Hugo Award for Best Related Book
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The Hugo Awards are given annually by members of the World Science Fiction Convention for the best science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories.
Winners of the Hugo Award for best related book (previously best non-fiction). This award category is defined in Article 3.3.5 of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society as a work, "which is either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text". Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year.
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[edit] Winners and other nominees
- 2006:Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
by Kate Wilhelm- Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
by Mike Ashley - The SEX Column
by David Langford - Science Fiction Quotations
by Gary Westfahl - Soundings, Reviews 1992-1996
by Gary K. Wolfe
- Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
- 2005:The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn- The Best of Xero
by Richard A. Lupoff, Pat Lupoff - Dancing Naked: The Unexpurgated William Tenn, Volume 3
by William Tenn - Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
by Brian Herbert - Futures: 50 Years in Space: The Challenge of the Stars
by David A. Hardy & Patrick Moore - With Stars in My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom
by Peter Weston
- The Best of Xero
- 2004: The Chesley Awards for SF & Fantasy Art: A Retrospective
by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, & Pamela D. Scoville- Scores: Reviews 1993–2003 by John Clute
- Spectrum 10: The Best in Fantastic Contemporary Art
by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner - Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
by Brian Herbert - The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
by Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts - Master Storyteller: An Illustrated Tour of the Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard
by William J. Widder
- 2003: Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
by Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary- Dragonhenge by Bob Eggleton & John Grant
- Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner - The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier
- Bradbury: An Illustrated Life by Jerry Weist
- 2002: The Art of Chesley Bonestell
by Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant III, with Melvin H. Schuetz- The Art of Richard Powers by Jane Frank
- Meditations on Middle-earth by Karen Haber
- I Have This Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do With It? by Mike Resnick
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
- Being Gardner Dozois by Michael Swanwick
- 2001: Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton
by Bob Eggleton & Nigel Suckling- Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn
- Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion by James Gifford
- Concordance to Cordwainer Smith: Third Edition by Anthony R. Lewis
- Purse Stories by Mike Resnick
- 2000: Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Frank M. Robinson
- The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
- The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
- Minicon 34 Restaurant Guide by Karen Cooper & Bruce Schneier
- Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner
- 1999: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch
- Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years by Everett F. Bleiler
- The Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards by Howard DeVore
- Spectrum 5: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner - The Work of Jack Williamson: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide
by Richard A. Hauptmann
This category replaced the best non-fiction (awarded 1980 to 1998).
[edit] The "Retro Hugos"
(awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which World Conventions didn't give awards)
- 1954: Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley (awarded in 2004)
- Modern Science Fiction: Its Making and Future by Reginald Bretnor
- Science-Fiction Handbook by L. Sprague de Camp
[edit] See also
| Hugo Award | |
|---|---|
| Fiction |
Novel - Novella - Novelette - Short Story |
| Dramatic Presentation | |
| Non-Fiction |
Non-Fiction Book / Related Book |
| Fanac | |
| Pro's ac | |
