The Tear
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2008
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
One mind becomes many. Alien contact changes the horizon.
A LIBRARY WITH A LITTLE DIRECTION
Hugo Award science fiction books
Explore science fiction novels and novellas recognized by the Hugo Awards. Compare winners and finalists, then open a book to see its exact award history.
Voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), the Hugo is the genre’s best-known fan award. We include its Best Novel and Best Novella winners and finalists. Official award site ↗
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The Terminal Experiment
Novel · 1995
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
Dr. Peter Hobson invents a machine that detects a brain pattern that leaves the body after death, a pattern many believe is a soul.
The Thing in the StoneClifford D. Simak
The Thing in the Stone
Novella · 1970
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A recluse sees ancient times. Something waits within the stone.
The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
Novel · 2008
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A scientific mystery opens a door humanity may wish had stayed shut.
The Time Ships
Novel · 1995
Clarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognition
The Time Ships is a 1995 hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. A canonical sequel to the 1895 novella The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, it was officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original's publication. The Time Ships won critical acclaim.
The Tusks of Extinction
by Ray Nayler
Novella · 2024
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
The mammoths return to life. Their human enemies remain.
The Ultimate Earth
Novella · 2000
Hugo winnerNebula winner
Three children inherit old Earth. A visitor reveals its future.
The Uplift War
by David Brin
Novel · 1987
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.
The Urth of the New Sun
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 1987 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his four-volume Book of the New Sun series. Like Book of the New Sun, it is of the Dying Earth subgenre.
The Vor Game
Novel · 1990
Hugo winnerLocus recognition
The Vor Game is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in September 1990. It won the 1991 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
The Walls of the Universe
by Paul Melko
Novella · 2006
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
His double offers unlimited worlds. Home is not part of the bargain.
The Wanderer
by Fritz Leiber
Novel · 1964
Hugo winner
All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artificial world--emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc on Earth's tides and weather.
The WatchedChristopher Priest
The Watched
Novella · 1978
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
An observer watches secret rituals. His distance begins to disappear.
The White Dragon
Novel · 1978
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, "dragons" help humans to fight a deadly Thread that falls from a neighbouring planet as it cycles past once every couple of hundred years.
The White Otters of ChildhoodMichael Bishop
The White Otters of Childhood
Novella · 1973
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A scholar serves a damaged world. Private loyalties complicate public power.
The Whole Man
by John Brunner
Novel · 1964
Hugo recognition
Gerald Howson had twisted legs and spine. His face was so ugly even his mother didn't want to look at him.
The Windup Girl
Novel · 2009
Hugo winnerNebula winner
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution?
The Witches of Karres
Novel · 1966
Hugo recognition
HIS LUCK HAD FINALLY TURNED... ... and for the worse. Unlucky at love, unsuccessful in business, unable to win friends and influence people, Pausert thought he had finally found his niche: captaining the stout old tramp starship VENTURE and her odd-lot cargoes around the fringes…
The Women of Nell Gwynne's
by Kage Baker
Novella · 2009
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
A discreet London brothel. A secret service of its own.
The Wonderful SecretKeith Laumer
The Wonderful Secret
by Keith Laumer
Novella · 1977
Hugo recognition
A criminal escapes death. His rescuer has extraordinary plans.
The Word for World is Forest
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.
The World Inside
Novel · 1971
Hugo recognition
In 2381, the highly regulated life at the giant building known as Urbmon 116 may seem ideal, but some residents are experiencing dangerous dissatisfaction.
The World OutsideRobert Silverberg
The World Outside
Novella · 1970
Hugo recognition
A tower contains his world. The ocean calls him outside.
The Year of the Quiet Sun
Novel · 1970
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Unavoidably, David Cheney becomes part of the future, in which a nuclear war has weakened both East and West, and in which America is torn by a race war. Yet among this desolate world, he discovers reasons for living.
The Years of Rice and Salt
Novel · 2002
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Marstrilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Novel · 2006
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon.
There Will Be Time
Novel · 1972
Hugo recognition
There Will Be Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson. It was published in 1972 in a hardback edition by Doubleday and in 1973 in a paperback edition by New American Library.
They'd Rather Be Right
by Frank Riley & Mark Clifton
Novel · 1954
Hugo winner
One of 3 novels by early Hugo winner Mark Clifton, exploring ideas re closed vs. open mind, individual vs. group thinking
This Immortal
Novel · 1965
Hugo winner
This Immortal, serialized as ...And Call Me Conrad, is a science fiction novel by American author Roger Zelazny. For its original publication, it was abridged by the editor and published in two parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October and November 1965.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Novella · 2019
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Two rival agents exchange letters across the battlefield of time.
Thorns
Novel · 1967
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Duncan Chalk's six-hundred-pound frame is nearly as large as his media empire. Beneath the depths of his immense rolls of flab, the fabulously wealthy mogul wields the editorial power to deliver his programming across the solar system to billions of viewers.
Three to Conquer
Novel · 1956
Hugo recognition
Three to Conquer is a novel by Eric Frank Russell published in 1956.
Time Ablaze
Novella · 2004
Hugo recognition
A girl discovers tomorrow's disaster. A visitor knows too much.
Time Enough for Love
Novel · 1973
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, although it did not win.
Time Is the Simplest Thing
Novel · 1961
Hugo recognition
Time Is the Simplest Thing is a science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak, first published in 1961. The story combines paranormal abilities with themes of space and time travel. The underlying theme is intolerance of ordinary people towards those with unusual abilities.
Time Storm
Novel · 1977
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A time storm has devastated the Earth, and only a small fraction of humankind remains. From the rubble, three survivors form an unlikely alliance: a young man, a young woman, and a leopard.
Time Travelers Never Die
Novella · 1995
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel's missing physicist-father, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.
Time-Out
Novella · 1989
Hugo recognition
Scientists investigate time. Romance complicates the experimental procedure.
Tiny TangoJudith Moffett
Tiny Tango
Novella · 1989
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A botanist guards her boundaries. Earth faces unexpected visitors.
Titan
by John Varley
Novel · 1979
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Titan is a science fiction novel by American writer John Varley, the first book in his Gaea Trilogy, published in 1979. It won the 1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1979, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Novella · 2019
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Four explorers change themselves to meet the worlds they discover.
To JorslemRobert Silverberg
To Jorslem
Novella · 1969
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
An aging traveler seeks renewal. A holy city offers uncertain hope.
To Leave a MarkKim Stanley Robinson
To Leave a Mark
Novella · 1982
Hugo recognition
Mutineers seek a distant star. A specialist weighs her loyalties.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Novel · 1997
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog).
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Novel · 1971
Hugo winnerLocus recognition
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world.
Too Like the Lightning
by Ada Palmer
Novel · 2016
Hugo recognition
The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s.
Tower of Glass
Novel · 1970
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space.
Trail of Lightning
Novel · 2018 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.
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