Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine

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Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.

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.

This Hugo Award is given to science fiction/fantasy/horror magazines which live in a nebulous area between the non-paying amateur fanzines, and the high-paying professional magazines. Defining exactly what a "semi-professional" magazine is thus takes considerable verbiage.

To this end, the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society defines a Semiprozine as follows:

3.3.10: Best Semiprozine. Any generally available non-professional publication devoted to science fiction or fantasy which by the close of the previous calendar year has published four (4) or more issues, at least one (1) of which appeared in the previous calendar year, and which in the previous calendar year met at least two (2) of the following criteria:

(1) had an average press run of at least one thousand (1000) copies per issue,

(2) paid its contributors and/or staff in other than copies of the publication,

(3) provided at least half the income of any one person,

(4) had at least fifteen percent (15%) of its total space occupied by advertising,

(5) announced itself to be a semiprozine.

The Semiprozine Hugo was created after Locus won the Best Fanzine Hugo for several years running. Awards given in one year are for work done during the previous year. Winners are listed first, with other nominees listed below.

[edit] Winners and other nominees

  • 2002: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Speculations edited by Susan Fry, published by Kent Brewster
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney
    • Absolute Magnitude edited by Warren Lapine
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 2001: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Speculations edited by Denise Lee & Susan Fry, published by Kent Brewster
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 2000: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Speculations edited by Kent Brewster
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 1998: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Speculations edited by Kent Brewster & Denise Lee
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 1997: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Speculations edited by Kent Brewster
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Tad Dembinski, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 1996: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Crank! edited by Bryan Cholfin
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Ariel Haméon & Tad Dembinski
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 1995: Interzone edited by David Pringle
    • Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Tomorrow Speculative Fiction edited by Algis Budrys
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Donald G. Keller, Robert K. J. Killheffer & Gordon Van Gelder
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
  • 1993: Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Donald G. Keller, Robert K. J. Killheffer & Gordon Van Gelder
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
    • Pulphouse edited by Dean Wesley Smith
  • 1992: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Robert K. J. Killheffer & Gordon Van Gelder
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
    • Pulphouse edited by Dean Wesley Smith
  • 1991: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer & Gordon Van Gelder
    • Quantum (formerly: Thrust) edited by Doug Fratz
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 1990: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell & Gordon Van Gelder
    • Thrust edited by Doug Fratz
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Interzone edited by David Pringle
  • 1988: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Thrust edited by Doug Fratz
    • Interzone edited by Simon Ounsley & David Pringle
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Aboriginal SF edited by Charles C. Ryan
  • 1986: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Fantasy Review edited by Robert A. Collins
    • Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis
    • Interzone edited by Simon Ounsley & David Pringle
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
  • 1984: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
    • Fantasy Newsletter/Fantasy Review edited by Robert A. Collins
    • Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis
    • Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
    • Whispers edited by Stuart David Schiff

[edit] See also

Hugo Award
Fiction

Novel - Novella - Novelette - Short Story

Dramatic Presentation

Long Form - Short Form (united until 2002)

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction Book / Related Book

Fanac

Fanzine - Fan Artist - Fan Writer

Pro's ac

Semiprozine - Professional Artist - Professional Editor

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