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1986 Hugo Award: science fiction winners and finalists

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 ↗

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24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny, book cover

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.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, book cover

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".

Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

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.

The Scapegoat by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

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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