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.
(Photo of the 2005 Hugo Award design by design winner Deb Kosiba.)
Hugo Awards 1980s Table of Contents
- How is the Hugo Award different from the Nebula Award?
- Hugo Award Winners and Nominees that Won the Nebula Award - 1980s
- 1989 Winner: Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
- 1989 Nominees
- 1988 Winner: The Uplift War by David Brin
- 1988 Nominees
- 1987 Winner: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
- 1987 Nominees
- 1986 Winner: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- 1986 Nominees
- 1985 Winner: Neuromancer by William Gibson
- 1985 Nominees
- 1984 Winner: Startide Rising by David Brin
- 1984 Nominees
- 1983 Winner: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
- 1983 Nominees
- 1982 Winner: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
- 1982 Nominees
- 1981 Winner: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
- 1981 Nominees
- 1980 Winner: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
- 1980 Nominees
- Which Hugo 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 - 1980s
Hugo-nominated books that won the Nebula Award were 1989's Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold and 1982's The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe.
1989 Winner: Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
Cyteen
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In a world where humans can be cloned and genetic manipulation creates different classes of humans, a brilliant geneticist is killed, then cloned. The clone is raised to be as much like her predecessor as possible, yet she attempts to chart a different fate. This is a complex story with complex issues, but Cherryh's storytelling abilities keep things moving along.
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1989 Nominees
Falling Free (Nebula Award Stories)
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Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 2)
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Mona Lisa Overdrive
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Islands in the Net
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1988 Winner: The Uplift War by David Brin
The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3)
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This is the third book of Brin's first Uplift trilogy, following Sundiver and 1984 Hugo winner Startide Rising. Billions of years ago, a race called the Progenitors learned to use genetic engineering to give intelligence to non-intelligent species. The process of Uplift has resulted in races that serve their patron race until they in turn uplift another. But humans became intelligent on their own, and Uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees. This offends the aliens, who plan an attack on humankind. The fate of Earth and the Five Galaxies hangs in the balance as space armadas clash.
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1988 Nominees
The Forge of God
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Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 1)
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When Gravity Fails
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The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
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1987 Winner: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
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This is the second book of Card's series about Ender Wiggin, who thinks it was a mistake to destroy an alien civilization and becomes "Speaker for the Dead." When a new intelligent race is discovered, Ender sees an opportunity to atone for his earlier actions. We see the action unfold from the viewpoints of several humans, a computer, a lone survivor of the destroyed race, and the new aliens.
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1987 Nominees
Black Genesis (Mission Earth Series)
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Ragged Astronauts
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Marooned in Realtime
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1986 Winner: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
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The Earth has been attacked by aliens twice, and the world government is breeding military geniuses to insure victory in the next encounter with the "buggers." Ender Wiggin is a standout among the geniuses, trained in military games which force him to take violent actions, when his inner nature desires a kinder and gentler existence. He knows time is running out. Will he be ready for the ultimate battle?
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1986 Nominees
Blood Music (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics)
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The Deep Beyond: Cuckoo's Egg / Serpent's Reach
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The Postman (Bantam Classics)
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1985 Winner: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neuromancer
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Gibson invented the term "cyberpunk" and this is the book that started it all, and the first to win the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick awards. Case was at home in the virtual reality of cyberspace, and offering his considerable talents to the highest bidder. When he double-crosses the wrong people, they catch up with him and burn the talent out of him. Then he gets a second chance and a cure, but of course, it comes with a price. Sex, drugs, murder, and mayhem are only a few of the things encountered as Gibson examines where our rush into high-tech may be taking us.
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1985 Nominees
Job: A Comedy of Justice
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The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring
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The Peace War
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1984 Winner: Startide Rising by David Brin
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2)
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In the second book of Brin's first Uplift trilogy, the dolphin-piloted exploration vessel Streaker has crashed on the water world Kithrup. The dolphins and humans on board are carrying the secret of the fate of the Progenitors, the legendary First Race who seeded intelligence among the stars. The crew battles an armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard this information.
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1984 Nominees
The Robots of Dawn
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Tea with the Black Dragon
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Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
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Millennium
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1983 Winner: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge (Foundation Novels)
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Nearly thirty years had elapsed since the publication of the third book of the Foundation trilogy, which was given a one-time Hugo award in 1965 for best all-time series. At the end of the war between the First and Second Foundations, the First returns to Hari Seldon's plan. While two Foundation exiles set out to find the mythical Earth, there appears to be something or someone outside the Foundation manipulating events.
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1983 Nominees
Pride of Chanur
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2010: Odyssey Two
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Courtship Rite (A Timescape Book)
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The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, vol 3)
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1982 Winner: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
Downbelow Station (20th Anniversary) (Daw Book Collectors)
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This is the first of Cherryh's books dealing with the Union and the Alliance. The Union rebelled against Earth. The story is set toward the end of the war and centers around a space station in orbit around Pell's World in the Tau Ceti system. Those aboard the station refer to the world as "Downbelow" and their home as "Downbelow Station." Due to the war, the station becomes crowded with refugees. The independent Fleet gets involved, along with agents of the fascistic Union. It's a broad and complicated story but Cherryh holds it together well.
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1982 Nominees
Little, Big
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The Many-Colored Land
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Claw of the Conciliator
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1981 Winner: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
The Snow Queen
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This novel takes its title from, and is loosely based upon, Hans Christian Anderson's tale. Tiamat is a watery world, that undergoes a Change every 150 years. The Snow Queen plots to extend her rule beyond the Change. That's only one of the conspiracies at work as Moon, a clone of the Snow Queen, becomes aware of the greater universe and tries to ensure her place in it. It's an involving story set in a richly imagined universe.
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1981 Nominees
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2)
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Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle)
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The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld)
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1980 Winner: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
The Fountains of Paradise
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Vannemar Morgan wants to link Earth to space with a space elevator, using cable suspended from a large body in geosynchronous orbit. He has determined the only site for the base is atop a sacred mountain in the country Taprobane, which is roughly Sri Lanka, although Clarke had to move it south to the Equator. A sabotaged attempt to lower a cable ends up setting up conditions that lead to the monks in the monastery on the mountain to give permission for anchoring the cable there. And spurring on development of the tower, an unmanned alien craft passes through the solar system.
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1980 Nominees
Harpist In The Wind
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On Wings of Song
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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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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Feb 26, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
- If my addled mind serves me right, I remember reading the first of the 'Postman' stories in Asimov's magazine. The publication was a monthly anthology of short stories written by amateur writers. 'Postman' was a great tale.
There was an author who's name and story titles escape me. But the story line was this; A time rift had been discovered and was being manipulated in such a way that one could buy a vacation that would take them back to a said era. But, there was a malfunction and many vacationers were trapped in the time they were at.
The stories were about individual vacationers and how they were coping living in the past with the knowledge they had. One in particular involved a surgeon stuck in the era of the American Civil War.
Do you recall any of these?
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