Hugo Award for Best Related Book Totally Explained

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The Hugo Awards are given annually by members of the World Science Fiction Convention for the best science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories. Winners of the Hugo Award for best related book (previously best non-fiction). This award category is defined in Article 3.3.5 of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society as a work, "which is either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text". Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year.

Winners and other nominees

2008:
- The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
  by Diana Glyer
- Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium
  by Barry Malzberg
- Emshwiller: Infinity x Two
  by Luis Ortiz
- Brave New Words: the Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
  by Jeff Prucher
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan

2007:James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by Julie Phillips

About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews
Samuel R. Delany
Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio
John Picacio
Heinlein's Children: The Juveniles
Joseph T. Major
Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches
edited by Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari

2006:Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
by Kate Wilhelm

Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
by Mike Ashley
The SFX Column
by David Langford
Science Fiction Quotations
by Gary Westfahl
Soundings, Reviews 1992-1996
by Gary K. Wolfe

2005:The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn

The Best of Xero
by Richard A. Lupoff, Pat Lupoff
Dancing Naked: The Unexpurgated William Tenn, Volume 3
by William Tenn
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
by Brian Herbert
Futures: 50 Years in Space: The Challenge of the Stars
by David A. Hardy & Patrick Moore
With Stars in My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom
by Peter Weston

2004: The Chesley Awards for SF & Fantasy Art: A Retrospective
by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, & Pamela D. Scoville

Scores: Reviews 1993–2003 by John Clute
Spectrum 10: The Best in Fantastic Contemporary Art
by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
by Brian Herbert
The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
by Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts
Master Storyteller: An Illustrated Tour of the Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard
by William J. Widder

2003:
by Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary

Dragonhenge by Bob Eggleton & John Grant
Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier
Bradbury: An Illustrated Life by Jerry Weist

2002: The Art of Chesley Bonestell
by Ron Miller & Frederick C. Durant III, with Melvin H. Schuetz

The Art of Richard Powers by Jane Frank
Meditations on Middle-earth by Karen Haber
I Have This Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do With It? by Mike Resnick
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
Being Gardner Dozois by Michael Swanwick

2001:
by Bob Eggleton & Nigel Suckling

Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn
Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion by James Gifford
Concordance to Cordwainer Smith: Third Edition by Anthony R. Lewis
Purse Stories by Mike Resnick

2000: Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Frank M. Robinson

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
Minicon 34 Restaurant Guide by Karen Cooper & Bruce Schneier
Spectrum 6: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner

1999: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch

Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years by Everett F. Bleiler
The Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards by Howard DeVore
Spectrum 5: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner
The Work of Jack Williamson: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide
by Richard A. Hauptmann

This category replaced the best non-fiction (awarded 1980 to 1998).

The "Retro Hugos"

(awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which World Conventions didn't give awards)

1954: Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley (awarded in 2004)

Modern Science Fiction: Its Making and Future by Reginald Bretnor
Science-Fiction Handbook by L. Sprague de Camp

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