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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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(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.
Lee Hoffman (born 1932) is a science fiction fan and an author of science fiction and westerns born Shirley Bell Hoffman.
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.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hugo-Award-for-Best-Fan-Writer   (1987 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hugo Award for Best Novella   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vernor Steffen Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee, rhyming with stingy) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which he argues that...
Kage Baker is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for her The Company series of historical time travel science fiction.
Categories: Hugo awards From the Locus Online website [1]: Locus, covering the science fiction and fantasy field since 1968, is a monthly 8 1/2 x 11 The magazine is published from Oakland, California.
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 Hugo Award for Best Novella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners of the Hugo Award for best novella.
According to Article 3.3.2 of the World Science Fiction Society, a novella is "A science fiction or fantasy story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) 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_Novella   (688 words)

  
 Meisha Merlin Publishing - - Excerpt
His novella "The Death Of Captain Future" (Asimov’s, Oct. ’95) received the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 1996 Science Fiction Weekly Reader Appreciation Award.
Orbital Decay received the 1990 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and Clarke County, Space was nominated for the 1991 Phillip K. Dick Award.
His novella "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" (Asimov’s, Oct./Nov. ‘97) won the 1998 Hugo, Locus, and the Asimov’s Readers Award for Best Novella.
www.angelfire.com /biz/MeishaMerlin/zerogclip.html   (377 words)

  
 Noreascon Four Hugo Results
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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).
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)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Allen Steele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His novella "The Death Of Captain Future" (Asimov's, Oct.`95; The Year's Best Science Fiction, 13th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois) received the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novella, won a 1996 Science Fiction Weekly Reader Appreciation Award, and was nominated for a 1997 Nebula Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Orbital Decay received the 1990 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and Clarke County, Space was nominated for the 1991 Philip K. Dick Award.
His novella "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" was nominated for the Nebula award and won the Hugo and the annual Reader's Poll of Asimov's Science Fiction as Best Novella of the Year.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/AllenSteeleeBooks.htm   (1242 words)

  
 Locus Online News: 2004 Hugo Awards Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 2003 Hugo Awards were presented Saturday evening, September 4, at Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention in Boston.
Toastmaster for the awards ceremony was Neil Gaiman.
Other awards presented prior to the announcement of the Hugos were:
www.locusmag.com /2004/News/09_HugoAwardsWinners.html   (295 words)

  
 2004 Sturgeon, Campbell science fiction award winners announced at KU
The awards were presented at a dinner that was part of the Gunn Center's annual Campbell Conference.
The awards dinner took place during the Campbell Conference, July 8 through 11, titled "Science, Science Fiction and the Future." For the first time in conference history, present and past winners received take-home awards, according to Chris McKitterick, a lecturer in English at KU and associate director of the Gunn Center.
James Gunn, KU professor emeritus of English and director of the Gunn Center; Kij Johnson, an associate director of the Gunn Center; Frederik Pohl, an SFWA Grand Master; and Noel Sturgeon, daughter of Theodore Sturgeon, chose the winner from a group of a dozen finalists.
www.news.ku.edu /2004/04N/JulyNews/July12/awards.html   (654 words)

  
 Allen Steele - Author Biography
His novella "The Death Of Captain Future" (Asimov's, Oct.`95) received the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novella, won a 1996 Science Fiction Weekly Reader Appreciation Award, and received the 1998 Seiun Award for Best Foreign Short Story from Japan's National Science Fiction Convention.
His novella "`...Where Angels Fear to Tread'" (Asimov's, Oct./Nov. `97), upon which Chronospace is based, received the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the Asimov's Readers Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Award in 1998, and was also nominated for the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and Seiun awards.
He was First Runner-Up for the 1990 John W. Campbell Award, received the Donald A. Wollheim Award in 1993, and the Phoenix Award in 2002.
www.allensteele.com /bio.htm   (569 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.
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 Nebula Awards - Boise Public Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 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)

  
 Lois McMasters Bujold - SF/Fantasy Books
Despite the fact the Lois McMaster Bujold is the winner of multiple Hugo awards, many science fiction readers have never heard of her.
“The Mountains of Mourning”: Nebula Award for Best novella of 1989; Hugo Award for best new novella of 1989
A Civil Campaign: 1st in the Sapphire Awards from the Science Fiction Romance Newsletter; PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) Award; Nominee for both Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel of 2000
www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art24955.asp   (312 words)

  
 Anne McCaffrey named SFWA Grand Master
Science fiction author Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, has been named to the select group of authors designated as SFWA Grand Masters.
Presentation of the award will be made during the Nebula Awards'® Weekend, April 28-May 1, 2005, at the Allegro Hotel in the heart of Chicago's Loop Theater District.
In 1968 and 1969, "Weyr Search," the initial story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Nebula Award® and a Hugo Award for Best Novella, marking the first time a woman received a Hugo for fiction.
www.sfwa.org /News/mccaffreygm.htm   (445 words)

  
 Riders of the Purple Wage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Riders of the Purple Wage was a science fiction novella by Philip José Farmer.
It appeared in Dangerous Visions, the famous New Wave science fiction anthology compiled by Harlan Ellison, in 1967, and won the Hugo Award for best novella in 1968, jointly with Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey.
Riders of the Purple Wage is an extrapolation of today's tendency towards state supervision and consumer-oriented economic planning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riders_of_the_Purple_Wage   (411 words)

  
 Hugo Award - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Hugo Award - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Original proposal of the award in Philcon II (http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Philcon/Philcon2-05.html)
The article about Hugo Award contains information related to Hugo Award, History, Award categories, Related awards, See also and External links.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hugo_Award   (702 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)

  
 Hugo Award Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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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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 Locus Online: News Log, September, Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 Harry Turtledove: Awards
At Conadian, the 1994 Worldcon, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Harry Turtledove's story "Down in the Bottomlands" won the Hugo Award for Best Novella.
The Nominees for the 1994 Hugo Award for Best Novella were:
In 1996, "Must and Shall" was nominated for the Hugo Award.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/awards.html   (459 words)

  
 Stromata Blog: Science Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Particularly attractive was the Hugo Awards display, where the rockets were arranged on a large table instead of being imprisoned in cases.
The Masquerade and the Hugo Award Ceremony, for which I was front-of-house manager, kept strictly on schedule, and the Volunteers Department furnished as many gophers as were needed without any desperate pleading on my part.
The Hugo Season, Part II This year’s Hugo Award Best Novella nominees are a decent lot, all worth an hour of one’s time, none likely to be remembered as a classic.
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