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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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Award   (748 words)

  
 Hugo Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/hu/hugo_award_1.html   (526 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hugo Award
Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 - August 19, 1967) was born in Luxembourg, and immigrated to the United States in 1905.
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form is one of the annual Hugo Award categories, presented by members of the World Science Fiction Convention.
The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hugo-Award   (1700 words)

  
 Alternate History: Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turtledove won the Homer Award for Short Story in 1990 for "Designated Hitter", John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction in 1993 for Guns of the South, the Hugo Award for Novella in 1994 for "Down in the Bottomlands".
"Must and Shall" was nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and received an honorable mention for the 1995 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
One of the best ways to understand a person or event is to visualize that person or event in a different situation.
www.corneria.org /alternate/works.html   (554 words)

  
 Seacon '79 - 1979 WorldCon - Photo Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hugo Awards - Best Novel: Fritz Lieber looks on after he has presented the award to Vonda McIntyre for Dreamsnake.
Hugos - Toastmaster Bob Shaw presents the Best Fan Writer Hugo to Charlie Brown who is probably accepting on behalf of Dick Geis for 'Best Fanzine'.
Hugos - Peter A. Tyers (in tux) presents Poul Anderson with the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Hunter's Moon".
www.fanac.org /worldcon/Seacon/w79-p06.html   (120 words)

  
 Plan II Honors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This award has been presented annually, since 1980, to four alumni under the age of 40 who have excelled in their chosen fields of endeavor and have shown loyalty to the University of Texas.
Award recipients will be seated with other honored guests as part of the platform party and introduced at the University's 121st Commencement on Saturday evening, May 21, 2005.
Award for Best New Writer, while his story “Into the Gardens of Sweet Night” has been nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Novelette Category.
www.utexas.edu /cola/plan2/printable.php?subsection=alumni&content=highlights   (613 words)

  
 Harry Turtledove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Worldwar series received a Sidewise Award for Alternate History Honorable Mention in 1996.
He won his second Sidewise Award in 2003 for the novel Ruled Britannia.
On August 1, 1998, Turtledove was named honorary Kentucky Colonel while Guest of Honor at Rivercon XXIII in Louisville, Kentucky.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Harry_Turtledove   (734 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).
The design of the 2005 Hugo Base is being chosen through a public competition as announced in Press Release 20.
www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk /hugo.htm   (606 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)

  
 Nebula Awards - Boise Public Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Nebula Awards aren't as old as the Hugos, but they are as widely respected as an enviable recoginition in the science fiction genre.
Best Novelette: Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang (also recipient of the 2002 Hugo Award)
Best Script: Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring by Frances Walsh, Phillipa Boyens and Peter Jackson (also recipient of the 2002 Hugo Award)
www.boisepubliclibrary.org /Ref/topics/nebula.shtml   (1766 words)

  
 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, science fiction book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Between 1958 and 1980, Asimov's science fiction output was relatively small, as he focused his energies on writing non-fiction.
His only important novel during that period was The Gods Themselves (1972), which won a Hugo and Nebula award for best novel.
His numerous mystery short stories told in the Black Widowers Club are collected in Tales of the Black Widowers (1974), More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976), Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980), Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), and Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990).
members.aol.com /tirfell/asimov2.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Hugo Award for Best Novelette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Article 3.3.3 of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society, a novelette is "A science fiction or fantasy story of between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (1 7,500) words."
Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year.
These were awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which Worldcons didn't give awards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novelette   (655 words)

  
 SCI FI | 2003 Science Fiction Weekly Hugo Award Poll Results
The Hugos, voted on annually by members of the World Science Fiction Society, are science fiction's most prestigious awards.
Although the Hugos are officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Awards, they are invariably referred to by their nickname, which is used in honor of the late Hugo Gernsback.
The Hugo Awards and the World Science Fiction Society® are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary body.
www.scifi.com /sfw/hugo/2003results.php   (341 words)

  
 Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Press Release: Hugo Win (2003)
The Hugos are nominated for and voted on by the 5,000 members of the World Science Fiction Society, and presented at that organization's annual conference, the World Science Fiction Convention — which this year is being held in Toronto.
The full list of winners in all categories — best novella, novelette, short story, movie, TV episode, and more — is available on the Torcon 3 website: www.torcon3.on.ca (select "Hugo Awards" from the A-Z index).
During the Hugo Award ceremony, Sawyer also won Japan's top science-fiction award, the Seiun, for best foreign novel of the year.
www.sfwriter.com /prhuwi03.htm   (685 words)

  
 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.
dpsinfo.com /awardweb/hugos/00s.html   (1050 words)

  
 Larry Niven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Perhaps his best-known work is ''Ringworld'' (1970), which received Hugo Award for Best NovelHugo, Locus AwardLocus, Ditmar AwardDitmar, and Nebula Award for Best NovelNebula/ awards.
He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1967 for ''Neutron Star (story)Neutron Star'', in 1972 for ''Inconstant Moon'', and in 1975 for ''The Hole Man''.
He won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1976 for ''The Borderland of Sol/''.
www.infothis.com /find/Larry_Niven   (736 words)

  
 Worldcon 2005 UK - Press Release 31
The shortlist for the Hugo Awards recognising achievement in Science Fiction during the year 2004 has been released.
The Hugo Awards, named in honour of writer, publisher and inventor Hugo Gernsback, are science fiction’s highest honours for professional and fan work.
Voting for the Hugo Awards is open to all adult attending and supporting members of Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, which takes place in Glasgow from 4 to 8 August 2005.
www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk /pressr31.htm   (885 words)

  
 Fire Watch
This is the fourteenth in a series of reviews of those pieces of written science fiction and fantasy which have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
See also a very interesting interview with the author herself explaining the thinking behind the story, which she describes as her favourite, though certainly not her best.
Other 1982 nominees for Best Novelette: "Myths of the Near Future", by J. Ballard; "Understanding Human Behavior", by Thomas M. Disch; "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson; "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman", by Joanna Russ; and "Swarm", by Bruce Sterling.
explorers.whyte.com /fw.htm   (962 words)

  
 2003 Hugo Nominees
A list of the top fifteen nominees in each category (with the number of nominations received) will be released after the 2003 Hugo Award winners are announced at the Torcon 3 Hugo Ceremony on Saturday, August 30th.
The final Hugo Awards voting ballot will be enclosed in Torcon 3's Progress Report Five, which will be mailed out in May. The ballot will also be available as a downloadable PDF file and as an online electronic ballot on the Torcon 3 web site at www.torcon3.on.ca.
Questions or comments may be sent to the Torcon 3 Hugo Awards postal address (PO Box 3252, Merrifield, VA 22116-3252 USA) or HugoAdmin@torcon3.on.ca.
www.torcon3.on.ca /ballots/hugonominees.html   (796 words)

  
 SF Canada - Members' News Spring 2000
The Campbell Award is given to the best new science fiction or fantasy writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy appearing in a professional publication (defined as a publication with an average print run of at least 10,000) was published in the previous two years.
The award will be given at the Hugo Awards ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention, which is being held this year in Chicago, August 31 to September 4.
Matt was recently awarded the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for best short story of 1999.
www.sfcanada.ca /summer2000/currentnews.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Review: Planet Explorer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Incorporates the winner of the 1956 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Kindly phrased, the characters are paper-thin, the role of women and the depiction of racial characteristics manifestly outdated.
"Exploration Team" was awarded a Hugo, and indeed it is easily the best story of the lot, which doesn't mean much.
sites.inka.de /~W3775/reviews/PlanetExplorer.html   (230 words)

  
 Neal Barrett, Jr.
His “author’s best” collection, “Perpetuity Blues,” was a finalist for the 2001 World Fantasy Award.
His novelette, "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" was a finalist for both the SFWA NEBULA Award, and the Hugo Award, for best novelette of the year, and his story “Cush” was a Hugo nominee.
A collection of the author’s “best stories of the 60s and 70s,” “A Different Vintage,” was published in 2001 by Subterranean Press.
www.nealbarrett.com /bio.html   (510 words)

  
 Locus Online: News Log, September, Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 2002 Hugo Awards were presented Sunday evening, September 1, 2002, at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, CA.
Several awards besides the Hugos were presented at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, CA.
This year's Chesley Awards, presented by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, were announced Friday evening, August 30 2002.
www.locusmag.com /2002/News/News09Log1.html   (486 words)

  
 Ringworld +
He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for "Neutron Star," and in 1974 for "The Hole Man." The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol.
His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.
The colony was a success, an idyll, the stuff of dreams, but beyond the perimeter the nightmare has begun to chatter.
www.cswnet.com /~dbruce/modern/lniven.html   (1002 words)

  
 Chicon 2000: Hugo Nominees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alexandria Digital Literature has contacted the Hugo nominated short story, novelette, and novella authors to obtain publication rights to their stories.
Best Novelette (168 nominations for 130 novelettes, six nominees due to a tie)
An award for the best new writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy appeared during 1998 or 1999 in a professional publication.
www.chicon.org /hugos/nominees.htm   (613 words)

  
 Biblio: Joan D Vinge Biography and List of Works
She is known for her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen, its sequels, and her series about the telepath named Cat.
Several of her stories have won major awards: Her novel The Snow Queen won the 1981 Hugo Award for Best science fiction Novel.
Her novel Psion was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association.
www.biblio.com /author.php?author=214   (298 words)

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