1944 Retro Hugos

While I have seen lots of resources for nominations for this year's Hugo Awards (for works published in 2018), there doesn't seem to be as much available for the Retro Hugo awards also being held at this year's Worldcon, for works published in 1943.

I have managed to find four whole sets of recommendations for 1944 Retro Hugo nominators:

1. A series of posts at the Hugo Award Book Club include recommendations for Graphic Story, Dramatic Presentation Long Form, and the three short fiction categories.


2. An article on File770 gives some suggestions for Best Novel; the comments there suggest some works in other categories.


3. There are some recommendations in a blogpost here.


4. Some suggestions by CarlGlover in the forum for Fantasy & Science Fiction here.

There are also a few lists of works which may be eligible:

1. At SF magazine here


2. Novels at the ISFDB here


3. Works published in serial form at the ISFDB here

The SF Magazine list is perhaps the most useful, having links to online versions of many works – especially useful given that, as Jason Sanford argued a couple of years ago, lack of access to eligible stories is a significant problem for Retro Hugo nominators.

I probably won't end up nominating many – if any – works for the Retro Hugos this year: I don't know golden age SF well enough, and most of my SF reading is concentrating on works eligible for the 2018 awards, but this may be of use to someone. And you never know – if I end up having time before March 15th, this might even be of use to me.