Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 1969 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 ↗

Nightwings
by Robert Silverberg
Novella · 1969
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
It was Avluela the Flier's scarlet and ebony wings that led the Watcher to the seven hills of the ancient city, leaving the skies and deep space unguarded. And so the invaders came and conquered and Avluela became lost in the turmoil.
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Stand on Zanzibar
by John Brunner
Novel · 1968
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
Originally published in 1968, Stand on Zanzibar was a breakthrough in science fiction storytelling technique, and a prophetic look at a dystopian 2010 that remains compelling today.
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Dragonrider
by Anne McCaffrey
Novella · 1967
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fantasy series written primarily by American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning in 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. The series comprises 24 novels and two collections of short stories.
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Hawk Among the Sparrows
by Dean McLaughlin
Novella · 1968
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
"Hawk Among the Sparrows" is a science fiction short story by Dean McLaughlin. It was first published in Analog Science Fiction in July 1968.
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Nova
by Samuel R. Delany
Novel · 1968
Hugo recognition
These are at least some of the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or…
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✳Past MasterR. A. Lafferty
Past Master
by R. A. Lafferty
Novel · 1968
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Past Master is a science fiction novel by American writer R. A. Lafferty, first published in 1968. The novel follows the attempt of a future Utopian society in preventing its decline, by bringing Sir Thomas More to the year 2535.
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Rite of Passage
by Alexei Panshin
Novel · 1968
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero.
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The Goblin Reservation
by Clifford D. Simak
Novel · 1968 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognition
Having just returned to Earth from an intergalactic research mission, Professor Peter Maxwell, specialist in Supernatural Phenomena, finds himself in most desperate straits.
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We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
by Samuel R. Delany
Novella · 1968
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 1968 science fiction novella by Samuel R. Delany. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
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