Hugo Award for Best Related Work

The Hugo Award for Best Related Work is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for primarily non-fiction works related to science fiction or fantasy, published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".^[1][2]

Hugo Award for Best Related Work
Awarded for	The best work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, published in the prior calendar year and which is either non-fiction or noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text
Presented by	World Science Fiction Society
First award	1980
Most recent winner	Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith (A City on Mars)
Website	thehugoawards.org

It was originally titled the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book and was first awarded in 1980. In 1999 the Award was retitled to the Hugo Award for Best Related Book, and eligibility was officially expanded to fiction works that were primarily noteworthy for reasons besides their fictional aspects.^[3] In 2010, the title of the award was again changed, to the Hugo Award for Best Related Work.^[4] In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given.^[5] The Retro Best Related Work Hugo was awarded for 1954, 50 years later, but had not been awarded for any other year due to insufficient nominations, eventually reappearing in 2020 for 1945.^[6]

During the 48 nomination years, 254 individuals and 2 organizations have had works as finalists; 59 people and 1 organization have won, including co-authors and Retro Hugos. John Clute has won four times; once by himself, once with John Grant as a co-author, once with Peter Nicholls, and once with Nicholls, David Langford, and Graham Sleight. Nicholls has won a third time, and Grant has won a second time, sharing the award with his co-authors Elizabeth L. Humphrey and Pamela D. Scoville. Thomas Disch and Ursula K. Le Guin have also won twice, both without co-authors; no other author has won more than once. The Organization for Transformative Works was the organization that won, for its Archive of Our Own fanwork repository, while the Reddit r/Fantasy Bingo team was a finalist for their 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge. Cathy and Arnie Fenner have has final ballot nominations eight times for their work on writing and editing the Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art series, both the most nominations received by any author/editor and the most nominations without winning. Clute has been nominated seven times and Farah Mendlesohn seven times with one win; Le Guin five times with two wins; Isaac Asimov and Langford four times with one win; and Mike Resnick four times with no wins. The Writing Excuses team, consisting of Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Jordan Sanderson, have been nominated four times and won once. Seven other authors have been nominated three times. Many of these writers, editors, and artists have won Hugos in other categories, from Fan Writer to Best Novel.

Selection

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual non-profit World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six finalists, except in the case of a tie. The works on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of works that can be nominated.^[5] Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six finalists is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.^[7] Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations.^[8] Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.^[9][10] Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the finalists is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This happened in the Best Related Work category in 2015 and 2016.^[11][12]

Winners and finalists

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Each date links to the "year in literature" article corresponding with when the work was eligible. Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the author's name have won the award; those with a gray background are the finalists on the short-list.

  *   Winners and joint winners   +   No winner selected

Winners and finalists

Year	Author(s)	Work	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1980	Peter Nicholls*	The Science Fiction Encyclopedia	Doubleday	[13]
	Isaac Asimov	In Memory Yet Green	Doubleday	[13]
	Wayne Barlowe	Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials	Workman Publishing Company	[13]
	Ian Summers
	Michael Whelan	Wonderworks	The Donning Company	[13]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Language of the Night	Putnam Publishing Group	[13]
	Susan Wood
1981	Carl Sagan*	Cosmos	Random House	[14]
	Isaac Asimov	In Joy Still Felt	Doubleday	[14]
	Charles Platt	Dream Makers	Berkley Books	[14]
	Vincent Di Fate	Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware	Workman Publishing Company	[14]
	Ian Summers
	Richard Bergeron	Warhoon 28 (The Writings of Walter A. Willis)	Richard Bergeron	[14]
1982	Stephen King*	Danse Macabre	Everest Publishing	[15]
	Leo Dillon	The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon	Ballantine Books	[15]
	Diane Dillon
	Byron Preiss
	Ron Miller	The Grand Tour	Workman Publishing Company	[15]
	William K. Hartmann
	Dougal Dixon	After Man: A Zoology of the Future	Macmillan Publishers	[15]
	Neil Barron	Anatomy of Wonder, 2nd Edition	R.R. Bowker	[15]
1983	James Gunn*	Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction	Oxford University Press	[16]
	J. J. Llewellyn	The World of the Dark Crystal	Alfred A. Knopf	[16]
	Brian Froud
	Baird Searles	A Reader's Guide to Fantasy	Avon Publications	[16]
	Beth Meacham
	Michael Franklin
	Barry N. Malzberg	The Engines of the Night	Doubleday	[16]
	Tim Underwood	Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King	Underwood-Miller	[16]
	Chuck Miller
1984	Donald H. Tuck*	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 3: Miscellaneous	Advent	[17]
	Joy Chant	The High Kings	Bantam Books	[17]
	Charles Platt	Dream Makers, Volume II	Berkley Books	[17]
	Norman Spinrad	Staying Alive: A Writer's Guide	The Donning Company	[17]
	Rowena Morrill	The Fantastic Art of Rowena	Pocket Books	[17]
1985	Jack Williamson*	Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction	Bluejay Books	[18]
	Patti Perret	The Faces of Science Fiction	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[18]
	Harlan Ellison	Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed	Borgo Press	[18]
	George Turner	In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[18]
	Willis E. McNelly	The Dune Encyclopedia	Berkley Putnam	[18]
1986	Tom Weller*	Science Made Stupid	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	[19]
	Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr.	The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. 1	AC Projects	[19]
	Tony Chapdelaine
	George Hay
	Harlan Ellison	An Edge in My Voice	The Donning Company	[19]
	Algis Budrys	Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf	Southern Illinois University Press	[19]
	Brian Aldiss	The Pale Shadow of Science	Serconia Press	[19]
	Douglas E. Winter	Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror	Berkley Books	[19]
1987	Brian Aldiss*	Trillion Year Spree	Victor Gollancz Ltd	[20]
	David Wingrove*
	Frank Miller	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns	DC Comics	[20]
	Klaus Janson
	Lynn Varley
	Thomas G. Smith	Industrial Light and Magic	Del Rey Books	[20]
	Charles N. Brown	Science Fiction In Print: 1985	Locus Press	[20]
	William G. Contento
	Paul Williams	Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick	Arbor House	[20]
1988	Michael Whelan*	Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder	Del Rey Books	[21]
	David A. Cherry	Imagination: The Art & Technique of David A. Cherry	Starblaze Graphics	[21]
	Jack Matthews	The Battle of Brazil	Crown Publishing Group	[21]
	Neil Barron	Anatomy of Wonder, 3rd Edition	R.R. Bowker	[21]
	Charles N. Brown	Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1986	Locus Press	[21]
	William G. Contento
1989	Samuel R. Delany*	The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965	Arbor House	[22]
	Don Maitz	First Maitz	Ursus Publishing	[22]
	James Gunn	The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction	Viking Press	[22]
	Robert Weinberg	A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists	Greenwood Publishing Group	[22]
	Charles N. Brown	Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1987	Locus Press	[22]
	William G. Contento
1990	Alexei Panshin*	The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence	J. P. Tarcher	[23]
	Cory Panshin*
	Robert A. Heinlein	Grumbles from the Grave	Del Rey Books	[23]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	Dancing at the Edge of the World	Grove Press	[23]
	Arthur C. Clarke	Astounding Days	Victor Gollancz Ltd	[23]
	Harlan Ellison	Harlan Ellison's Watching	Underwood-Miller	[23]
	Greg Thokar	Noreascon 3 Souvenir Book	Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc	[23]
1991	Orson Scott Card*	How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy	Writer's Digest	[24]
	Norman Spinrad	Science Fiction in the Real World	Southern Illinois University Press	[24]
	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook	Writer's Notebook Press	[24]
	Dean Wesley Smith
	Brian Aldiss	Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's	Hodder & Stoughton	[24]
	David J. Skal	Hollywood Gothic	W. W. Norton & Company	[24]
1992	Charles Addams*	The World of Charles Addams	Alfred A. Knopf	[25]
	Everett F. Bleiler	Science-Fiction: The Early Years	Kent State University Press	[25]
	Jack L. Chalker	The Science Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and Bibliographic History: Third Edition	Mirage Press	[25]
	Mark Owings
	Jeanne Gomoll	The Bakery Men Don't See Cookbook	(SF)3	[25]
	Stephen Jones	Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden	Underwood-Miller	[25]
1993	Harry Warner, Jr.*	A Wealth of Fable: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the 1950s	SCIFI Press	[26]
	David Langford	Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man	NESFA Press	[26]
	Virgil Finlay	Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages	Underwood-Miller	[26]
	Thom Boswell	The Costumemaker's Art	Lark Books	[26]
	Camille Bacon-Smith	Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth	University of Pennsylvania Press	[26]
	Damon Knight	Monad Number Two	Pulphouse Publishing	[26]
1994	John Clute*	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction	Orbit Books	[27]
	Peter Nicholls*
	Michael Whelan	The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions	Bantam Spectra	[27]
	Robert Bloch	Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography	Tor Books	[27]
	Scott McCloud	Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art	Tundra Books	[27]
	Theodore Cogswell	PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies	Advent	[27]
1995	Isaac Asimov*	I. Asimov: A Memoir	Doubleday	[28]
	Christopher Priest	The Book on the Edge of Forever	Fantagraphics Books	[28]
	Samuel R. Delany	Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics	University Press of New England	[28]
	Teresa Nielsen Hayden	Making Book	NESFA Press	[28]
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[28]
	Arnie Fenner
1996	John Clute*	Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia	Dorling Kindersley	[29]
	Isaac Asimov	Yours, Isaac Asimov	Doubleday	[29]
	Bob Eggleton	Alien Horizons: The Fantastic Art of Bob Eggleton	Paper Tiger Books	[29]
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 2: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[29]
	Arnie Fenner
	Joanna Russ	To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction	Indiana University Press	[29]
1997	L. Sprague de Camp*	Time & Chance: An Autobiography	Donald M. Grant	[30]
	Diana Wynne Jones	The Tough Guide To Fantasyland	Vista Books	[30]
	John Clute	Look at the Evidence	Serconia Press	[30]
	David Langford	The Silence of the Langford	NESFA Press	[30]
	Patti Perret	The Faces of Fantasy	Tor Books	[30]
1998	John Clute*	The Encyclopedia of Fantasy	Orbit Books	[31]
	John Grant*
	Vincent Di Fate	Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art	Penguin Studio	[31]
	Ben Bova	Space Travel	Writer's Digest Books	[31]
	Anthony R. Lewis
	Robert Silverberg	Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science and Other Matters	Underwood Books	[31]
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 4: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[31]
	Arnie Fenner
	Jim Loehr
1999	Thomas Disch*	The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World	Free Press	[32]
	Richard A. Hauptmann	The Work of Jack Williamson: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide	NESFA Press	[32]
	Everett F. Bleiler	Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years	Kent State University Press	[32]
	Howard DeVore	The Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards	Advent	[32]
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 5: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[32]
	Arnie Fenner
2000	Frank M. Robinson*	Science Fiction of the 20th Century	Collector's Press	[33]
	Neil Gaiman	The Sandman: The Dream Hunters	Vertigo	[33]
	Yoshitaka Amano
	Terry Pratchett	The Science of Discworld	Ebury Publishing	[33]
	Ian Stewart
	Jack Cohen
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[33]
	Arnie Fenner
	Karen Cooper	Minicon 34 Restaurant Guide	Rune Press	[33]
	Bruce Schneier
2001	Bob Eggleton*	Greetings from Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton	Paper Tiger Books	[34]
	Nigel Suckling*
	James Gifford	Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion	Nitrosyncretic Press	[34]
	Anthony R. Lewis	Concordance to Cordwainer Smith, Third Edition	NESFA Press	[34]
	Andrew M. Butler	Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature	Science Fiction Foundation	[34]
	Edward James
	Farah Mendlesohn
	Mike Resnick	Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts Into Silk Purse Stories	Wildside Press	[34]
2002	Ron Miller*	The Art of Chesley Bonestell	Paper Tiger Books	[35]
	Frederick C. Durant III*
	Melvin H. Schuetz*
	Michael Swanwick	Being Gardner Dozois	Old Earth Books	[35]
	Tom Shippey	J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century	HarperCollins	[35]
	Karen Haber	Meditations on Middle-earth	St. Martin's Press	[35]
	Jane Frank	The Art of Richard Powers	Paper Tiger Books	[35]
	Howard Frank
Mike Resnick	I Have This Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do With It?	Wildside Press	[35]
2003	Judith Merril*	Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril	Between the Lines	[36]
	Emily Pohl-Weary*
	Jerry Weist	Ray Bradbury: An Illustrated Life	William Morrow and Company	[36]
	Bob Eggleton	Dragonhenge	Paper Tiger Books	[36]
	John Grant
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[36]
	Arnie Fenner
	Justine Larbalestier	The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction	Wesleyan University Press	[36]
2004	John Grant*	The Chesley Awards for SF & Fantasy Art: A Retrospective	Artist's and Photographer's Press	[37]
	Elizabeth L. Humphrey*
	Pamela D. Scoville*
	Jeff VanderMeer (editor)	The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases	Night Shade Books	[37]
	Mark Roberts (editor)
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 10: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[37]
	Arnie Fenner
	Brian Herbert	Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert	Tor Books	[37]
	John Clute	Scores: Reviews 1993–2003	Beccon Publications	[37]
	William J. Widder	Master Storyteller: An Illustrated Tour of the Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard	Galaxy Press	[37]
2005	Edward James*	The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction	Cambridge University Press	[38]
	Farah Mendlesohn*
	Peter Weston	With Stars in My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom	NESFA Press	[38]
	David A. Hardy	Futures: 50 Years in Space: The Challenge of the Stars	Artists' and Photographers' Press	[38]
	Patrick Moore
	William Tenn	Dancing Naked: The Unexpurgated William Tenn, Volume 3	NESFA Press	[38]
	Richard A. Lupoff	The Best of Xero	Tachyon Publications	[38]
2006	Kate Wilhelm*	Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop	Small Beer Press	[39]
	Mike Ashley	Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970	Liverpool University Press	[39]
	David Langford	The SEX Column and Other Misprints	Cosmos	[39]
	Gary Westfahl	Science Fiction Quotations	Yale University Press	[39]
	Gary K. Wolfe	Soundings, Reviews 1992–1996	Beccon Publications	[39]
2007	Julie Phillips*	James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon	St. Martin's Press	[40]
	Mike Resnick	Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches	ISFiC Press	[40]
	Joe Siclari
	Joseph T. Major	Heinlein's Children: The Juveniles	Advent	[40]
	Samuel R. Delany	About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews	Wesleyan University Press	[40]
	John Picacio	Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio	MonkeyBrain Books	[40]
2008	Jeff Prucher*	Brave New Words: the Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction	Oxford University Press	[41]
	Barry N. Malzberg	Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium	Baen Books	[41]
	Diana Glyer	The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community	Kent State University Press	[41]
	Luis Ortiz	Emshwiller: Infinity x Two	Nonstop Press	[41]
	Shaun Tan	The Arrival	Arthur A. Levine Books	[41]
2009	John Scalzi*	Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008	Subterranean Press	[42]
	Farah Mendlesohn	Rhetorics of Fantasy	Wesleyan University Press	[42]
	Paul Kincaid	What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction	Beccon Publications	[42]
	Lillian Stewart Carl	The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold	Baen Books	[42]
	John Helfers
	Cathy Fenner	Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Underwood Books	[42]
	Arnie Fenner
2010	Jack Vance*	This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I")	Subterranean Press	[43]
	John Clute	Canary Fever: Reviews	Beccon Publications	[43]
	Michael Swanwick	Hope-In-The-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees	Temporary Culture	[43]
	Farah Mendlesohn	The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction	McFarland & Company	[43]
	Farah Mendlesohn	On Joanna Russ	Wesleyan University Press	[43]
	Helen Merrick	The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms	Aqueduct Press	[43]
2011	Lynne M. Thomas*	Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It	Mad Norwegian Press	[44]
	Tara O'Shea*
	Gary K. Wolfe	Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001	Beccon Publications	[44]
	Mike Resnick	The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing	McFarland & Company	[44]
	Barry N. Malzberg
	William H. Patterson, Jr.	Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1: (1907–1948): Learning Curve	Tor Books	[44]
	Brandon Sanderson	Writing Excuses, Season 4	Writing Excuses	[44]
	Jordan Sanderson
	Howard Tayler
	Dan Wells
2012	John Clute*	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition	Victor Gollancz Ltd	[45]
	David Langford*
	Peter Nicholls*
	Graham Sleight*
	Daniel M. Kimmel	Jar Jar Binks Must Die…and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies	Fantastic Books	[45]
	Jeff VanderMeer	The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature	Abrams Image	[45]
	S. J. Chambers
	Seanan McGuire	Wicked Girls	Seanan McGuire	[45]
	Brandon Sanderson	Writing Excuses, Season 6	Writing Excuses	[45]
	Dan Wells
	Howard Tayler
	Mary Robinette Kowal
	Jordan Sanderson
2013	Brandon Sanderson*	Writing Excuses, Season 7	Writing Excuses	[46]
	Dan Wells*
	Howard Tayler*
	Mary Robinette Kowal*
	Jordan Sanderson*
	Edward James	The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature	Cambridge University Press	[46]
	Farah Mendlesohn
	Lynne M. Thomas	Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them	Mad Norwegian Press	[46]
	Sigrid Ellis
	Deborah Stanish	Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who	Mad Norwegian Press	[46]
	L. M. Myles
	Martin H. Greenberg	I Have an Idea for a Book... The Bibliography of Martin H. Greenberg	Battered Silicon Dispatch Box	[46]
	John Helfers
2014	Kameron Hurley*	"We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative"	A Dribble of Ink	[47]
	Michael Damian Thomas	Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It	Mad Norwegian Press	[47]
	Sigrid Ellis
	Justin Landon	Speculative Fiction 2012: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary	Jurassic London	[47]
	Jared Shurin
	Jeff VanderMeer	Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction	Abrams Image	[47]
	Jeremy Zerfoss
	Brandon Sanderson	Writing Excuses, Season 8	Writing Excuses	[47]
	Dan Wells
	Howard Tayler
	Mary Robinette Kowal
	Jordan Sanderson
2015	(no award)+			[11][Note 1]
	Ken Burnside	"The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF"	Riding the Red Horse (Castalia House)	[11]
	Lou Antonelli	Letters from Gardner	The Merry Blacksmith Press	[11]
	John C. Wright	Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth	Castalia House	[11]
	Tedd Roberts	"Why Science is Never Settled"	Baen.com	[11]
	Michael Z. Williamson	Wisdom from My Internet	Patriarchy Press	[11]
2016	(no award)+			[12][Note 1]
	Marc Aramini	Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986	Castalia House	[12]
	Jeffro Johnson	"The First Draft of My Appendix N Book"	jeffro.wordpress.com	[12]
	Daniel Eness	"Safe Space as Rape Room"	castaliahouse.com	[12]
	Vox Day	SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police	Castalia House	[12]
	Moira Greyland	"The Story of Moira Greyland"	askthebigot.com	[12]
2017	Ursula K. Le Guin*	Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016	Small Beer Press	[48]
	Kameron Hurley	The Geek Feminist Revolution	Tor Books	[48]
	Carrie Fisher	The Princess Diarist	Blue Rider Press	[48]
	Robert Silverberg	Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg	Fairwood	[48]
	Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
	Neil Gaiman	The View From the Cheap Seats	William Morrow	[48]
	Sarah Gailey	The Women of Harry Potter posts	Tor.com	[48]
2018	Ursula K. Le Guin*	No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	[49]
	Zoe Quinn	Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate	PublicAffairs	[49]
	Paul Kincaid	Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)	University of Illinois Press	[49]
	Nat Segaloff	A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison	NESFA Press	[49]
	Alexandra Pierce	Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler	Twelfth Planet Press	[49]
	Mimi Mondal
	Liz Bourke	Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy	Aqueduct Press	[49]
2019	Organization for Transformative Works*	Archive of Our Own	Self-published	[50]
	Alec Nevala-Lee	Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction	Dey Street Books	[50]
	Lindsay Ellis	The Hobbit Duology	Self-published via YouTube	[50]
	Angelina Meehan
	Jo Walton	An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000	Tor Books	[50]
	Julia Rios	www.mexicanxinitiative.com: The Mexicanx Initiative at Worldcon 76	Self-published	[50]
	Libia Brenda
	Pablo Defendini
	John Picacio
	Ursula K. Le Guin	Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing	Tin House Books	[50]
	David Naimon
2020	Jeannette Ng*	"2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech"	Jeannette Ng	[51]
	J. Michael Straczynski	Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood	Harper Voyager	[51]
	Gwyneth Jones	Joanna Russ	University of Illinois Press	[51]
	Mallory O'Meara	The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick	Hanover Square Press	[51]
	Farah Mendlesohn	The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein	Unbound	[51]
	Arwen Curry	Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin	Arwen Curry	[51]
2021	Maria Dahvana Headley*	Beowulf: A New Translation	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	[52]
	Claire Rousseau	CoNZealand Fringe	Self-published	[52]
	C
	Cassie Hart
	Adri Joy
	Marguerite Kenner
	Cheryl Morgan
	Alasdair Stuart
	L. D. Lewis	FIYAHCON	Self-published	[52]
	Brent Lambert
	Iori Kusano
	Vida Cruz
	Natalie Luhrs	"George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off into the Sun; Or, The 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony (Rageblog Edition)"	Pretty Terrible	[52]
	Lynell George	A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler	Angel City Press	[52]
	Jenny Nicholson	The Last Bronycon: A Fandom Autopsy	Self-published via YouTube	[52]
2022	Charlie Jane Anders*	Never Say You Can't Survive	Tordotcom Publishing	[53]
	Elsa Sjunneson	Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism	Tiller Press	[53]
	Camestros Felapton	The Complete Debarkle: Saga of a Culture War	Self-published	[53]
	Andrew Nette (editor)	Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985	PM Press	[53]
	Iain McIntyre (editor)
	Emily St. James	"How Twitter can ruin a life"	Vox	[53]
	Abraham Riesman	True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee	Crown	[53]
2023	Rob Wilkins*	Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes	Doubleday	[54]
	Kyle Buchanan	Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road	William Morrow	[54]
	Lawrence M. Schoen	Buffalito World Outreach Project	Paper Golem	[54]
	Yang Feng	Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Volume 1	Chengdu Times Press	[54]
	S. L. Huang	"The Ghost of Workshops Past"	Tor.com	[54]
	Wil Wheaton	Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir	William Morrow	[54]
2024	Kelly Weinersmith*	A City on Mars	Penguin Press / Particular Books	[55]
	Zach Weinersmith*
	Niall Harrison	All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays	Briardene Books	[55]
	Yang Feng	Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Volumes 2 and 3	8-Light Minutes Culture / Chengdu Time Press	[55]
	Iain M. Banks	The Culture: The Drawings	Orbit Books	[55]
	Tina Wong	Discover X	Tina Wong	[55]
	Maureen Kincaid Speller	A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller	Luna Press Publishing	[55]
	Nina Allan (editor)
2025	Camestros Felapton	Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics	File770	[56]
	Heather Rose Jones
	the r/Fantasy Bingo team	r/Fantasy's 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge	r/Fantasy on Reddit	[56]
	Jenny Nicholson	The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel	Self-published via YouTube	[56]
	Jordan S. Carroll	Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right	University of Minnesota Press	[56]
	Abigail Nussbaum	Track Changes	Briardene Books	[56]
	Chris M. Barkley	The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion	Genre Grapevine/File770	[56]
	Jason Sanford

Retro Hugos

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given.^[5] The Hugo Award for Best Related Work has only been retroactively awarded twice, in 2004 and 2020; all other years it was not on the ballot or was dropped due to insufficient response.^{[47][12][49][50]}

Retro Hugo winners and nominees

Year	Year awarded	Author(s)	Work	Publisher	Ref.
1945	2020	Leigh Brackett*	"The Science-Fiction Field"	Writer's Digest	[57]
		Jack Speer	Fancyclopedia	Forrest J. Ackerman	[57]
		H. G. Wells	'42 To '44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behavior During the Crisis of the World Revolution	Secker & Warburg	[57]
		George Gamow	Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom	Cambridge University Press	[57]
		Willy Ley	Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere	Viking Press	[57]
		Fritz Leiber	"The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Suggestions for a Critical Appraisal"	The Acolyte	[57]
1954	2004	Wernher von Braun*	Conquest of the Moon	Viking Press	[58]
		Fred L. Whipple*
		Willy Ley*
		L. Sprague de Camp	Science-Fiction Handbook	Hermitage Press	[58]
		Reginald Bretnor	Modern Science Fiction: Its Making and Future	Coward-McCann	[58]

Notes

1. Several categories, including Best Related Work, were awarded to "No award" in 2015 and 2016 in response to the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies ballot manipulation campaigns.