Hugo Awards Winners

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science-fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories.

Winners of the Hugo Award for best novel are presented here. Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year. In this usage, novels are considered to be 40,000 words or longer. Hugo Award categories have changed over the years; however, except for 1957 (when no awards for specific fiction pieces were given) and 1954 (when no Hugo Awards at all were given), the Best Novel has been a constant category since the Award's inception in 1953. Additional Hugo Awards for fiction are given for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette and novella categories.

2006: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
2005: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2004: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
2002: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2001: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
2000: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
1999: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
1998: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
1997: Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
1996: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
1995: Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
1994: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
1993: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernon Vinge & Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (tie)
1992: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
1991: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
1990: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
1989: Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
1988: The Uplift War by David Brin
1987: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
1986: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
1985: Neuromancer by William Gibson
1984: Startide Rising by David Brin
1983: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
1982: Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
1981: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
1980: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
1979: Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
1978: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
1977: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
1976: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
1975: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1974: Rendez-vous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
1973: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
1971: Ringworld by Larry Niven
1970: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1969: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
1968: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
1967: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
1966: ... And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny and Dune by Frank Herbert (tie)
1965: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
1964: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
1963: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
1962: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
1961: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
1960: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
1959: A Case of Conscience by James Blish
1958: The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
1957: -
1956: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
1955: They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
1954 (awarded in 2004): Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1953: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
1951 (awarded in 2001): Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
1946 (awarded in 1996): The Mule by Isaac Asimov