Analog Award

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The Analog Award or Analog Readers Poll Award is a literary prize that has been awarded by readers in an annual survey since 1979 for texts published in the science fiction magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact .

It was awarded in the following categories:

  • Novella / Novelette (short novel / story)
  • Novelette (story)
  • Short Story (short story)
  • Serial (serialized novel)
  • Article / Science Fact / Fact Article (article / contribution in kind)
  • Poetry (lyric; since 2016)
  • Cover Art (cover picture)

The price goes back to a monthly column with reader ratings for the texts of the previous edition introduced by John W. Campbell as Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) in March 1938 . The winning author each received a bonus payment. After Campbell's death in 1971, the monthly assessments were discontinued in October 1976 and reintroduced as an annual survey by Stanley Schmidt in 1979.

William Sims Bainbridge analyzed the monthly surveys from 1938 to 1976 in 1980 and determined the most popular authors from this period.

List of award winners

Novella
Novelette
Short story
Serial

literature

  • William Sims Bainbridge: The Analytical Laboratory, 1938-1976. In: Analog , January 1980, Vol. C. No. 1 (Fiftieth Anniversary Issue), pp. 121-134, online ( Memento of August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).

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