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1973 Hugo Award: science fiction winners and finalists

Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 1973 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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The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin, book cover

The Word for World is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Novella · 1972

Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society.

A Choice of Gods by Clifford D. Simak, book cover

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.

The Mercenary by Jerry Pournelle, book cover

The Mercenary

by Jerry Pournelle

Novella · 1972

Hugo recognition

Why Has John Christian Falkenberg Thrown Millions of People on Dozens of Planets into Turmoil? Because he's given up the brilliant military career he's known since age fifteen to fight on his own.

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