As in many past years, the Bay Area Science Fiction Association met recently to discuss their recommendations for Hugo/Retro-Hugo/YA Award/Campbell Award nominations. Rather than post them one category at a time here as we've done in the past, we've created a single document with all of the club's nominations. You can download a PDF of the 2018 ( Read more... )

I'd like to put Liberty by Alasdair Shaw out there. Yes, it feels weird listing my own book, but nothing ventured...

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It's never too early, right?

People are already scrambling recs together, so be sure to check out these hotspots:

Worldcon 75 Spreadsheet: Once again, 2016 Hugo Nominee for Best Fanzine "Lady Business" maintains a spreadsheet containing potential nominees for every category. This year, edits are being allowed early. If you have a suggestion, add ( Read more... )

Hey folks.

I have always enjoyed The Big Bang Theory. The writing has always been good and amusing, the characters have depth and development and the acting has great comedic timing. It has also made being a science fiction or comic book fans fashionable.


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I was scrounging around trying to think of good short form dramatic presentation and realised that "All This and Gargantua-2" (Venture Brothers, special, single episode and story) was January 2015, so eligible. And it was hilarious and awesome so you should consider nominating it. ^_^

There are two philosophies regarding how to nominate for works that are 75 years old and that many modern readers are not familiar with. First, try to guess what voters in 1941 would have nominated, or second, nominate works that have stood the test of time. From previous Retro Hugos, it is clear that the second method dominates. In my ( Read more... )

It looks like many “novels” of the time were really novellas. The following are the few that have stood the test of time. The only two sure-things are The Ill-Made Knight (later incorporated into The Once and Future King) and Slan ( Read more... )

This was not a popular length, it seems, although many “complete novel in this issue” (Captain Future, Doc Savage, The Shadow, etc.) were really novellas. The Roaring Trumpet and The Mathematics of Magic were later merged into The Incomplete Enchanter ( Read more... )

Probably the best story of any length published in 1940 is Farewell to the Master (later adapted to film as The Day the Earth Stood Still, one of the all-time classic SF movies). Into the Darkness may not have gotten much traction with 1941 voters because it was so much ahead of its time - it would not have been out of place had it been published ( Read more... )

The short story length was by far the most popular in 1940, so there’s a lot to choose from. Don’t be fooled into nominating anything by Ray Bradbury or Arthur C. Clarke - they were still amateur writers publishing in fanzines ( Read more... )