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The Worldcon is, for complex reasons, awarding "retro-Hugos" this year, for the best science fiction of 1950. And for the best fanzine, best artwork, and so on.
I took a look at an incomplete
list
by title of eligible works. An amusing exercise.
There were a few old favorites on there--I'll be nominating "Dear Devil" and "Scanners Live in Vain." There was plenty I'd never heard of, of course--not everything is remembered, or reprinted, or deserves to be. A few pseudonymous works whose authors' names are unknown; there's a story there somewhere, but probably one of 2 cents/word and the lost paperwork of long-dead magazines.
Right here and now, I'll offer one prediction: the retro-Hugo for best novel of 1950 will go to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It's a fantasy--fantasies don't do well in the Hugos, she understated--and a children's book, but it's one that a lot of the likely voters grew up with.
The nominating deadline, if you're eligible, is 31 March; even if you're not, it's worth a look at (an attempt at) a complete list of genre fiction published in a twelve-month period, a half-century ago.
I took a look at an incomplete
list
by title of eligible works. An amusing exercise.
There were a few old favorites on there--I'll be nominating "Dear Devil" and "Scanners Live in Vain." There was plenty I'd never heard of, of course--not everything is remembered, or reprinted, or deserves to be. A few pseudonymous works whose authors' names are unknown; there's a story there somewhere, but probably one of 2 cents/word and the lost paperwork of long-dead magazines.
Right here and now, I'll offer one prediction: the retro-Hugo for best novel of 1950 will go to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It's a fantasy--fantasies don't do well in the Hugos, she understated--and a children's book, but it's one that a lot of the likely voters grew up with.
The nominating deadline, if you're eligible, is 31 March; even if you're not, it's worth a look at (an attempt at) a complete list of genre fiction published in a twelve-month period, a half-century ago.