Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

Every year, the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given by the World Science Fiction Society to a fanzine.

The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories, the pioneering science fiction 'pulp' magazine in whose letter column many of the first science fiction fans met one another.

The award was initiated in 1955 and has been given out every year except for 1958. A fanzine must meet two of the five criteria for being deemed a fanzine: that it has a press run of less than one thousand copies; had less than fifteen percent of its pages devoted to advertising; has not paid it's staff or contributors in anything other than copies of the publication; and is not the source of half of the income for an editor; announces itself as a fanzine. The awards are chosen by antendees of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). The award for 'Best Fanzine' is the oldest Hugo Award for fan activity.

1955

• Fantasy-Times (James Taurasi and Ray Von Houten)

1956

• Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser (Ron Smith)

1957

• Science Fiction Times (James Taurasi, Ray Van Houten, Frank R. Prieto, Jr.

1959

• Fanac (Terry Carr and Ron Ellik)

1960

• Cry of the Nameless (F.M. Busby, Elinor Busby, Burnett Toskey, Wally Weber)

1961

• Who Killed Science Fiction? (Earl Kemp)

1962

• Warhoon (Richard Bergeron)

1963

• Xero (Pat Lupoff and Richard Lupoff)

1964

• Amra (George Scithers)

1965

• Yandro ( Juanita Coulson and Robert Coulson)

1966

• ERB-dom (Camille Cazedessus, Jr.)

1967

• Niekas (Edmund Meskys and Felice Rolfe)

1968

• Amra (George Scithers)

1969

• Science Fiction Review (Richard E. Geis)

1970

• Science Fiction Review (Richard E. Geis)

1971

• Locus (Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown)

1972

• Locus (Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown)

1973

• Energumen (Michael Glicksohn and Susan Wood)

1974

(tie)

• The Alien Critic (Richard E. Geis)
• Algol (Andrew I. Porter)

1975

• The Alien Critic (Richard E. Geis)

1976

• Locus (Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown)

1977

• Science Fiction Review (Richard E. Geis)

1978

• Locus (Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown)

1979

• Science Fiction Review (Richard E. Geis)

1980

• Locus (Charles N. Brown)

1981

• Locus (Charles N. Brown)

1982

• Locus (Charles N. Brown)

1983

• Locus (Charles N. Brown)

1984

• File 770 (Mike Glyer)

1985

• File 770 (Mike Glyer)

1986

• Lan's Lantern (George "Lan" Laskowski)

1987

• Ansible (David Langford)

1988

• Texas SF Inquirer (Pat Mueller)

1989

• File 770 (Mike Glyer)

1990

• The Mad 3 Party (Leslie Turek)

1991

• Lan's Lantern (George "Lan" Laskowski)

1992

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

1993

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

1994

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

1995

• Ansible (David Langford)

1996

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

1997

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

1998

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

1999

• Ansible (David Langford)

2000

• File 770 (Mike Glyer)

2001

• File 770 (Mike Glyer)

2002

• Ansible (David Langford)

2003

• Mimosa (Nicki Lynch and Richard Lynch)

2004

• Emerald City (Cheryl Morgan)

2005

• Plokta (Alison Scott, Steve Davies, Mike Scott)

2006

• Plokta (Alison Scott, Steve Davies, Mike Scott)

2007

• Science Fiction Five Yearly (Lee Hoffman, Geri Sullivan, Randy Byers)

2008

• File 770 (Mike Glyer)

2009

• Electric Velocipide (John Klima)

2010

• StarShipSofa (Tony C. Smith)

2011

• The Drink Tank (Chris Garcia, James Bacon)