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Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

Okay, kiddo, let me explain the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in a way you can understand.

So, a fanzine is a kind of magazine made by fans of science fiction and fantasy. It's usually made up of articles, stories, and artwork about books, movies, TV shows, and other things that fans of sci-fi and fantasy like.

The Hugo Award is an award given out every year to the best science fiction and fantasy works in different categories, like Best Novel, Best Short Story, Best Graphic Story, and more. The Fans of science fiction and fantasy are the ones who vote for the winners.

The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is specifically for the best fanzine of the year. It's given to the fanzine that the most people liked and thought did the best job of writing about sci-fi and fantasy. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who popularized science fiction in magazines and helped create the science fiction fandom we have today.

So, basically, the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is like a big pat on the back for the group of people who made the best magazine about science fiction and fantasy that year. It's a way to show appreciation for all the hard work they put into their fanzine and for being awesome fans of sci-fi and fantasy.