The Hugo Awards
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.
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Hugo Awards 1970s Table of Contents
- How is the Hugo Award different from the Nebula Award?
- Hugo Award Winners and Nominees that Won the Nebula Award - 1970s
- 1979 Winner: Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
- 1979 Nominees
- 1978 Winner: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
- 1978 Nominees
- 1977 Winner: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
- 1977 Nominees
- 1976 Winner: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- 1976 Nominees
- 1975 Winner: The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1975 Nominees
- 1974 Winner: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- 1974 Nominees
- 1973 Winner: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
- 1973 Nominees
- 1972 Winner: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
- 1972 Nominees
- 1971 Winner: Ringworld by Larry Niven
- 1971 Nominees
- 1970 Winner: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1970 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 - 1970s
1977 and 1972 were the only two years the Hugo winner didn't also win the Nebula. In 1977, Hugo-nominee Man Plus by Frederik Pohl won the Nebula, while in 1972, Hugo-nominee A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg won the Nebula.
Hugo winners or nominees also won the Nebula Award every year from 1966 to 1980.
1979 Winner: Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
Dreamsnake
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In a post-apocalyptic world, healers use snakes, suitably drugged, in place of hypodermic needles. An alien species, the dreamsnake, is used for its analgesic and anesthetic effects. When a healer loses her dreamsnake, she must go on a journey to find a replacement. Chapter 1 of this book first appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact in October 1973 titled "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand."
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1979 Nominees
Kesrith (The Faded Sun, Book 1)
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The White Dragon (Dragonriders of Pern Vol 3)
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Up the Walls of the World
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1978 Winner: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Gateway (Heechee Saga)
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This is the first book of the four-volume Heechee saga. The Heechee, a long vanished race, left behind the Gateway with nearly a thousand small starships. Once people figure out how to operate them, they travel to the pre-programmed destinations, which may or may not be useful. Robinette "Bob" Broadhead travels to the Gateway and makes three journeys. He becomes fantastically rich after the third because he is the only survivor, although the other crewmembers may not be dead yet.
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1978 Nominees
The Forbidden Tower (Darkover)
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Time Storm
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Dying of the Light
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Lucifer's Hammer
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1977 Winner: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang: A Novel
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Hailed as the best novel about cloning to date in 1976, the book is about the Sumner family of the Shenandoah Valley. When massive environmental changes and diseases attributed to pollution cause the collapse of civilization, the Sumners are prepared and set up an isolated community. But sterility strikes, and they turn to cloning for survival. Each generation becomes weaker both physically and mentally. The plan was for cloning to keep the family going until the sterility wore off and sexual reproduction could resume, but the clones have other ideas.
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1977 Nominees
Mindbridge (Gollancz SF collector's edition)
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Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 3)
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MAN PLUS
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Shadrach in the Furnace
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1976 Winner: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War
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William Mandella, a physics student, is drafted and sent off to fight the alien Taurans. Because of the relativistic effects of space travel, when he returns after a year by his time, 27 years have passed on Earth. Unable to adjust, he re-enlists and finds himself fighting battle after battle as the centuries pass on Earth.
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1976 Nominees
The Computer Connection
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The Stochastic Man
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Doorways in the Sand
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1975 Winner: The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin
The Dispossessed
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The fifth novel in LeGuin's Hainish series, the book is set chronologically earlier than the others, at the time of the invention of the ansible, a device for instant communications over interstellar distances. The setting is the two inhabitable worlds around Tau Ceti, Urras and Annares. Urras has several governments, with the two largest being rivals much like the United States and the Soviet Union. Annares, a moon of Urras, had been settled 200 years before by anarcho-syndicalists in order to forestall a revolution on Annares. Shevek, a physicist on Annares, encounters obstacles in his research and travels to Urras. The novel covers his struggles on both worlds.
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1975 Nominees
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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The Mote in God's Eye
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Inverted World.
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1974 Winner: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama
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Rama is a huge extraterrestrial craft making a passage through the solar system. A team of astronauts is sent to investigate the craft. Inside the hollow cylinder, they attempt to understand its mysteries, such as, where are the Ramans and why have they come? In addition to the Hugo, the book also won the Nebula, the John W. Campbell Award, and a Jupiter award.
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People of the Wind
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The Man Who Folded Himself
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Time Enough for Love
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1973 Winner: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
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In 2100, the invention of the Inter-Universe Electron Pump has made abundant and cheap energy possible, but its use threatens the rate of hydrogen fusion in the Sun, which could lead to a huge explosion that would destroy Earth. An outcast scientist from Earth, a rebellious alien from a dying planet in a parallel universe, and a human intuitionist from the lunar colony know of this, and race to get others to believe and prevent the disaster.
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There Will Be Time
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When Harlie Was One
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The Book of Skulls
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Dying Inside
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A Choice of Gods
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1972 Winner: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld Saga, Book 1)
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This is the beginning of the Riverworld saga. People who die on Earth find life after death on Riverworld. After English adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton awakens on Riverworld he gathers other adventurers. Together they construct a boat and go on a journey to reach the headwaters, thought to be millions of miles away. Burton is encouraged in his quest by a Mysterious Stranger, a member of the race that constructed the Riverworld. Burton and his fellow adventurers must reach the headwaters and stop an experiment that could result in the end of humanity.
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1972 Nominees
The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
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Dragonquest (Dragonriders of Pern #2)
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A Time Of Changes (Berkley Book: Science Fiction)
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Jack of Shadows (Signet)
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1971 Winner: Ringworld by Larry Niven
Ringworld
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Two-hundred-year-old Luis Wu, bored and seeking a challenge, is recruited by Nessus, of the puppeteer race that has abandoned a vast commercial empire to flee the explosion of the galactic core, which won't affect Known Space for another 20,000 years. Also recruited are the Kzin known as Speaker-to-Animals, and Teela Brown, a young woman of no known talents except she has all the luck anyone could ever use. Together they head out to explore the Ringworld, a million-mile-wide loop around a star with a diameter equal to Earth's orbit around the sun. They didn't count on the crash landing.
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Tau Zero
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The Year of the Quiet Sun
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1970 Winner: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
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Genly Ai's mission to Winter is to bring that world back into the fold of galactic civilization. He realizes there is a broad gulf between his civilization and that of Winter, where people can be of no gender or both. LeGuin is inventive and delicate in exploring her creation, her characters, and the philosophical issues that arise.
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Bug Jack Barron
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Slaughterhouse-Five: 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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