Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Winners of the Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel, along with all the nominees, are presented here. Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year. A novel is considered to be 40,000 words or longer. A Hugo for Best Novel was first awarded in 1953, following in subsequent years starting from 1955 although no awards for specific fiction pieces were given out in 1957.
Robert Heinlein has received the most total Hugos for Best Novel, with five wins (including one Retro Hugo) and eleven total nominations. Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on eight nominations; the only other authors to win more than twice are Vernor Vinge and Isaac Asimov (including one Retro Hugo), who won three times apiece. Larry Niven and Robert J. Sawyer have both been nominated eight times, but each has only won once. Ten other authors have won the award twice.
Vernor and Joan D. Vinge are the only married couple to have both won Hugo Awards for Best Novel (although they have since divorced).
Additional Hugo Awards for fiction are given for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette and novella categories.
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[edit] Winners and nominees
1 Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel
[edit] Retro Hugos
Retro Hugos were awarded 50 years after years in which World Conventions didn't give awards — note: no "Best Novel" Hugo was awarded at the 1957 convention, but Hugos were awarded in other categories, hence there was no "Retro Hugo" for 1957 awarded in 2007.
| Year (awarded) |
Winner | Other nominees |
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| 1954
(2004) |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
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| 1951
(2001) |
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein |
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| 1946
(1996) |
The Mule by Isaac Asimov (republished as Part II of Foundation and Empire) |
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[edit] See also
- Nebula Award for Best Novel
- Lambda Literary Award
- Locus Award
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for science fiction and fantasy.
[edit] References
- ^ "Hugos". AnticipationSF website. 2009-03-19. http://anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos.
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (2008-04-03). "Warner Bros picks up 'Hyperion Cantos'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a92967/warner-bros-picks-up-hyperion-cantos.html.
[edit] External links
- Hugo Award official site
- Original proposal of the award in Philcon II
- List of Hugo Award nominees in Locus magazine
- Most honored Hugo Award honorees
- Scans of the first edition covers of Hugo- and Nebula-winning novels
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