Join us in discussing all of the Hugo Award winners beginning in 1953. Updated monthly. SciFi/Fantasy.
Hugo History
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Join us in discussing all of the Hugo Award winners beginning in 1953. Updated monthly. SciFi/Fantasy.
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Recent Episodes
June 11, 2026
Dune
<p>Join us as we discuss one of the Hugo Award winners for 1966 (there was a tie!): Frank Herbert's Dune. </p> <p>Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: <a href= "https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/</a></p> <p>This month's guest is Stephen Kotowych, who is probably best known for putting together yearly anthologies on the Year's Best Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy. The kickstarter for volume 4 closed in May, but the book should be available to non-backers in early Fall. Stephen is also a SFF writer and has published several award-winning and nominated short stories. (You can find all this info on <a href="http://kotowych.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">his website</a>.) You can find him on Bluesky at @ourmankoto.bsky.social.</p> <p>From about 11:54 to about 33:46, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn't spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail. </p> <p>Intro sound by <a href="https://linktr.ee/ariiezbreakz">Breakz Studios</a>!</p> <p>Come find us on patreon for more info: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts">https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts</a> (Sign up for the free tier and I try to send out extra details, links to references, and images of primary sources!)</p>
May 19, 2026
The Wanderer
<p>Join us as we discuss the eleventh Hugo Award winner: Fritz Lieber's The Wanderer.</p> <p>Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: <a href= "https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/</a></p> <p>This month's guest is Roseanna Pendlebury, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer and nominated for the Hugo for BEST Fan Writer this year. She writes for <a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nerds of a Feather</a>, <a href= "https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/series-small-press-dispatch/">Ancillary Review of Books</a>, and <a href= "https://readerofelse.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">on her own blog</a>. You can find her on Bluesky at @chloroformtea.bsky.social.</p> <p>From about 7:30 to about 37:58, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn't spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail. </p> <p>Intro sound by <a href="https://linktr.ee/ariiezbreakz">Breakz Studios</a>!</p> <p>Come find us on patreon for more info: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts">https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts</a> (Sign up for the free tier and I try to send out extra details, links to references, and images of primary sources!)</p> <p>Corrections:</p> <ul> <li>At some point in the beginning, I am talking Fritz Lieber's other Hugo-winning novel and I accidentally call it The Time War. It's actually called The Big Time.</li> <li>We refer to the pot smoking New Yorkers as Arab Pete and friends, but their names were Arab Jones, High Bundy, and Pepe Martinez.</li> </ul> <p>Other nominees this year: </p> <ul> <li>The Whole Man (alt: The Telepathist) by John Brunner [Ballantine, 1964]</li> <li>Davy by Edgar Pangborn [Ballantine, 1964]</li> <li>The Planet Buyer (alt: The Boy Who Bought Old Earth) by Cordwainer Smith [Pyramid, 1964]. </li> </ul> <p>Some things we mention: </p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://reactormag.com/anyone-can-vote-in-the-hugo-awards-and-heres-how/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You can vote for Hugos! </a></li> <li>John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye</li> <li>Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary</li> <li>Lieber's <span class= "kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah N56cWZpP8cNJu1dqgCxB" style= "-webkit-line-clamp: 3;">Fafhrd and Grey Mouser</span> series</li> <li>Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, E.E. "Doc" Smith</li> <li>Anne McCaffery, Dragonflight, Book 1 of Dragonriders of Pern series (I have now read this book!)</li> <li style="font-style: italic;">spume</li> <li>Black Dahlia murder</li> <li>They'd Rather Be Right (the second Hugo award winner)</li> <li>Jo Walton's Hugo restrospective </li> <li><a title="James Nicoll" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll">James Nicoll</a></li> <li>John Scalzi: Redshirts; The Interdependency series; Old Man's War series; Starter Villain</li> </ul>
April 14, 2026
Way Station
<p>Join us as we discuss the tenth Hugo Award winner: Clifford D. Simak's Way Station, also known as "Here Gather the Stars." </p> <p>Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: <a href= "https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/</a></p> <p>This month's guest is Paul Weimer, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer. He writes for Nerds of a Feather and podcasts at Skiffy and Fanty. </p> <p>From about 5:30 to about 16:40, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn't spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail. </p> <p>Intro music by <a href="https://linktr.ee/ariiezbreakz">Breakz Studios</a>!</p> <p>Come find us on patreon for more info: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts">https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts</a> (Sign up for the free tier and you'll still get extra details, links to references, and images of primary sources!)</p> <p>Some things we mention, more info about some of these in the monthly free email from Patreon: </p> <p>SF Signal<br /> The Functional Nerds <br /> Reactor<br /> Barnes and Noble Science Fiction blog<br /> Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein [F&SF Jul,Aug,Sep 1963; Putnam, 1963]<br /> Witch World by Andre Norton [Ace, 1963] <br /> Dune World by Frank Herbert [Analog Dec 1963,Jan,Feb 1964] <br /> Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963] <br /> Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek<br /> Men in Black<br /> Simak, The Goblin Reservation<br /> Simak, City<br /> Simak short story: "The Big Front Yard" <br /> Star Control — sci-fi video games <br /> Walter M Miller, Jr., Canticle for Leibowitz <br /> The Waverlies, Fredric Brown<br /> Novels of the Change, also known as the Emberverse Series, by S.M. Stirling <br /> My Fair Lady, a 1956 musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 Pygmalion <br /> Passengers: movie about generation ship<br /> "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly, originally published in the June 1995 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.<br /> Philip K. Dick, Man in the High Castle </p> <p> </p>
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