Hugo Award for Best Novel

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The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories.

Winners of the Hugo Award for best novel are presented here. Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year. In this usage, novels are considered to be 40,000 words or longer. Hugo Award categories have changed over the years; however, except for 1957 (when no awards for specific fiction pieces were given) and 1954 (when no Hugo Awards at all were given), the Best Novel has been a constant category since the Award's inception in 1953.

Additional Hugo Awards for fiction are given for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette and novella categories.

Contents

Year Winner Other nominees
2007
2006 Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
2004 Paladin of Souls
by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer
2002 American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
2000 A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
1998 Forever Peace
by Joe Haldeman
1997 Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1996 The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson
1995 Mirror Dance
by Lois McMaster Bujold
1994 Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1993 (tie)

A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis

1992 Barrayar
by Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 The Vor Game
by Lois McMaster Bujold
1990 Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
1989 Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
1988 The Uplift War by David Brin
1987 Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
1986 Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
1985 Neuromancer
by William Gibson
1984 Startide Rising
by David Brin
1983 Foundation's Edge
by Isaac Asimov
1982 Downbelow Station
by C. J. Cherryh
1981 The Snow Queen
by Joan D. Vinge
1980 The Fountains of Paradise
by Arthur C. Clarke
1979 Dreamsnake
by Vonda McIntyre
1978 Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
1976 The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
1975 The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
1973 The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip José Farmer
1971 Ringworld
by Larry Niven
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 Stand on Zanzibar
by John Brunner
1968 Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
1966 (tie)

Dune
by Frank Herbert
...And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal)
by Roger Zelazny

1965 The Wanderer
by Fritz Leiber
1964 Here Gather the Stars (aka: Way Station)
by Clifford D. Simak
1963 The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
1960 Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
1959 A Case of Conscience
by James Blish
1958 The Big Time
by Fritz Leiber
1956 Double Star
by Robert A. Heinlein
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine)
by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
1953 The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester

These were awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which World Conventions didn't give awards—note: no "Best Novel" Hugo was awarded at the 1957 convention, but Hugos were awarded in other categories, hence there can be no "Retro Hugo" for 1957 awarded in 2007.

Year
(awarded)
Winner Other nominees
1954

(2004)

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
1951

(2001)

Farmer in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
1946

(1996)

The Mule
by Isaac Asimov
(republished as Part II of Foundation and Empire)

Hugo Award
Fiction

Novel - Novella - Novelette - Short Story

Dramatic Presentation

Long Form - Short Form (united until 2002)

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction Book / Related Book

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