12-453: The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus , a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California . The awards are presented at an annual banquet. Originally a poll of Locus subscribers only, voting is now open to anyone, but the votes of subscribers count twice as much as the votes of non-subscribers. The award
24-504: A news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston , Massachusetts. Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon , the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri , Brown decided to continue publishing Locus as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine. Locus succeeded
36-530: A quarter the income of any one person or, (2) was owned or published by any entity which provided at least a quarter the income of any of its staff and/or owner."; this included Locus . There is no longer a "Professional Magazine" Hugo Award; that original category was replaced in 1973 by the current "Best Editor." Hugo Awards Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
48-418: Is compiled and edited by Mark R. Kelly. In 2002, Locus Online won the first Hugo Award for Best Web Site. It was nominated again in 2005. In January 2016, longtime short-fiction reviewer Lois Tilton announced her resignation. She wrote, "Without consulting or informing me, they had begun deleting material they considered negative from my reviews. To me, this is censorship and completely unacceptable." It
60-533: Is now owned by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation , a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation. Locus publishes: Locus Online (founded 1997) is the online component of Locus Magazine . It publishes news briefs related to the science fiction, fantasy and horror publishing world, along with original reviews and feature articles, and excerpts of articles that appeared in the print edition. Information for Locus Online
72-564: Is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres (excluding self-published). The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards . Locus Online was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of Locus Magazine . Charles N. Brown , Ed Meskys , and Dave Vanderwerf founded Locus in 1968 as
84-473: The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine , and then in 1984 when the new category "Best Semiprozine " was established. As of 2012 , Locus won the award for "Best Fanzine" eight times and for "Best Semiprozine" 22 times during the category's first 29 years. In 2012 "Best Semiprozine" was redefined to exclude all small, independent genre magazines as "professional publications" if they had either "(1) provided at least
96-734: The Hugo Awards , they have since come to be considered a prestigious prize in science fiction, fantasy and horror literature. Known previously as the Locus Index to SF Awards, the Science Fiction Awards Database (SFADB) is an index of science fiction, fantasy and horror awards compiled by Mark R. Kelly. It is often more up-to-date than the awards' own websites (according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ), and has received praise from editors and authors of SF. Locus has won many Hugo Awards, first
108-477: The monthly newszine Science Fiction Times (formerly Fantasy Times , founded 1941), when SFT ceased publication in 1970. Brown directed Locus as publisher and editor-in-chief for more than 40 years, from 1968 until his death at age 72 in July 2009. Locus announced that the magazine would continue operations, with then executive editor Liza Groen Trombi succeeding Brown as editor-in-chief in 2009. The magazine
120-440: The most awards for works of fiction (18). Robert Silverberg has received the highest number of nominations (158). As of the 2021 awards, the following have had the most nominations: There are several categories that no longer receive Locus Awards: Locus (magazine) Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field , founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California . It
132-544: Was inaugurated in 1971, and was originally intended to provide suggestions and recommendations for the Hugo Awards . They have come to be considered a prestigious prize in science fiction, fantasy and horror literature. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction regards the Locus Awards as sharing the stature of the Hugo and Nebula Awards . Gardner Dozois holds the record for the most wins (43), while Neil Gaiman has won
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#1732772404369144-467: Was later clarified by Locus that the edits were not intended to be made to work already published, but rather going forward, to future reviews. None of her past columns were changed, she was paid for the unpublished work, and the relationship ended amicably. Awarded annually since 1971, the Locus Awards are voted on by the readership of Locus magazine. Developed initially as a reading list for
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