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Hugo Awards 1959

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Where and When: Dentention, Detroit : September 4, 1959 - September 7, 1959
Eligibility Year: 1958

Novel

Winner: A Case of Conscience, James Blish (Ballantine)
Have Space Suit -- Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein (F&SF Aug,Sep,Oct 1958)
“Time Killer” (expanded as Immortality, Inc), Robert Sheckley (Galaxy Oct,Nov,Dec 1958, Feb 1959)
“We Have Fed Our Sea” (book title The Enemy Stars), Poul Anderson (Astounding Aug,Sep 1958)
Who?, Algis Budrys (Pyramid)

Novelette

Winner: “The Big Front Yard”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Oct 1958)
“Captivity”, Zenna Henderson (F&SF Jun 1958)
“A Deskful of Girls”, Fritz Leiber (F&SF Apr 1958)
“The Miracle-Workers”, Jack Vance (Astounding Jul 1958)
“Rat in the Skull”, Rog Phillips (If Dec 1958)
“Second Game”, Katherine MacLean & Charles V. De Vet (Astounding Mar 1958)
“Shark Ship” (aka “Reap the Dark Tide“), C. M. Kornbluth (Vanguard Jun 1958)
“Unwillingly to School”, Pauline Ashwell (Astounding Jan 1958)

Short Story

Winner: “That Hell-Bound Train”, Robert Bloch (F&SF Sep 1958)
“The Advent on Channel Twelve”, C. M. Kornbluth (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4)
“The Edge of the Sea”, Algis Budrys (Venture Mar 1958)
“The Men Who Murdered Mohammed”, Alfred Bester (F&SF Oct 1958)
“Nine Yards of Other Cloth”, Manly Wade Wellman (F&SF Nov 1958)
“Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee”, Fritz Leiber (F&SF May 1958)
“Space to Swing a Cat”, Stanley Mullen (Astounding Jun 1958)
“Theory of Rocketry”, C. M. Kornbluth (F&SF Jul 1958)
“They've Been Working On...”, Anton Lee Baker (Astounding Aug 1958)
“Triggerman”, J. F. Bone (Astounding Dec 1958)

Sf Or Fantasy Movie

Winner: no award
The Fly (1958)
Horror of Dracula
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad

Professional Magazine

Winner: F&SF, Anthony Boucher & Robert P. Mills, eds.
Astounding, John W. Campbell, Jr., ed.
Galaxy, H. L. Gold, ed.
Infinity, Larry T. Shaw, ed.
New Worlds, John Carnell, ed.

Professional Artist

Amateur Magazine

Winner: Fanac, Terry Carr & Ron Ellik, eds.
Cry of the Nameless, F. M. Busby, Elinor Busby, Burnett Toskey & Wally Weber, eds.
Hyphen, Walt Willis & Chuck Harris, eds.
JD-Argassy, Lynn A. Hickman, ed.
Science-Fiction Times, James V. Taurasi, Sr., Ray Van Houten & Frank R. Prieto, Jr., eds.
Yandro, Robert Coulson & Juanita Coulson, eds.

New Author Of 1958

Winner: no award
Brian W. Aldiss (ran highest but lost to 'no award')
Paul Ash
Pauline Ashwell
Rosel George Brown
Louis Charbonneau
Kit Reed

Remarks:
The 1959 convention made two significant changes: first, instituting a separate nominating ballot and then a subsequent final ballot -- thus, this is the first year with nominations; second, that eligibility was restricted to the prior calendar year, rather than the year or so prior to the convention. (Though this rule did not seem strictly adhered to for some years.)

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