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Hugo Awards

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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

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T. Kingfisher
Nettle & Bone


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Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace


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Martha Wells
Network Effect


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Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire


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Mary Robinette Kowal
The Calculating Stars


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N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky


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N.K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate


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N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season


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Cixin Liu
The Three Body Problem


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Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice


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John Scalzi
Redshirts


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Jo Walton
Among Others


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Connie Willis
Blackout
[Two combined winning titles — comprising a single story — by the same author]

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Connie Willis
All Clear
[Two combined winning titles — comprising a single story — by the same author]

Book Cover2010 [tie] 
China Mieville
The City and The City


Book Cover2010 [tie] Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl


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Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book


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Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union


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Vernor Vinge
Rainbow’s End


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Robert Charles Wilson
Spin


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Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell


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Lois McMaster Bujold
The Paladin of Souls


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Robert J. Sawyer
Hominids


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Neil Gaiman
American Gods


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J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


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Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky


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Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog


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Joe Haldeman
Forever Peace


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Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars


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Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age


mirrordancemini1995
Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance


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Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars


fireuponmini1993
Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep


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Lois McMaster Bujold
Barrayar


vorgamemini1991
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game


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Dan Simmons
Hyperion


cyteenmini1989
C.J. Cherryh
Cyteen


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David Brin
The Uplift War


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Orson Scott Card
Speaker For the Dead


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Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game


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William Gibson
Neuromancer


startiderising1984
David Brin
Startide Rising


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Isaac Asimov
Foundation’s Edge


downbelowstationmini1982
C.J. Cherryh
Downbelow Station


snowqueenmini1981
Joan Vinge
The Snow Queen


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Arthur C. Clarke
The Fountains of Paradise


dreamsnakemini1979
Vonda N. McIntyre
Dreamsnake


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Frederik Pohl
Gateway


sweetbirdsmini1977
Kate Wilhelm
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang


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Joe Haldeman
The Forever War


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Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dispossessed


renwithramamini1974
Arthur C.Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama


godsthemselvesmini1973
Isaac Asimov
The Gods Themselves


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Philip Jose Farmer
To Your Scattered Bodies Go


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Larry Niven
Ringworld


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Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness


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John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar


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Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light


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Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress


1966 [tie] Roger Zelazny
…And Call Me Conrad


book cover1966 [tie] Frank Herbert
Dune


wanderermini1965
Fritz Leiber
The Wanderer


waystationmini1964
Clifford Simak
Way Station


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Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle


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Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land


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Walter M. Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz


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Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers


caseofconscience1959
James Blish
A Case of Conscience


bigtimemini1958
Fritz Leiber
The Big Time


1957
[No Awards Given This Year]

doublestarmini1956
Robert A. Heinlein
Double Star


1955
Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
They’d Rather Be Right


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Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 [awarded in 2004]

demolishedman1953
Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man


1951
Robert A. Heinlein
Farmer in the Sky [awarded in 2001]

1946
Isaac Asimov
The Mule [awarded in 1996]

bigtimemini1944
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