File 770 is a long-running science-fiction fanzine, newszine, and blog site published and administered by Mike Glyer. It has been published every year since 1978, and has won a record eight Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine, with the first win in 1984 and the latest in 2018.
File 770 is named after a legendary room party held in Room 770 at Nolacon, the 9th World Science Fiction Convention, in New Orleans in 1951. Glyer started File 770 in 1978 as a mimeographed print fanzine to report on fan clubs, conventions, fannish projects, fans, fanzines and SF awards. In the 1990s, Glyer moved production of the fanzine to computer desktop publishing, and in January 2008, he began publishing File 770 as a blog on the internet.
A print version of File 770 was produced until 2016. eFanzines.com began hosting PDF versions of the paper issues in 2005.
Awards File 770 has won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine eight times, in 1984, 1985, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2016, and 2018. It has received a total of thirty-one nominations over four decades. Glyer himself has also won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer four times for his work on File 770. Writing in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Rob Hansen and David Langford described the zine as evoking a strong feeling of community.
+ Hugo Award for Best Fanzine: File 770+ 1980s Year Result 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 — 1987 1988 1989 + 1990s Year Result 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 — 1997 1998 1999 + 2000s Year Result 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 — 2006 2007 — 2008 2009 + 2010s Year Result 2010 2011 2012 2013 — 2014 — 2015 — 2016 2017 — 2018
In his 2018 Hugo acceptance speech, Glyer recused himself and File 770 from future nominations. The next year, File 770 received enough votes to qualify for the Hugo ballot, but it was not listed due to the recusal.
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External links File 770 - the official website File 770 at eFanzines