of World War II, every year since 1946.
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY) is a prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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 Vernor Vinge, Galaxy Quest Win Hugos
To raucous cheers, the writer and director of the movie Galaxy Quest gushed as they accepted their Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
It was the first time in years that a Hugo movie winner had personally accepted the award.
Each of the actual Hugo trophies was escorted on stage by a different costumed woman.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/worldcon_hugo_winners_000904.html   (892 words)

  
 Best Fanzine Hugo Nominees and Winners
Hugo Awards (Science Fiction Achievement Awards) are presented for work in the field of science fiction or fantasy by the members of the World Science Fiction Society every year at the World Science Fiction Convention.
A Fanzine is a non-professional publication devoted to science fiction, fantasy, or related subjects.
Below is a complete list of the Best Fanzine Hugo nominees and winners from 1955 (the first year the award was presented) through 2003.
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 Best Fanzine Hugo Nominees and Winners
Hugo Awards (Science Fiction Achievement Awards) are presented for work in the field of science fiction or fantasy by the members of the World Science Fiction Society every year at the World Science Fiction Convention.
A Fanzine is a non-professional publication devoted to science fiction, fantasy, or related subjects.
Below is a complete list of the Best Fanzine Hugo nominees and winners from 1955 (the first year the award was presented) through 2003.
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 2003 Hugo Award Information, Annotated
The Hugo awards are the most prestigious fan-voted awards in the science fiction and fantasy world.
Lester del Rey declined a posthumous Hugo for Judy-Lynn del Rey in 1986 on the grounds that the award was a sympathy vote.
For 2003 Nebula award winners click here; for finalists, click here; note, however, that because of differences in the nomination process, not all of this year's Nebula nominees are eligible for this year's Hugos.
www.frankwu.com /hugo2003.html   (3990 words)

  
 Locus Online News: Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominations
L.A.con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Anaheim, California, 23-27 August 2006, has released nominations for this year's Hugo Awards, and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
All the Best Semiprozine nominees are veterans; the newest, Emerald City, has 4 previous nominations, and won in 2004 in the Fanzine category.
Best Fanzine nominee Plokta was last year's winner, and has been nominated every year since 1999.
www.locusmag.com /2006/News/03_HugoNominations.html   (1342 words)

  
  Nippon 2007 Hugo Awards  
The Hugo® is the top award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
Hugos are presented each year at the World Science Fiction Convention, by the World Science Fiction Society.
The Nippon 2007 Hugo Presentation Ceremony will be held in the convention center on September 1st at 18:00 hours (6 pm).
www.nippon2007.us /hugo.php   (352 words)

  
 Fanzine Fandom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fanzines are an important method of communication between fans.
Mimosa is a well-established informational fanzine which has recently established a website and made its contents available via the Web.
The Knarley Knews is a general interest fanzine that has printed some of my artwork.
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 "The Best of Xero" by Pat & Dick Lupoff, eds.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From its modest beginnings to a 1963 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, Xero was a fascinating and often controversial convergence of writers, artists, and a burgeoning fan community.
Collected here from Pat & Dick Lupoff's legendary fanzine Xero are an array of excellent essays, memoirs, and ongoing debates on science fiction, mysteries, comic books and popular culture, as well as the revolving letters of comment (locs) that are virtual forerunners of the Internet.
fanzines were web pages before there was a web, and locs were message threads and bulletin boards before there was cyberspace.
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 Hugo Award - SciFi/Fantasy Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The award categories have changed over time, as the field of science fiction has grown and changed.
The first World Science Fiction Convention was held in New York in 1939.
While the WSFS rules state that the award is for works of science fiction and fantasy, in practice it has almost always gone to science fiction works.
www.infoshop.org /sf/index.php/Hugo_Award   (519 words)

  
 Noreascon Four Hugo Results
Best Related Book - The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, and Pamela D. Scoville
Best Semi-Prozine - Locus, Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, and Kirsten Gong-Wong, eds.
Best Fan Artist - Frank Wu John W. Campbell Award for New Writers (not a Hugo Award) - Jay Lake
www.noreascon.org /hugos/hugoresults.html   (164 words)

  
 Worldcon 2005 UK - Hugo Awards
The Hugo Award® is the leading award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
The Hugos are awarded each year by the World Science Fiction Society, at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
All members are entitled to make nominations and to vote on who receives the Awards, which are presented in a public ceremony which is always one of the highlights of the Worldcon.
www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk /hugo.htm   (695 words)

  
 David Langford
David Langford is perhaps the most recognized fan writer of all time, having won a boatload of Hugo awards in that nonfiction category.
His fanzine, Ansible (click on home page link below) is also widely recognized and has won many a Hugo award for Best Fanzine.
His short works have appeared in "Best of the Year" anthologies in both science fiction and horror genres, including the Hartwell, Wagner, Stephen Jones and Best of Interzone anthologies.
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 AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners from the 2000s
Anyway, Jeff Walker was the desginated acceptor for all of the Dramatic Presentation Hugos, except for one.
The 2004 Hugo Awards were given out at Noreascon 4 on Saturday, September 4.
The 1954 Retrospective Hugos were awarded at Noreascon 4 on Friday, September 2.
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 Hugo Award - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Hugo Award - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 13:14, 13 Jun 2005.
The article about Hugo Award contains information related to Hugo Award, History, Award categories, Related awards, See also and External links.
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 Hugo Award Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Norrell in 2005 by Susanna Clarke – both those authors have substantial genre backgrounds; whatever controversy Rowling's win caused probably had as much to do with her lack of genre roots as with the nature of the novel itself.
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 1996 Hugo Award Nominees
File 770 received enough votes to be nominated for Best Fanzine, but was ruled ineligible because its editor, Mike Glyer, is a member of the Hugo Awards subcommittee.
Linda Nagata received enough votes to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award, but was ruled ineligible due to professional publication of fiction in the science fiction and fantasy field prior to 1994.
The first two columns were calculated on raw eligible ballots, the third after reassigning scattered votes for single candidates to the most appropriate category, and the last on the nominees actually appearing on the ballot in each category.
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 AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners from the 1990s
The Hugos were given out on Sunday, September 1 at L.A.con III in Anaheim, CA.
The Hugos were awarded on Friday, August 7 at the Convention Center in Baltimore, MD at Bucconeer.
The 1999 Hugos were awarded at Aussiecon III on September 4 in Melborne, Australia.
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 Emerald City - Hugo Award Recommendations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For online fanzines and their editors links are given to their web sites.
As a result of a decision of the Business Meeting at the 2004 Worldcon all works originally published outside of the USA, and first published in the USA in 2004, are eligible for the 2005 Hugo Awards.
"Hugo Award" is a service mark of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
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 Hugo Awards Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom.
The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale.
Award for Criticism or Review, while not a Ditmar Award, is awarded as part of the same process.
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