Hugo History

Join us in discussing all of the Hugo Award winners beginning in 1953. Updated monthly. SciFi/Fantasy.

Hugo History is a fiction podcast hosted by Christine D. Baker, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Christine D. Baker hosts Hugo History, a fiction show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  Wickhills/Little, Big

  Aug 13, 20261h 11mS1

  This is a slightly different style of episode for Hugo History! In it, Christine chats with award-winning author Premee Mohamed about her forthcoming book, Wickhills , and then they discuss the 1982 Hugo-nominee, Little, Big , by John Crowley. Intro sound by Breakz Studios ! Come find us on patreon for more info: https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts If you're interested in more History content from Christine, you can also find her at History Klaxon, which is both a podcast and a youtube channel. Some of Premee's earlier works that we mentioned: Siege of Burning Grass (2024) And Sneer of Cold Command The Butcher of the Forest (2024) And What Can We Offer You Tonight (2021) And some other things we mentioned in our discussion: John LeCarre Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake Premee's interview on A Meal of Thorns discussing The Fifth Head of Cerberus Dune 's appendices The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock Moby Dick The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (2022) Flint and Mirror , John Crowley Kate Heartfield Charles De Lint's Newford series Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh Sunfall by CJ Cherryh Other Crowley: Ægypt ; The Solitudes series; Ka series Watership Down Adrian Tchkaikovsky The Magnus Archives ; Johnny Sims From the Library of Jurgen Leitner , another one of Premee's forthcoming books

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  Episode #13

  ...And Call Me Conrad/This Immortal

  Jul 9, 20261h 17mS1

  Join us as we discuss one of the Hugo Award winners for 1966 (there was a tie!): Roger Zelazny's ...And Call Me Conrad , which was retitled This Immortal when it was published as a fix-up novel. Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/ This month's guest is Evan May, a Canadian fantasy author and historian. He is the author of Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood. You can find him on Bluesky at @gianttourtiere.bsky.social. From about 3:40 to about 18:50, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn't spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail. Intro sound by Breakz Studios ! Come find us on patreon for more info: https://www.patreon.com/cw/hugohistory/posts (Sign up for the free tier and I try to send out extra details, links to references, and images of primary sources!)

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  Episode #12

  Dune

  Jun 11, 20261h 25mS1

  <p>Join us as we discuss one of the Hugo Award winners for 1966 (there was a tie!): Frank Herbert's Dune. </p> <p>Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/</p> <p>This month's guest is Stephen Kotowych, who is probably best known for putting together yearly anthologies on the Year's Best Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy. The kickstarter for volume 4 closed in May, but the book should be available to non-backers in early Fall. Stephen is also...

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  Episode #11

  The Wanderer

  May 19, 20261h 28mS1

  <p>Join us as we discuss the eleventh Hugo Award winner: Fritz Lieber's The Wanderer.</p> <p>Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/</p> <p>This month's guest is Roseanna Pendlebury, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer and nominated for the Hugo for BEST Fan Writer this year. She writes for Nerds of a Feather, Ancillary Review of Books, and on her own blog. You can find her on Bluesky at @chloroformtea.bsky.soc...

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  Episode #10

  Way Station

  Apr 14, 20261h 3mS1

  <p>Join us as we discuss the tenth Hugo Award winner: Clifford D. Simak's Way Station, also known as "Here Gather the Stars." </p> <p>Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/</p> <p>This month's guest is Paul Weimer, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer. He writes for Nerds of a Feather and podcasts at Skiffy and Fanty. </p> <p>From about 5:30 to about 16:40, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spo...

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