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Hugo Award RunthroughReviews by Year: Special Projects: IntroductionI read a lot. And I've been reading for a long time. My parents left books around the house so I'd pick them up and teach myself how to read. My mother was called into school when I was four because I could read before I started there and the teachers somehow felt miffed; after all, it was their job to teach me how. My first encounter with science fiction arrived when I was ten, with The Day of the Triffids BBC mini-series, and my mother subsequently assuaged my eagerness for more with Lije Baley, Way Station and the entire run of Heinlein juveniles. I was hooked there and then. But there's a heck of a lot out there that I haven't read. My tastes are such that I've become an expert in niches, whether in books, music or films, but I'm often blind to the mainstream. Sure, I've been reading science fiction since I was ten and I now have a teenage granddaughter, but I haven't even read all the novels that won Hugos and that's a state of affairs I really should do something about. So I am. I'm reviewing one novel per month at The Nameless Zine, in chronological order. |
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| 1950s | 1960s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
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| 1950 | 1960 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| 1951 | 1961 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | |||
| 1952 | 1962 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| 1953 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | 1963 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | |
| 1954 | no award | 1964 | Here Gather the Stars (a.k.a. Way Station) |
Clifford D. Simak | ||
| 1955 | They'd Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever Machine) |
Mark Clifton Frank Riley |
1965 | The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber | |
| 1956 | Double Star | Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 | Dune | Frank Herbert | |
| ...And Call Me Conrad (a.k.a. This Immortal) |
Roger Zelazny | |||||
| 1957 | no award | 1967 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1958 | The Big Time | Fritz Leiber | 1968 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | |
| 1959 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | 1969 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | |
| 1970s | 1980s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
| 1970 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1980 | The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 1971 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | 1981 | The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge | |
| 1972 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Philip José Farmer | 1982 | Downbelow Station | C. J. Cherryh | |
| 1973 | The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | 1983 | Foundation's Edge | Isaac Asimov | |
| 1974 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1984 | Startide Rising | David Brin | |
| 1975 | The DispossessedThe Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1985 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | |
| 1976 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 1986 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1977 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | 1987 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1978 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1988 | The Uplift War | David Brin | |
| 1979 | Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1989 | Cyteen | C. J. Cherryh | |
| 1990s | 2000s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
| 1990 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 2000 | A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | |
| 1991 | The Vor Game | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2001 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | |
| 1992 | Barrayar | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2002 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1993 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | 2003 | Hominids | Robert J. Saywer | |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | |||||
| 1994 | Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2004 | Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold | |
| 1995 | Mirror Dance | Lois McMaster Bujold | 2005 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | |
| 1996 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | 2006 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | |
| 1997 | Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2007 | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | |
| 1998 | Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman | 2008 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | |
| 1999 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2010s | 2020s | |||||
| Year | Title | Author | Year | Title | Author | |
| 2010 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2020 | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | |
| The City & The City | China Miéville | |||||
| 2011 | Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis | 2021 | Network Effect | Martha Wells/td> | |
| 2012 | Among Others | Jo Walton | 2022 | A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine | |
| 2013 | Redshirts | John Scalzi | 2023 | Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher | |
| 2014 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | 2024 | Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh | |
| 2015 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu Ken Liu (translator) |
2025 | The Tainted Cup | Robert Jackson Bennett | |
| 2016 | The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin | 2026 | |||
| 2017 | The Obelisk Gate | N. K. Jemisin | 2027 | |||
| 2018 | The Stone Sky | N. K. Jemisin | 2028 | |||
| 2019 | The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | 2029 | |||
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Last update: 19th January, 2026
