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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.

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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Translation State by Ann Leckie, book cover

Translation State

by Ann Leckie

Novel · 2023

Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition

"Translation State" is a 2023 science fiction novel by Ann Leckie, set in the Imperial Radch universe. It follows three characters whose lives intersect as they deal with the mystery of a missing Presger Translator, exploring themes of identity and belonging.

Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon, book cover

Venus Plus X

by Theodore Sturgeon

Novel · 1960

Hugo recognition

Venus Plus X is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. First published by Pyramid Books in New York, it follows Charlie Johns, who is brought to Ledom, an isolated technologically advanced society whose inhabitants possess both male and female reproductive capacities and are not assigned fixed sex roles.

Virtual Light by William Gibson, book cover

Virtual Light

by William Gibson

Novel · 1993

Hugo recognitionLocus recognition

California, the not so distant future. Berry, ex-cop/private security, looking to just make ends meet. Chevette, a young bicycle messanger. A murder, a secret missing, and a murderer closing in on Chevette. Berry is the only thing standing between him and Chevette.

Who? by Algis Budrys, book cover

Who?

by Algis Budrys

Novel · 1958

Hugo recognition

Who? is a 1958 science fiction novel by American writer Algis Budrys, set during the Cold War. It was originally a short story, inspired, as its author claimed, by a Kelly Freas painting he had seen in the offices of the magazine Fantastic Universe, and published in that magazine in April 1955.

Witch World by Andre Norton, book cover

Witch World

by Andre Norton

Novel · 1963 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover

Hugo recognition

Ex-colonel Simon Tregarth was a hunted man--and the hunt was beginning to come to its inevitable deadly end. Tregarth was desperate, and his situation required a desperate solution. His only alternative was wild beyond imagining--sorcery.

Wizard by John Varley, book cover

Wizard

by John Varley

Novel · 1980

Hugo recognitionLocus recognition

In the second novel of the Gaean trilogy, human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful ... and definitely insane. Reissue.

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, book cover

Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover

Hugo recognitionLocus recognition

On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults.

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