Retro Hugos

Hugo Awards may be given out retroactively, along with the regular Hugos, to works and people eligible 50, 75 or 100 years prior to a current World SF Convention, and of course for years in which the regular Hugos were not given out. (Whether or not to give them out is a left to the host Worldcon.)

The purpose of the Retros is for today's fans to judge the work of the past, not for them to try to replicate what voters "back then" would have chosen. The Retros were the brainchild of Bruce Pelz.

Retro Hugos have thus far been awarded four times – the first time was in 1996 at L.A.Con III for works and people eligible in 1945 (but awarded for 1946); in 2001 (at the Millennium Philcon for works and people eligible in 1950 (but awarded for 1951), in 2004 at Noreascon 4 for works and people eligible in 1953 (but which would have been awarded in 1954), and in 2014 at Loncon 3 for works and people eligible in 1938 (but which would have been awarded in 1939. The first actual Hugos were awarded at the 1953 Worldcon for works and people eligible in 1952, but the next set was not given out until the Worldcon two years later, so the last retro Hugos filled in the blank.

Awards	Eligibility Year	Presented At	In
1939	1938	Loncon 3	2014
1940	1939	TBD	2040 (earliest)
1941	1940	MidAmeriCon 2	2016
1942	1941	TBD	2042 (earliest)
1943	1942	Worldcon 76 in San Jose	2018
1944	1943	Dublin 2019	2019
1945	1944	CoNZealand	2020
1946	1945	L.A.Con III	1996
1947	1946	TBD	2022 (earliest)
1948	1947	TBD	2023 (earliest)
1949	1948	TBD	2024 (earliest)
1950	1949	TBD	2025 (earliest)
1951	1950	Millennium Philcon	2001
1952	1951	TBD	2027 (earliest)
1953	1952	TBD	2028 (earliest)
1954	1953	Noreascon 4	2004

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