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Hugo, n.|ˈhjuːgəʊ|
[f. the name of Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), editor of several early U.S. science-fiction magazines.]
Also Hugo award. Any one of several awards presented annually since 1955 by the World Science Fiction Convention for the best new science-fiction novel, short story, etc.
1956T. E. Dikty Best Science-Fiction Stories & Novels 14 Awards of the annual ‘Hugos’ this year [sc. 1955] went to Mark Clifton and Frank Riley. 1960Analog Science Fact & Fiction Nov. 165/1 Here, I suspect, is the Hugo winner as ‘Best Novel’ of 1960, in spite of the five-dollar price. 1980Washington Post 14 Sept. (Book World) 4/1 The 1980 Hugos, given for works published in 1979, contained few surprises... Barry B. Longyear gained the Hugo for his novelette, ‘Enemy Mine’. 1987Bookseller 28 Aug. 913/2 A first novel, William Gibson's Neuromancer, won both the Nebula and the Hugo awards in 1985. |