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The Hugo Award, also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). The distinguishing characteristics of the Hugo Award are that it is sponsored by WSFS, administered by the committee of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held that year, and determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS. In general, a Hugo Award given in a particular year is for work that appeared in the previous calendar year.
The Hugo trophy is a rocket ship mounted on a base that is unique to each year's convention and reflects some aspect of the convention's location.
2009 Hugo List
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2008 Hugo List
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Selection Process
Members of past and current years' World SF Convention nominate up to five items per category. The top five items in each category are placed on a final ballot, which is voted on by current members. Final results in each category are determined via the 'Australian ballot preference system': all first-place votes are tabulated; the entry with the fewest votes is eliminated; second-place votes from eliminated ballots become first-place votes; this is repeated until a nominee achieves a majority. For second-place, the winner's votes are dropped, and second-place votes from those ballots become first-place votes, and the process is repeated.
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Hugo Award in Blogs
- hugo_recommend: BASFA 2010 Hugo Recommendations: Best Graphic Story
BASFA 2010 Hugo Recommendations: Best Graphic Story As in previous years, the Bay Area Science Fiction Association held Hugo (and Campbell) Recommendation Nights in January and February, and we are posting our accumulated ... - hugo_recommend: BASFA 2010 Campbell Award Recommendations
BASFA 2010 Campbell Award Recommendations As in previous years, the Bay Area Science Fiction Association held Hugo (and Campbell) Recommendation Nights in January and February, and we are posting our accumulated recommendations in a ... - Interview with Hugo Award-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans ...
Interview with Hugo Award-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans. Lawrence Watt Evans grew up with parents who were science fiction readers, so he grew up reading the stuff, and decided at the age of seven or eight that he wanted to write ... - Steampunk Week – Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of “The Calorie Man”( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and “Yellow Card Man” (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address ... - basfa: Hugo Recommendations
BASFA's 2010 Hugo Award Recommendations will be posted in the [info] hugo_recommend community. The list below is a key to the initials of those people making recommendations. Because this list continues from year to year, ... - Charles Stross' "The Laundry Files" RPG Announced - Latest News ...
“I'm really excited to be working with Cubicle 7 to bring the sinister world of the Laundry to a wider audience,” says Charles Stross, Hugo award-winning author of “The Atrocity Archives” and “The Jennifer Morgue”. ... - New Inductees Into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame : Slice of SciFi
Roger Zelazny won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times for such stories and novels as “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” and Lord of Light. His classic short story “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” has already ... - The One-Thousand: A Hugo For StarShipSofa
You might not be expected to know any better in the current web climate where everyone who has anything eligible for any Hugo award tends to promote his/her work and urge his/her readers to vote for it -- but fandom went a good thirty ... - Thoughts on the Hugo Award Nominations
Nominations for the 2010 Hugo Awards close next Sunday. As I am still eligible to nominate (having been to WorldCon last year), I have been giving it some thought. I can nominate up to five in each catagory. ... - hugo_recommend: Are podcasts eligible?
This year's lead Hugo Award administrator, Vincent Docherty, discussed the difficulty of ruling preemptively on works in a thoughtful article on the File 770 web site. The short version: unless there are enough nominations cast for the ...