1945 Retro Hugo Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• “Shadow Over Mars”, Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories Fall ’44)
• Land of Terror, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)
• The Golden Fleece, Robert Graves (Cassell)
• “The Winged Man”, E. Mayne Hull & A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction 5-6/44)
• The Wind on the Moon, Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
• Sirius, Olaf Stapledon (Secker & Warberg)

Best Novella

• “The Jewel of Bas”, Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories Spring ’44)
• “A God Named Kroo”, Henry Kuttner (Thrilling Wonder Stories Winter ’44)
• “Trog”, Murray Leinster (Astounding Science Fiction 6/44)
• “Intruders from the Stars”, Ross Rocklynne (Amazing Stories 1/44)
• “Killdozer!”, Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction 11/44)
• “The Changeling”, A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction 4/44)

Best Novelette

• “The Big and the Little”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction 8/44)
• “Arena”, Fredric Brown (Astounding Science Fiction 6/44)
• “No Woman Born”, C.L. Moore (Astounding Science Fiction 12/44)
• “The Children’s Hour”, Lawrence O’Donnell (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction 3/44)
• “When the Bough Breaks”, Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction 11/44)
• “City”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction 5/44)

Best Short Story

• “The Wedge”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction 10/44)
• “I, Rocket”, Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories 5/44)
• “And the Gods Laughed”, Fredric Brown (Planet Stories Spring ’44)
• “Desertion”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction 11/44)
• “Huddling Place”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction 7/44)
• “Far Centaurus”, A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction 1/44)

Best Series

• Pellucidar, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Jules de Grandin, Seabury Quinn
• The Shadow, Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)
• Captain Future, Brett Sterling
• Doc Savage, Kenneth Robeson/Lester Dent
• Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others

Best Related Work

• “The Science-Fiction Field”, Leigh Brackett (Writer’s Digest 7/44)
• Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom, George Gamow (Cambridge University Press)
• “The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Suggestions for a Critical Appraisal”, Fritz Leiber (The Acolyte Fall ’44)
• Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere, Willy Ley (Viking Press)
• Fancyclopedia, Jack Speer (Forrest J Ackerman)
• ‘42 To ‘44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behavior During the Crisis of the World Revolution, H.G. Wells (Secker & Warburg)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Donald Duck: “The Mad Chemist”, Carl Barks (Dell Comics)
• Buck Rogers: “Hollow Planetoid”, Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
• Flash Gordon: “Battle for Tropica”, Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• Flash Gordon: “Triumph in Tropica”, Alex Raymond (Kings Features Syndicate)
• Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk”, Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster (DC)
• The Spirit: “For the Love of Clara Defoe”, Manly Wade Wellman, Lou Fine, and Don Komisarow

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Canterville Ghost
• The Curse of the Cat People
• Donovan’s Brain
• House of Frankenstein
• The Invisible Man’s Revenge
• It Happened Tomorrow

Best Professional Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Oscar J. Friend
• Mary Gnaedinger
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• W. Scott Peacock

Best Professional Artist

• Earle Bergey
• Margaret Brundage
• Boris Dolgov
• Matt Fox
• Paul Orban
• William Timmins

Best Fanzine

• The Acolyte
• Diablerie
• Futurian War Digest
• Shangri L’Affaires
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation
• Le Zombie

Best Fan Writer

• Fritz Leiber, Jr.
• Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas)
• J. Michael Rosenblum
• Jack Speer
• Bob Tucker
• Harry Warner, Jr.