1944 Retro Hugo Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• Das Glasperlenspiel [The Glass Bead Game], Hermann Hesse (Fretz & Wasmuth)
• Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Unknown Worlds 4/43)
• Gather, Darkness!, Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Astounding Science-Fiction 5/43-7/43)
• Perelandra, C.S. Lewis (John Lane, The Bodley Head)
• Earth’s Last Citadel, C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner (Argosy 4/43)
• The Weapon Makers, A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science-Fiction 2/43-4/43)

Best Novella

• “We Print the Truth”, Anthony Boucher (Astounding Science-Fiction 12/43)
• “Attitude”, Hal Clement (Astounding Science-Fiction 9/43)
• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Reynal & Hitchcock)
• “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”, H.P. Lovecraft (Beyond the Wall of Sleep)
• The Magic Bed-Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons, Mary Norton (Hyperion)
• “Clash by Night”, Lawrence O’Donnell (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction 3/43)

Best Novelette

• “Citadel of Lost Ships”, Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories 3/43)
• “The Halfling”, Leigh Brackett (Astonishing Stories 2/43)
• “Thieves’ House”, Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Unknown Worlds 2/43)
• “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”, Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction 2/43)
• “The Proud Robot”, Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction 10/43)
• “Symbiotica”, Eric Frank Russell (Astounding Science-Fiction 10/43)

Best Short Story

• “Death Sentence”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction 11/43)
• “Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper”, Robert Bloch (Weird Tales 7/43)
• “King of the Gray Spaces” (AKA “R is for Rocket”), Ray Bradbury (Famous Fantastic Mysteries 12/43)
• “Exile”, Edmond Hamilton (Super Science Stories 5/43)
• “Q.U.R.”, H.H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) (Astounding Science-Fiction 3/43)
• “Doorway into Time”, C.L. Moore (Famous Fantastic Mysteries 9/43)

Best Graphic Story

• Plastic Man #1: “The Game of Death”, Jack Cole (Vital Publications)
• Garth, Steve Dowling (Daily Mirror)
• Le Secret de la Licorne [The Secret of the Unicorn], Hergé (Le Soir)
• Wonder Woman #5: “Battle for Womanhood”, William Marsden & Harry G. Peter (DC Comics)
• Buck Rogers: “Martians Invade Jupiter”, Philip Nowlan & Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
• Flash Gordon: “Fiery Desert of Mongo”, Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Batman
• Cabin in the Sky
• A Guy Named Joe
• Heaven Can Wait
• Münchhausen
• Phantom of the Opera

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Ape Man
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
• Der Fuehrer’s Face
• I Walked with a Zombie
• The Seventh Victim
• Super-Rabbit

Best Professional Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell
• Oscar J. Friend
• Mary Gnaedinger
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• Donald A. Wollheim

Best Professional Artist

• Hannes Bok
• Margaret Brundage
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Virgil Finlay
• J. Allen St. John
• William Timmins

Best Fanzine

• Fantasy News [disqualified]
• Futurian War Digest
• Guteto [added to ballot 7/21/2019]
• The Phantagraph
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation
• YHOS
• Le Zombie

Best Fan Writer

• Forrest J Ackerman
• Morojo (Myrtle Douglas)
• Jack Speer
• Wilson “Bob” Tucker
• Art Widner
• Donald A. Wollheim

The final ballot to select this year’s winners will open in April 2019, and will be open to all members of Dublin 2019. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the convention Thursday evening, August 15, 2019.

[Edited 7/22/2019 to remove Fantasy News and add Guteto to the Best Fanzine category]

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