The Hugo Awards are the most prominent award given for science fiction and fantasy literature each year. The first Hugos were given out in 1953, with the award becoming an annual event beginning in 1958. Fans who are registered as attending or supporting members of the World Science Fiction Convention (i.e. the Worldcon) are encouraged to nominate the best science fiction or fantasy works in the categories of Novel, Novella, Novelette and Short Story. [Additional categories exist for filmed works, anthologies, collections and various non-fiction works -- information about these can be found at this Hugo Award site.] Fans with memberships to the Worldcon also vote on the Hugos. The Hugo Awards are then presented at the annual Worldcon. In 1996, 2001 and 2004, "retro-Hugos" were presented, for works which had been originally published in 1946, 1951 and 1954, respectively. The titles in this list are "hotlinked" to the library's catalog, for all those titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. NOTE: Several of the earlier Hugo-winning novels have gone out of print and are no longer in our collection.

2012		Jo Walton Among Others
2011		Connie Willis Blackout [Two combined winning titles -- comprising a single story -- by the same author]
2011		Connie Willis All Clear [Two combined winning titles -- comprising a single story -- by the same author]
2010 [tie]		China Mieville The City and The City
2010 [tie]		Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl
2009		Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
2008		Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policeman's Union
2007		Vernor Vinge Rainbow's End
2006		Robert Charles Wilson Spin
2005		Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
2004		Lois McMaster Bujold The Paladin of Souls
2003		Robert J. Sawyer Hominids
2002		Neil Gaiman American Gods
2001		J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2000		Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky
1999		Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
1998		Joe Haldeman Forever Peace
1997		Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars
1996		Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
1995		Lois McMaster Bujold Mirror Dance
1994		Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars
1993		Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep
1992		Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar
1991		Lois McMaster Bujold The Vor Game
1990		Dan Simmons Hyperion
1989		C.J. Cherryh Cyteen
1988		David Brin The Uplift War
1987		Orson Scott Card Speaker For the Dead
1986		Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
1985		William Gibson Neuromancer
1984		David Brin Startide Rising
1983		Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
1982		C.J. Cherryh Downbelow Station
1981		Joan Vinge The Snow Queen
1980		Arthur C. Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
1979		Vonda N. McIntyre Dreamsnake
1978		Frederik Pohl Gateway
1977		Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976		Joe Haldeman The Forever War
1975		Ursula K. LeGuin The Dispossessed
1974		Arthur C.Clarke Rendezvous With Rama
1973		Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves
1972		Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971		Larry Niven Ringworld
1970		Ursula K. LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness
1969		John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
1968		Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
1967		Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
1966		Roger Zelazny …And Call Me Conrad [tie]
		Frank Herbert Dune [tie]
1965		Fritz Leiber The Wanderer
1964		Clifford Simak Way Station
1963		Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
1962		Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
1961		Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960		Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
1959		James Blish A Case of Conscience
1958		Fritz Leiber The Big Time
1957		[No Awards Given This Year]
1956		Robert A. Heinlein Double Star
1955		Mark Clifton & Frank Riley They'd Rather Be Right
1954		Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 [awarded in 2004]
1953		Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
1951		Robert A. Heinlein Farmer in the Sky [awarded in 2001]
1946		Isaac Asimov The Mule [awarded in 1996]