Hugo-winning novels

[bookzombie]

Gacked from several LJ friends. Behind cut to remove excessive boredom from those not interested!


Usual rules apply: Those in bold I've read, those with an asterisk I've started but not finished.

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

(Safe to say I'm not much of a Heinlein fan!)

Comments

[rawdon.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's pretty rare that I meet someone with similar SF interests to mine who isn't a Heinlein fan! I'm not, either. Starship Troopers is the only thing I've read by him that I enjoyed. This is slightly odd since I quite like H. Beam Piper, who has a lot in common with Heinlein. The difference, I think, is that Piper is primarily a storyteller and world-builder, whereas Heinlein puts a lot more social commentary in his work, little of which I find interesting, accurate or useful.

I didn't care much for Ender's Game, finding it shallow. (To be fair, I only read it a couple of years ago, and the "punchline" had been spoiled for me years earlier.) Speaker For The Dead I characterized as "The best H. Beam Piper novel written since Piper died", which is a roundabout way of saying I didn't find it very original, but it was enjoyable in a retro sort of way.

Hominids - which I read serialized in Analog - didn't impress me, either.

I now own copies of every Hugo and Neblua award-winning novel, and hope to read them all at some point.