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Top 10 Hugo Award Winners The Science Fiction Achievement Awards, or Hugos, are selected annually by popular vote of the World Science Fiction Society. Established in 1953 and named for early science fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, the awards are given for contributions to science fiction writing, art, and publishing. |
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The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition's attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn't take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can't go into space, too. Elma's drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
2019 Winner
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The Fifth Season
by N. K Jemisin
A first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.
2016 Winner
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Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
2014 Winner
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Blackout
by Connie Willis
Stranded in the past during World War II, three researchers from the future investigate period behavior and seek each other out in a shared effort to return to their own time. By the multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of The Doomsday Book.
2011 Winner
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Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson
After witnessing the onset of an astronomical event that has caused the sun to go black and the stars and moon to disappear, Tyler, Jason, and Diane learn that the darkness has been caused by a time-altering, alien-created artificial barrier and that the sun will be extinguished in less than forty years. 20,000 first printing.
2006 Winner
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Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer
The first volume of a new trilogy, the Neanderthal Parallax, focuses on a parallel world in which neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, until a dangerous scientific experiment traps a neanderthal physicist on Earth. 35,000 first printing.
2003 Winner
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
Case, a burned-out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system, in a special twentieth anniversary edition of the influential Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel.
1985 Winner
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Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization.
1974 Winner
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Way Station
by Clifford D. Simak
The long talks Enoch Wallace, a Civil War veteran, enjoys with interstellar travelers may cease when war threatens the earth and his way station may be closed.
1965 Winner
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The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in seventy years: murder.
1953 Winner, first Hugo Winner
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