Chapter Five Esk 8/29 Ancillary Doghouse

(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”

  1. 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?

 

  1. 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 —

(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!”

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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.]

702 thoughts on “Chapter Five Esk 8/29 Ancillary Doghouse

  1. @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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Kevin Standlee said:

    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.

    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?

  7. 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).

  8. 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.)

  9. 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…

  10. Captain Midnight … can fly an airplane. Real good. I honestly don’t think that qualifies as SF.

    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.

  11. 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).

  12. Rcade:

    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?

    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.

  13. 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.

    Dick Tracy is out too? But he had an Apple watch in 1946!

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. There’s only one for Graphic Story, one for Pro Artist,

    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.

  17. 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

  18. 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.

  19. @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! 🙂 )

  20. 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”

  21. What was I thinking? (Nothing much.) Of course, Tor — on both sides of the Atlantic — is an imprint of Holtzbrinck/Macmillan.

  22. 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

    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.

  23. @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.

  24. 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.”

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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)

  28. 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)

  29. 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)

  30. 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 (blame suggested 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)

  31. 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)

  32. 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)

  33. 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.

  34. 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)

  35. 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?

  36. 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….

  37. @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.

  38. 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 short not so long, unless someone else can think of something, no Best Fancast.

  39. 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.

  40. 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

  41. 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.

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