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Cover for “Amazing Future Tales From the Past,” the first volume of short fiction eligible for the 1941 Retro-Hugo Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the 1941 World Science Fiction Convention<\/a>. And that means it’s time for a new round of Retrospective Hugo Awards.<\/p>\n

If you’re a pulp science-fiction fan, then this might be your lucky day. (More on that shortly. In the meantime…)<\/p>\n

The Hugo Awards<\/a>, named for the “father of science fiction,” Hugo Gernsback<\/strong>, were first presented at the 1953 Worldcon. Beginning in 1955, the awards have been presented annually in a variety of categories, such as best novel, best novella, best short story, best graphic story, best editor (long and short form), best professional\/fan artists, best fanzine, etc.<\/p>\n

Gernsback, as you probably already know, was instrumental in popularizing what he called “scientifiction,” first in Electrical Experimenter<\/em> (Science and Invention<\/em>), and more importantly in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Retro-Hugo Awards started to be given for sf works that were published before the Hugo Awards were created. The year of the Retro-Hugos is determined by anniversary, specifically 50th, 75th or 100th anniversary of a given year.<\/p>\n

So far, Retro-Hugos have been awarded for 1939, 1946, 1951 and 1954. This year’s voting will include fiction from 1941<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re curious to see what’s eligible for the 1941 Retro-Hugos, check out these lists at Nicholas Whyte<\/strong>‘s blog From the Heart of Europe<\/em><\/a> of novels<\/a> and short fiction<\/a> originally published in 1940.<\/p>\n

So about that lucky day I mentioned at the start…<\/p>\n

Over at File 770<\/em><\/a>, commenter Norbert von Dimpleheimer<\/strong> has amassed a collection of, by my calculations, 176 pieces of short science fiction from 1940 that are eligible for the Retro-Hugos this year. No small portion of that list originally comes from the pulp magazines.<\/p>\n

He’s divided it into seven parts, which are available in epub, Kindle, and Adobe Digital Editions formats for e-readers. You’ll find links to the different formats on these pages:<\/p>\n