(1) Laura J. Mixon’s Hugo speech and a great deal more commentary at – “Acceptance Speech Online! And Other Post-Hugo Neepery”
Tonight, I honor Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Tricia Sullivan, Athena Andreadis, Rachel Manija Brown, Kari Sperring, Liz Williams, Hesychasm, Cindy Pon, and the many others targeted for abuse, whose experiences I documented in my report last fall. They’re great writers and bloggers—read their works!
Thanks go to those who stood up for them: Tade Thompson, Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Pat Cadigan, Sherwood Smith, and Nalo Hopkinson. Read their works too!
Thanks also to those who helped me with my research behind the scenes. You know who you are, and we wouldn’t be here with you, either. Thanks to George RR Martin, who boosted me for this award, and to all who voted for me.
I wrote my report out of love for this community. Out of a rejection of abusive behavior and the language of hate. There’s room for all of us here. But there is no middle ground between “we belong here” and “no you don’t,” which is what I hear when people disrespect members of our community. I believe we must find non-toxic ways to discuss our conflicting points of view. I plan to keep working toward that, in ways true to my own values and lived experiences. And I hope you all will, too. Science fiction and fantasy literature is our common bond and our common legacy. It belongs to all of us. Those who deny that do great harm.
I see our conflict as a reflection of a much larger societal struggle, as Robert Silverberg referred to, and I stand with people from marginalized groups who seek simply to be seen as fully human. Black lives matter. Thank you.
(2) Melina on Subversive Reader – “A Letter To ‘Old’ Hugo Voters from a ‘New’ Hugo Voter”
- We don’t necessarily bring the same schema to our voting as you do
Part of being part of a community for a while means you start knowing the players. You know that Joanne Bloggs edits for that publisher, and Jane Smith worked with those people who love her. As a new voter, you don’t necessarily know that – it’s possible that the new voter is dipping their toes into the inner circle of knowledge for the very first time.
This is where the packet is a brilliant idea – all the information a new voter needs to fairly judge a person or piece of writing against others. Except, in 2015, there were times when the packet just sucked (and I’m not just talking about the writing). Several of the awards ask us to judge a person’s output over a year – best editors, best fan writer, the art awards etc. And while some categories did this well (the art categories) others provided little or no example of what the nominees were achieving.
This is especially clear in the editing categories. I’ve heard a number of commentators complaining that these categories shouldn’t have been No Awarded without any of them acknowledging that the packets were either thin on quality work or pretty much non existent. Additionally, there weren’t a lot of credible commentators advocating that we vote for one editor or another. So how is a new voter supposed to know that we should vote for a certain editor without evidence or advocacy?
- No Award is not a tragedy or unethical
The option to use No Award is brilliant. It allows us to consider the works that are nominated, judge them according to our own criteria and say ‘nope’ when we think the work doesn’t reach the level a Hugo winner should reach. It’s like the perfect anti bell-curve mechanism.
So, when a No Award is awarded, it’s not a tragedy. It’s the voters, as a group, saying yeah, no, none of the nominated work was good enough. We’re not going to lower our standards just because that’s what was nominated. Try again next year.
Standards are fabulous. It makes sure that we’re celebrating the very best. It shows that we really value excellence in the winners.
Yes there were a lot of No Awards in 2015. That’s because the work nominated was not of a high enough quality to win or got on the ballot in a way we do not agree with as a community. Our standards are high and we should be proud of that.
(3) It’s a theory —
The only non-white that won this year was 3-body problem by Liu Cixin. Guess what, it was the Puppies that voted him in. #hugoawards
— Mark Kern (@Grummz) August 29, 2015
(4) CBC Radio’s news program As It Happens did an interview with Mary Robinette Kowal about the Puppies on August 28, so I’m told. I haven’t listened to it myself. The link to the program is here. Kowal reportedly begins at 16:40.
Hugo Awards flap
A group of angry reactionaries tries to hijack the biggest awards in science fiction and fantasy — but it turns out there’s no space for their opinions.
(5) Elizabeth Bear on Charlie’s Diary – “How I learned to stop worrying and love the concept of punitive slating…”
The Rabid Puppies, though, are self-declared reavers out to wreck the Hugos for everybody. I think their organizer Vox Day has made himself a laughingstock, personally—he’s been pitching ill-thought-out tantrums in SFF since before 2004, and all he ever brings is noise. But he and his partisans seem to be too ego-invested to admit they’re making fools of themselves, so they’ll never quit.
So it’s totally possible that the Rabid Puppy organizers and voters, in the spirit of burning it all down, would nominate a slate consisting of the sort of vocal anti-slate partisans who could conceivably swing legitimate Hugo nominations on fan support, having a track record of the same.
I’m talking about people such as our good host Charlie Stross, John Scalzi, George R.R. Martin, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and myself. Or just, you know, people they hate—the categories overlap. The goal here would be to then attempt to either force us to withdraw or refuse nominations to prove our lack of hypocrisy, or for fandom to again No Award the whole process. This is the Human Shield option, which—in a slightly different application—is what led to the inclusion on the Rabid Puppy slate of uninvolved parties such as Marko Kloos, Annie Bellet, Black Gate, Jim Minz, and so on in 2015.
This possibility concerns me a bit more, but honestly, I think it’s pretty easy to manage. First of all, I’m going to state up front that I will never willingly participate in a slate. If I learn that I have been included on a slate, I will ask to be removed, and I will bring as much force to bear on that issue as I legally can.
Additionally, I’m going to rely on the discretion of readers and fans of goodwill, who I think are pretty smart people. If you see my name on a slate, please assume that it’s being done by ruiners to punish me, and that whoever put it there has ignored my requests to remove it. I have nothing but contempt for that kind of behavior, and I’m frankly not going to do anything to please them at all.
(6) Ann Leckie – “On Slates”
First off, I deplore slates. In the context of the Hugos, they are an asshole move. Just don’t slate.
Second off, I am saying unequivocally that I do not agree to be on anyone’s slate, do not approve of my inclusion in any slate, and anyone who slates a work of mine is thereby demonstrating their extra-strong motivation to be seen as an asshole.
Now, there’s some concern that assholes making up a slate for next year would deliberately include the work of people they hate, in order to force those people to withdraw any nominations they might get. This might be a genuine concern for some writers. It is not one of mine.
(7) John Scalzi on Whatever – “Final(ish) Notes on Hugos and Puppies, (2015 Edition)”
[From the second of ten points.]
The going line in those quarters at the moment is that the blanket “No Award” just proves the Hugo Awards are corrupt. Well, no, that’s stupid. What the blanket “No Award” judgment shows is that the large mass of Hugo voters don’t like people trying to game the system for their own reasons that are largely independent of actual quality of work. In the Sad Puppy case the reasons were to vent anger and frustration at having not been given awards before, and for Brad Torgersen to try to boost his own profile as a tastemaker by nominating his pals (with a few human shields thrown in). In the Rabid Puppy case it was because Vox Day is an asshole who likes being an asshole to other people. And in both cases there was a thin candy shell of “Fuck the SJWs” surrounding the whole affair.
The shorter version of the above: You can’t game the system and then complain that people counteracting your gaming of the system goes to show the system is gamed. Or you can, but no one is obliged to take you seriously when you do.
(8) David Gerrold on Facebook
Given all those different belief systems, any attempt to discuss healing and recovery is likely to be doomed — because it’s no longer about “I’m right and you’re wrong” as much as it is about, “my story about all this is the only story.” That’s not just a difference of degree, it’s an attempt to control the paradigm in which all this is occurring.
Which brings me to the inescapable conclusion — if one person pees in the pool, we’re probably not going to notice it. But if we’re all peeing in the pool, it’s going to start stinking pretty bad.
There is a larger narrative — one that we seem to have forgotten. We are all fans because we are all enthralled by the sense of wonder that occurs when we read a good science fiction story or fantasy. Perhaps we came to this genre looking for escape, but ultimately what makes this genre special is that it’s about all the different possibilities. It’s about who we really want to be — it’s about the question, “What does it mean to be a human being?” Are we slans? Are we transhumans? Are we starship troopers?
As Tananarive said, “There are no final frontiers. There’s only the next one.”
That’s what SF is about — it’s about exploration, discovery, and stepping into the next possibility. Our awards are about excellence, innovation, and merit.
There is room in this community for everyone who brings their enthusiasm. We have steampunk and heroic engineers and fantasy fans and gothic horror and gender-punk and space opera and cyberpunk and deco-punk and alternate histories and utopias and dystopias and zombies and vampires and all the other different niches that make up this vast ecology of wonder.
None of us have the right to define SF — we each define it by what we read and what we write. None of us have the authority to demand or control the behavior of others. The best that any of us can do is recommend and invite. And yes, this is another narrative — a narrative of inclusion that stands in opposition to the narratives of division.
That’s the narrative I choose to live in.
(9) Jeffrey A. Carver on Pushing A Snake Up A Hill – “Sad Sad Puppies Affair – Sasquan Roundup, Part 2”
While I stand firmly with the rejection of the gaming effort of the SPs, I feel for those writers and editors who were hurt by the whole affair. Some innocent writers and editors were unwillingly associated with the puppies slate, because the SPs happened to like their work. Other worthy individuals were kept off the final ballot because of the stuffing. Still, the winning novel, The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu), got its place on the ballot because another author withdrew his work after receiving support from the stuffers. Some say that the Hugo Awards as an institution were strengthened by the voters’ repudiation of the attempt to game the system, and I hope that turns out to be true. But it’s hard to say that there were winners in the affected categories. Those writers who were shut out may get another chance, another year, and then again they may not. Either way, it has to hurt.
(10) Adam-Troy Castro – “These Are Not Reasons to Vote For Me For a Hugo”
Please don’t nominate me for a Hugo because you’re my friend on Facebook.
Please don’t nominate me for a Hugo because you’re my friend in real life.
Please don’t nominate me for a Hugo because we shared a great time at a convention.
Please don’t nominate me for a Hugo because I’m politically liberal and you like what I stand for.
Please don’t nominate me for a Hugo because my strongest opposition is politically conservative and you wish to oppose what they stand for.
Please don’t nominate me for a Hugo because it’s “my turn.”
(11) Adam-Troy Castro – “While I’m At It”
“I am among the finest writers working today.”
That, my friends, is the kind of statement that immediately casts doubt on itself.
(12) Sarah A. Hoyt on According To Hoyt – “I’ve Been To The Desert On A Horse With No Name”
Which brings me to: congratulations. You probably achieved at least half of your objective — to drive out the people who don’t think/act like you and aren’t part of your groups. It is heartily to be hoped you won’t live to regret it, but don’t bet on it.
So, the show over, and once I’d gotten over being both mad and sad but mostly sad, we started discussing (Kate and Amanda and I) operational details for next year. Stuff like how many noms, where do we get recommends, do all three of us have to read something before we recommend it, and oh, yeah, logo? patches? t-shirts? Incredibly threatening stuff like that, you know? Since Kate, Amanda and I routinely PM and send each other scads of emails everyday (otherwise known as being ‘thick as thieves’) including on all important topics such as “that cute thing the cat did yesterday”, it barely rose above the ambient noise.
So imagine our surprise when Kate got hacked on facebook, not once, not twice but three times in a 24 hour period and her account started spamming sunglass adds. Coincidence? I don’t know guys. One time, maybe. But three times, when Kate has pretty d*mn good security? Bah.
(13) Cedar Sanderson on Cedar Writes – “Muzzled Redux”
I still wholeheartedly support the idea of reclaiming the Hugo Awards for excellence above ‘connections’ and even more, the idea of making the Hugo Awards back into a ‘Best of’ rather than a tiny super-minority. I do support the idea of a diverse nomination pool. A really diverse one, where you don’t have to be ‘approved’ by the right people to be included. So it’s not that I was shut out.
Rather, due to full-time (plus some) school and family obligations that need my attention, I cannot afford the time to be slandered right now in public, and this is what will happen. Yes, I have to fear that from the people who are running the show right now. Doubt what I say? One of the people in the front lines, a Latina woman, was accused by a milk-white woman, of using an ethnic slur. Which confused the accused woman, since English is not her first language, maybe it meant something she didn’t know? No… it’s a standard identifier that had been used extensively in the military since the 1950s. The accuser was making up mud to fling and try to make it stick. You can see the inherent hypocrisy, and the reason I have to avoid the poo-flinging monkeys. The Sad Puppy movement supports me, knows what is happening in my life, but the other side? They wouldn’t care, and would no doubt use it as a tool to try and destroy me.
Pat Patterson in a comment on Cedar Writes
You know the scene in Henry V about the feast of St Crispan? I like the kenneth Branagh version, personally.
Well, on every instance of the Hugo awards, however long they last,
you will be able to strip your sleeve and show your scars and say “These wounds I had as a nominee for the Best Fan Writer Hugo,”
Old dogs forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But you’ll remember, with advantages,
What words you wrote this year. Then shall the names,
Familiar in your mouth as household words-
(14) Steven Brust on The Dream Café – “Who Really Runs the Hugo Awards?”
In a surprising development, the dispute among “Trufans” “SMOFS” “Sad Puppies” and “Rabid Puppies” has produced a result: We now know exactly who runs the Hugo Awards. It turns out to be Mrs. Gladys Knipperdowling, of Grand Rapids, Iowa.
Mrs. Knipperdowling, 81, came forward yesterday to reveal that she has personally chosen all Hugo winners and nominees since 1971 when her aunt Betty “got too old and cranky,” as she put it in an exclusive interview. “I wouldn’t have said anything about it,” she added, “but then I heard there was all of this trouble.”
Asked about the people usually accused of picking the Hugo winners, Mrs. Knipperdowling became confused. She claimed never to have heard of the Nielsen Haydens at all, and when John Scalzi was mentioned, she asked, “Is he the nice young man in the bow tie?”
(15) Dysfunctional Literacy – “I Am No Award!”
I’ve never heard of anybody named No Award, and I’ve never read anything by No Award, but No Award must be awesome.
No Award won so many honors because Hugo voters are in a big argument over stuff that non-Hugo voters don’t care about. Science fiction fans have always liked to argue about stuff that other people don’t care about. Before I was born, it was Jules Verne vs. H.G. Wells or Flash Gordon vs. Buck Rogers. When I was a kid, it was Star Wars vs. Star Trek or Marvel vs. DC. Today, science fiction fans are divided between social justice warriors and sad puppies.
[Thanks to Mark Dennehy, another Mark, Danny Sichel, and John King Tarpinian for some of these links. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Will R.]
@Cally
That’s the Carol Danvers Ms. Marvel you’re describing, now using the name Captain Marvel. The Kamela Khan version that won a Hugo has stretchy powers somewhat like Mr Fantastic.
a. I’m still not sure what the actual benefit of Best Publisher would be. It is clearly better in some respects than Best Editor (though I’d argue it was worse in others), but the fact that it is better than something else is not a positive reason for having it. I think the main justification for BELF is the thought that editors, as people, deserve an award – which they do: it’s just that the Hugo voters aren’t the best people to judge it – so Best Publisher does nothing to meet that need.
b. I don’t think there’s really a problem with Best Magazine. One can argue that it exists already, in that BESF generally goes to editors of magazines: and if semiprozines are folded into this category, that will give us more to choose from.
Which goes to show that I’m not up on my Marvel universe . Since voting for the Hugos wasn’t in my budget, I’ve not bothered to look at the various nominated comics, including the most recent Ms. Marvel.
In any case, there’s no question that Ms. Marvel, in whatever incarnation, has fantasy superpowers and lives in a fantasy universe. Captain Midnight had Boys Adventure powers (get knocked out and be fine later, land planes in improbable places, million-to-one odds always work) but lived in our universe. At least in the 1940 radio show; like I said, I’m not qualified to speak about any later incarnations.
In my opinion, any proposals to add/delete categories need to be submitted individually, except ones that would be structurally impossible to implement (splits/merges of existing categories). Look at the reaction to including the merge of the two “middle length fiction” categories within the Best Series proposal. In fact, when a proposal consists of independent clauses, the meeting can Divide the Question (split it into independent proposals) by majority vote anyway.
So you end up with up to six separate Constitutional amendments, and depending on how they fare, you could end with between three fewer and three more Hugo Award categories.
Re: Best Publisher. I would prefer Best Imprint.
Tor is not a publisher in my (British) English; they’re an imprint.
Choosing Best Publisher would mean choosing between Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Hachette, rather than Tor, Ace, Orbit, etc.
Kevin Standlee said:
I have zero experience in WSFS business meetings and constitutional matters, so I’ll take your word for it. In any case, as mentioned earlier, I thought your suggestions for additions and deletions were good ones, except that I don’t like the idea of adding a Best Publisher award.
If a section of fandom were to support this idea, or some variation of it, how should we proceed?
Adding to the 1940 short fiction list:
I somehow missed that L. Sprague de Camp’s classic “The Wheels of If” was also published in 1940.
H. P. Lovecraft had a few stories published posthumously in 1940 — “The Mound” and “The Tree on the Hill” (with Duane W. Rimel).
Thanks, Kyra – cleaning everything up now so I’ll add those in at the same time.
Anyone around for me to test formatting on? (Still cleaning stuff up, but I’m not sure what the most readable look is likely to be.)
Testing…
Novellas:
Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson (suggested by Steve Wright, Shambles, and lurkertype; 1940 novella rather than 1948 novel)
The Roaring Trumpet by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (suggested by Kyra and Michael Eochaidh)
The Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (suggested by Kyra and Michael Eochaidh)
Coventry by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Lyle, Kyra, and David T.)
Magic, Inc by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Kyra)
The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp (suggested by Kyra)
The Mound by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop (suggested by Kyra)
ETA: Okay, it looks pretty readable. Unless anyone finds it weird on the eyes I’ll go with that. Now to alphabetise…
I like it, Meredith.
The Hugos aren’t just for SF. They’re also for fantasy.
If lack of super-powers means Captain Midnight is not like Ms. Marvel, and thus not qualified for Hugo consideration, doesn’t that rule out Batman and Doc Savage? I think once you let one super-hero in all of them are allowed. Pulp heroes too.
Thanks, Bruce. I thought if it was all plain text it would be difficult to read. I’ll finish putting everything in alphabetical order tomorrow when my brain unfutzes (the largest list is what remains – short stories).
Rcade:
Depends on the story. If Batman’s fighting mobsters out to steal a jewelry exhibit, that’s not SF or fantasy any more than DICK TRACY, even if the villain is exotically disfigured. If Batman’s using a time pool to go team up with Edgar Allan Poe or battling a mutated woman-shark, that’s SF or at least fantasy.
If he’s hanging out with his Kryptonian pal from Metropolis on a space station with other aliens and an Amazon empowered by the Greek pantheon, even more so.
Dick Tracy is out too? But he had an Apple watch in 1946!
There aren’t any suggestions for Related Works, Semiprozine, Fanzine, or Fan Artist yet. There’s only one for Graphic Story, one for Pro Artist, two for Editors, bare handful for Fan Writer (almost all fiction authors), and Novella’s are a bit short on options compared to the other fiction categories.
ETA: Oh, and there’s one suggestion for anthology-if-there’s-an-anthology-category.
1940 Related Works:
1939 Yearbook of Science, Weird and Fantasy Fiction
by Bob Tucker and Damon Knight and Harry Warner, Jr. and Jane Tucker
Chicon Program Booklet
by W. Lawrence Hamling and Mark Reinsberg
Jules Verne
by Kenneth Allott
Life on Other Worlds
by H. Spencer Jones
The Birth and Death of the Sun
by George Gamow
The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic
by Hadley Cantril and Hazel Gaudet and Herta Herzog
The New World Order: Whether it is Attainable, How it Can Be Attained, and What Sort of World a World at Peace Will Have to Be
by H. G. Wells
For Graphic Story, don’t forget that such strips as FLASH GORDON, BUCK ROGERS and BRICK BRADFORD would be eligible alongside the comic books, and even strips such as LI’L ABNER often had SFF content. PRINCE VALIANT had mythic elements, too.
These are the 1940 Novellas from the isfdb.
(I apologize for being too tired right now to validate these)
Babies for Sale
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
Blow-Ups Happen
by Robert A. Heinlein
Bush Devil
by Clyde Irvine
But Without Horns
by Norvell W. Page
Champlin Fights the Purple God
by Don Wilcox
Coventry
by Robert A. Heinlein
Croesus of Murder
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
Darker Than You Think
by Jack Williamson
Death’s Head Face
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
Dictator of Time
by Nelson S. Bond
Experiment in Genius
by William F. Temple
Fatapoufs and Thinifers
by André Maurois
Fear
by L. Ron Hubbard
Goddess of the Moon
by John Murray Reynolds
Isles of the Blest
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Jungle Goddess
by Armand Brigaud
Ki-Gor and the Cannibal Kingdom
by John Peter Drummond
Ki-Gor and the Forbidden Mountain
by John Peter Drummond
Ki-Gor and the Paradise That Time Forgot
by John Peter Drummond
Magic, Inc.
by Robert A. Heinlein
Mates for Hell’s Half-World Minion
by Donald G. Cormack (as Donald Graham)
Men Without a World
by Dom Passante
Mistress of Machine-Age Madness
by Jack Williamson
Mistress of the Blood-Drinkers
by Ralston Shields
Murder in the Red
by Norbert Davis
Nop?i la Serampore (Nights at Serampore)
by Mircea Eliade
One Thousand Miles Below
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
Queen of Venus
by John Russell Fearn
Salvage
by Vic Phillips
Secretul doctorului Honigberger (The Secret of Dr. Honigberger)
by Mircea Eliade
Slave Raiders from Mercury
by Don Wilcox
Soldiers of the Black Goat
by Marian O’Hearn
Space Guards
by Phil Nowlan
Space-Liner X-87
by Ray Cummings
Speak For Yourself, John Quincy
by Theodore Roscoe
Subterranean City
by J. W. Heming
The Case of the Clown Who Laughed
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
The Case of the Invisible Enemy
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
The Devil Makes the Law
by Robert A. Heinlein
The Empire of Doom
by John Peter Drummond
The Experiment of Dr. Sarconi
by Harry Bates
The Golden Princess
by Robert Moore Williams
The Green Lama
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
The Little People
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
The Living Dead
by J. W. Heming
The Man Who Wasn’t There
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
The Mathematics of Magic
by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
The Mound
by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
The Roaring Trumpet
by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
The Robot Peril
by Don Wilcox
The Secret of Anton York
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
The Sun Maker
by Jack Williamson
The Ultimate Salient
by Nelson Bond
The Wave of Death
by Kendell Foster Crossen (as Richard Foster)
The Wheels of If
by L. Sprague de Camp
The Whispering Gorilla
by Don Wilcox
The Worms Turn
by Oscar J. Friend
War Drums of the Touareg
by Armand Brigaud
West Point 3000 A.D.
by Manly Wade Wellman
West Point of Tomorrow
by Arthur J. Burks
When New York Vanished
by Henry Kuttner
These are the 1940 Novelettes from the isfdb.
(I apologize for being too tired right now to validate these. Note that “Blowups Happen” is listed in the isfdb as both a novella and a novelette, I’m not sure which it really is.
Obviously, the isfdb list of Short Stories for 1940 is huge; it will have to wait for another day.)
50 Miles Down
by Henry Kuttner (as Peter Horn)
A Beast is Born
by W. Wayne Robbins
A Miracle of Time
by Henry Hasse
Adam Link Fights a War
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
Adam Link’s Vengeance
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
Adam Link, Champion Athlete
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
Adam Link, Robot Detective
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
Admiral’s Inspection
by Malcolm Jameson
After Doomsday
by John Russell Fearn (as John Cotton)
Age of the Cephalods
by John C. Craig
And Then There Was One
by Ross Rocklynne
Before the Universe
by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (as S. D. Gottesman)
Betrothal of the Thing
by Ray Cummings and Gabrielle Cummings (as Gabriel Wilson)
Blitzkrieg – 1950!
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Blowups Happen
by Robert A. Heinlein
Bluebeard’s Daughter
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Bodies Born for Slaughter
by Donald Dale
Brides for the Frankensteins
by Wayne Rogers
Butyl and the Breather
by Theodore Sturgeon
Cargo
by Theodore Sturgeon
Cepheid Planet
by R. R. Winterbotham
Chameleon Planet
by John Russell Fearn (as Polton Cross)
City of Singing Flame
by Clark Ashton Smith
Code of the Bush
by Bill Cook
Cold
by Nat Schachner
Conquest by Fire
by Ward Hawkins
Dead Mates for the Devil’s Devotees
by Caldwell Pierce
Death Over Chicago
by Robert Moore Williams
Dictators of Creation
by Edmond Hamilton
Dolls of Doom
by James A. Goldthwaite (as Francis James)
Doom Over Venus
by Edmond Hamilton
Dr. Cyclops
by Henry Kuttner
Dr. Destiny, Master of the Dead
by Robert Moore Williams
Dr. Varsag’s Experiment
by Lee Rogow and David V. Reed (as Craig Ellis)
Exiles of the Three Red Moons
by Carl Selwyn
Fairies of the Trees
by Cicely Mary Barker
Farewell to the Master
by Harry Bates
Fifth Column of Mars
by Robert Moore Williams
Fish Men of Venus
by David Wright O’Brien
Flames for the Wicked
by Russell Gray
Flight to Galileo
by Milton A. Rothman (as Lee Gregor)
Fog
by Willy Ley (as Robert Willey)
Fruit of Knowledge
by C. L. Moore
Giants Out of the Sun
by David V. Reed (as Peter Horn)
Gift from the Stars
by Edmond Hamilton
Girls Who Lust for Death
by Russell Gray
Guyon 45X
by Earl Binder and Otto Binder (as Dean D. O’Brien)
Half-Breed (aka The Tweenie)
by Isaac Asimov
Half-Breeds on Venus
by Isaac Asimov
He Conquered Venus
by John Russell Fearn
Heart of Atlantan
by Nictzin Dyalhis
Hell in Eden
by Richard O. Lewis
Hell Ship of Space
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Hok Draws the Bow
by Manly Wade Wellman
Hollow of the Moon
by Manly Wade Wellman (as Gabriel Barclay)
Hybrid of Horror
by John Coleman Burroughs and Jane Ralston Burroughs
I Am a Frankenstein!
by Wayne Rogers
I Said Yes to Satan
by Russell Gray
I, Spy!
by Eric Frank Russell
Ice Over America
by Ray Cummings
If You But Wish
by Robert Arthur
Into the Darkness
by Ross Rocklynne
Invisible Monster
by John Wyndham (as John Beynon)
Invisible One
by Neil R. Jones
It
by Theodore Sturgeon
John Carter of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Coleman Burroughs
Jungle Slave
by Bill Cook
King Cole of Pluto
by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (as S. D. Gottesman)
Land of Wooden Men
by John Broome
Laughter Out of Space
by John Russell Fearn (as Dennis Clive)
Let War Gods Clash!
by Don Wilcox
Liline, the Moon Girl
by Edmond Hamilton
Liquid Hell
by Neil R. Jones
Marriage of the Red Monster
by Ray Cummings (as Ray King)
Martian Caravan
by Nelson S. Bond (as Nelson Bond)
Martian Terror
by Ed Earl Repp
Master Control
by Harl Vincent
Master Gerald of Cambray
by Nat Schachner
Miracle on Main Street (aka The Wonderful Day)
by Robert Arthur
Mirrors of Madness
by Don Wilcox
Mistress of Machine-Age Madness
by Jack Williamson (as Nils O. Sonderlund)
Mistress of the Dark Pool
by Russell Gray
Models for the Pain Sculptor
by Russell Gray
Monster of the Marsh
by Gabrielle Cummings and Ray Cummings (as Gabriel Wilson)
Mortmain
by Seabury Quinn
Murder in the Time World
by Malcolm Jameson
My Sweetheart of Death
by James A. Goldthwaite (as Francis James)
Mystery of the Mind Machine
by Don Wilcox
Mystery of the White Raider
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
Neutral Vessel
by Harl Vincent
New York Fights the Termanites
by Bertrand L. Shurtleff
Norris Tapley’s Sixth Sense
by Ed Earl Repp
Old Man Mulligan
by P. Schuyler Miller
Oscar, Detective of Mars
by James Norman
Our Lovely Destroyer
by Russell Gray (as Harrison Storm)
Paul Revere and the Time Machine
by Arthur William Bernal (as A. W. Bernal)
Perfume of Dark Desire
by Ray Cummings (as Ray King)
Phantom of the Seven Stars
by Ray Cummings
Physician, Heal Thyself
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Planet of Black Terror
by Ed Earl Repp
Pray that She Stays with the Dead
by Donald Dale
Priestess of the Moon
by Ray Cummings
Princess of Power
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Queen of the Congo Spearmen
by Armand Brigaud
Quest of the Immortal (aka Buccaneer of the Star Seas)
by Ed Earl Repp
Racketeers in the Sky
by Jack Williamson
Raiders Out of Space
by Robert Moore Williams
Red Moon
by Frank Belknap Long (as Frank Belknap Long, Jr.)
Reincarnate
by Lester del Rey
Repetition (aka The Gryb)
by A. E. van Vogt
Revolt Against Life
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Revolt in the Ice Empire
by Ray Cummings
Revolt on Io
by Jack West
Revolt on the Earth-Star
by Carl Selwyn
Revolt on the Tenth World
by Edmond Hamilton
Rim of the Deep
by Clifford D. Simak
Roar of the Rocket
by Oscar J. Friend
Romance Across the Ages
by Willard Hawkins (as Willard E. Hawkins)
Runaway Cargo
by Nat Schachner
Sabotage on Mars
by Maurice Duclos
Sam Small’s Tyke
by Eric Knight
Satan Lives for My Love
by Donald G. Cormack (as Donald Graham)
Satan’s Perfumery
by Richard G. Huzarski (as Richard Huzarski)
Satan’s Seamstress
by Wayne Rogers
Satan’s Sideshow
by Carson Judson
Satan’s Virgin
by Ray Cummings
Sea Born
by Edmond Hamilton
Secret of the Moon Treasure
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
Seven Seconds of Eternity
by Robert H. Leitfred
Ship of Cold Death
by D. J. Foster
Sky Trap
by Carl Jacobi
Slaves of the Gray Mold
by Thorp McClusky
Song at Twilight
by Robert Arthur
Space Double
by Nat Schachner
Space Guards
by Philip Francis Nowlan
Spheres
by D. M. Edwards
Stepsons of Mars
by C. M. Kornbluth and Harry Dockweiler and Richard Wilson (as Ivar Towers)
Suicide Squadrons of Space
by David Wright O’Brien
Tarzan and the Champion
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Jungle Murders
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Terror Out of the Past
by Raymond Z. Gallun
Test-Tube Frankenstein
by W. Wayne Robbins (as Wayne Robbins)
The Amazon Fights Again
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
The Bag of Skin
by Dorothy Quick
The Black Farm
by Howard Wandrei (as H. W. Guernsey)
The Blue Tropics
by James Norman
The Body I Stole
by Russell Gray
The Book of Torment
by Russell Gray (as Harrison Storm)
The Brain of Many Bodies
by E. A. Grosser
The Carbon Eater
by Douglas Drew
The Case of the Murdered Savants
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
The Cat-Men of Aemt
by Neil R. Jones
The City of the Singing Flame
by Clark Ashton Smith
The City That Time Forgot
by Bill Cook
The Corpse’s Wedding Night
by William Hines
The Cosmic Juggernaut
by John Russell Fearn
The Crystal Horde
by Harry Walton
The Curse of the Swollen Ones
by Russell Gray
The Dark Swordsmen of Saturn
by Neil R. Jones
The Day of the Comet
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
The Day of the Conquerors
by Manly Wade Wellman
The Day to Come
by Don Tracy
The Deadly Swarm
by Edwin K. Sloat
The Dream
by Jane Rice
The Emancipated
by L. Sprague de Camp
The Evil Ones
by August Derleth (as August W. Derleth) and Mark Schorer
The Exalted (aka The Exhalted)
by L. Sprague de Camp
The Forbidden Dream
by Ross Rocklynne
The Future’s Fair
by Vincent Reid
The Gentle Werewolf
by Seabury Quinn
The Gift of Magic
by Don Wilcox (as Miles Shelton)
The Girl From Infinite Smallness
by Ray Cummings
The Girl in the Bottle
by Jack Williamson
The Golden Barrier
by G. T. Fleming-Roberts
The Golden Empress
by Frederick C. Painton
The Golden Spider
by Seabury Quinn
The Hardwood Pile
by L. Sprague de Camp
The Hunchback of Hanover
by Don Alviso
The Incredible Theory of Dr. Penwing
by Richard O. Lewis
The Invasion
by Willy Ley (as Robert Willey)
The Invisible World
by Ed Earl Repp
The Ju Ju Dance
by Theodore Roscoe
The Judging of the Priestess
by Nelson S. Bond
The Kilkenny Cats
by L. Ron Hubbard (as Kurt von Rachen)
The Lifestone
by Henry Kuttner (as Paul Edmonds)
The Lightning Men
by John Coleman Burroughs and Hulbert Burroughs
The Little Doll Died
by Theodore Roscoe
The Living Mist (aka We, the Mist)
by Ralph Milne Farley
The Lodestone Core
by D. D. Sharp
The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
by Ray Cummings
The Man Who Saw Two Worlds
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
The Man Who Sold the Earth
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
The Manci Curse
by Dorothy Quick
The Mask of the Marionette
by Don Alviso
The Monster Out of Space
by Malcolm Jameson
The Moon Drips Blood
by Wyatt Blassingame
The Mound
by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop (Zealia B. Bishop, Z. B. Bishop)
The Mountain of the Golden Mummies
by Stanley Foster
The Panting Beast
by John Clemons
The Planet of Change
by Manly Wade Wellman
The Professor Was a Thief
by L. Ron Hubbard
The Red Death of Mars
by Robert Moore Williams
The Revolt on the Tenth World
by Edmond Hamilton
The Roads Must Roll
by Robert A. Heinlein
The Sandwin Compact
by August Derleth (as August W. Derleth)
The Scientific Pioneer Returns
by Nelson S. Bond (as Nelson Bond)
The Seal of Sin
by Henry Kuttner
The Seven Sleepers (aka Almussen’s Comet)
by Arthur K. Barnes and Henry Kuttner
The Shadows from Hesplon
by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
The Shining Man
by Henry Kuttner (as Noel Gardner)
The Smallest God
by Lester del Rey
The Space-Beasts
by Clifford D. Simak
The Stars Look Down
by Lester del Rey
The Strange Voyage of Hector Squinch
by David Wright O’Brien
The Synthetic Woman
by Jep Powell
The Test-Tube Monster
by George E. Clark
The Tides of Time
by Robert Moore Williams
The Time Cheaters
by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder)
The Time Merchant
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
The Tomb of Time
by Robert Arthur
The Tyrant of Mars
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
The Ultimate Salient
by Nelson S. Bond
The Visible Invisible Man
by William P. McGivern
The Voice Commands
by John Russell Fearn (as Dennis Clive)
The Voyage That Lasted Six Hundred Years (aka The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years)
by Don Wilcox
The Wine of Hera
by Norman A. Daniels
The Wisdom of an Ass
by Ulysses George Mihalakis (as Silaki Ali Hassan)
The Wizard of Way-Up and King Ripitik the Tenth
by Ruth Plumly Thompson
The World in the Atom
by Ed Earl Repp
The World That Drowned
by Frederick C. Painton
The Worlds of Tomorrow
by Manly Wade Wellman
Their Flesh Is Soft and Tender
by W. Wayne Robbins
There Was No Paradise
by Manly Wade Wellman
They Shall Feed at Midnight
by Raymond Whetstone
Thunor Flees the Devils
by Robert Moore Williams (as Russell Storm)
Till Doomsday (aka The Benevolent Ghost and Captain Lowrie)
by Richard Sale
Trans-Plutonian Trap
by Ross Rocklynne
Trapped on Titan
by David Wright O’Brien
Trouble Shooter
by Harl Vincent
Truth Is a Plague!
by David Wright O’Brien
Twilight of the Tenth World
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
Two for a Bargain
by Dorothy Quick
Undersea Prisoner
by Harl Vincent
Universe in Darkness
by J. Harvey Haggard
Vacant World
by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl and Dirk Wylie
Vagabonds of the Void
by Henry Kuttner (as Peter Horn)
Vault of the Beast
by A. E. van Vogt
Vengeance of the Living Dead
by Ralston Shields
Venusian Tragedy
by Max C. Sheridan
Voyage to Nowhere
by Alfred Bester
War of Human Cats
by Festus Pragnell
War of the Scientists
by John Russell Fearn
Warlords of Mars
by Festus Pragnell
Waters of Wrath
by Arthur K. Barnes
When the Gods Make War
by Raymond A. Palmer (as A. R. Steber)
Where Beauty Dwelt with Terror
by Donald G. Cormack (as Donald Graham)
Where Dwell the Living Dead
by Wayne Rogers
White Mutiny
by Malcolm Jameson
World Reborn
by John Russell Fearn (as Thornton Ayre)
Worlds at War
by Ed Earl Repp
Worlds Within Worlds
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
@JJ and Kurt Busiek
Good to see my unsubtle hinting worked. 😉 I have a pre-surgery infection check appointment to get to but after that I’ll get stuff added, sorted and posted.
Re: Novella, Novelette, and Short Story
Don’t worry about typing them up from isfdb, I figured out those search terms last night, I just hadn’t decided whether to use them; they weren’t suggested by anyone. If I do a general Master List I’ll include them, if I stick to File770 suggestions I might just hint around heavily that people should go pick out some favourite authors or stories and I’ll just add those.
For now, since tomorrow is booked up with dental surgery and I have no idea how I’m going to feel afterwards, I’ll do a pure-File770 option. If I feel okay soon enough afterwards I’ll expand.
(And I was only poking around on isfdb and sometimes wikipedia to check dates, so yours are undoubtedly just as good, JJ. I don’t really know what I’m doing, it just seemed like a good idea to try! 🙂 )
Meredith: Don’t worry about typing them up from isfdb
Believe me, I would not have done that! I copied and pasted into Excel, then updated the pseudonyms, then used some tricks I know to get rid of unneeded information and whip the formatting into shape.
But obviously, the 1940 Short Story list will be HUGE.
For those who’d like to go to the isfdb and peruse the short story list themselves, go to the Advanced Search page, and enter the following criteria:
Term 1: 1940 – select “Year”
AND
Term 2: SHORTFICTION – select “Title Type”
AND
Term 3: ss – select “Storylen”
Quick admin note: “The Devil Makes the Law” and “Magic, Inc.” are the same story.
Ki-Gor and the Cannibal Kingdom is my novella pick sight unseen.
What was I thinking? (Nothing much.) Of course, Tor — on both sides of the Atlantic — is an imprint of Holtzbrinck/Macmillan.
I was about to say that’s an eerie time to publish a book with that title… Then remembered that the war wasn’t just about to start, it had already been going on for the British since 1939. *Very* strange time to publish a book on world peace. Huh.
@RevBob
“Quick admin note: “The Devil Makes the Law” and “Magic, Inc.” are the same story”
Ah! Thanks, I was baffled that there was a Heinlein that I hadn’t heard of.
The Wells book is not so surprising for its time when you actually read it. Lots of “The world is beautiful and we can attain socialism and brotherhood once we crush the filthy Hun.”
Also – I’ve been reading about World War II resistance movements, thanks to Cubicle 7’s excellent World War Cthulhu tabletop RPG line – few people in Britain at the time saw the war’s scale the way we do now. It was very widely believed, by both civilians and officialdom, that the Nazis’ power was much wider than deeper, and that it was thoroughly vulnerable to popular uprisings if they only had a bit of support. After France fell in the summer of 1940, British planning immediately focused on developing reliable contact with resistance movements, cultivating new networks of agents for the British directly, and for sabotage and economic disruption. This, pretty much everyone who had a say seems to have thought, would so thoroughly weaken Nazi control everywhere beyond Germany and maybe even within it that a straightforward British military effort would just topple them.
A history of the Special Operations Executive pointed out that, as of the 1980s when it was written, there was still a major shortage of documentary evidence about a lot of this because of the demands of later official accounts. By 1942 or so, it was really clear that partisans plus sabotage were in no sense enough to do the job, and by then America was in the war, too. Talk turned to the possibilities of major invasions – the talk that eventually led to D-Day. The official line became that of course Britain never planned to leave the mainland to its own devices, and that D-Day was the culmination of alert efforts begun in the wake of France’s fall. It’s what you’ll find in Churchill’s memoirs and history of the war, and in a lot of other memoirs and histories. It’s just not true. And documents inconvenient for that story got purged out of a lot of files (though not all, which is how people like that author were able to proceed).
The post-Dunkirk British press was apparently full of grand schemes for how to properly order Europe once the Nazis had gotten what they had coming.
Unlike Captain Midnight, Batman a) had super-science gadgets, and b) hung out with Superman. Captain Midnight, at least in the 1940 radio show, had no super-science gadgets at all (even his airplane was mundane, if very nice and cutting edge), and lived in a non-fantasy or SF universe. Dick Tracy was far more science-fictional than Captain Midnight; at least he had the two-way wrist radio.
I mean, you can certainly nominate what you want, but I personally wouldn’t classify Captain Midnight as SF. Heck, even Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was more SFnal, if only barely.
1941 Retro Hugo Novels:
The Twenty-Fifth Hour by Herbert Best (suggested by bloodstone75)
Kallocain by Karin Boye (suggested by Hampus Ackerman; 1940 publication is the original Swedish version)
Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (suggested by Jack Lint and JJ; Mark Plummer has pointed out that all of the serial parts were 1939 even though the novel was 1940 and that may make it ineligible)
The Incomplete Enchanter or Incompleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (suggested by Shambles, bloodstone75, and lurkertype; this is the combined version of The Roaring Trumpet and The Mathematics of Magic; I can’t find a 1940 publication date for this one, only a 1941 one, so it may not be eligible in novel form)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (suggested by Shao Ping; 1940 publication is the original Spanish version)
If This Goes On— by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Lyle, Kyra, lurkertype, and David T.)
Typewriter in the Sky by L. Ron Hubbard (suggested by Lin McAllister, with caveat)
A Million Years to Conquer or The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner (suggested by Shambles, Kyra, and bloodstone75)
The Last Man by Alfred Noyes (suggested by bloodstone75)
Grey Lensman by E. E. Smith (suggested by Steve Wright)
Slan by A. E. van Vogt (suggested by Steve Wright, Kyra, paulcarp, and David T.)
Twice in Time by Manly Wade Wellman (suggested by JJ)
All Aboard for Ararat by H. G. Wells (suggested by Steve Wright, with quality caveat)
Ill-Made Knight by TH White (suggested by Shambles)
1941 Retro Hugo Novellas:
The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp (suggested by Kyra)
The Roaring Trumpet by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (suggested by Kyra and Michael Eochaidh)
The Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (suggested by Kyra and Michael Eochaidh)
Coventry by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Lyle, Kyra, and David T.)
Magic, Inc or The Devil Makes the Law by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Kyra)
The Mound by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop (suggested by Kyra)
Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson (suggested by Steve Wright, Shambles, and lurkertype; 1940 novella rather than 1948 novel)
1941 Retro Hugo Novelettes:
Half-Breed by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Kyra)
Half-Breeds on Venus by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Kyra)
Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (suggested by Steve Wright)
Voyage to Nowhere by Alfred Bester (suggested by Kyra)
The Hardwood Pile by L. Sprague de Camp (suggested by Kyra)
Blowups Happen by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Lyle, Kyra, and David T.)
The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Mark, Lyle, Kyra, Jim Henley, and David T.)
Dragon Moon by Henry Kuttner (suggested by Kyra; I only see a 1941 publication date so it may not be eligible)
Fruit of Knowledge by C. L. Moore (suggested by Kyra)
Reincarnate by Lester del Rey
The Smallest God by Lester del Rey
The Stars Look Down by Lester del Rey (suggested by Kyra)
Butyl and the Breather by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
Cargo by Theodore Sturgeon
The Gryb by A. E. van Vogt (Rull series)
Vault of the Beast by A. E. van Vogt (suggested by Kyra)
1941 Retro Hugo Short Stories:
The Callistan Menace by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Kyra)
Homo Sol by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Kyra)
The Magnificent Possession by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Kyra)
Ring Around the Sun by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Kyra)
Robbie or Strange Bedfellow by Isaac Asimov (suggested by Mark and Kyra)
Guinea Pig, Ph.D. by Alfred Bester (suggested by Kyra)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges (suggested by von Dimpleheimer, Steve Wright, Michael Eochaidh, and Jim Henley; 1940 publication is the original Spanish version)
Martian Quest by Leigh Brackett (suggested by Kyra)
The Tapestry Gate by Leigh Brackett (suggested by Kyra)
The Treasure of Ptakuth by Leigh Brackett (suggested by Kyra)
The Flight of the Good Ship Clarissa by Ray Bradbury (suggested by Kyra)
It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Hu— by Ray Bradbury (suggested by Kyra)
Luana the Living by Ray Bradbury (suggested by Kyra)
The Piper by Ray Bradbury (suggested by Kyra; original version; published under the pseudonym Ron Reynolds)
Teacup Trouble by Fredric Brown (suggested by Kyra; presumably they didn’t china-proof the air vents)
Asokore Power by L. Sprague de Camp (suggested by Kyra)
The Warrior Race by L. Sprague de Camp (suggested by Kyra)
At the Mountains of Murkiness by Arthur C. Clarke (suggested by Kyra)
A Word to the Wise by John Collier (suggested by Kyra)
Another American Tragedy by John Collier (suggested by Kyra)
The Chaser by John Collier (suggested by Kyra)
Evening Primrose by John Collier (suggested by Kyra)
Thus I Refute Beelzy by John Collier (suggested by Kyra)
Locked Out by H. B. Fyfe (suggested by von Dimpleheimer)
Let There Be Light by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Kyra)
Requiem by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Steve Wright, Lyle, and David T.)
Successful Operation by Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Kyra)
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (
blamesuggested by Jack Lint)Beauty and the Beast by Henry Kuttner (suggested by Kyra)
All is Illusion by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (suggested by Kyra)
The Tree on the Hill by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel (suggested by Kyra; this seems to be listed as 1934 even though the first publication listed is 1940, can anyone confirm eligibility?)
Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore (suggested by Kyra)
Dark Mission by Lester del Rey (suggested by Kyra)
Done Without Eagles by Lester del Rey (also published under pseudonym Philip St. John)
Doubled in Brass by Lester del Rey
The Pipes of Pan by Lester del Rey (suggested by Kyra)
Derm Fool by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
He Shuttles by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
It by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
The Long Arm by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
Mahout by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
The Man on the Steps by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
Place of Honor by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
Punctuational Advice by Theodore Sturgeon (suggested by Kyra)
The Sea Thing by A. E. van Vogt (suggested by Kyra)
1941 Retro Hugo Related Works:
Jules Verne by Kenneth Allott (suggested by JJ)
The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic by Hadley Cantril, Hazel Gaudet, and Herta Herzog (suggested by JJ)
The Birth and Death of the Sun by George Gamow (suggested by JJ)
Chicon Program Booklet by W. Lawrence Hamling and Mark Reinsberg (suggested by JJ)
Life on Other Worlds by H. Spencer Jones (suggested by JJ)
1939 Yearbook of Science, Weird and Fantasy Fiction by Bob Tucker, Damon Knight, Harry Warner Jr, and Jane Tucker (suggested by JJ)
The New World Order: Whether it is Attainable, How it Can Be Attained, and What Sort of World a World at Peace Will Have to Be by H. G. Wells (suggested by JJ; I see H. G. Wells never grew out of Victorian pamphlet naming lengths)
1941 Retro Hugo Graphic Stories:
All-Star Comics #3 including: The First Meeting of the JSA by Gardner Fox-writer and Everett E. Hubbard-artist; and Guarding an Heiress by Evelyn Gaines-writer and Sheldon Mayer-artist (suggested by Laura “Tegan” Gjovaag)
Brick Bradford (suggested by Kurt Busiek; comic strip; Brick Bradford and the Metal Monster and Brick Bradford Seeks the Diamond Doll appear to be the eligible storylines)
Buck Rogers (suggested by Kurt Busiek; comic strip; Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Dailies Volume 7 and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Sundays Volume 3 appear to contain the eligible strips)
Flash Gordon (suggested by Kurt Busiek; comic strip; The Complete Flash Gordon Vol 2: The Tyrant of Mongo appears to contain the eligible strips)
Li’l Abner (suggested by Kurt Busiek; comic strip; Li’l Abner Volume 3 contains the eligible strips)
Prince Valiant (suggested by Kurt Busiek; comic strip; Prince Valiant Vol.2 contains the eligible strips)
1941 Retro Hugo Dramatic Presentations (Long and Short)
Films:
Fantasia (suggested by Lyle and lurkertype)
The Invisible Man Returns (suggested by Lyle)
The Invisible Woman (suggested by Lyle)
One Million BC (suggested by Lyle)
Pinocchio (suggested by Lyle)
The Thief of Baghdad (suggested by Lyle and Joe H.)
Serials:
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (suggested by Lyle)
The Green Hornet Strikes Again (suggested by Lyle)
Mysterious Doctor Satan (suggested by Lyle)
The Shadow (suggested by Lyle)
Radio: *
The Adventures of Superman (suggested by Lyle)
Buck Rogers (suggested by Lyle; Cally believes the show was 1939 rather than 1940)
Captain Midnight (suggested by Lyle; Cally questions whether it has sfnal aspects)
The Shadow (Cally puts in a word for the episode The Laughing Corpse)
The Green Hornet (suggested by Cally; may not be sfnal enough)
My Client Curly (suggested by Cally)
Superman (suggested by Cally; second link)
* Cally’s comment about radio shows, with links, is worth a look. Cally’s brain is also worth picking about radio shows in general, by the sounds of it.
1941 Retro Hugo Editors (Long and Short):
John W. Campbell, Jr
Frederik Pohl
1941 Retro Hugo Professional Artists:
Margaret Brundage (suggested by James Davis Nicoll)
1941 Retro Hugo Fan Writers:
Ray Bradbury (suggested by Lyle)
Arthur C. Clarke (suggested by Lyle)
Robert A. Heinlein (suggested by Lyle)
Bob Tucker (suggested by Lyle, and lurkertype)
No suggestions as yet for the Semiprozine, Fanzine, Fan Artist, or Fancast categories
—
Edmond Hamilton got pointed to as having written stuff but no specific stories or recommendations. Anyone got anything specific to point to that they want added?
And… *ticky*
I’m not sure what would qualify as a fancast, in 1940. At least, I don’t know of any amateur radio productions… at least, I don’t think any have come down to us….
@Cassy B.
I mainly left that in because I wanted to see what people might come up with as a possible candidate (real or imagined). 🙂 I don’t think it will be part of the 1941 Retro Hugo’s.
In 1940 I’m pretty sure the only fancasts would have been by ham radio operators, and lost to time. Even professional radio shows were only saved on a hit-or-miss basis (and lots of them were recorded on aluminum discs, which were patriotically recycled during WWII scrap drives). Some sponsors wanted records of shows to demonstrate that their commercials were read, and some shows were recorded for stars or guest stars, but vast numbers of shows were lost.
Given Sturgeon’s Law, this is not an altogether bad thing, of course, but I mourn for the lost Vic and Sade shows. Vic and Sade was a somewhat surreal little 15 minute not-really-a-sitcom that was a work of art. We have the scripts, at least, and maybe a couple of hundred or so of the (daily) show, but it’s not the same.
Anyway. Fancast. Right. The closest I can come are some promotional programs put out by Hollywood (typically MGM) to advertise their movies, but a quick check doesn’t produce any from 1940. I did a search to see if I could find anything promoting Pinocchio or Fantasia, but came up blank. Amusingly, the Lux Radio Theater did Disney’s Pinocchio before Disney did; the film was released in 1940, but the radio version was released in 1939. Though, as official studio products, any advertising shows probably wouldn’t qualify for Fancast, anyway.
So, long story
shortnot so long, unless someone else can think of something, no Best Fancast.Meredith, you are a treasure. Thank you.
Overview of the Invasion of Mars report: http://www.chesler.us/resources/links/Cantril.pdf
Going off that, it should be interesting.
Jamoche: Overview of the Invasion of Mars report
Thank you for the link! I thought, based on the title, that it would probably be quite interesting.
Hmmm… wire recorders were a thing in 1940; alas, I have no idea how many possibly-qualified “fancasts” of that year might have been preserved on that medium.
All the 1940 Novels from the isfdb:
(not validated)
A Million Years in the Future
by Thomas P. Kelley
A Million Years to Conquer
by Henry Kuttner
Adventures of Sam Pig
by Alison Uttley
Alf’s New Button
by W. A. Darlington
All Aboard for Ararat
by H. G. Wells
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
An Old Captivity
by Nevil Shute
Babes in the Darkling Wood
by H. G. Wells
Blood on Baker Street: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
by Anthony Boucher
Bride of the Kalahari: A Romance
by F. Horace Rose
Bright Journey
by August Derleth
Castle Cottage
by Horace Horsnell
Cloudy Weather
by R. W. Alexander (as Joan Butler)
Dark Sanctuary
by H. B. Gregory
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
Death’s Deputy
by L. Ron Hubbard
Devils of the Deep
by Harold A. Davis (as Kenneth Robeson)
Die Insel der 1000 Wunder (Island of A Thousand Miracles)
by Rudolf Heinrich Daumann
Dr. Cyclops
by unknown (as Will Garth)
Fahrt in den Weltraum (Ride Into Space)
by Hans Dominik
Fear
by L. Ron Hubbard
Final Blackout
by L. Ron Hubbard
Flug in den Weltraum (Flight Into Space)
by Hans Dominik
Gevleugelde Daden: Avonturen der Eerste Hollandse Luchtschippers (Winged Deeds: Adventures of the Dutch Air Skippers)
by Samuel Falkland
Ghost House
by Norman Berrow
Gustav, a Son of Franz: a Police Dog in Panama
by S. P. Meek
Hamlet Had an Uncle
by James Branch Cabell (as Branch Cabell)
Her Ways Are Death
by E. Charles Vivian
If This Goes On —
by Robert A. Heinlein
Invasion: Being the Personal Recollections of What Happened to Our Own Family and to Some Our Friends During the First Forty-eight Hours of That Terrible Incident in Our History is Now Known as the Great Invasion and How We Escaped With Our Lives and the Strange Adventures Which Befell Us Before the Nazis Were Driven From Our Territories
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Judgment of the Damned
by Norvell W. Page (as Grant Stockbridge)
Kallocain
by Karin Boye
King of Knaves
by E. Hoffmann Price
La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel)
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Legion of Robots
by Victor Rousseau (as John Grange)
Lords of the Earth
by J. M. A. Mills
Loss of Eden: a Cautionary Tale
by Douglas Brown and Christopher Serpell
Lovers’ Meeting
by Lady Eleanor Smith
Manna
by John Gloag
Messiah on the Horizon
by Solomon Cruso
Minions of Mars
by William Gray Beyer
Minions of Mercury
by William Gray Beyer
Miss Hargreaves: A Fantasy
by Frank Baker
Moscow 1979
by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and Christianne von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Murder in Miniatures
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Murder on Wheels
by Paul Ernst
Nine Times Nine
by Anthony Boucher
No More Battles
by Murray Leinster
No Other Man (aka The Last Man)
by Alfred Noyes
Russian title (Old Hottabych)
by L. Lagin
On the Knees of the Gods
by J. Allan Dunn
Portrait of Jennie
by Robert Nathan
Protuberanzen (Prominences)
by Rudolf Heinrich Daumann (as Rudolf H. Daumann)
River of Ice
by Paul Ernst
Satans on Saturn
by Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price
Slaves of the Laughing Death
by Norvell W. Page (as Grant Stockbridge)
Smokey House
by Elizabeth Goudge
Sonnenmotor Nr. 1 (Sun Motor Number 1)
by Paul Alfred Müller (as P. A. Müller)
Sons of the Deluge
by Nelson S. Bond
Souls’ Judgment Day
by Judge M. W. Albano
Stockholders in Death
by Paul Ernst
Sunrise Tomorrow
by Arthur Leo Zagat
Synthetic Men of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan in the Forbidden City (aka Tarzan and the Forbidden City)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Angry Ghost
by Lester Dent and William G. Bogart (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Awful Dynasty
by William G. Bogart (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Awful Egg
by Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Bird in the Tree
by Elizabeth Goudge
The Birdseed Pool
by Bechhofer Roberts
The Blood Ring
by Paul Ernst
The Boss of Terror
by Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Council of Evil
by Norvell W. Page
The Death Star
by Thomas Charles Bridges
The Deputy Sheriff of Commanche County
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Devil and the Doctor
by David H. Keller, M.D. (as David H. Keller)
The Evil Gnome
by Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson)
The First to Awaken
by Richard M. Bennett and Granville Hicks
The Flame Breathers
by Paul Ernst
The Flying Goblin
by William G. Bogart (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Frosted Death
by Paul Ernst
The Ghost of Kingdom Come
by Gerald T. Brennan
The Glass Mountain
by Paul Ernst
The Glass Too Many
by E. Charles Vivian (as Jack Mann)
The Ill-Made Knight
by T. H. White
The Island of Peril
by John Creasey
The Last Man
by Alfred Noyes
The Lost World of the Colorado
by Jack Heming
Russian title (The Man Who Found His Face)
by Alexander Beliaev
The Man Who Went Back
by Warwick Deeping
The Marsian
by J. W. Gilbert
The Men Vanished
by Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Narracong Riddle
by August Derleth
The Other World
by Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Purple Dragon
by Lester Dent and Harold A. Davis (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Shadow and the Voice of Murder
by Walter B. Gibson (as Maxwell Grant)
The Smiling Dogs
by Paul Ernst
The Spark of Allah
by Marian O’Hearn
The Spider and the Pain Master
by Emile C. Tepperman (as Grant Stockbridge)
The Spotted Men
by Lester Dent and William G. Bogart (as Kenneth Robeson)
The Stone of Chastity
by Margery Sharp
The Survivor
by Dennis Parry
The Three Planeteers
by Edmond Hamilton
The Triumph of Captain Future
by Edmond Hamilton
The Twenty-Fifth Hour
by Herbert Best
The Wonder City of Oz
by John R. Neill
The Worshiping Tribe
by Henry Allyn
Thunder Tomorrow
by Arthur Leo Zagat
Treibstoff SR (Fuel SR)
by Hans Dominik
Triton
by L. Ron Hubbard
Tuned for Murder
by Paul Ernst
Tunnel Terror
by William G. Bogart (as Kenneth Robeson)
Twice in Time
by Manly Wade Wellman
Typewriter in the Sky
by L. Ron Hubbard
Unbroken Barriers
by Kathleen Lindsay
Yaqui Gold
by E. Hoffmann Price
Uh, “Strange Bedfellow”?
This may be dead now, but I think you would also need to consider Virgil Finlay, especially for his interior work, and Hubert Rogers who gave Astounding its distinctive look during the Golden Age. Of course, Brundage did the same for Weird Tales, no doubt about that. And I would be amazed if Fantasia does not win Dramatic Presentation. That remains a masterpiece to this day.