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Hugo Award Winners: Best Novel

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The Hugo Award, also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award,is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), as determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS. The first year the Hugo's were awarded was 1953, in general,a Hugo Award given in a particular year is for work that appeared in the previous calendar year. Note, however, that the winners for 1946, 1951, and 1954 were retrospective awards given much later, in 1996, 2001, and 2004 respectively.

2008   The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon

2007  Rainbows End,by Vernor Vinge

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 Vernor Vinge
1992
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
1991
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (available through Inter-Library Loan)
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
Rendezvous 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 - Tie
...
And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal)
by Roger Zelazny  
Dune  by Frank Herbert
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
No Award
1956
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
1955
They'd
Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine)
by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley

(Available through Inter-Library Loan.)
1954
(awarded in 2004)
Fahrenheit
451
by Ray Bradbury
1953
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
1952
No Award
1951
(awarded in 2001)
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
1946
(awarded in 1996)
The Mule (part of Foundation and Empire) by Isaac Asimov
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