Hugo Award
The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) gives out the Hugo Awards each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who founded the pioneering science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories" and who is considered one of the "fathers" of the science fiction genre. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in the prior calendar year, or translated into English in the prior calendar year. There are no written rules as to which works qualify as science fiction or fantasy, and the decision of eligibility in that regard is left up to the voters, rather than to the organizing committee. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the WSFS constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie. The awards are split over more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works.
Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
During the 35 nomination years, 36 magazines run by 105 editors have been nominated. Of these, only 8 magazines run by 23 editors have won. "Locus" won 22 times and was nominated every year until a rules change in 2012 made it ineligible for the category. "Uncanny Magazine" has won 3 times in a row, 2016–2018, while "Science Fiction Chronicle", "Clarkesworld Magazine", and "Lightspeed" are the only other magazines to win more than once, with 2 awards out of 18 nominations, 3 out of 4, and 2 out of 5, respectively, while "Ansible" has won 1 out of 7 nominations, "Interzone" has won 1 out of 28, and "Weird Tales" has won 1 out of its 3 nominations. As editor of "Locus" Charles N. Brown won 21 of 27 nominations, though he shared 5 of those awards with Kirsten Gong-Wong, 3 with Liza Groen Trombi and 2 with Jennifer A. Hall. "Uncanny"s awards were earned by a team of 5 people, Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Erika Ensign, and Steven Schapansky. The sole editor for "Chronicle"s awards was Andrew I. Porter, while David Pringle earned "Interzone"s, and Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal were the editors for "Weird Tales"s victory. "Lightspeed"s wins were under John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki, with Wendy N. Wagner and Christie Yant added for the second win, while David Langford was the editor when "Ansible" was awarded. "Clarkesworld Magazine"s winning years were under Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, and Kate Baker, with 2 of the three also under Cheryl Morgan and the other under Jason Heller. "The New York Review of Science Fiction" has received the most number of nominations without ever winning at 22, under the helm of David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Kevin J. Maroney, and 8 other editors. The next highest number of nominations without winning is 7 for "Speculations" under Kent Brewster, Denise Lee, and Susan Fry.