The 1945 Retroactive Hugo Award Finalists

Best Novel

• The Golden Fleece, by Robert Graves (Cassell)
• Land of Terror, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)
• “Shadow Over Mars” (The Nemesis from Terra), by Leigh Brackett (Startling Stories, Fall 1944)
• Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord, by Olaf Stapledon (Secker & Warburg)
• The Wind on the Moon, by Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
• “The Winged Man”, by A.E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull (Astounding Science Fiction, May-June 1944)

Best Novella

• “The Changeling”, by A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction, April 1944)
• “A God Named Kroo”, by Henry Kuttner (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1944)
• “Intruders from the Stars”, by Ross Rocklynne (Amazing Stories, January 1944)
• “The Jewel of Bas”, by Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories, Spring 1944)
• “Killdozer!”, by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)
• “Trog”, by Murray Leinster (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1944)

Best Novelette

• “Arena”, by Fredric Brown (Astounding Science Fiction, June 1944)
• “The Big and the Little” (“The Merchant Princes”), by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1944)
• “The Children’s Hour”, by Lawrence O’Donnell (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1944)
• “City”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1944)
• “No Woman Born”, by C.L. Moore (Astounding Science Fiction, December 1944)
• “When the Bough Breaks”, by Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)

Best Short Story

• “And the Gods Laughed”, by Fredric Brown (Planet Stories, Spring 1944)
• “Desertion”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944)
• “Far Centaurus”, by A. E. van Vogt (Astounding Science Fiction,January 1944)
• “Huddling Place”, by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science Fiction, July 1944)
• “I, Rocket”, by Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories, May 1944)
• “The Wedge” (“The Traders”), by Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1944)

Best Series

• Captain Future, by Brett Sterling
• The Cthulhu Mythos, by H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others
• Doc Savage, by Kenneth Robeson/Lester Dent
• Jules de Grandin, by Seabury Quinn
• Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Shadow, by Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)

Best Related Work

• Fancyclopedia, by Jack Speer (Forrest J. Ackerman)
• ’42 To ’44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behavior During the Crisis of the World Revolution, by H.G. Wells (Secker & Warburg)
• Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom, by George Gamow (Cambridge University Press)
• Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere, by Willy Ley (Viking Press)
• “The Science-Fiction Field”, by Leigh Brackett (Writer’s Digest, July 1944)
• “The Works of H.P. Lovecraft: Suggestions for a Critical Appraisal”, by Fritz Leiber (The Acolyte, Fall 1944)

Best Graphic Story or Comic

• Buck Rogers: “Hollow Planetoid”, by Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
• Donald Duck: “The Mad Chemist”, by Carl Barks (Dell Comics)
• Flash Gordon: “Battle for Tropica”, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• Flash Gordon: “Triumph in Tropica”, by Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)
• The Spirit: “For the Love of Clara Defoe”, by Manly Wade Wellman, Lou Fine and Don Komisarow (Register and Tribune Syndicate)
• Superman: “The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk”, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (Detective Comics, Inc.)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• The Canterville Ghost, screenplay by Edwin Harvey Blum from a story by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jules Dassin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
• The Curse of the Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Gunther V. Fritsch and Robert Wise (RKO Radio Pictures)
• Donovan’s Brain, adapted by Robert L. Richards from a story by Curt Siodmak, producer, director and editor William Spier (CBS Radio Network)
• House of Frankenstein, screenplay by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. from a story by Curt Siodmak, directed by Erle C. Kenton (Universal Pictures)
• The Invisible Man’s Revenge, written by Bertram Millhauser, directed by Ford Beebe (Universal Pictures)
• It Happened Tomorrow, screenplay and adaptation by Dudley Nichols and René Clair, directed by René Clair (Arnold Pressburger Films)

Best Editor, Short Form

• John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Oscar J. Friend
• Mary Gnaedinger
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• W. Scott Peacock

Best Professional Artist

• Earle Bergey
• Margaret Brundage
• Boris Dolgov
• Matt Fox
• Paul Orban
• William Timmins

Best Fanzine

• The Acolyte, edited by Francis T. Laney and Samuel D. Russell
• Diablerie, edited by Bill Watson
• Futurian War Digest, edited by J. Michael Rosenblum
• Shangri L’Affaires, edited by Charles Burbee
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation, edited by Forrest J. Ackerman and Myrtle R. Douglas
• Le Zombie, edited by Bob Tucker and E.E. Evans

Best Fan Writer

• Fritz Leiber
• Morojo/Myrtle R. Douglas
• J. Michael Rosenblum
• Jack Speer
• Bob Tucker
• Harry Warner, Jr.