Do you have a question about the Hugos that is not covered in our FAQ? If so, please ask it here and we will endeavor to answer it for you.
Please note, however, that we cannot issue definitive rulings about Hugo Award eligibility. Each year’s Worldcon establishes a Hugo Awards Administration Subcommittee the manages that year’s Hugo Awards. The Hugo Awards web site is not responsible for administering the Awards and therefore can’t give definitive answers about eligibility. If you have a question about whether a specific work is eligible and in which category, please contact the current year’s Worldcon and their Hugo Awards Administrators.
About nominating books: I was asking duck.ai if the Hugo allowed nominating a book that I published for someone (which I expected to be a “no” answer) and it said “no” but it added that an author who is eligible to nominate books can nominate one of their own. When I asked for reference links, it brought me here to the Hugo Award website.
This doesn’t sound right. Is it?
Suzanne: Anyone who is a member of the current or previous Worldcon as of the end of January of the current year can nominate anything they want to nominate. It doesn’t matter if they are the publisher or author. They just have to be a natural person (that is, not a corporation or something like that) who is a member of Worldcon.
The answer that the AI gave you is wrong. The rules for the Hugo Awards are listed in the WSFS Constitution, the current version of which is available from the World Science Fiction Society rules page.
I would love to understand how to raise awareness of my book, Run Dad Run, which was published originally outside the US in Nov 2025, but has started selling in the US since March 2026. Will it qualify for Hugo for 2026 or 2027?
I did not notice a place to put forth the mention of the book in the lists that are provided. Is it possible to attend a meet up in the Midwest? Or is there a discussion thread where I can connect with some of the existing Hugo members?
Thanks!
Shil: When you say the work “started selling in the US,” does that mean it was first published in the USA in 2026?
The relevant rule here is section 3.4.2 of the WSFS Constitution:
When you say the work was published outside of the US in Nov 2025, you rightly state that it was eligible for the 2026 Hugo Awards. If it was first published in the US in 2026, it will be eligible again for the 2027 Hugo Awards.
There is no single place for discussing potential Hugo Award finalists, either online or in person. Fans discuss works in many online places and at in-person gatherings. There is no way we could ever list them all. Remember, the “existing Hugo members” are all of the members of the World Science Fiction Convention. That’s thousands of people from all over the world.
My wife found what appears to be a 1988 Hugo award at a thrift store. There are no plaques are identifying marks on the statue. Were any official statues made that were not given as awards, that may have been used as some other type of promotional item? While we do acknowledge that it may be some type of replica we can not find any others available and were hoping for some insight on determining provenance.
Hugo Award trophies, to our knowledge, have never been presented as promotional items. There sometimes are some “spare” trophies left over that are given to the base designers, the convention chair, or other people involved with the convention. Is there a plaque on the trophy that shows it to be a 1968 trophy?
Thanks,
Kayla Allen
WSFS Marketing Committee
It is a 1988 award, with the large base. There are no plaques or identifying marks. My wife’s friend has also been trying to find information on the award.
Hi,
Is it correct that to make it publications visible for voters or for those who collect the voter packet the publisher should send a letter to Hugo Awards to be included in Hugo Voter Packet and then be ready to send its EPUB and PDF files of publications?
Regards
There is no requirement to contact The Hugo Awards (either the website or the administrators for a given year), nor are finalists required to make copies of their work available for a Worldcon to include in a Hugo Voter Packet, should that Worldcon decide to create one. Finalists may choose to make works available, but are not required to do so.
Hi Mykhailo,
It seems as though you are asking whether any Publisher can submit works to be included in the Hugo Voter Packet.
The answer is No; only the works which have become Finalists through the current year’s Hugo Awards Nomination process may submit works to the Hugo Voter Packet.
The list of this year’s Finalists is here:
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2026-hugo-awards