Mindbridge
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1976
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
An explorer finds a mental bridge. Something waits beyond.
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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.
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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Mirror Dance
Novel · 1994
Hugo winnerLocus winner
Mark Vorkosigan hijacks a ship of the Dendarii Mercenaries and flies to the outlaw planet, Jackson's Whole, to destroy the clone creches where he was raised. The mission goes wrong and Miles, his host clonebrother, has to mount a rescue.
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Novel · 1987 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell who deciphers cyperspace plans, including those devised by Japanese underworld.
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Novel · 1983
Hugo recognition
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and the seventh book in the Dragonriders of Pern series.
Mother of Storms
by John Barnes
Novel · 1994
Clarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.
Moving Mars
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1993
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
The young may not remember Mars of old, under the yellow Sun, its cloud-streaked skies dusted pink, its soil rusty and fine, its inhabitants living in pressurized burrows and venturing Up only as rite of passage or to do maintenance or tend the ropy crops…
Murder by Memory
by Olivia Waite
Novella · 2025
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Bodies are replaceable. Someone makes murder permanent again.
Navigational Entanglements
Novella · 2024
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compelling tale of love, duty, and found-family in an exciting new space opera that brings xianxia-style martial arts to the stars.
Neptune's Brood
Novel · 2013
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.
Network Effect
by Martha Wells
Novel · 2020
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Murderbot has inconvenient feelings and a much bigger problem.
Neuromancer
Novel · 1984
Hugo winnerNebula winner
A hacker’s second chance leads into the machinery of a wired future.
New York 2140
Novel · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island.
Nightflyers
Novella · 1980
Locus winnerHugo recognition
The crew of the starship Nightflyer is heading into the outer reaches of known space in search of a legendary alien race known as the volcryn .
Nightwings
Novella · 1969
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
It was Avluela the Flier's scarlet and ebony wings that led the Watcher to the seven hills of the ancient city, leaving the skies and deep space unguarded. And so the invaders came and conquered and Avluela became lost in the turmoil.
Ninefox Gambit
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2016
Clarke recognitionHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics.
Nona the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Novel · 2022 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people.
Not This August
Novel · 1955
Hugo recognition
Not This August, also known as Christmas Eve, is a Hugo Award shortlisted science fiction novel by Cyril M. Kornbluth. It was originally published in 1955 by Doubleday. It was serialized in Maclean's magazine (Canada) in May and June 1955.
Nova
Novel · 1968
Hugo recognition
These are at least some of the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or…
Oceanic
by Greg Egan
Novella · 1998
Hugo winnerLocus winner
"Oceanic" is a science fiction novella by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 1998. It won the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Ogres
Novella · 2022
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Ogres is a 2022 novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It is the third entry in his Terrible Worlds: Revolutions series. It was a finalist for several science fiction and fantasy awards, including the Hugo Award and Locus Award.
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2005
Hugo recognition
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species.
On a Red Station, Drifting
Novella · 2012
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives. But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire.
On Wings of Song
Novel · 1979
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
On Wings of Song is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch. It was first published as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in three installments in February to April 1979.
One-WingGeorge R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
One-Wing
by George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
Novella · 1980
Hugo recognition
New flyers rise. Old privileges face a challenge.
Oracle
by Greg Egan
Novella · 2000
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A mathematician faces persecution. An impossible visitor offers freedom.
Palimpsest
Novella · 2009
Hugo winnerLocus recognition
Palimpsest is a 2009 science fiction novella by Charles Stross, exploring the conjunction of time travel and deep time. Originally published in Stross's 2009 collection Wireless, it won the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Subterranean Press announced they would reprint the novella separately in 2011.
Parasite
by Mira Grant
Novel · 2013
Hugo recognition
Parasite is a 2013 science fiction novel written by Seanan McGuire under the pseudonym Mira Grant. Published by Orbit Books, it is the first volume of the Parasitology trilogy. It was followed by Symbiont (2014) and Chimera (2015).
Passage
Novel · 2001
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognitionNebula recognition
One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before.
Past MasterR. A. Lafferty
Past Master
Novel · 1968
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
Past Master is a science fiction novel by American writer R. A. Lafferty, first published in 1968. The novel follows the attempt of a future Utopian society in preventing its decline, by bringing Sir Thomas More to the year 2535.
Perdido Street Station
Novel · 2000 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Clarke winnerNebula recognitionHugo recognition
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.
Perfect State
Novella · 2015
Hugo recognition
An emperor controls his world. One date proves less predictable.
Piper at the Gates of DawnRichard Cowper
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Novella · 1976 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
An old storyteller travels north. A young piper unsettles expectations.
Planet of the Damned
Novel · 1962
Hugo recognition
Planet of the Damned is a 1962 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison. It was serialised in 1961 under the title Sense of Obligation and published under that name in 1967. It was nominated for the Hugo Award.
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by John Varley
Novella · 1984
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
A neighbor dies alone. His computers refuse to stay quiet.
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
Novel · 2021
Hugo recognition
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that.
Project Pope
Novel · 1981
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
On the Rim planet fittingly called End of Nothing, a bizarre society.of robots and humans toiled for a thousand years to perfect a religion that would create a new and all-embracing faith—no novelty in a galaxy crowded with religions.
ProtectionMaureen F. McHugh
Protection
Novella · 1992
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A prisoner learns camp rules. Another inmate complicates her survival.
Protector
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1973
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
The Mission of Phssthpok Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years -- his mission, to save, develop and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before.
Provenance
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2017 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people: she must free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever…
Queen of Angels
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1990
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why?
R&R
Novella · 1986
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
A soldier seeks rest. The war follows him into his mind.
Radiant Green Star
Novella · 2000
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
A circus offers him refuge. His family history follows him.
Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 2006
Hugo winnerLocus winner
World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone.
Raven Stratagem
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Aliens invade the hexarchate. A rogue general commands the defense.
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Novel · 2018
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen.
Recovering Apollo 8
Novella · 2007
Hugo recognition
Apollo 8 disappears into space. One boy refuses to forget.
Red Mars
Novel · 1992
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.
Redshirts
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2012
Hugo winnerLocus winner
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.
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