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Ace Books
Ace Books, American science fiction and fantasy paperback publisher founded by A. A. Wyn (1952 or 1953) with editor Donald A. Wollheim; creator of the Ace Doubles; now a Berkley/Penguin Random House imprint.
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories, American science fiction magazine founded by Hugo Gernsback in April 1926 as the first magazine devoted exclusively to the genre, originally "scientifiction", later edited by Sloane, Palmer, and Ted White, and revived online.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, launched 1930 as Astounding Stories of Super-Science, is the long-running American hard-SF magazine edited by Campbell, Bova, Schmidt, and Quachri, home of Foundation, Dune, and Ender's Game.
Ditmar Awards
The Ditmar Awards, formally the Australian SF Awards, are fan-voted awards for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, presented annually since 1969 and named for Melbourne fan Ditmar Jenssen.
Feminist science fiction
Feminist science fiction is an SF subgenre using speculative narratives to challenge gender roles, patriarchy, and bodily norms. Also called feminist SF or femspec, it spans Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the 1970s boom of Russ, Le Guin, Charnas, and Piercy, and contemporary film and art.
Geffen Award
The Geffen Award (פרס גפן) is an annual Israeli literary prize for the best science fiction and fantasy books and stories published in Hebrew, first awarded in 1999.
Hugo Award
Hugo Award, originally the Science Fiction Achievement Award, honors excellence in science fiction and fantasy. Voted by Worldcon/WSFS members since 1953, annual since 1955, using instant-runoff final voting and E Pluribus Hugo nominations.
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Hugo Award for Best Novel: annual science fiction and fantasy novel prize voted by Worldcon members, first awarded 1953, skipped 1954 and 1957, trophy not money, with ties in 1966, 1993, and 2010.
Kurd Laßwitz Award
The Kurd Laßwitz Award (Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis) is an annual literary award for German-language science fiction, created in 1980 and named after Kurd Laßwitz, the father of German science fiction.
Nebula Award
Nebula Awards: annual SFWA-voted prizes for science fiction and fantasy, first given for 1965 works (Dune won Best Novel); four length-based categories plus Bradbury, Norton, game, comic, and poem awards.
Nebula Award for Best Novel
Nebula Award for Best Novel: SFWA's peer-voted annual prize for the best English-language speculative-fiction novel of the year, first given for 1965 (Dune). Elected in two rounds by Full, Associate, and Senior SFWA members; 2025 winner The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
New Wave (science fiction)
New Wave science fiction: 1960s-1970s experimental literary movement in SF, term borrowed from the French nouvelle vague; centered on Moorcock's New Worlds (1964), inner space, soft sciences, and writers like Ballard, Aldiss, and Ellison.
New Worlds
New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine, published from 1946 to 1997 and known as the hub of the experimental New Wave under editor Michael Moorcock.
Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award, founded in 1983 by admirers of Philip K. Dick, honors distinguished science fiction first published in the United States as a paperback original.
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award, presented by the Libertarian Futurist Society since 1982 (founded 1979 by L. Neil Smith), honors libertarian/pro-freedom science fiction with Best Novel and Hall of Fame categories and a gold-coin trophy.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, is a 501(c)(3) professional writers' organization founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as Science Fiction Writers of America; it hosts the Nebula Awards, runs Writer Beware, and has over 2,500 members.
Science fiction magazine
Science fiction magazine: periodical devoted to SF short fiction, from Gernsback's Amazing Stories (1926) and Campbell's Astounding through digests to webzines like Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed; pro rates, Hugo award tiers, declining print circulation.
Sturgeon's law
Sturgeon's law, also called Sturgeon's Revelation, is Theodore Sturgeon's 1950s aphorism that ninety percent of everything is crud, coined in defense of science fiction; his original 'Law' was 'Nothing is always absolutely so'.
Tor Books
Tor Books, founded 1980 in New York by Tom Doherty as Tom Doherty Associates, is the flagship Macmillan SFF imprint; Locus best-publisher winner 1988–2024, home of Ender's Game and The Wheel of Time.
Worldcon
Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society, first held in New York in 1939 and annual since 1946. Members vote on sites two years ahead and on the Hugo Awards; each Worldcon is independent.