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By: Kevin Standlee

Kevin Standlee — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:18:30 +0000

Tim: The complete list of winners, arranged by year, is on the Hugo Award History page.

By: Tim Swenson

Tim Swenson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:18:48 +0000

Where on your website to I find a complete listing of winners? I’m looking for something great to read.

By: Kevin Standlee

Kevin Standlee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:03:45 +0000

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.

By: Amy Sisson

Amy Sisson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:38:54 +0000

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!

By: Dave Anderson

Dave Anderson — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:07:13 +0000

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.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:03:40 +0000

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.

By: Kevin Standlee

Kevin Standlee — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:28:09 +0000

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.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:20:12 +0000

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!

By: Kirby Bartlett-Sloan

Kirby Bartlett-Sloan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:23:27 +0000

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)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:48:24 +0000

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