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 ↗

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.
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Troika
by Alastair Reynolds
Novella · 2011
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 2011 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. Hugo and Locus recognition.
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True Names
by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
Novella · 2008
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
"True Names" is a 2008 science fiction story by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum. It was first published in the anthology Fast Forward 2.
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True Names
by Vernor Vinge
Novella · 1981
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - Analog
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✳TruthRobert Reed
Truth
by Robert Reed
Novella · 2008
Hugo recognition
A 2008 science fiction novella by Robert Reed. Hugo recognition.
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✳Unsound VariationsGeorge R. R. Martin
Unsound Variations
by George R. R. Martin
Novella · 1982
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"Unsound Variations" is a 1982 science fiction short story by George R. R. Martin, about chess. It was first published in Amazing Stories.
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Up the Line
by Robert Silverberg
Novel · 1969
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going.
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Up the Walls of the World
by James Tiptree Jr.
Novel · 1978
Hugo recognition
Human telepaths receive calls for help from an endangered world. However, the interstellar being threatening them, may be trying to help.
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Upright Women Wanted
by Sarah Gailey
Novella · 2020
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway.
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Valentina
by Joseph H. Delaney & Marc Stiegler
Novella · 1984
Hugo recognition
A 1984 science fiction novella by Joseph H. Delaney & Marc Stiegler. Hugo recognition.
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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.
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Virtual Light
by William Gibson
Novel · 1993
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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.
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Vishnu at the Cat Circus
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2009
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 2009 science fiction novella by Ian McDonald. Hugo and Locus recognition.
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✳Walk in SilenceCatherine Asaro
Walk in Silence
by Catherine Asaro
Novella · 2003
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 2003 science fiction novella by Catherine Asaro. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
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Wall, Stone, Craft
by Walter Jon Williams
Novella · 1993
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A 1993 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
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Way Station
by Clifford D. Simak
Novel · 1963
Hugo winner
Way Station is a 1963 science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak, originally published as Here Gather the Stars in two parts in Galaxy Magazine in June and August 1963. Way Station won the 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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✳We All Die NakedJames Blish
We All Die Naked
by James Blish
Novella · 1969
Hugo recognition
A 1969 science fiction novella by James Blish. Hugo recognition.
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We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
by Samuel R. Delany
Novella · 1968
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A 1968 science fiction novella by Samuel R. Delany. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
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Weyr Search
by Anne McCaffrey
Novella · 1967
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
A 1967 science fiction novella by Anne McCaffrey. Hugo Award winner; Nebula recognition.
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What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
Novella · 2022 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognition
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.
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When Gravity Fails
by George Alec Effinger
Novel · 1987
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In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audran has kept his independence and his identity the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he is available ...for a price.
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When Harlie Was One
by David Gerrold
Novel · 1972
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A stunning first novel that grapples with the definition of consciousness and what it is to be human.
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
Novel · 1976
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The…
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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.
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Winterfair Gifts
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Novella · 2002
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A 2002 science fiction novella by Lois McMaster Bujold. Hugo recognition.
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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.
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✳With Thimbles, With Forks and HopeKate Wilhelm
With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella · 1981
Hugo recognition
A 1981 science fiction novella by Kate Wilhelm. Hugo recognition.
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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.
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WWW: Wake
by Robert J. Sawyer
Novel · 2009
Hugo recognition
Wake, also called WWW: Wake, is a 2009 novel written by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer and the first book in his WWW Trilogy.
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Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card
Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
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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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Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2008
Hugo recognition
Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators.
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