The Best Semiprozine Hugo category was established by the WSFS Business Meeting in 1984 after the growth of large fanzines which were often produced to professional publishing standards and available essentially only by subscription (e.g., Locus, SFC) began to dominate the Best Fanzine category.
As befits a fuzzy distinction, the criteria which separated fanzines from semiprozines are complex:
Any generally available non-professional publication devoted to science fiction or fantasy which by the close of the previous calendar year has published four (4) or more issues (or the equivalent in other media), at least one (1) of which appeared in the previous calendar year, and which in the previous calendar year met at least two (2) of the following criteria:
(1) had an average press run of at least one thousand (1000) copies per issue,
(2) paid its contributors and/or staff in other than copies of the publication,
(3) provided at least half the income of any one person,
(4) had at least fifteen percent (15%) of its total space occupied by advertising,
(5) announced itself to be a semiprozine.
They are basically designed to draw a line between the traditional fanzine (which, even if it has a subscription price, never brings in enough money to have a significant impact on its production values) and its bigger brethren. Note that there is no distinction between fanzine and semiprozine based on content.
Year |
Winner
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Split off from the Best Fanzine category.
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1984 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1985 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1986 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1987 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1988 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1989 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1990 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1991 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1992 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1993 |
Science Fiction Chronicle ed. by Andrew I. Porter
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1994 |
Science Fiction Chronicle ed. by Andrew I. Porter
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1995 |
Interzone ed. by David Pringle
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1996 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1997 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1998 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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1999 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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2000 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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2001 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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2002 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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2003 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall and Kirsten Gong-Wong
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2004 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall and Kirsten Gong-Wong
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2005 |
Ansible ed. by Dave Langford
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2006 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
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2007 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
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2008 |
Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
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2009 |
Weird Tales ed. by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal
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2010 |
Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
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2011 |
Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, Sean Wallace; podcast directed by Kate Baker
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2012 |
Locus, edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.
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2013 |
Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Jason Heller, Sean Wallace, and Kate Baker
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2014 |
Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki
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2015 |
Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant
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2016 |
Uncanny Magazine edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
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2017 |
Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
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2018 |
Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
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2019 |
Uncanny Magazine
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