…Where Angels Fear to TreadAllen Steele
…Where Angels Fear to Tread
by Allen Steele
Novella · 1997
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
They come to watch history. History notices them instead.
A LIBRARY WITH A LITTLE DIRECTION
Science fiction books that won multiple awards
Looking for science fiction celebrated by more than one award? These novels and novellas won in at least two distinct award families in our catalog.
Each work must have a winning record in at least two of Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Clarke. Multiple nominations do not count as wins, and several wins in one award family count as one distinct family. Awards are a useful starting point, not a guarantee that every book will suit your taste.
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A Desolation Called Peace
Novel · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2012
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race.
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2017
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
It hacked its programming. It would really rather watch television.
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2013
Clarke winnerHugo winnerNebula winner
A starship’s intelligence. One remaining body. A very personal reckoning.
Artificial Condition
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2018
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
Barnacle Bill the Spacer
Novella · 1992
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
An outsider needs protection. A space station edges toward revolt.
Barrayar
Novel · 1991
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
Barrayar is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. It was first published as four installments in Analog in July–October 1991, and then published in book form by Baen Books in October 1991.
Beggars in Spain
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1991
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep.Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha…
Binti
Novella · 2015
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
One student carries her whole world into an unfamiliar universe.
Blackout/All Clear
Novel · 2010
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Blackout and All Clear are the two volumes that constitute a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. Blackout was published February 2, 2010 by Spectra. The second part, the conclusion All Clear, was released as a separate book on October 19, 2010.
Blue Mars
Novel · 1996
Hugo winnerLocus winnerClarke recognition
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster.
Born with the Dead
Novella · 1974
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
His wife was among the rekindled dead now. He'd heard that she was on a plane to Zanzibar with five other rekindled dead.
Cyteen
Novel · 1988
Hugo winnerLocus winner
ARIANE EMORY IS DEAD. BUT NOT FOR LONG. WHERE IS ARIANE? For fifty years, Dr. Ariane Emory has dominated politics on Cyteen Station. Because Dr. Emory controls Reseune, a city-sized factory that creates the one item essential to the planet's wealth.
Doomsday Book
Novel · 1992
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winnerClarke recognition
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree.
Dreamsnake
Novel · 1978
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, Snake is a healer. One of an elite band dedicated to caring for sick humanity, she goes wherever her skills are needed.
Dune
Novel · 1965
Hugo winnerNebula winner
A desert planet. An empire in the balance. A future that refuses to stay written.
Ender's Game
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".
Enemy Mine
Novella · 1979
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by American writer Barry B. Longyear. It was originally published in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The novella's plot concerns two soldiers, one human and one reptilian-like alien, who find themselves stranded together on a hostile planet.
Forever Peace
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1997
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
Joe Haldeman returns with a story about the horrors of war -- and how we might move past them. Julian Class is a physicist working on the largest particle accelerator ever built, a nanobot-constructed ring in the orbit of Jupiter.
Foundation's Edge
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1982
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
After the defeat of the Mule by the Second Foundation, Terminus enjoys a period of prosperity and stability which is publicly attributed to the Seldon Plan, but which some feel is the work of the Second Foundation.
Gateway
Novel · 1977
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed.
Green Mars
Novel · 1993
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation…
Home Is the Hangman
Novella · 1975
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
A lost robot returns. Its former operators fear revenge.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
Novella · 1976
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.
Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1989
Hugo winnerLocus winner
Seven pilgrims. Seven stories. One destination beyond explanation.
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.
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.
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.
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PRESS ENTER[]
by John Varley
Novella · 1984
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
A neighbor dies alone. His computers refuse to stay quiet.
R&R
Novella · 1986
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
A soldier seeks rest. The war follows him into his mind.
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.
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.
Rendezvous with Rama
Novel · 1973
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Something enormous has entered the solar system. The door is open.
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1970
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun.
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
by Mike Resnick
Novella · 1994
Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" is a science fiction novella by American writer Mike Resnick, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1994. It won the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Souls
by Joanna Russ
Novella · 1982
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
"Souls" is a 1982 science fiction novella by Joanna Russ. It was first published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in January 1982, and subsequently republished in Terry Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12, in Russ's 1984 collection Extra(ordinary) People, as well as in the first volume of the Isaac…
Speaker for the Dead
Novel · 1986
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
Stardance
by Jeanne Robinson & Spider Robinson
Novella · 1977
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line. The novel's opening segment originally appeared in Analog in 1977 as the novella "Stardance", followed by the serialized conclusion, "Stardance II", in Analog in 1978.
Startide Rising
by David Brin
Novel · 1983
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983) This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth) crew of neo-dolphins and humans on the starship “The Streaker”. Their mission is to find information about the first Galactic race, which existed billions of yeas ago.
The Calculating Stars
Novel · 2018
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Earth needs an escape plan. A gifted pilot needs a seat at the table.
The City & the City
Novel · 2009 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Clarke winnerHugo winnerNebula recognition
Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.
The Cookie Monster
by Vernor Vinge
Novella · 2003
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
The Cookie Monster is a science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge. It was first published in the October 2003 issue of Analog.
The Death of Doctor Island
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1973
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
The Death of Doctor Island is a science fiction novella by American writer Gene Wolfe first published as The Death of Dr. Island in Universe 3 (Editor Terry Carr, Random House, 1973).
The Diamond Age
Novel · 1995
Hugo winnerLocus winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
The Dispossessed
Novel · 1974
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Two worlds, opposing ideals, and a physicist trying to build a bridge.
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1974
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
A soldier returns from battle to a world that has moved on without him.
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