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The Hugo Award (http://www.wsfs.org/hugos.html) is the premier award in the Science Fiction field. It is voted on by the fans who are members of the World Science Fiction Society. The following list is the winners of the Hugo in the novel category.

The Mule: Won in 1943. By Isaac Asimov. (awarded 1996.) There are no winners after this until 1951.
Farmer in the Sky: 1951 winner (awarded in 2001). No 1952 winner.
The Demolished Man: Alfred Bester, 1953.

In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that.
Fahrenheit 451: 1954 winner (awarded in 2004)
The Forever Machine: (a.k.a. They'd Rather Be Right). Mark Clifton & Frank Riley, 1955.

The government ordered it built: a thinking machine that could foresee catastrophe and eliminate human error. Reasearch trainee Joe Carter sees another possibility--create a machine that will make ordinary people telepathic--and immortal.
Double Star: Robert A. Heinlein, 1956.

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.
The Big Time: Fritz Leiber, 1958.

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.
A Case of Conscience: James Blish, 1959.

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief.
Starship Troopers: Robert A. Heinlein, 1960.

In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Walter M. Miller, 1961.

In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel unfolds, it is the search itself--for meaning, for truth, for love--that offers hope to a humanity teetering on the edge of an abyss.
Stranger in a Strange Land: Robert A. Heinlein, 1962.

It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.
The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick, 1963.

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war ? and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
Way Station: aka (Here Gather The Stars). Clifford D. Simak, 1964.

Neighbors saw Enoch Wallace as an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. They must never know that inside his unchanging house, he met and conversed with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.
The Wanderer: Fritz Leiber, 1965.

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artificial world--emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc on Earth's tides and weather. Though the Wanderer is stopping in the solar system only to refuel, its mere presence is catastrophic.
Dune: Frank Herbert, 1966. (tie)

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, a world more awesome than any other in literature, Dune begins the story of the man known as Maud'dib -- and of a great family's plan to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
This Immortal: (aka "...And Call Me Conrad"). Roger Zelazny, 1966. (tie)

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes-especially when it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that has some bearing on the future of Earth itself!
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: Robert A. Heinlein, 1967.

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.
Lord of Light: Roger Zelazny, 1968.

Earth is long since dead.On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon.Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman, Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.
Stand on Zanzibar: John Brunner, 1969.

It is an age of intelligent computers and mass-market psychedelic drugs, where politics is conducted by assassination and scientists burn incense to appease volcanoes. This is Earth, it is the 21st century, and all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded planet is on riotous display.
The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970.

The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.
Ringworld: Larry Niven, 1971.

A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Philip Jos? Farmer, 1972.

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected ? healthy, young, and naked as newborns ? on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history ? and prehistory ? must start again.
The Gods Themselves: Isaac Asimov, 1973.

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
Rendezvous with Rama: Arthur C. Clarke, 1974.

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits -- just behind a Raman airlock door.
The Dispossessed: Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
The Forever War: Joe Haldeman, 1976.

Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military's ranks . . . if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries -- and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home. . .
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang: Kate Wilhelm, 1977.

The story of an isolated post-holocaust community of clones who are determined to preserve civilization.
Gateway: Frederik Pohl, 1978.

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
Dreamsnake: Vonda N. McIntyre, 1979.

They summon the healer Snake and she travels the blasted landscape to save a sick child. With her she carries two serpents from whose venom she distills her medicine -- and a third, even more precious, the alien dreamsnake, whose bite can ease the fear and pain of death. But when her dreamsnake is killed by the primitive ignorance of those she has come to help, her powers as a healer are all but lost, and she has to find a new snake.
The Fountains of Paradise: Arthur C. Clarke, 1980.

Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time;a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgan's Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda. And for two thousand years, the monks have protected Sri Kanda from all mortal quests for glory. Kings and princes who have sought to conquer the Sacred Mountain have all died.Now Vannemar Morgan may be next.
The Snow Queen: Joan D Vinge, 1981.

The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.
Downbelow Station: C. J. Cherryh, 1982.

The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were dependant on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe.
Foundation's Edge: Isaac Asimov, 1983.

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.
Startide Rising: David Brin, 1984.

The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.
Neuromancer: William Gibson, 1985.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price.
Ender's Game (Ender Wiggin Saga): Orson Scott Card, 1986.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.
Speaker For The Dead (Ender): Orson Scott Card, 1987.

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Uplift War, The: David Brin, 1988.

As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies.
Cyteen: C J Cherryh, 1989.

A brilliant young scientist rises to power on Cyteen, haunted by the knowledge that her predecessorand genetic duplicatedied at the hands of one of her trusted advisors. Murder, politics, and genetic manipulation provide the framework for the latest Union-Alliance novel.
Hyperion: Dan Simmons, 1990.

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
The Vor Game: Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under house arrest, goes on a secret mission, reconnects with his loyal Dendarii Mercenaries, rescues his Emperor, and thwarts an interstellar war. Situation normal, if you're Miles.
Barrayar: Lois McMaster Bujold, 1992.

Cordelia Naismith was ready to settle down to a quiet life on her adopted planet of Barrayar. But bloody civil war was looming, and Cordelia little dreamed of the part she and her unborn son would play in it.
Fire Upon The Deep: Vernor Vinge, 1993. (tie)

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.
Doomsday Book: Connie Willis, 1993. (tie)

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy): Kim Stanle Robinson, 1994.

Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earth-like planet has just begun. The colonists will attempt to turn the red planet into a lush garden for humanity. They will bombard the atmosphere with ice meteorites to add moisture. They will seed the red deserts with genetically engineered plants. Then they will tap the boiling planetary core to warm the planet's frozen surface.
Mirror Dance: Lois McMaster Bujold. 1995.

The exciting follow-up to Brothers in Arms. Miles Vorkosigan is in trouble. His brother, a cloned stranger formed from tissue stolen from Miles when he was a child, wants to murder and replace him. Unfortunately, Mark has learned that without Miles, he is... nothing.
The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book): Neal Stephenson, 1996.

Set in 21st century Shanghai, this is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. The device has the power to decode and program her life--and the entire future of humanity.
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy): Kim Stanle Robinson, 1997.

The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers." The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance.
Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow): Joe Haldeman, 1998

In the year 2043, the Alliance, led by the Americans, is at war with a third-world coalition known as Ngumi. As the war rages on Earth's surface, The Jupiter Project ? a massive space experiment in orbit around Jupiter ? threatens to obliterate the universe in an effect similar to the Big Bang.
To Say Nothing of the Dog: Connie Willis, 1999.

Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier.
A Deepness in the Sky: Vernor Vinge, 2000.

Set in the same region of space, but 30,000 years earlier than Vinge's Hugo Award-winning A Fire Upon the Deep, this novel explores culture clash on a galactic scale. Two separate human fleets approach a remote planet with very different purposes ? one looking to trade, the other to enslave.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4): J. K. Rowling, 2001.

Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.
American Gods: Neil Gaiman, 2002.

Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. But the day before his release, his wife and best friend are killed in an accident. On the plane home to the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesday ? a beguiling stranger who seems to know everything about him. A trickster and rogue, Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday's schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought ? and the prize is the very soul of America.
Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax): Robert J. Sawyer, 2003.

Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe. Almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist, he is quarantined and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended?by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence, and especially by Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan, a woman with whom he develops a special rapport.
Paladin of Souls: Lois McMaster Bujold, 2004.

Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets ? for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road ? escape ? beckons....A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell : A Novel: Susanna Clark, 2005.

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DanFr: Note: This page is a great idea, to collect them all. I modified the format a little so that "The Demolished Man" would actually appear on the list in the (boring) WikiLens technical sense. This means, for example, that when you visit "The Demolished Man" page, it will show "Lists this is on" in the lower left being "Hugo Award". Moreover, you can add other books to the "Hugo Award" list by visiting their book page, typing "Hugo Award" in the "Add to this list" (and the optional comment in lower left), and clicking "add item". (added at 08:20:10 AM on 06/25/05)

TheTibetanTravellere: The internet access I was using to do this list has changed their firewall policy which blocks Amazon and this site. The alternate I am using today is too slow to do any serious editing of the list. So, until I find an alternate, reliable internet access, I will have to put this list on hold. (added at 02:47:31 AM on 07/01/05)

TheTibetanTravellere: I finally got my internet access issue resolved (at least for now). Hopefully, I should be able to finish this list sometime this year. It is a good thing I didn't realize what I was getting into when I started this list. Otherwise, I wouldn't have started it. (added at 02:35:50 AM on 07/26/05)

DanFr: Since you are so dedicated, I added the books and the links, to speed the process. (added at 01:46:49 PM on 07/26/05)

TheTibetanTravellere: See if I kvetch, again! I do it once; and, DanFr immediately shames me into finishing the list the next day. There are two books on this list I am not sure what to do with. Those are the two that were awareded 50 years after the book was published. (added at 11:54:01 AM on 07/28/05)