The Hugo Awards in the 1960s
The Hugo Awards, named for Hugo Gernsback, pioneering editor of Amazing Stories, are presented at the World Science Fiction Society's Worldcon each year for works published the previous year.
The awards were first presented at the 1953 Worldcon in Philadelphia. Previously there had been voting by WSFS members in several categories since the first Worldcon in 1939, but no awards were given. In 1953 the awards were thought of as a one-time event, so there were no awards in 1954. Starting in 1955, awards have been given every year. Known formally as the Annual Science Fiction Achievment Award initiallly, but unofficially and more popularly as the Hugo Awards, the nickname was adopted as the official name in 1993.
While the World Science Fiction Society Constitution has stated the awards were for works of science fiction and fantasy, in practice the awards almost always went to science fiction works until the 1990s. Since then, fantasy works have received increased recognition in many categories and have won for best novel several times.
(Photo of the 2005 Hugo Award design by design winner Deb Kosiba.)
Hugo Awards 1960s Table of Contents
- How is the Hugo Award different from the Nebula Award?
- Hugo Award Winners and Nominees that Won the Nebula Award - 1960s
- 1969 Winner: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
- 1969 Nominees
- 1968 Winner: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
- 1968 Nominees
- 1967 Winner: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- 1967 Nominees
- 1966 Winner (tie): Dune by Frank Herbert
- 1966 Winner (tie): ...And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny
- 1966 Nominees
- 1965 Winner: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
- 1965 Nominees
- 1964 Winner: Here Gather the Stars (aka Way Station) by Clifford D. Simak
- 1964 Nominees
- 1963 Winner: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- 1963 Winners
- 1962 Winner: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1962 Nominees
- 1961 Winner: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- 1961 Nominees
- 1960 Winner: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1960 Nominees
- Which Hugo Award Winners Have You Read?
- Hugo Awards Links
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How is the Hugo Award different from the Nebula Award?
Hugo Award Winners and Nominees that Won the Nebula Award - 1960s
Nominees for the Hugo Award that won Nebula Awards were: 1969's Rite of Passage by Alexi Panshin, 1968's The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany and 1967's Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany. Nebula Awards started in 1965.
1969 Winner: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar
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This novels takes trends current in the late 1960s and extrapolates them into the future when the population has grown to where, if everyone was given a one- by two-foot space, the entire population could do what the title suggests. It's still in our future as of 2008. Overpopulation is only one of the problems, along with intelligent computers, politics by assassination, warped ethics, and so on. In this crazed world, Donald Hogan is a spy who doesn't realize that he himself is programmed for death.
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1969 Nominees
Nova
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Rite of Passage
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The Goblin Reservation
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1968 Winner: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
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On a colony world, the crew of a starship have become mechanically enhanced gods of the Hindu pantheon, ruling over the descendants of the ship's passengers. Thanks to mind transfer into cloned bodies, they are immortal tyrants. Then a retired god introduces Buddhism, allies with the planet's native "demons," and does battle against tyranny.
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1968 Nominees
The Einstein Intersection
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1967 Winner: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
1967 Winner by Robert A. Heinlein
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TANSTAAFL, or "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," became a popular phrase among science fiction readers, writers, and libertarians through this book. It's a tale of revolution on the former penal colony of Luna. A computer technician, a young woman agitator, and an elderly academic become the revolution's leaders. They are joined, secretly, by Mike, the computer that controls the colony and has become sentient, a fact known only to the small group of leaders.
Serialization of this novel was in 1965 and 1966, so it was eligible to be nominated in both years.
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1967 Nominees
Babel-17/Empire Star
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Too Many Magicians
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Flowers for Algernon
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The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz by James H. Schmitz by James H. Schmitz
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Day of the Minotaur
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1966 Winner (tie): Dune by Frank Herbert
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The desert planet Arrakis is the only source of the spice Melange, which is necessary for interstellar travel and gives users psychic powers and longevity. This makes the planet the focus for a power struggle in an interstellar empire. When the emperor takes control of the planet from House Harkonnen to House Atreides, the Harkonnens resort to treachery to hold on to power and get Duke Paul Atriedes cast out into the desert. Paul links up with the desert-dwelling Fremen, who become the basis for his army in the fight to regain power.
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1966 Winner (tie): ...And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny
aka This Immortal
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This was Zelazny's first published novel, serialized as ...And Call Me Conrad, his preferred title, then published as a book as This Immortal. In the aftermath of a nuclear war, Earth has a population of 4 million and is overrun with mutated lifeforms. The planet is under the control of the alien Vegans. Conrad Nomikos is given the task of escorting a Vegan around Earth, a task he'd rather not do. He becomes the reluctant protector of the Vegan when attempts are made on the alien's life. He knows it's important to protect the alien, he's just not sure why.
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1966 Nominees
The Squares of the City
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Skylark Duquesne
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1965 Winner: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
The Wanderer
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The Wanderer is an artificial world that appears out of hyperspace, dwarfing and threatening the Moon. Its appearance causes chaos on Earth, but one man sees it differently, as a tale of alien domination and human submission.
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1965 Nominees
Davy
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The Planet Buyer
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1964 Winner: Here Gather the Stars (aka Way Station) by Clifford D. Simak
Way Station
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Enoch Wallace is a Civil War veteran, still alive and relatively youthful 100 years after the war. He's been made keeper of an intergalactic way station, his home in rural Wisconsin. Beings from all over the galaxy pass through with their tales. His neighbors don't ask questions, which is just as well, because humanity is considered psychologically and sociologically unfit for inclusion amongst the galaxy's races. Then a CIA agent shows up, asking questions about Wallace.
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1964 Nominees
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
This nomination was for the serialized version of Dune.
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Witch World
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Cat's Cradle: A Novel
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1963 Winner: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle
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In an alternate vision of the United States in 1962, the country lost World War II and is occupied by Germany and Japan. Slavery is legal, the few Jews left are in hiding. The novel follows six Americans in storylines that are at least partially interconnected. The Man in the High Castle became a model for future history stories that followed it.
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1963 Winners
Planet Savers \ The Sword of Aldones
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A Fall of Moondust (S.F.Masterworks)
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Sylva: A Novel
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1962 Winner: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
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This is Heinlein's most widely-known novel, read by a generation of children of the '60s. Michael Valentine Smith was born on Mars and is the only survivor of the first expedition to the red planet. He was raised by an ancient Martian civilization. When he is brought to Earth, he knows nothing of humanity's ways and mores. As the only survivor of the expedition, he is considered the owner of Mars and is fabulously wealthy. He sets up his own church to spread his ideas, but ultimately meets the fate of most messiahs.
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1962 Nominees
Planet of the Damned
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Time Is the Simplest Thing
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Second ending
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1961 Winner: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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After a nuclear war, mankind has regressed to a new dark age. In the future Catholic Church, a 20th century engineer, Leibowitz, is canonized and venerated by the monks of an abbey in Utah. The story unfolds over 700 years as civilization rises again, only to face the same problems that led to its downfall in the first place.
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1961 Nominees
The High Crusade
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Rogue Moon (Gold Medal SF, L1474)
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Deathworld
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1960 Winner: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers
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The novel tells the story of Juan Rico, who enlists in Federal Service, and rises to the rank of lieutenant. Told largely in flashback, it is thought of as a platform for Heinlein's controversial political views. The exposition of those views is more prevalent than actual combat. It also marks Heinlein's transition from his juvenile novels (although Podkayne of Mars was published later).
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1960 Nominees
Dorsai (Dorsai/Childe Cycle)
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The Pirates of Zan / The Mutant Weapon (Ace Double 66525)
Nomination was for The Pirates of Zan
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Brain twister: A science-fiction novel (Pyramid books)
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The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
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Hugo Awards Links
- The Hugo Awards - Official Site
- This site has extensive information about the Hugo Awards, explaining the voting system, categories, history - in short, just about anything you might want to know about the Hugos.
- Locus Index to SF Awards - Hugos
- The linked page gives a briefer overview of the Hugos than the official Hugo Awards site. Links on the page can take you to more detailed info by year, by category, and once you dig into those, you can find more information about authors such as how many awards of all kinds they've received and when and where the works were published.
- Locus Online
- Locus publishes news of the Science Fiction publishing field with extensive reviews and listings of new science fiction books and magazines. (from the website)
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