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  Hugo Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/hu/hugo_award_1.html   (526 words)

  
 Hugo Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The awards were hand-machined by and consisted of a finned steel rocket on a circular wooden base.
This precedent contributed to complaints when the 2001 Hugo for best novel was given to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a fantasy novel by J.
The awards also sparked controversy in 2004 when the prize for Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form was given to a joke awards show acceptance speech featuring Gollum from Lord of the Rings over acclaimed episodes of Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Smallville.
www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hugo_Award   (700 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hugo Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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)

  
 Locus Online News: Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominations
Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Glasgow, August 4-8, 2005, has released nominations for this year's Hugo Awards, and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
In the Best Related Book category, Pat and Dick Lupoff won the Hugo in 1963 for their fanzine Xero; this year's nomination is for The Best of Xero.
Nominees in the Best Editor category this year are exactly the same as the past two year's nominees; in both cases, Gardner Dozois won.
www.locusmag.com /2005/News/03_HugoNominations.html   (1260 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)

  
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She was nominated for the Balrog Award for Best Poet in 1983 and has won two Gryphon Awards (established by Andre Norton for unpublished fantasy novels by women).
The former was nominated for, and the latter won, the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
She was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1989 and 1990.
members.tripod.com /stromata/id441.htm   (12874 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)

  
 Sci-Fi Wire - A News Service of the Sci-Fi Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Hugo Awards for best science-fiction works in 2001 were presented Sept. 1 at the 60th World Science Fiction Convention, or ConJose, in San Jose, Calif.
Named for magazine editor Hugo Gernsback, the annual awards are determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of the convention.
The John W. Campbell Award, sponsored by Dell Magazines, is not a Hugo Award, but appears on the same ballot as the Hugo Awards and is administered in the same way as the Hugo Awards.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/print.cgi?2002-09/03/11.00.books   (151 words)

  
 Authors: Ian Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I've read and collected SF for forty years, the books are piled three deep on shelves round the house.
He is the winner of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Medal for science communication (1995), the 1999 Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics in the USA, and the 2000 gold medal of the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications.
The Science of Discworld has been nominated for a Hugo award in the 'best related book' category for the 2000 Worldcon.
www.twbookmark.com /authors/30/2010   (642 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Nominees were announced for the 50th annual Hugo Awards, which will be awarded at Torcon 3, the 61st World Science Fiction Convention, to be held Aug. 28-Sept. 1 in Toronto.
The award is named for editor Hugo Gernsback, described as "the father of magazine science fiction," and honors works from the previous year.
The year 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Hugo Awards presentation in 1953 at the 11th Worldcon, popularly known as Philcon II, in Philadelphia.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-04/18/11.15.books   (335 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)

  
 Emerald City - Hugo Best Related Book
Prior to that there was an award called Best Non-Fiction Book.
The reason for the change was to include items such as comics that are fiction but are not books.
"Hugo Award" is a service mark of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
www.emcit.com /hugo_related.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Chrysalis Books - The Stardragons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He is also a winner of the World Fantasy Award and received the prestigious Hugo award in 2004 for his contribution to Science Fiction and Fantasy writing.
Bob Eggleton is an 8-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Professional Artist in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror as well as the winner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton, with text by Nigel Suckling.
Bob is also a 12-time Chesley Award Winner, and has won the Locus Award for Best Artist, twice in 2001 and 2003, and also the coveted Skylark Award from The New England Science Fiction Association.
www.batsford.com /book/1843401231   (359 words)

  
 Recent Publications
Sister Noon was shortlisted for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award.
Mars Crossing (Tor) won the 2001 Locus Award for Best First Novel, Best Novel Finalist for the 2001 Nebula Awards.
Galveston (Ace) was the winner of the 2001 Sunburst Award, and the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
www.msu.edu /~clarion/newsletter/recentpub21.html   (911 words)

  
 Noreascon Four   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Noreascon Four Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Related Book written in 1953 went to Werner von Braun, Fred Whipple, and Willie Ley for Conquest of the Moon.
We were curious to know how many people had attended all four Noreascons, so we had a sign-in book for those hardy souls who've made it to all the Noreascons since the first one in 1971.
The extended nomination details for 2004 Hugo Awards and Retrospective Hugo Awards for work done in 1953 are now available.
noreascon4.blogs.com /news   (932 words)

  
 Paper Tiger Books: Shelf One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There is also a mass of new material previously unpublished in book form so seasoned collectors of their work need have no fear of finding any repetition here.
For Rodney's first book I stayed with him for a week while his family left home.
This was the first book I wrote on a computer (having previously been an old-fashioned typewriter man) so it was poetic that it should be about computer art.
www.unicorngarden.com /ptbks1.htm   (962 words)

  
 ► Judith Buckrich a member of Artists Without Frontiers
1998-2002 Research and writing for a book on the history of Collins Street, Melbourne to be published by Australian Scholarly 2003.
Nominated for Hugo Award Best Related Book 2000.
1998 Was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne on 21 March 1998.
www.artistswithoutfrontiers.com /jbuckrich/index.html   (1400 words)

  
 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winners of the Hugo Award for best non-fiction book.
(After 1998, the category was retitled best related book.) Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year.
The Book On The Edge Of Forever by Christopher Priest
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Non-Fiction_Book   (912 words)

  
 Chicon 2000: Hugo Nominees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alexandria Digital Literature has contacted the Hugo nominated short story, novelette, and novella authors to obtain publication rights to their stories.
Best Related Book (167 nominations for 74 related books)
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)

  
 HobbySpace - Store
Finally there is a book with a broad selection of Bonestell's glorious space art.
In addition to sections on autographs, philatelics, documents, books, offical patches, badges, and passes, this reference book includes a concise history of the entire manned space program from 1960 through the year 2000.
Saturn Books: "Retro Rockets is a book about the early liquid-fueled rockets of Robert Goddard and his contemporaries in the US, Germany, and the Soviet Union...".
www.hobbyspace.com /Store/Books/amazonBooks2.html   (1129 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To learn more about the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award, please visit the Hugo web page at http://www.chicon.org/hugos.htm.
Note that "No Award" is a vote that none of the nominees should be given the award in question, not an abstention.
This process of elimination will continue until one nominee receives a majority of the votes, at which point it becomes the winner (unless the votes are outnumbered by "No Award" votes under specific conditions described in Section 3.11.2 of the WSFS Constitution).
www.chicon.org /text/hugo.txt   (838 words)

  
 THE THACKERY T LAMBSHEAD POCKET GUIDE TO ECCENTRIC & DISCREDITED DISEASES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A finalist for the Hugo Award, best related book.
A vast conspiracy on the part of the AMA has kept the contributing doctors from getting the rewards and accolades that are their due, but oddly enough the fantasy and science fiction community have given them Hugo Awards, Nebula Awards, and World Fantasy Awards.
Their mission is to boldly send up medical textbooks and indeed journals of a certain vintage.....the results are often hilarious...and at times are rather disquieting, leading one to try to remember quite how one goes about emergency psychiatric sectioning.
www.lambsheadguide.com /news   (1328 words)

  
 Emily Pohl-Weary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She co-authored a Hugo Award-winning book about her grandmother’s life (2002) and edited an anthology about female superheroes (2004), which was released to widespread critical acclaim.
Hugo Award, for best related book, for Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril.
Toronto Book Award finalist, for Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril.
www.writersunion.ca /p/pohl-weary.htm   (142 words)

  
 Noreascon Four Hugo and Retro Hugo Nominations
Note: This award is not a Hugo; it is sponsored by Dell Magazines.
Below are nominations in 10 categories for the best work of 1953.
Three categories were dropped for insufficient nominees: Best Dramatic Presentation — Long Form, Best Semiprozine, and Best Fan Artist.
www.noreascon.org /hugos/nominees.html   (649 words)

  
 2004 Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards for best science fiction works in 2004 were presented Sunday, August 7, 2005 at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, Interaction, in Glasgow.
Best Related Book: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
More photos from the Hugo Awards at Midamerican Fan Photo Archive.
www.sfwa.org /news/05hugowin.htm   (225 words)

  
 Live From Noreascon 4: Hugo Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Best Related Book - The Chesley Awards for Science Fictiion and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, and Pamela D. Scoville
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September 5, 2004 07:24 AM Very good choices for the Hugos this year, although I would have had other picks for the Novella of the year and The John Cambell Award: Karin Lowachee.
noreascon4.blogs.com /live/2004/09/hugo_awards.html   (366 words)

  
 Locus Online News: 2004 Hugo Awards Winners
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)

  
 Analog Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
RELATED BOOK - The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective, John Grant and Elizabeth L. Humphrey with Pamela D. Scoville
She was already a past winner of both Hugo and Nebula.
Yes, all her books are parts of series, but she works to make each book readable by itself.
www.analogsf.com /discus/messages/1/875.html?1111883400   (2038 words)

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