1968 Hugos

Awarded September 3, 1968 by Baycon.

Baycon's categories were the same as Nycon 3's with the addition of the Best Novella category and continue a long period of relative stable Hugo categories.

This appears to be one of the first (if not the first) Worldcon to use a preferential ballot in Hugo voting. Baycon seems to have had a very schizophrenic attitude towards releasing the order of finish in the various categories. The always listed the second place finisher, but only sometimes did they list third place, and they did not rank anything that finished lower than third place.

• Best Novel Hugo: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
• Best Novella Hugo: (tie) "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip José Farmer and "Weyr Search" by Anne McCaffrey
• Best Novelette Hugo: "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber
• Best Short Story Hugo: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
• Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo: Star Trek - "The City on the Edge of Forever"
• Best Professional Magazine Hugo: If ed. by Frederik Pohl
• Best Professional Artist Hugo: Jack Gaughan
• Best Fanzine Hugo: Amra ed. by George H. Scithers
• Best Fan Writer Hugo: Ted White
• Best Fan Artist Hugo: George Barr

A Special Committee Award was given to Harlan Ellison for Dangerous Visions and to Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek.

---

1967

Hugos

1969

1968

This is an award page. If you know something about it, such as who awarded it, who the winners were, what the criteria were, and when it was awarded, please add it! See Standards for Awards.