Finalists for the 2019 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)
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2019 Locus Awards. Tickets are available now.
Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 28-30, 2019; Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events include author readings; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Elizabeth Hand, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and ...Read More
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Finalists for the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1943, have been announced by Dublin 2019, the 77th Worldcon, to be held August 15-19, 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Dublin Ireland. They counted 217 valid nominating ballots (214 electronic and three paper) from the members of Dublin 2019 and Worldcon 76. Ballot information for individual categories has not been released.
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Worldcon 76 received 2,828 valid ballots, down from 3,319 at Worldcon 75. Some 40% of eligible members voted, up from 32%. There were 1,813 valid nominating ballots, down from 2,464.
The procedure for counting nominations was the same as last year, 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 the nominees. ...Read More
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Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced by Worldcon 76, the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, on Sunday August 19, 2018 during a ceremony held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA:
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Worldcon 76 has released a voter packet with information on the 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards finalists. Members of Worldcon 76 can download the packet from the Worldcon 76 website. “Not all works shortlisted for the 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards appear in the Retro-Hugo Voter Packet due to challenges with obtaining rights to distribute them.”
Voting is open until July 31, 2018, 11:59 p.m. PDT. Ballots are available to Worldcon 76 ...Read More
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Finalists for the 2018 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 1943 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1942, have been announced by Worldcon 76, to be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA August 16-20, 2018. They counted 204 valid nominating ballots (192 electronic and 12 paper) from the members of Worldcon 75, Worldcon 76, and Dublin 2019. Ballot information for individual categories has not been released.
Best Novel
Winners for the Hugo Awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and several others were announced August 11, 2017 at Worldcon 75, the 75th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Helsinki, Finland, August 9-13, 2017.
Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots)
WINNER: The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Finalists for the 2017 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)
Alex Garner has been removed from the Best Fan Artist category for the 2017 Hugo Awards.
In a statement released April 21, 2017, Hugo Awards Administrator Nicholas Whyte said:
Alex Garner, who was announced as a finalist in the Best Fan Artist category for the 2017 Hugo Awards on 4 April, has notified the Hugo administrators that in fact the entirety of his published 2016 work was professional and not ...Read More
Read moreVoting for the 2017 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is now open. Votes can be cast online or by paper ballot. The Hugo administrators “hope to have the Hugo Packet available by May.” Voting will close July 15, 2017 at 11:59 PM PDT. ...Read More
Read moreThe nominees for the 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2016, have been announced:
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Two finalists for the 2015/2016 Sputnik Awards have been announced:
The Sputniks were formed in May 2016 by Jo Lindsay Walton as a response to nomination problems within the Hugo Awards. Nominations for the Sputnik Awards were open to everyone, with finalists selected via a tournament process called the Dungeons of Democracy. The winner will be announced ...Read More
Read moreWinners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced August 20, 2016 at MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City MO, August 17-21, 2016.
Best Novel (3,695 nominating ballots)
Winners of the 1941 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1940, were announced August 18, 2016 at a ceremony at MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City MO, August 17-21, 2016.
The Retro Hugos are awarded 50, 75, or 100 years after a Worldcon in which the Hugos were not previously awarded.
Best Novel (352 nominating ballots)
MidAmericon II announced a correction to the 1941 Retro Hugo Award finalists on June 19, 2016. Administrator Dave McCarty explains:
The finalist “Darker Than You Think” by Jack Williamson was mistakenly categorized as a novelette. The story is a novella, but did not receive enough nominations to be a finalist as a novella. It has been marked as not eligible. The novelette “Vault of the Beast” by A.E. Van Vogt ...Read More
Read moreJohn O’Neill at Black Gate has declined the magazine’s Hugo Award nomination for best fanzine.
The announcement was made on Black Gate’s blog on May 1st, 2016, where O’Neill explained:
It’s clear that Black Gate largely benefited from Vox Day’s Rabid Puppy Hugo slate…. It also seems fairly obvious that we cannot win. Of the 61 nominees the Puppy ballots placed on the Hugo ballot last year, only one, Guardians ...Read More
Read moreThomas A. Mays has declined the Hugo Award nomination for his short story The Commuter (Stealth).
The announcement was made at The Improbable Author, where Mays explained that he “accepted the nomination in the forlorn hope I would find my story among a mixed and diverse selection of other stories, stories which came out of fandom as a whole,” but that “as the list is straight slate in the short ...Read More
Read moreFinalists for the 1941 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1940, 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 (352 nominating ballots)
Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, held in Spokane, Washington, August 22, 2015.
Best Novel (1,827 nominating ballots)
Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, has announced further changes to the Hugo Awards ballot.
As previously announced, Markos Kloos withdrew his novel Lines of Departure (47North) from consideration, as did Annie Bellet for her story “Goodnight Stars” (The End is Now). As a result, Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (translated by Ken Liu, Tor) and Steven Diamond’s “A Single Samurai” (The Baen Big Book of ...Read More
Read moreTwo Hugo Awards finalists have withdrawn their titles from consideration, and multiple Hugo Award winner Connie Willis has declined the offer to present awards this year. Their statements on the matter follow.
Markos Kloos has withdrawn his Hugo Award-nominated novel Lines of Departure (47North) from consideration for this year’s award. Kloos explains in a blog post:
It has come to my attention that “Lines of Departure” was one of the ...Read More
Read more[Note: The ballot was further revised on April 17, 2015. The final version of the ballot is here.]
The Hugo Awards ballot entries for best novelette and best professional artist have been revised due to ineligibility. “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons) has been replaced by Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s “The Day The World Turned Upside Down” (Lightspeed ...Read More
Read moreWinners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, held in London, England, August 17, 2014.
Best Novel (1,595 nominating ballots)
» Guardian’s second in a series on literary definitions has Juliet McKenna on The genre debate: Science fiction travels farther than literary fiction
» Guardian also has this reaction to the Hugo finalists and Robert Jordan’s nomination, by Alison Flood ...Read More
Read moreWinners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at LoneStarCon3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, held in San Antonio, TX, August 29 – September 2, 2013.
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Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by LoneStarCon3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in San Antonio, TX, August 29 – September 2, 2013.
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Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at a ceremony during Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 3, 2012.
BEST NOVEL
Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 3, 2012. The Hugo Awards ceremony will take place September 2, 2012.
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Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at a ceremony during Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Reno, Nevada, August 17-21, 2011.
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Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Reno, Nevada, August 17-21, 2011. The Hugo Awards ceremony will take place August 20, 2011.
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