Hugo Awards 1960
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Pittcon,
Pittsburgh PA :
September 3, 1960
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September 5, 1960
Eligibility Year: 1959
Associated Awards: Worldcon Special Convention Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 1959
Associated Awards: Worldcon Special Convention Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein (Putnam)
- “Dorsai!” (book title The Genetic General), Gordon R. Dickson (Astounding May,Jun,Jul 1959)
- “The Pirates of Ersatz” (book title The Pirates of Zan), Murray Leinster (Astounding Feb,Mar,Apr 1959)
- The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Dell)
- “That Sweet Little Old Lady” (book title Brain Twister), Randall Garrett & Laurence M. Janifer, as by Mark Phillips (Astounding Sep,Oct 1959)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Flowers for Algernon”, Daniel Keyes (F&SF Apr 1959)
- “The Alley Man”, Philip Jos� Farmer (F&SF Jun 1959)
- “Cat and Mouse”, Ralph Williams (Astounding Jun 1959)
- “The Man Who Lost the Sea”, Theodore Sturgeon (F&SF Oct 1959)
- “The Pi Man”, Alfred Bester (F&SF Oct 1959)
Dramatic Presentation
- Winner: The Twilight Zone (TV series)
- Men Into Space
- “Murder and the Android”
- The Turn of the Screw (TV)
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Professional Magazine
- Winner: F&SF, Robert P. Mills, ed.
- Amazing Stories, Cele Goldsmith, ed.
- Astounding, John W. Campbell, Jr., ed.
- Fantastic Universe, Hans Stefan Santesson, ed.
- Galaxy, H. L. Gold, ed.
Professional Artist
Fanzine
- Winner: Cry of the Nameless, F. M. Busby, Elinor Busby, Burnett Toskey & Wally Weber, eds.
- Fanac, Terry Carr & Ron Ellik, 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.
— Associated Awards —
Special Award
- Winner: Hugo Gernsback
Remarks:
This year's categories replaced Best Movie with Best Dramatic Presentation, in order to include TV -- such as The Twilight Zone, which won.
This year's categories replaced Best Movie with Best Dramatic Presentation, in order to include TV -- such as The Twilight Zone, which won.
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