Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,720 valid nominating ballots received and counted from members of the 2023 and 2024 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2024 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open during April 2024.
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Chengdu Worldcon, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,847 valid nominating ballots (1,843 electronic and 4 paper) received and counted from members of the 2022 and 2023 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2023 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open ...Read More
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,368 valid nominating ballots (1,366 electronic and 2 paper) received and counted from the members of the 2021 and 2022 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2022 Hugo Awards.
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,249 valid nominating ballots received (1,246 electronic and 3 paper).
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer have been announced by CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon.
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Dublin 2019, the 77th Worldcon, to be held August 15-19, 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Dublin Ireland. 1,800 valid nominating ballots (1,797 electronic and three paper) were received and counted from members of Dublin 2019 and Worldcon 76. Nominating ballot information for individual categories has not been released. ...Read More
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Worldcon 76, the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA August 16-20, 2018. 1,813 valid nominating ballots (1,795 electronic and 18 paper) were received and counted from the members of Worldcon 75, Worldcon 76, and Dublin 2019. Nominating ...Read More
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The Hugo Awards ballot entry for best fan artist was further revised May 17, 2017 due to nominee Mansik Yang being disqualified. He was replaced by Elizabeth Leggett.
The revised Hugo Awards Ballot and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer are below, as announced by Worldcon 75, the 75th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, August 9-13, 2017.
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The Hugo Awards ballot entry for best fan artist was revised April 21, 2017 due to nominee Alex Garner being disqualified. He was replaced by Steve Stiles.
The revised Hugo Awards Ballot and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer are below, as announced by Worldcon 75, the 75th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, August 9-13, 2017.
Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots)
Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Worldcon 75, the 75th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, August 9-13, 2017. They counted 2,464 valid nominating ballots (2,458 electronic and six paper) from the members of MidAmeriCon II, Worldcon 75, and ConJose.
Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots)
The Hugo Awards ballot entries for best short story and best fanzine were revised May 6, 2016 due to nominees Thomas A. Mays and Black Gate withdrawing from consideration. They were replaced by “Cat Pictures Please”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, 1/15) and Lady Business.
The revised Hugo Awards Ballot and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer are below, as announced by MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction ...Read More
Read moreFinalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Kansas City MO, August 17-21, 2016.
Best Novel (3,695 nominating ballots)
Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Spokane WA, August 19-23, 2015.
Best Novel (1,827 nominating ballots)
Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by LonCon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in London, England, August 14- 18, 2014.
Best Novel (1,595 nominating ballots)
Hugo tampering was previously reported, but is updated and expanded below:
On February 14, 2024, Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford released ‘‘The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion’’, an extensive look at the irregularities in the recent Hugo Awards presented in Chengdu, China, including a set of leaked emails from Diane Lacey, one of the awards eligibility researchers. The earlier release of the Hugo Awards nomination ...Read More
Read moreFinalists have been announced for the 2023 Prix Bob Morane, recognizing French-language works in the science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and thriller genres.
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The 2024 Glasgow Worldcon chair Esther MacCallum-Stewart has released a statement regarding the committee’s commitment to ensuring transparency in the coming Hugo Award cycle, in the aftermath of the 2023 Hugo Awards debacle.
As Chair of Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures, I unreservedly apologise for the damage caused to nominees, finalists, the community, and the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards.
Kat Jones has resigned with immediate effect as
Chengdu Worldcon, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, received 1,674 valid ballots, down from 2,235 at Chicon 8. There were 1,847 valid nominating ballots (1,843 electronic, four paper), up from 1,368.
Nomination statistics weren’t released until the very last of the 90 days allowed, just before our deadline. They don’t include author names for nominees, and generally don’t offer explanations for why several items were dropped as “not eligible.” To ...Read More
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Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 8-12, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland. The convention says,
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Chengdu Worldcon has announced that online voting for “the 2023 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer” is now open.
WSFS members can cast a ballot at the Chengdu Worldcon site once logged in. The deadline is September 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. HST, and votes can be resubmitted at any point before the deadline. The winners will be announced ...Read More
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The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2023 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2023 Audie Awards finalists, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.
Audie finalists of genre interest follow.
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Chicon 8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, received 2,235 valid ballots (2,230 electronic, five paper), down from 2,362 at DisCon III, Worldcon 79. There were 1,368 valid nominating ballots (1,366 electronic, two paper), up from 1,249.
The procedure for counting nominations remains the ‘‘E Pluribus Hugo’’, or EPH, system. The rather complicated point system gives a single point to each voter’s ballot, dividing that point among the nominees. The ...Read More
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The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2022 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2021 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 25-29, 2021 in Washington DC, announced a controversial Hugo Award credit policy on January 11, 2021, then rescinded it the next day. Convention Co-chair Colette H. Fozard subsequently resigned.
The crux of the issue was the decision to limit the number of names of creators for a given work to four on the final ballot, in visuals during ...Read More
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CoNZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, received 2,221 valid ballots, down from 3,097 at Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, Worldcon 77. There were 1,584 valid nominating ballots, down from 1,800.
The procedure for counting nominations was the same as last three years, using the system known as E Pluribus Hugo, or EPH. The rather complicated point system gives a single point to each voter’s ballot, dividing that point among ...Read More
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CoNZealand has announced that online voting for “the 2020 Hugo Awards, the 2020 Lodestar and Astounding Awards, and the 1945 Retrospective Hugo Awards” is now open.
Members can access their ballots logging in to https://members.conzealand.nz. For more information, including voting eligibility and a complete list of Hugo finalists, visit the CoNZealand website.
The voting deadline has been extended to July 22, 2020 at 23:59 PDT. For more information on the ...Read More
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CoNZealand has announced on twitter that they plan to make online Hugo voting available by July 8, 2020 latest. To account for the delay, they are extending the voting deadline to July 22, 2020.
Mail and email ballots will also be accepted if they are received before the deadline, but voters are strongly encouraged to wait for the online voting system to open at this point. A fillable pdf has ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2020 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best works published in Spain last year, have been announced.
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
Finalists for the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1944, have been announced by CoNZealand, the 78th Worldcon via their YouTube channel.
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The Hugo Award administrators have announced changes to the 1944 Retro Hugo ballot which affect the Best Fanzine category. Fantasy News has been removed, and Guteto has been added. The announcement says:
The Hugo Administrators have discovered an error in their tally of the nominations for the 1944 Retro Hugo for Best Fanzine.
In fact, Guteto, edited by Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) received enough votes to qualify for the final ...Read More
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