An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton

Author:Jo Walton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

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BEST NOVELLA

Winner: Enemy Mine, by Barry B. Longyear (Asimov’s, September 1979)

Nominees:

The Battle of the Abaco Reefs, by Hilbert Schenck (F&SF, June 1979)

Ker-Plop, by Ted Reynolds (Asimov’s, January 1979)

The Moon Goddess and the Son, by Donald Kingsbury (Analog, December 1979)

Songhouse, by Orson Scott Card (Analog, September 1979)

Good winner. I had the Hugo winners anthology for this year and can remember actually crying at this story.

BEST NOVELETTE

Winner: “Sandkings,” by George R. R. Martin (Omni, August 1979)

Nominees:

“Fireflood,” by Vonda N. McIntyre (F&SF, November 1979)

“Homecoming,” by Barry B. Longyear (Asimov’s, October 1979)

“The Locusts,” by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes (Analog, June 1979)

“Options,” by John Varley (Universe 9)

“Palely Loitering,” by Christopher Priest (F&SF, January 1979)

Again, good winner. I’ve been a fan of Martin’s from this story onward.

BEST SHORT STORY

Winner: “The Way of Cross and Dragon,” by George R. R. Martin (Omni, June 1979)

Nominees:

“Can These Bones Live?,” by Ted Reynolds (Analog, March 1979)

“Daisy, In the Sun,” by Connie Willis (Galileo, November 1979)

“giANTS,” by Edward Bryant (Analog, August 1979)

“Unaccompanied Sonata,” by Orson Scott Card (Omni, March 1979)

Good winner and an awesome list of nominees. I had no idea Willis had been writing this long.

BEST NONFICTION BOOK

Winner: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, edited by Peter Nicholls (Doubleday)

Nominees:

Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials, by Wayne Douglas Barlowe and Ian Summers (Workman)

In Memory Yet Green, by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday)

The Language of the Night, by Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Susan Wood (Putnam)

Wonderworks, by Michael Whelan (Donning)

Look, new category! And what a great set of nominees to start off—and as usual, a set of things not very like each other and hard to compare. I’ve read four of these (everything but the Whelan, which I assume is an art book) if you can say you’ve read an encyclopedia, and I have no idea which I’d vote for. Probably the Le Guin, but … when you have four novels, no matter how different, they are at least all novels.

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION

Winner: Alien

Nominees:

The Black Hole

The Muppet Movie

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Time After Time

BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR

Winner: George H. Scithers

Nominees:

Jim Baen

Ben Bova

Edward L. Ferman

Stanley Schmidt

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Winner: Michael Whelan

Nominees:

Vincent Di Fate

Steve Fabian

Paul Lehr

Boris Vallejo

BEST FANZINE

Winner: Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown

Nominees:

File 770, edited by Mike Glyer

Janus, edited by Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll

Science Fiction Review, edited by Richard E. Geis

Thrust, edited by Doug Fratz

BEST FAN WRITER

Winner: Bob Shaw

Nominees:

Richard E. Geis

Mike Glyer

Arthur D. Hlavaty

David Langford

People could still nominate Arthur Hlavaty now. He’s still a terrific fan writer. He has a wonderful way of putting things.

BEST FAN ARTIST

Winner: Alexis Gilliland

Nominees:

Jeanne Gomoll

Joan Hanke-Woods

Victoria Poyser

Bill Rotsler

Stu Shiffman

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD

Winner: Barry B. Longyear

Nominees:

Lynn Abbey

Diane Duane

Karen Jollie

Alan Ryan

Somtow Sucharitkul

Interesting list. Longyear produced that one wonderful novella, and I entirely see why people voted for him. He’s kept writing but never been very prolific or written anything else that’s had the same kind of attention since.

Lynn Abbey edited some collections with Asprin and did some writing in the Cherryh’s Merovingian universe. I haven’t heard anything about her in a while.

Diane Duane has gone on to have a major career, largely in YA. She’d also have been a good winner.

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