In my first post for this year, before I had decided to extend the posts through the 1950s, I used the categories Novel, Novelette, and Short Story, and I only listed my five story nomination suggestion. So, what the heck - here's my list of proposed fiction nominees from 1957. Lupoff's excellent anthology What If?, Volume 1, selected 'alternate Hugos' for the years 1952 through 1958, and his choice from 1957 was 'The Mile-Long Spaceship', by Kate Wilhelm. In 1957, no Hugos for fiction were given. (The 1958 Hugo for short story went to 'Or All the Seas With Oysters', by Avram Davidson ( Galaxy, May 1958) and the Hugo for - get this - 'Novel or Novelette' went to 'The Big Time', by Fritz Leiber, a novel (albeit very short) that was serialized in Galaxy, March and April 1958. I realized that no stories from 1957 won a Hugo. Wandering through the history of the Hugos in the 1950s - a chaotic time, with no well established rules, with constantly changing award categories, with a con committee, in one case, refusing to give fiction awards at all. Thanks to Andrew Breitenbach, David Merrill, Gary Farber, Piet Nel, and Paul Fraser (among others) for suggestions for further stories, and for productive suggestions for more details about Hugo history.

That post engendered a lot of productive comments, and I figured I'd make an updated version to preserve it on my blog. I made a post on Facebook about possible Hugo nominations for stories published in 1957 - a year that was not well represented in Hugo history, due to the vagaries of changing Hugo eligibility rules, radically different Hugo categories from year to year, including no fiction Hugos in 1957, and a generally cavalier attitude towards the whole process. Potential Hugo nominations for the 1958 Hugos (stories from 1957)

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