[HA] Hugo Award for Best Novel

Hugo Award for Best Novel [HA]

Given annually since 1953

A sci-fi/fantasy novel award. Like any annual literary award, the Hugo suffers from irregularity in the quality of the field. It’s feast or famine. In the case of the Hugo and its cousin award, the Nebula, there is a fair track record of awarding great books. The worst that can be said about them, and sci-fi in general, is that women are rarely fully conceived characters and the dialogue might slip occasionally into technomumbojumbo. But hey, it’s sci-fi. One other note. The Hugo and Nebula have awarded the same book a total of nineteen times since 1965 when the Nebula was launched. Some of those winners have likely aged badly since. But all the same, twenty sci-fi books on a list of more than 1000 titles is not overkill.

Winners here. Those that made the Master List are listed below in RED.

1953	Alfred Bester*	The Demolished Man
1955	Mark Clifton and Frank Riley*	They’d Rather Be Right (also known asThe Forever Machine)
1956	Robert A. Heinlein*	Double Star
1958	Fritz Leiber*	The Big Time
1959	James Blish*	A Case of Conscience
1960	Robert A. Heinlein*	Starship Troopers
1961	Walter M. Miller, Jr.*	A Canticle for Leibowitz
1962	Robert A. Heinlein*	Stranger in a Strange Land
1963	Philip K. Dick*	The Man in the High Castle
1964	Clifford D. Simak*	Here Gather the Stars (also known asWay Station)
1965	Fritz Leiber*	The Wanderer
1966	Frank Herbert* (tie)	Dune
1966	Roger Zelazny* (tie)	…And Call Me Conrad (also known asThis Immortal)
1967	Robert A. Heinlein*	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
1968	Roger Zelazny*	Lord of Light
1969	John Brunner*	Stand on Zanzibar
1970	Ursula K. Le Guin*	The Left Hand of Darkness
1971	Larry Niven*	Ringworld
1972	Philip José Farmer*	To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1973	Isaac Asimov*	The Gods Themselves
1974	Arthur C. Clarke*	Rendezvous with Rama
1975	Ursula K. Le Guin*	The Dispossessed
1976	Joe Haldeman*	The Forever War
1977	Kate Wilhelm*	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1978	Frederik Pohl*	Gateway
1979	Vonda N. McIntyre*	Dreamsnake
1980	Arthur C. Clarke*	The Fountains of Paradise
1981	Joan D. Vinge*	The Snow Queen
1982	C. J. Cherryh*	Downbelow Station
1983	Isaac Asimov*	Foundation’s Edge
1984	David Brin*	Startide Rising
1985	William Gibson*	Neuromancer
1986	Orson Scott Card*	Ender’s Game
1987	Orson Scott Card*	Speaker for the Dead
1988	David Brin*	The Uplift War
1989	C. J. Cherryh*	Cyteen
1990	Dan Simmons*	Hyperion
1991	Lois McMaster Bujold*	The Vor Game
1992	Lois McMaster Bujold*	Barrayar
1993	Vernor Vinge* (tie)	A Fire Upon the Deep
1993	Connie Willis* (tie)	Doomsday Book
1994	Kim Stanley Robinson*	Green Mars
1995	Lois McMaster Bujold*	Mirror Dance
1996	Neal Stephenson*	The Diamond Age
1997	Kim Stanley Robinson*	Blue Mars
1998	Joe Haldeman*	Forever Peace
1999	Connie Willis*	To Say Nothing of the Dog
2000	Vernor Vinge*	A Deepness in the Sky
2001	J. K. Rowling*	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2002	Neil Gaiman*	American Gods
2003	Robert J. Sawyer*	Hominids
2004	Lois McMaster Bujold*	Paladin of Souls
2005	Susanna Clarke*	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2006	Robert Charles Wilson*	Spin
2007	Vernor Vinge*	Rainbows End
2008	Michael Chabon*	The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
2009	Neil Gaiman*	The Graveyard Book
2010	Paolo Bacigalupi* (tie)	The Windup Girl