1943 Retro Hugo Awards Winners

Best Novel

WINNER: Beyond This Horizon, Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) (Astounding Science-Fiction 4-5/42)

• The Uninvited, Dorothy Macardle (Doubleday, Doran/S.J.R. Saunders)
• Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak (Black Mask 9-11/42)
• Second Stage Lensmen, E. E. “Doc” Smith (Astounding Science-Fiction 11/41-2/42)
• Darkness and the Light, Olaf Stapledon (Methuen/S.J.R. Saunders)
• Islandia, Austin Tappan Wright (Farrar & Rinehart)

Best Novella

WINNER: “Waldo”, by Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) (Astounding Science-Fiction 8/42)

• “Hell is Forever”, Alfred Bester (Unknown Worlds 8/42)
• “The Compleat Werewolf”, Anthony Boucher (Unknown Worlds 4/42)
• “Nerves”, Lester del Rey (Astounding Science-Fiction 9/42)
• “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag”, John Riverside (Robert A. Heinlein) (Unknown Worlds 10/42)
• “Asylum”, by A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science-Fiction 5/42)

Best Novelette

WINNER: “Foundation”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science-Fiction 5/42)

• “Bridle and Saddle”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science-Fiction 6/42)
• “The Star Mouse”, Fredric Brown (Planet Stories, Spring ’42)
• “Goldfish Bowl”, Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) (Astounding Science-Fiction 3/42)
• “There Shall Be Darkness”, C.L. Moore (Astounding Science-Fiction 2/42)
• “The Weapon Shop”, A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science-Fiction 12/42)

Best Short Story

WINNER: “The Twonky”, C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner (Astounding Science-Fiction 9/42)

• “Runaround”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science-Fiction 3/42)
• “Etaoin Shrdlu”, Fredric Brown (Unknown Worlds 2/42)
• “Proof”, Hal Clement (Astounding Science-Fiction 6/42)
• “The Sunken Land”, Fritz Leiber (Unknown Worlds 2/42)
• “Mimic”, Martin Pearson (Donald A. Wollheim) (Astonishing Stories 12/42)

Best Dramatic Presentation

WINNER: Bambi

• Cat People
• The Ghost of Frankenstein
• I Married a Witch
• Invisible Agent
• Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book

Best Editor

WINNER: John W. Campbell

• Oscar J. Friend
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• Malcolm Reiss
• Donald A. Wollheim

Best Professional Artist

WINNER: Virgil Finlay

• Hannes Bok
• Margaret Brundage
• Edd Cartier
• Harold W. McCauley
• Hubert Rogers

Best Fanzine

WINNER: Le Zombie

• Futurian War Digest
  
• Inspiration
• The Phantagraph
  
• Spaceways
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation

Best Fan Writer

WINNER: Forrest J Ackerman

• Jack Speer
• Arthur Wilson ‘‘Bob’’ Tucker
• Harry Warner, Jr.
• Art Widner
• Donald A. Wollheim