Hugo Award for Best Series
The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories", and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award. It has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". The Hugo Award for Best Series is given each year for series of science fiction or fantasy stories published consisting of at least 3 works totaling at least 240,000 words, with at least one work released or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The Hugo Award for Best Series has been awarded annually since 2017. It was started then as a one-time special Hugo Award in advance of a vote to make it a permanent category, and was ratified as such by members of the World Science Fiction Society that year.
Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine
During the nineteen nomination years, twelve magazines run by fifteen editors were nominated. Of these, only five magazines run by eight editors won. "Astounding Science-Fiction"/"Analog Science Fact & Fiction" and "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" each won eight times, out of eighteen and fifteen nominations, respectively. "If" won three of five nominations, "New Worlds" won one of its six nominations—though its win was in the 1957 "British Professional Magazine" category—and "Galaxy Science Fiction" won only one out of its fifteen nominations, for the first award in 1953. Of the magazines which never won, "Amazing Stories" was nominated the most at eight times, while the only other magazine to be nominated more than twice was "Science Fantasy" with three nominations. John W. Campbell, Jr. received both the most nominations and awards, as he edited "Analog Science Fact & Fiction" for all eighteen nominations and eight wins. Edward L. Ferman and Robert P. Mills both won four times, while Frederik Pohl won three. H. L. Gold received the second most number of nominations at twelve, while Cele Goldsmith received the most number of nominations without winning at ten for her work on two separate magazines; she was the only female editor to be nominated.