A Canticle for Leibowitz
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 LIBRARY WITH A LITTLE DIRECTION
1961 Hugo Award: science fiction winners and finalists
Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 1961 Hugo Award, winners first, with page counts, reader ratings and a link to each book.
Hugo recognition reflects voting by eligible Worldcon members. This library includes science fiction from the selected novel and novella categories, including labeled crossovers. It does not include every Hugo category or every fantasy finalist. Official award site ↗
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Deathworld
Novel · 1960
Hugo recognition
Deathworld is the name of a series of science fiction novels by American writer Harry Harrison, including the books Deathworld, Deathworld 2 and Deathworld 3, plus the short story "The Mothballed Spaceship". The central hero is a gambler who becomes involved with colonists of an extremely hostile planet.
Rogue Moon
by Algis Budrys
Novel · 1960
Hugo recognition
It was there on the dark side of the Moon, waiting for the first human explorers to discover it -- an alien formation, a trap for the unwary, a place into which many men would venture but from which none would return.
The High Crusade
Novel · 1960
Hugo recognition
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside…
Venus Plus X
Novel · 1960
Hugo recognition
Venus Plus X is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. First published by Pyramid Books in New York, it follows Charlie Johns, who is brought to Ledom, an isolated technologically advanced society whose inhabitants possess both male and female reproductive capacities and are not assigned fixed sex roles.
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