1959 Hugo Awards (original) (raw)

Presented at: Detention, Detroit, September 4-7, 1959

Toastmaster: Isaac Asimov and Robert Bloch

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Best Novel

A Case of Conscience by James Blish [Ballantine, 1958]
We Have Fed Our Seas (alt: The Enemy Stars) by Poul Anderson [Astounding Aug,Sep 1958]
Who? by Algis Budrys [Pyramid, 1958]
Have Spacesuit – Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein [F&SF Aug,Sep,Oct 1958]
Time Killer (alt: Immortality, Inc.) by Robert Sheckley [Galaxy Oct,Nov,Dec 1958, Feb 1959]

Best Novelette

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

Best Short Story

“That Hell-Bound Train” by Robert Bloch [F&SF Sep 1958]
“They’ve Been Working On …” by Anton Lee Baker [Astounding Aug 1958]
“The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” by Alfred Bester [F&SF Oct 1958]
“Triggerman” by J. F. Bone [Astounding Dec 1958]
“The Edge of the Sea” by Algis Budrys [Venture Mar 1958]
“The Advent on Channel Twelve” by C. M. Kornbluth [Star Science Fiction Stories #4 (Ballantine), 1958]
“Theory of Rocketry” by C. M. Kornbluth [F&SF Jul 1958]
“Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee” by Fritz Leiber [F&SF May 1958]
“Space to Swing a Cat” by Stanley Mullen [Astounding Jun 1958]
“Nine Yards of Other Cloth” by Manly Wade Wellman [F&SF Nov 1958]

Best SF or Fantasy Movie

No winner chosen
The Fly (1958) [20th Century Fox] Directed by Kurt Neumann; Screenplay by James Clavell; Story by George Langelaan
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) [Morningside Movies/Columbia] Directed by Nathan Juran; Screenplay by Ken Kolb; Story by Ray Harryhausen
Dracula (1958) (alt: The Horror of Dracula) [Hammer] Directed by Terence Fisher; Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster; based on the novel by Bram Stoker

Best Professional Magazine

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ed. by Anthony Boucher and Robert P. Mills
Astounding Science Fiction ed. by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Galaxy ed. by H. L. Gold
New Worlds ed. by Michael Moorcock
Infinity Magazine

Best Professional Artist

Best Fanzine

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

Best New Author of 1958