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2008 Hugo Awards Nominating Period Opens

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The nominating period for the 2008 Hugo Awards is now open. The awards are being administered by the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention (Denvention 3). You can find their online ballot here.

The nominations process is open to members of the World Science Fiction Society. To be a member of WSFS you must have either been a member of the 2007 Worldcon (Nippon 2007) or you must be a member of Denvention 3. Only a supporting membership of the Worldcon is required; you do not have to attend the convention. For Denvention 3 the cost of a supporting membership is $50. This also entitles you
to various Denvention 3 publications and gives you the right to vote in the Final Hugo Ballot for 2008, the Hugo Nominating Ballot for 2009, and the Worldcon Site Selection Ballot for 2008 (which chooses where the 2010 Worldcon will be held). You can buy memberships for Denvention 3 here.

No special qualifications (other than WSFS membership) are required to participate in the nominating progress. The Hugo Award system recognizes that no one individual can possibly hope to read/see every eligible work in the field. Instead WSFS members are encouraged to nominate up to five works/individuals in each category that they believe are worthy of a Hugo. The most popular nominees will go forward to the Final Ballot.

In general the Hugo Awards are open to works published in the year of eligibility (in this case 2007). By special dispensation of the 2007 WSFS Business Meeting, eligibility has also been extended to any works published outside of the USA prior to 2007 but first published in the USA in 2007. The list of eligible works is vast, but various fans and organizations maintain recommendation lists of likely candidates. See the list of Third Party Recommendation Sites in the sidebar to the right for links to some of these lists.

The deadline for receipt of nominating ballots is midnight (Pacific Standard Time), Saturday March 1st, 2008. However, in order to participate you must have purchased your Worldcon (Nippon 2007 or Denvention 3) membership by January 31st, 2008.

More details about Hugo Award eligibility are available here. Please note that you do not have to submit your work for it to be eligible. More information about the voting process is available here.

2008 Base Design Competition

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Denvention 3, the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention, has announced a competition to find a designer for its Hugo Award trophy base. As usual, the trophy design must include the standard Hugo rocket.

The rules of the competition are available on Denvention 3’s web site, and an archive of past trophies can be found on this site.

All inquiries regarding the competition should be directed to Denvention 3, not to WSFS.

Update, January 2, 2008: The competition closed December 31, 2007.

2007 Hugo Awards Announced

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2007 Hugo Award Trophy
The results of the 2007 Hugo Awards, as announced at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention, in Yokohama, Japan, on September 1st 2007, are as follows:

  • Best Novel: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge [Tor, 2006]
  • Best Novella: “A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed [Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2006]
  • Best Novelette: “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald [Asimov’s July 2006]
  • Best Short Story: “Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt [Asimov’s July 2006]
  • Best Related Non-Fiction Book: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon by Julie Phillips [St. Martin’s Press, 2006]
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Guillermo del Toro [Picturehouse]
  • Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who – “Girl in the Fireplace” (2006) Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Euros Lyn [BBC Wales/BBC1]
  • Best Editor, Long Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Best Editor, Short Form: Gordon Van Gelder
  • Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
  • Best Semiprozine: Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
  • Best Fanzine: Science-Fiction Five-Yearly ed. by Lee Hoffman, Geri Sullivan, and Randy Byers
  • Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
  • Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu

The winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, sponsored by Dell Magazines and administered on their behalf by the World Science Fiction Society, is:

  • Naomi Novik

Full details of the nominees and voting figures can be found here.

Hello Universe

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Welcome to the official web site of the Hugo Awards. This site is primarily for providing information about the Hugo Awards, and an historical record of past nominees and winners. However, there will be news here every so often. Most importantly, of course, the results of the 2007 Hugo Awards will be announced here some time on Saturday September 1st. A list of the 2007 nominees can be found here.

The historical data on this site is still being added to. We are particularly keen to get information about past Hugo Award base designers and administrators. We are also missing two photographs from our historical record of Hugo Award designs (1982 and the 1946 Retro Hugo). If you can help with any of this, or have other information about the Hugo Awards you would like to share, please contact us.