Hugo Award for Best Novel: Nominees



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Have Space Suit-Will Travel

Have Space Suit—Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958 as...

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

A Case of Conscience

A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by James Blish, first published in 1958. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion; they are completely without any concept of God, an afterlife, or the idea of...

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: James Blish

Who?

Who? (1958) by Algis Budrys is an American science fiction novels set during the Cold War. In the historical development leading up to the book's plot - a future history at the time of writing, which can now be considered a kind of retroactive...

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Algis Budrys

Immortality, Inc.

Immortality, Inc. is a 1958 science fiction novella by Robert Sheckley, about a fictional process whereby a human's consciousness may be transferred into a brain-dead body. The serialised form (published under the title Time Killer in Galaxy Science...

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x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Sheckley

The Enemy Stars

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1959

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Poul Anderson

Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published (in abridged form) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November 1959, as "Starship Soldier") and published hardcover in 1959....

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x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan is a Hugo Award-nominated novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. The protagonist is Malachi Constant,...

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x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kurt Vonnegut

Dorsai!

Dorsai! is the first published book of the incomplete Childe Cycle series of science fiction novels by Gordon R. Dickson. While it is the first book published in the series, later books are set both before and after the events in Dorsai!. The novel...

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x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Gordon R. Dickson

The Pirates of Zan

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Murray Leinster

That Sweet Little Old Lady

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Randall Garrett

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller, Jr., first published in 1960. Based on three short stories Miller contributed to the science fiction magazine The Magazine of Fantasy and...

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The High Crusade

The High Crusade is a novel by American writer Poul Anderson. First published in 1960 by Doubleday, it is a work of science fiction. It is still in print with a paperback edition issued by IBook in 2003 with ISBN 0-7434-7528-3. The High Crusade...

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Poul Anderson

Rogue Moon

Rogue Moon is a short science fiction novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The Science...

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Algis Budrys

Venus Plus X

Venus Plus X is a science fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon, published in 1960. It tells of Charlie Johns, a man who wakes up in the odd technologically advanced society of Ledom. Venus Plus X main theme is social commentary on the sexes...

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x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Theodore Sturgeon

Deathworld

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1961

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Harry Harrison

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians on the planet Mars, upon his return to Earth in early...

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

Dark Universe

Dark Universe is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Daniel F. Galouye, first published in 1961. It is currently in publication by Victor Gollancz Ltd as a collector's edition. The book was nominated for a Hugo award in 1962. The Survivors...

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Daniel F. Galouye

Second Ending

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: James White

A Sense of Obligation

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Harry Harrison

Time is the Simplest Thing

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x Year:: 1962

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Clifford D. Simak

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is a science fiction novel of the alternative history sub-genre. The novel won a Hugo Award in 1963 and has since been translated into many languages. The story of The Man in the High Castle,...

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Philip K. Dick

A Fall of Moondust

A Fall of Moondust is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was the first science fiction novel selected to become a Reader's Digest Condensed Book. By the 21st...

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Arthur C. Clarke

Little Fuzzy

Little Fuzzy is the name of a 1962 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. It is generally seen as a work of juvenile fiction. It was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The story revolves around determining whether a small furry...

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: H. Beam Piper

The Sword of Aldones

The Sword of Aldones is a science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley in her Darkover book series. It was first published by Ace Books in 1962, dos-à-dos with Bradley's novel The Planet Savers. Bradley revised and rewrote the novel publishing it...

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x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sylva

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1963

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Jean Bruller

Glory Road

Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July - September 1963) and published in hardcover later the same year. Heinlein himself reported that the book only took several...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way. After turning down his original thesis, the University of...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kurt Vonnegut

Way Station

Way Station is a 1963 science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak, originally published as Here Gather the Stars in two parts in Galaxy Magazine in June and August 1963. Way Station won the 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Enoch Wallace, an American...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Clifford D. Simak

Witch World

Witch World is a 1963 fantasy novel written by Andre Norton. It is the first book in the Witch World series. During World War II, Simon Tregarth had risen from a common soldier to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In post-war Europe, he had become...

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x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Andre Norton

The Wanderer

The Wanderer (ISBN 1-58586-049-2) is the title of a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber about a wandering planet that enters the solar system. It won the 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book is obviously a variation on the classic short story ...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Fritz Leiber

Dune

Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It won the Hugo Award in 1966, and also the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune was also the first bestselling hardcover science fiction novel, and it is frequently...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Frank Herbert

x Year:: 1964

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Frank Herbert

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Frank Herbert

The Whole Man

The Whole Man is a 1964 science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965. This novel is often considered a turning point in Brunner's career, a step up from the brief and action-centered work he'd been...

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x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

Davy

Davy is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Edgar Pangborn. It is set in the Northeastern United States some centuries after an atomic war ended high-technology civilization, with some scenes on an unnamed Atlantic island. The novel is a...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Edgar Pangborn

The Planet Buyer

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1965

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Cordwainer Smith

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth. The novel expresses and discusses libertarian ideals in a speculative context. Originally...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert A. Heinlein

Babel-17

Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (that language strongly influences thought and perceived reality) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in...

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for...

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Keyes

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Keyes

x Year:: 1960

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Short Story

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Keyes

...And Call Me Conrad

...And Call Me Conrad was Roger Zelazny's first novel. In its original publication, it was abridged by the editor and serialized in two parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October and November of 1965. It tied with Frank Herbert...

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Roger Zelazny

Skylark DuQuesne

Skylark DuQuesne was the final novel in the epic Skylark series by E. E. Smith. Written as Dr. Smith's last novel in 1965 and published shortly before his death, it expands on the characterizations of the earlier novels (written 1919 - about 1938)...

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: E. E. Smith

The Squares of the City

The Squares of the City is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1965 (ISBN 0-345-27739-2). It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is a sociological story of urban class warfare and political...

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x Year:: 1966

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

Lord of Light

Lord of Light (1967) is an epic science fiction/fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny. It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category. Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Roger Zelazny

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Roger Zelazny

Too Many Magicians

Too Many Magicians is a novel by Randall Garrett, an American science fiction author. One of several stories starring Lord Darcy, it was first serialized in Analog Science Fiction in 1966 and published in book form the same year by Doubleday. It was...

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x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Randall Garrett

The Witches of Karres

The Witches of Karres is a novel by James H. Schmitz. It is his best known book and is considered a science fiction classic. It is considered within the genre of space opera and features well-developed characters, a mix of both fantasy and hard...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: James H. Schmitz

Chthon

Chthon is a science fiction novel by Piers Anthony, originally released in 1967. It was Anthony's first published novel, and was nominated for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. The novel depicts...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Piers Anthony

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Piers Anthony

The Einstein Intersection

The Einstein Intersection is a 1967 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. It is sometimes titled A Fabulous, Formless Darkness, the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

Thorns

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Day of the Minotaur

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1967

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Thomas Burnett Swann

Stand on Zanzibar

Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopic New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1968. The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969. A lengthy book, it was innovative...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: John Brunner

Rite of Passage

Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968, this novel about a Shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969. Rite of Passage is...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Alexei Panshin

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Alexei Panshin

Past Master

Past Master is a novel by science fiction writer R. A. Lafferty. It was first published in 1968, and was nominated for the 1968 Nebula award (Rite of Passage won) and the 1969 Hugo award (Stand on Zanzibar won). It is generally categorized as part...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: R. A. Lafferty

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: R. A. Lafferty

The Butterfly Kid

The Butterfly Kid is a science fiction novel by Chester Anderson originally released in 1967. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. The novel is the first part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Michael Kurland writing the...

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x Year:: 1968

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Chester Anderson

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1969. The book is one of the first major works of feminist science fiction and is one in a series of books by Le Guin all set in the fictional Hainish...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Ursula K. Le Guin

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim. Chaplain's Assistant...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kurt Vonnegut

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Kurt Vonnegut

Nova

Nova (1968) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. Nominally space opera, it explores the politics and culture of a future where cyborg technology is universal, yet major decisions can involve using tarot cards. It has strong mythological...

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x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Samuel R. Delany

Up the Line

Up the Line (1969) is a time travel novel by American science fiction author Robert Silverberg. The plot revolves mainly around the paradoxes brought about by time travel, though it is also notable for its liberal dosage of sex and humor. It was...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Robert Silverberg

Bug Jack Barron

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Norman Spinrad

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Norman Spinrad

The Goblin Reservation

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1969

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Clifford D. Simak

Ringworld

Ringworld is a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. It is followed by three sequels, and ties into numerous other...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Nebula Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Larry Niven

x Year:: 1971

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Larry Niven

Macroscope

Macroscope is a novel by science fiction and fantasy writer Piers Anthony. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1970. Macroscope was first published in 1969 and in some respects reflects the idealistic values of that time. The plot...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1970

x Award:: Hugo Award for Best Novel

x Award Nominee:: Piers Anthony

Tower of Glass

Tower of Glass is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, published in 1970. It was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1970, and for both the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971. The plot involves a 24th century entrepreneur-tycoon-scientist, Simeon...

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