1945 Retro Hugo Award Winners

The winners of the 1945 Retro Hugo Awards have been announced by ConZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention. The Retro Hugo Awards were instituted a few years ago and are covering the years before the introduction of the Hugo Awards in 1953.  

These were the winners for fiction.

• Best Novel: Shadow Over Mars, Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories Fall ’44)
• Best Novella: “Killdozer!”, Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction 11/44)
• Best Novelette: “City”, Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction 5/44)
• Best Short Story: “I, Rocket”, Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories 5/44)
• Best Series: Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others

Good choices, all of them.