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Hugo Awards
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. For these, we encourage you to order them through out InterLibrary Loan service.
Hugo Winners for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
2023
T. Kingfisher
Nettle & Bone
2022
Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace
2021
Martha Wells
Network Effect
2020
Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire
2019
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Calculating Stars
2018
N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky
2017
N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate
2016
N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season
2015
Cixin Liu
The Three Body Problem
2014
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice
2013
John Scalzi
Redshirts
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 [tie]
Roger Zelazny
…And Call Me Conrad
1966 [tie]
Frank Herbert
Dune
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]
1944
Fritz Leiber
The Conjure Wife [awarded in 2019]
1943
Anson Macdonald (Robert A. Heinlein)
Beyond This Horizon [awarded in 2018]
1941
A.E. Van Vogt
Slan [awarded in 2016]
1939
T.h. White
The Sword in the Stone [awarded in 2014]
Updated October 2023 sdc
