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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 initially, 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 1990s Table of Contents
- How is the Hugo Award different from the Nebula Award?
- Hugo Award Winners and Nominees that Won the Nebula Award - 1990s
- 1999 Winner: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- 1999 Nominees
- 1998 Winner: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
- 1998 Nominees
- 1997 Winner: Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1997 Nominees
- 1996 Winner: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- 1996 Nominees
- 1995 Winner: Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1995 Nominees
- 1994 Winner: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1994 Nominees
- 1993 Winner (tie): Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- 1993 Winner (tie): A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- 1993 Nominees
- 1992 Winner: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1992 Nominees
- 1991 Winner: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1991 Nominees
- 1990 Winner: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- 1990 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 - 1990s
Hugo-nominated books that won the Nebula Award were 1994's Moving Mars by Greg Bear, 1993's Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and 1992's Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick.
1999 Winner: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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If the title of this novel rings a bell, it may be because it's the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's comic tale of a cruise on the Thames in Victorian England, Three Men in a Boat. Ned Henry, from Oxford University's time travel research unit in 2057 (the same project featured in Doomsday Book, Willis' 1993 Hugo and Nebula winner) is on a mission to retrieve the bishop's bird stump. The what? Don't worry, it's part of the fun that for hundreds of pages readers are left wondering just what it is. Meanwhile, the characters try to understand Victorian culture, find romance, prevent the changing of the course of history, and even encounter three men in a boat, to say nothing of the dog.
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1999 Nominees
Children of God (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century
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Factoring Humanity
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1998 Winner: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)
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Although it's not a sequel to Haldeman's Hugo- and Nebula-winning Forever War, it does share some similarities. Professor Julian Class spends time each month wired to a "soldierboy" which allows wars to be fought remotely. The US is engaged in a war in the third world. Along with his mentor Dr. Amelia Harding, he discovers there's a project out by Jupiter that could destroy the universe. Also, he learns that the linking technology used in the soldierboys can be used to turn people into pacifists if they stay linked with others for two weeks. Those seeking to end war forever try to stay one jump ahead of assassins and people who think we should all go out not with a whimper, but a bang - a Big Bang.
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1998 Nominees
Frameshift
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The Rise of Endymion
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1997 Winner: Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy)
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In the conclusion to his award-winning Mars trilogy, Robinson shows us a habitable planet, ripe for immigration from over-stressed Earth. With new propulsion units, the outer solar system becomes available for colonization, and even interstellar travel is possible. Robinson continues his brilliant extrapolations and speculations as old enemies reconcile and humanity comes of age.
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1997 Nominees
Memory (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
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Remnant Population
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1996 Winner: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
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A cultured nanotech engineer in a neo-Victorian society forges a copy of a nanotech-enhanced primer intended for the daughter of a lord, intending to give it to his own daughter. But he gets mugged, and the mugger gives it to his sister, who learns from it, grows and matures, and ends up changing the course of humanity.
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1996 Nominees
The Time Ships
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Brightness Reef (The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1)
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The Terminal Experiment
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1995 Winner: Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
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Miles Vorkosigan, Bujold's undersized and deformed protagonist tried to help out his clone brother, who's gotten into a jam in Jackson's Whole. But he's injured, gets placed in cryogenic suspension, then gets lost in an intergalactic limbo. The author's "carefully crafted prose, logical working out of even minor plot points, and inimitable wit [are] all very much in evidence (Booklist). The Chicago Sun-Times called Mirror Dance her "best book to date."
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1995 Nominees
Mother of Storms
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Beggars and Choosers (Beggars Trilogy (also known as Sleepless Trilogy))
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Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book)
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1994 Winner: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars (Voyager Classics)
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The books in Robinson's Mars trilogy, of which this is the second, are scientifically and sociologically detailed. In this book, we follow the underground network formed in Red Mars as the planet undergoes the terraforming process, and Mars declares its independence from a troubled and decaying Earth.
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1994 Nominees
Moving Mars: A Novel
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Virtual Light
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Beggars in Spain (Beggars Trilogy)
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1993 Winner (tie): Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1993 Winner by Connie Willis in a tie with A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Doomsday Book
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This tale of mid-21st-century time travelers from Oxford University is a good deal more serious than her later Hugo winner involving the same project. Kivrin, a history student is to be sent back to 1320, but due to an epidemic, a technician lands her in 1348, at the outset of the Black Plague. As the story of Kivrin and those searching for her through time progresses, the many human concerns, hopes, and fears of the medieval and modern characters weave together toward a dark and deep conclusion.
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1993 Winner (tie): A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep (GollanczF.)
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Vinge creates a complex universe of zones, with Earth in the Slow Zone, where faster than light travel is not possible, further out is the Beyond, where FTL travel is possible, and even further out is the Transcend, inhabited by the godlike "Powers." When a human colony in the Beyond releases an ancient power called the Blight, humans flee, and a group with a secret that might destroy the Blight is stranded on a low-tech world. Vinge combines the razzle-dazzle of old space opera with modern thoughtfulness and brings everything to a suitably mind-boggling climax.
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1993 Nominees
China Mountain Zhang
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
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1992 Winner: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Barrayar (Vorkosigan)
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This book completes a story arc begun in Shards of Honor, where Captain Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan, on opposite sides of a war, join forces to get off an unexplored planet. They fall in love, and Cordelia arrives on Barrayar, expecting to lead a quiet life. But a poison gas attack and palace coup put an end to that. Her unborn son is transferred to a uterine replicator, while Cordelia flees to the mountains with Gregor, her five-year-old son. She leads a daring commando attack to free her unborn son (later known as Miles) that turns into a fatal blow for the rebellion.
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1992 Nominees
Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles
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Xenocide (Ender, Book 3)
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All the Weyrs of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern Series)
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Stations of the Tide
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The Summer Queen
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1991 Winner: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game
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Miles Vorkosign graduates from Barrayaran Military Academy and is assigned as meteorologist at an arctic training camp with a trigger-happy base commander, where he narrowly averts a massacre. He next goes undercover to investigate a military buildup near a wormhole nexus. His mission turns into a rescue operation when the emperor disappears. As if that weren't enough, he still has to watch his back as the training camp's commander seeks revenge.
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1991 Nominees
Fall of Hyperion
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Queen of Angels (Questar science fiction)
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1990 Winner: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Hyperion
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The first of a two-book epic, Hyperion tells six tales of a group of pilgrims headed toward an encounter with the Shrike while the entire Galaxy is on the eve of Armageddon.
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1990 Nominees
The Boat of A Million Years
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Prentice Alvin (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 3)
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A Fire in the Sun
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Grass (S.F.Masterworks)
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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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