…Where Angels Fear to TreadAllen Steele
…Where Angels Fear to Tread
by Allen Steele
Novella · 1997
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
A 1997 science fiction novella by Allen Steele. Hugo and Locus Award winner; Nebula recognition.
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Hugo Award science fiction books
Explore science fiction novels and novellas recognized by the Hugo Awards. Compare winners and finalists, then open a book to see its exact award history.
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2010: Odyssey Two
by Arthur C. Clarke
Novel · 1982
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it.
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Novel · 2012
Nebula winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognition
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between.
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai
by Roger Zelazny
Novella · 1985
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai is a science fiction novella by American writer Roger Zelazny, originally published in the July 1985 issue of the Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1986 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1985.
A Billion Eves
by Robert Reed
Novella · 2006
Hugo winner
A 2006 science fiction novella by Robert Reed. Hugo Award winner.
A Boy and His Dog
by Harlan Ellison
Novella · 1969
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Novel · 1959
Hugo winner
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books".
A Case of Conscience
by James Blish
Novel · 1958
Hugo winner
The citizens of the planet Lithia are some of the most ethical sentient beings Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez has ever encountered.
A Choice of Gods
by Clifford D. Simak
Novel · 1971
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
One night in July, 2135, there were some eight billion people on Earth! The next morning there were perhaps 400. There was no clue to what had happened to the world's population—but, over the centuries that followed, still stranger things occurred.
A Civil Campaign
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Novel · 1999 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Miles Vorkosigan launches a campaign to win the heart of Ekatarina, whose former husband died as a result of Miles' investigations in the book Komarr , by the same author.
A Closed and Common Orbit
by Becky Chambers
Novel · 2016
Clarke recognitionHugo recognition
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace was forced to reboot and reset.
A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1999
Hugo winnerClarke recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set 30,000 years previous) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
A Fall of Moondust
by Arthur C. Clarke
Novel · 1961
Hugo recognition
An early Arthur C. Clarke novel that takes place on the Moon. The setting is a future in which the Moon has become a tourist destination, and one of the attractions is a huge dust bowl on which one can sightsee from a "dust cruiser".
A Fire in the Sun
by George Alec Effinger
Novel · 1989
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A Fire in the Sun is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer George Alec Effinger, published in 1989.
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1992
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in 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…
A Man of the People
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Novella
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hugo and Locus recognition.
A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark
Novel · 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after…
A Meeting with Medusa
by Arthur C. Clarke
Novella · 1971
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
A Meeting with Medusa is a science fiction novella by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1971 and has since been included in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Eight as well as several collections of Clarke's writings.
A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2019
Hugo winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
Poetry, politics, and a murder at the heart of an irresistible empire.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Novella · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A tea monk meets a robot. The big question is what people actually need.
A Roll of the DiceCatherine Asaro
A Roll of the Dice
by Catherine Asaro
Novella
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Catherine Asaro. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
A Snark in the Night
by Gregory Benford
Novella
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A science fiction novella by Gregory Benford. Hugo and Locus recognition.
A Song for Lya
by George R. R. Martin
Novella · 1974
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"A Song For Lya" is a science fiction novella by American writer George R.R. Martin. It was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1975.
A Special Kind of Morning
by Gardner Dozois
Novella
Hugo recognition
A science fiction novella by Gardner Dozois. Hugo recognition.
A Time of Changes
by Robert Silverberg
Novel · 1971
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique…
A Touch of Lavender
by Megan Lindholm
Novella
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Megan Lindholm. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
A Woman's Liberation
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Novella
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Abandon in Place
by Jerry Oltion
Novella
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
The morning after Neil Armstrong's funeral, a ghostly Saturn V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral.
Accelerando
by Charles Stross
Novel · 2005
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will.
Act One
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2010
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A 2010 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2012
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race.
Alien Clay
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novel · 2024
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close.
All Seated on the Ground
by Connie Willis
Novella · 2007
Hugo winnerLocus recognition
All Seated on the Ground is a science fiction novella by American writer Connie Willis, originally published in the December 2007 issue of American magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and as a standalone volume from Subterranean Press. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2017
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
It hacked its programming. It would really rather watch television.
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself.
All the Weyrs of Pern
by Anne McCaffrey
Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land.
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
Novel · 2008
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable — yet strangely inverted — world.Fraa Erasmas is a young…
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2013
Clarke winnerHugo winnerNebula winner
A starship’s intelligence. One remaining body. A very personal reckoning.
Ancillary Mercy
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2015
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship.
Ancillary Sword
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2014
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
And Then There Were (N-One)
by Sarah Pinsker
Novella · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"And Then There Were (N-One)" is a 2017 science fiction/murder mystery novella by Sarah Pinsker. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine. It was republished in the collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
And Wild for to Hold
by Nancy Kress
Novella
Hugo recognition
A science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo recognition.
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2019
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844).
ARM
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1975
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1975 science fiction novella by Larry Niven. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Artificial Condition
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2018
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
Assault on a CityJack Vance
Assault on a City
by Jack Vance
Novella
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A science fiction novella by Jack Vance. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Aurora in Four Voices
by Catherine Asaro
Novella · 1998
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
"Aurora in Four Voices" is a short science fiction novella written by Catherine Asaro and published in December 1998. It is part of the Skolian Empire series and was originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It was also available free online at Analog magazine's website.
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