Retro Hugo Awards 2020
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: August 1, 2020
Convention: CoNZealand
Where: Wellington, New Zealand
Eligibility Year: 1944
Associated With: Hugo Awards
Convention: CoNZealand
Where: Wellington, New Zealand
Eligibility Year: 1944
Associated With: Hugo Awards
Novel
- Winner: “Shadow Over Mars”, Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories Fall 1944) (The Nemesis from Terra)
- The Golden Fleece, Robert Graves (Cassell) (Hercules, My Shipmate)
- Land of Terror, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)
- Sirius, Olaf Stapledon (Secker & Warburg)
- The Wind on the Moon, Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
- “The Winged Man”, A. E. van Vogt & E. Mayne Hull (Astounding Science Fiction May-Jun 1944)
Novella
- Winner: “Killdozer!”, Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction Nov 1944)
- “The Changeling”, A. E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction Apr 1944)
- “A God Named Kroo”, Henry Kuttner (Thrilling Wonder Stories Win 1944)
- “Intruders from the Stars”, Ross Rocklynne (Amazing Stories Jan 1944)
- “The Jewel of Bas”, Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories Spr 1944)
- “Trog”, Murray Leinster (Astounding Science Fiction Jun 1944)
Novelette
- Winner: “City”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction May 1944)
- “Arena”, Fredric Brown (Astounding Science Fiction Jun 1944)
- “The Big and the Little”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction Aug 1944) ("The Merchant Princes")
- “The Children's Hour”, Lawrence O'Donnell (Astounding Science Fiction Mar 1944) (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner)
- “No Woman Born”, C. L. Moore (Astounding Science Fiction Dec 1944)
- “When the Bough Breaks”, Lewis Padgett (Astounding Science Fiction Nov 1944) (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner)
Short Story
- Winner: “I, Rocket”, Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories May 1944)
- “And the Gods Laughed”, Fredric Brown (Planet Stories Spr 1944)
- “Desertion”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction Nov 1944)
- “Far Centaurus”, A. E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction Jan 1944)
- “Huddling Place”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction Jul 1944)
- “The Wedge”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction Oct 1944) ("The Traders")
Related Work
- Winner: “The Science-Fiction Field”, Leigh Brackett (Writer's Digest Jul 1944)
- ’42 To ’44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behavior During the Crisis of the World Revolution, H. G. Wells (Secker & Warburg)
- Fancyclopedia, Jack Speer (Forrest J Ackerman)
- Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom, George Gamow (Cambridge University Press)
- Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere, Willy Ley (Viking Press)
- “The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Suggestions for a Critical Appraisal”, Fritz Leiber (The Acolyte Fall 1944)
Series
- Winner: The Cthulhu Mythos, H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, and others
- Captain Future, Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
- Doc Savage, Kenneth Robeson (aka Lester Dent)
- Jules de Grandin, Seabury Quinn
- Pellucidar, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Shadow, Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)
Graphic Story
- Winner: Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk”, Jerry Siegel & Jo Shuster (Detective Comics, Inc.)
- Buck Rogers: “Hollow Planetoid”, Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
- Donald Duck: “The Mad Chemist”, Carl Barks (Dell Comics)
- Flash Gordon: “Triumph in Tropica”, Don Moore & Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
- Flash Gordon: “Battle fro Tropica”, Don Moore & Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
- The Spirit: “For the Love of Clara Defoe”, Manly Wade Wellman, Lou Fine & Don Komisarow (Register and Tribune Syndicate)
Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
- Winner (tie): The Canterville Ghost (screenplay by Edwin Harvey Blum from a story by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jules Dassin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
- Winner (tie): The Curse of the Cat People (written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Gunther V. Fritsch and Robert Wise (RKO Radio Pictures))
- Donovan's Brain (adapted by Robert L. Richards from a story by Curt Siodmak, producer, director and editor William Spier (CBS Radio Network))
- House of Frankenstein (screenplay by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. from a story by Curt Siodmak, directed by Erle C. Kenton (Universal Pictures))
- The Invisible Man's Revenge (written by Bertram Millhauser, directed by Ford Beebe (Universal Pictures))
- It Happened Tomorrow (screenplay and adaptation by Dudley Nichols and René Clair, directed by René Clair (Arnold Pressburger Films))
Editor, Short Form
Professional Artist
Fanzine
- Winner: Voice of the Imagi-Nation, Forrest J Ackerman & Myrtle R. Douglas
- The Acolyte, Francis T. Laney & Samuel D. Russell
- Diablerie, Bill Watson
- Futurian War Digest, J. Michael Rosenblum
- Le Zombie, Bob Tucker & E. E. Evans
- Shangri L'Affaires, Charles Burbee
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