Hugo Gernsback
The Hugo Awards or "Hugos" are the annual achievement awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention, selected in a process that ends with vote by current Convention members. They originated and acquired the "Hugo" nickname during the 1950s and were formally defined as a convention responsibility under the name "Science Fiction Achievement Awards" early in the 1960s. The nickname soon became almost universal and its use legally protected; "Hugo Award(s)" replaced the longer name in all official uses after the 1991 cycle.
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.