Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 1986 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 ↗

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.
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Novel · 1985
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers".
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Blood Music
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1985
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements.
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Cuckoo's Egg
by C. J. Cherryh
Novel · 1985
Hugo recognition
Cuckoo's Egg is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, which introduces a fictional race raising a human boy. It was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year.
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Footfall
by Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Novel · 1985
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
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✳Green MarsKim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Novella · 1985
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"Green Mars" is a science fiction novella by the American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in September 1985, eight years before his novel of the same name.
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Sailing to Byzantium
by Robert Silverberg
Novella · 1985
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled...
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✳The Only Neat Thing to DoJames Tiptree Jr.
The Only Neat Thing to Do
by James Tiptree Jr.
Novella · 1985
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 1985 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr.. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
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The Postman
by David Brin
Novel · 1985
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.
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The Scapegoat
by C. J. Cherryh
Novella · 1985
Locus recognitionHugo recognition
"The Scapegoat" is a science fiction novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. It deals with a war in which the two opposing species can not communicate with one another and do not know how to stop the conflict.
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