New post - News: Retro Hugo Winners

SFFWorld

SFFWorld

42
Joined
Apr 18, 2015
Messages
1,250
Winners for the 1943 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1942, were announced by Worldcon 76, during an award ceremony held in San Jose CA on Thursday 17th August, 2018: Best Novel WINNER: Beyond This Horizon, Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) (Astounding Science-Fiction 4-5/42) The Uninvited, Dorothy Macardle (Doubleday, Doran/S.J.R. Saunders) Donovan’s Brain, Curt Siodmak (Black Mask 9-11/42) Second…

Continue reading...
 
Cant argue with any of the winners in that list.... and unlike the modern awards I have actually read most of them!
 
Windshadow said:
unlike the modern awards I have actually read most of them!
Click to expand...

Me too.... some of those are the ones I voted for, too!

There were a couple though: Bambi I wasn't sure about (is it SF/Fantasy?) and Bridle & Saddle I think is better than Foundation (although, these days, all part of the same thing!)

Think I went Runaround (Asimov, robots) rather than Twonky, though Twonky's great. It's good to see C L Moore get an Award.

M.
 
Well Bambi is about talking animals so for me that is rather solidly fantasy but I take your meaning. A lot of the nominated stories were very worthy and hence a tossup I could happy with either of your picks without a qualm...
the way both of the awards for Robert A. Heinlein were under his Anson MacDonald pen name was also interesting... authors in the first golden age seem to use pen names more than they do today...
 
Windshadow said:
he way both of the awards for Robert A. Heinlein were under his Anson MacDonald pen name was also interesting... authors in the first golden age seem to use pen names more than they do today...
Click to expand...
Yes: I did notice. Have recently been rereading for review his Future History series, which when read in some sort of order make interesting reading. Considering that he was working for the military by 1942, and not doing much writing, it is one of his most prolific periods of publication.

Incidentally if you want to read some of the original magazines which can be downloaded as pdf's, I thoroughly recommend this website: www.luminist.org/archives/AST.htm

On the title page if you click on the date below each cover (as long as it is underlined) you will open a page that shows you the pdf of that issue. You can download them by clicking on the box top right and asking for a direct download.

Reading them in context is a bit of a revelation, and shows you how far ahead Heinlein was compared to some of his contemporaries.

Love those 1942 covers!

This link: http://file770.com/where-to-find-the-1943-retro-hugo-finalists-for-free-online/ also lets you go to specific copies.
 
Bambi over The Cat People is just silly, though it may indicate how few people watch 1940s movies, now.

I really should read "Waldo." Never got around to it, and it would need to be good to beat out "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag," the van Vogt, Bester, Boucher and del Rey, all of which I have read and enjoyed. Strong year for short stories, too.

Randy M.
 
Yup. I think it's a riff on G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. At least, I think I noted parallels when I reread it 4, 5 years ago.

Randy M.
 
I suspect affection for Waldo is linked to the fact in some industries remote manipulators are called Waldoes in reference to this story and some credit RAH with their invention. also this is regarded by some as his first fantasy so that bay be a factor.

and yes there was a time when all tv was over antennas and small local uhf stations in the USA filled much of their programing with old movies from the 30s and 40s but that has diminished in todays market where a lot of the young consider films from the 80s to be slow and old hat fossils of film with risible SFX
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Sponsors


We try to keep the forum as free of ads as possible, please consider supporting SFFWorld on Patreon


Your ad here.
Back
Top