Hugo Awards

I love the Hugo Awards!

I didn’t always love them. Some truly great books have been awarded this prize but, looking at certain years, I get the feeling that certain authors get the award simply because voters felt like “it’s about time X won something” or because they are the most popular author, not necessarily because they wrote the best book of the year. But awards are awards and they will never satisfy everyone.

My first voting experience (2014)  has made a big difference. I may only be one voter among many, but having your voice heard really means something. It matters and it makes me care even more about this most prestigious award for SFF fiction. I may not like all the Hugo winners I’ve read, but I’ll certainly do my best to nominate and vote for the books I love during the upcoming awards. And to catch up on all those winners I haven’t discovered yet.

Year	Winner
2023
2022	A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
2021	Network Effect, Martha Wells
2020	A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
2019	The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal
2018	The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin
2017	The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemisin
2016	The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin
2015	The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
2014	Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
2013	Redshirts, John Scalzi
2012	Among Others, Jo Walton
2011	Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis
2010	The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
(tie)	The City & the City, China Miéville
2009	The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
2008	The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
2007	Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
2006	Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
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	A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
(tie)	Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
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
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	“…And Call Me Conrad” (This Immortal), Roger Zelazny
(tie)	Dune, Frank Herbert
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