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Clarence Hendrix on 27 Sep 2007 at 2:13 am: 1
How Do I Compete?
admin on 27 Sep 2007 at 7:25 am: 2
Clarence: Read the FAQ starting at the question “How do I submit my book (or story or movie) for nomination?”
Rich Lynch on 24 Oct 2007 at 1:45 pm: 3
The photo of the 1970 Hugo Award you have posted here: http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=104 is not the actual award that was presented in Germany in 1970. Kelly Freas was unhappy with the appearance of the base on the trophy he received and had a new one specially made to replace it. Kelly’s 1970 trophy, the one you have shown in the photo, is therefore unique. For more background on this, I refer you to Mike Glyer’s article in Mimosa #14: http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m14/glyer.htm
Mike Glyer on 20 Nov 2007 at 5:04 pm: 4
To help fill in a few of the blanks… The 1984 Hugo base was designed by Kathy Sanders. The 1976 Hugo was was designed by Tim Kirk. The 1988 Hugo base was designed by Ned Dameron.
Mike Glyer on 20 Nov 2007 at 5:06 pm: 5
And the 1992 base was designed by Phil Tortoricci
admin on 20 Nov 2007 at 5:19 pm: 6
Mike:
Thank you for the updates, which are now on the relevant pages.
– Kevin Standlee
Laurie D. T. Mann on 2 Jan 2008 at 6:15 am: 7
Could someone note that the 2008 Hugo Base Competition closed on 12/31/[2007]. Thanks
The PDF ballot for 2008 Hugo nominations is online (http://www.denvention.org/hugos/hugonom08.pdf).
There will be online balloting too; this ballot should be activated shortly, and will be available at
http://www.denvention.org/hugos/08hugonomballot.php
admin on 2 Jan 2008 at 10:14 am: 8
Laurie: We’ve modified the original post about the competition to include the 12/31/2007 end date.
We’ll post about the 2008 Hugo Nominating Ballot when the online ballot actually starts working.
Mary Kay on 4 Jan 2008 at 12:32 am: 9
Your info is slightly incorrect in one regard, a current supporting membership in Denvention 3 is $50, not $40.
MKK
admin on 5 Jan 2008 at 2:47 pm: 10
Mary Kay: We’ve corrected the membership rate. We apparently didn’t get the word that D3 was raising the cost of their supporting memberships on January 1.
Kevin Standlee
Glenn E. Smith on 22 Jan 2008 at 2:05 pm: 11
I have been told that my novel, “Solfleet: The Timeshift Saga, The Call of Duty, Book One of the Excalibur Trilogy”, published in April 2007, has been nominated for a 2008 Hugo Award. Is there/Will there be a list of nominees available to the public, or can you “officially” confirm the nomination for me?
admin on 22 Jan 2008 at 2:29 pm: 12
Glenn:
The nominating period for the 2008 Hugo Awards has not yet ended. It ends at the end of February. At that time, the Hugo Award administrator will contact the authors of the works that receive sufficient nominating votes to make the final ballot and will ask them if they want to accept nomination. If you aren’t contacted, that means you weren’t nominated.
Now, what I think you may have heard is that at least one of the thousands of people eligible to cast nominating ballots for the 2008 Hugo Awards has nominated your work for the Best Novel Hugo Award. That’s not the same thing as being “nominated for a Hugo Award.” Only those works placing in the top five after the nominating period ends are “Hugo Award nominees” and will appear on the ballot.
The Hugo Award Administrator will publish a list of those works receiving a certain minimum number of votes after the final Hugo Award results are announced at this year’s Worldcon in Denver in August.
You may want to learn more about how the Hugo Awards work by reading The Voting System and the Hugo Awards FAQ elsewhere on this site.
I hope this answers your question.
Kevin Standlee
Glenn E. Smith on 22 Jan 2008 at 4:37 pm: 13
Kevin:
Thank you. It does indeed answer my question.
Colin Harris on 23 Jan 2008 at 3:57 am: 14
I think the “Designed by” for 1995 should be Sylvia Starshine.
admin on 23 Jan 2008 at 9:57 am: 15
Colin:
Done. Thanks for the update.
Kevin
Ash Osakinawa on 24 Feb 2008 at 1:17 am: 16
Hello.
How could I read the works of the Hugo Awards’ nominees? I mean, do you publish these works on the web site or in specific books?
admin on 24 Feb 2008 at 8:48 am: 17
Ash:
WSFS does not publish works ourselves. In past years, many Hugo Award nominees have been made available for reading or viewing for free or cheaply over the web; however, it is up to the individual publishers to decide how to make their works available to the public.
Lee Whiteside on 16 Jun 2008 at 11:12 am: 18
FYI, something I just realized (and I’ll also send a note to the Hugo administrator), Steven Moffat is listed as Stephen Moffat here and on the Denvention 3 web site. I’m surprised no one has pointed that out. If he gets his third Hugo for Blink, it would probably be good if his name was spelled correctly on the award….
admin on 16 Jun 2008 at 2:06 pm: 19
Lee:
I think we have the names right now in the material we control. Press releases from Worldcons and those conventions’ web sites we don’t control, however. Thanks for pointing out the correction to us.
Kevin
Mike Kennedy on 12 Nov 2008 at 9:27 am: 20
I note that the site needs some minor updates:
* Denvention is still listed as an upcoming Worldcon
* Aussiecon is not so listed
* The photo on the front page of the Denvention (2008) Hugo links to the photo page for the 2007 Hugo
Also, I’d like to suggest you add a written description of each year’s Hugo award on its photo page. This would be good for the visually impaired, but also would be interesting to other people. The description could be done from a photo, but it would probably be better done by someone who has seen/handled the award in question; or even better, by the designer or Hugo administrator where possible. I’d suggest the description include a discussion of the design itself, materials used, colors of the various bits and pieces, and symbolism (if any) of the design elements. For instance, presumably the “backdrop” behind the rockets on the Denvention 3 Hugo symbolize the mountains around Denver, but the designer could speak best to that.
admin on 23 Nov 2008 at 6:48 pm: 21
Mike:
It took us a few days, but we have updated the things you noted, and a few other pages as well, such as the information on nominating for next year.
Adding written descriptions is an interesting idea, and we might be able to do this for future awards and for relatively recent ones if the designers are willing to do the write-ups. Doing it for all of the awards would be a bit challenging just based on the amount of time involved. We only recently managed to get photographs of all of the trophies — some years’ trophies proved to be quite elusive. (Not every year’s trophy is represented in the traveling Worldcon exhibit. The policy of creating an extra trophy for permanent exhibit is relatively recent, particularly because for early Worldcons, the cost of building the trophies was a much larger proportion of the total convention budget than it is today.)
– Kevin Standlee
Kirby Bartlett-Sloan on 30 Dec 2008 at 9:23 pm: 22
The “1982″ award picture is incorrect. That is a 1991 Chicon award on a wooden base that was given to the committee. (I’ve got one just like it on my mantle as my wife was on the committee)
Susan on 4 Mar 2009 at 10:20 pm: 23
It’s slightly aggravating that one can’t find anywhere on the site an answer to the simple question as to whether there was a “special category” for graphic story for the current round of Hugo voting. I realize you want to be general in the info you offer, but being current is also nice. Anticipation has pulled all the info off their Hugo page since nominations are closed.
I was going to point people to your site for info, but it doesn’t have it!
Kevin Standlee on 4 Mar 2009 at 10:28 pm: 24
It’s not particularly well noted on the Anticipation web site, but information about their decision to offer a Graphic Story category as a Special Category is detailed in a press release issued last August.
Your point about it not being well-documented here either is well taken, although, as you note, we’re in the position of trying to stay general to the Hugo Awards as a whole rather than any particular year’s categories (except on the year-by-year listings, of course). We’ve added a note to the Additional Category section of the Hugo Award Categories page. This is a temporary note only for the duration of the current “Worldcon year,” and we’ll take it down after this year’s Worldcon. Should the WSFS Business Meeting ratify the pending constitutional amendment on the subject, we will of course update that page to include the new Graphic Story category.
Susan on 4 Mar 2009 at 10:03 pm: 25
Thanks for the fast response. There’s value in being general, and I love the historical information, but unless you want to restrict your readership to people interested in the history, it’s nice to have the basics for the current year up as well, maybe in a very prominent front-page link. This is an obvious site to point people to for that sort of information.
Dave Anderson on 10 Mar 2009 at 3:07 pm: 26
Especially since this information isn’t easily available anywhere else I know of, it would seem to make sense to have a permanent section of the Hugo Award Categories page (or perhaps a separate page) which lists not only all uses of the Additional Category rule but the ranges of years for which each of the standard categories has existed.
Amy Sisson on 23 Apr 2009 at 7:38 am: 27
I was wondering if you could post the final voting deadline for Hugos for this year’s Worldcon (Montreal). I do not see the deadline on Montreal’s convention site, nor on this site when I click on the “voting deadlines” tag. I assume that date has already been set? Sorry if I’ve missed something obvious.
Thanks!
Kevin Standlee on 23 Apr 2009 at 8:03 am: 28
Amy:
Anticipation has not yet released the 2009 Hugo Awards Final Ballot, and therefore has not set the final voting deadline. While we were in Montreal last weekend, we were reassured that the ballot would be included in the mailing of Progress Report 4, expected to mail sometime in mid-May. When that happens, they expect to post the ballot on their web site. It may appear only as a PDF first, with an online voting version also planned for later.
Tim Swenson on 29 Jun 2009 at 3:18 pm: 29
Where on your website to I find a complete listing of winners? I’m looking for something great to read.
Kevin Standlee on 29 Jun 2009 at 4:18 pm: 30
Tim:
The complete list of winners, arranged by year, is on the Hugo Award History page.