Introducing the Hugo Award Showcase
Published on 12 Nov 2009 at 1:36 pm.
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People have been asking us for some time where there is no annual anthology of Hugo Award winners. Our answer has been that no one wanted to publish one (and WSFS does not publish books). However, that answer no longer applies. We are delighted to announce that we have licensed Prime Books to produce a Hugo Award Showcase anthology. It will be edited by Campbell-winning writer, Mary Robinette Kowal. The 2010 edition, as well as featuring winning fiction from 2009, features a magnificent cover by 2009’s Best Artist, Donato Giancola. Here’s a mock-up of the proposed cover.
Tom L Waters on 12 Nov 2009 at 2:05 pm: 1
This is great! (And I’m a fan of both the editor and the cover artist.) I loved the multi-year Hugo Winners anthologies of winning short stories when I was young, and an annual anthology like this is definitely something I would buy.
Any plan yet as to which categories will be represented in the anthology?
Dave on 12 Nov 2009 at 2:06 pm: 2
Great news and the cover looks awesome. I’ll be buying that one for sure.
Cheryl's Mewsings » Blog Archive » More Hugo Marketing on 12 Nov 2009 at 2:31 pm: 3
[...] November 12th, 2009 by Cheryl Kevin and I were busy doing many things at Word Fantasy. One of the things we did (together with Scott Dennis who is on the WSFS Mark Protection Committee) was conclude a contact with Sean Wallace of Prime Books to produce a series of Hugo Award Showcase anthologies. The books will be edited by Mary Robinette Kowal. More details are available on the Hugo Award web site. [...]
Tom Galloway on 12 Nov 2009 at 4:12 pm: 4
Possibly silly point. The 2010 edition will feature winners (and I’d guess some nominees) from the 2009 Hugo Awards, which were for work published in 2008. Personally, and anally, I’d prefer this be called the 2009 edition, rather than use a year that has no link to either the Awards year or the publication year.
España Sheriff on 12 Nov 2009 at 5:04 pm: 5
Oh! The Hugo anthologies are where I first learned about conventions and fandom, so I’m thrilled to see this.
And what a great cover.
Kowal To Edit Hugo Showcase Series « File 770 on 12 Nov 2009 at 10:37 pm: 6
[...] the official Hugo Awards site there’s a beautiful mock-up of the proposed cover by Donato Giancola, winner of this year’s Best Professional Artist [...]
Chris M. Barkley on 13 Nov 2009 at 6:08 am: 7
Great news indeed! Now if we can only persuade them to re-issue all of the older editions and cover the years between them and this new edition as well.
Michael Walsh on 13 Nov 2009 at 6:35 am: 8
re 2010 vs 2009: from what I know of the general book buying public, if they see “2009 volume”, they’re going to think the book is a year old, and who wants old moldy non-fresh stuff?
And we do want the general non-fannish SF reader to pick this up, right?
Michael Walsh on 13 Nov 2009 at 8:39 am: 9
“Great news indeed! Now if we can only persuade them to re-issue all of the older editions and cover the years between them and this new edition as well”
Well, yeah, it would be nice, but betcha thar be rights issues, matey. Probably a real mess, too.
Randy Smith on 13 Nov 2009 at 4:41 pm: 10
I’m really glad to see this, and I, too, hope that there will be some way of picking up the “missed” years when there was no anthology.