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The Hugo Awards in the 2000s
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 2000s Table of Contents
- How is the Hugo Award different from the Nebula Award?
- Hugo Award Winners and Nominees that Won the Nebula Award - 2000s
- 2009 Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- 2009 Nominees
- 2008 Winner: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- 2008 Nominees
- 2007 Winner: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
- 2007 Nominees
- 2006 Winner: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- 2006 Nominees
- 2005 Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- 2005 Nominees
- 2004 Winner: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 2004 Nominees
- 2003 Winner: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
- 2003 Nominees
- 2002 Winner: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- 2002 Nominees
- 2001 Winner: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- 2001 Nominees
- 2000 Winner: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- 2000 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 - 2000s
2009 Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
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The novel opens with a scary scene: A family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jack," but an 18-month-old slips away to a nearby graveyard. There he's adopted by the ghostly residents and named Nobody ("Bod"). Bod learns from his otherworldly mentors which include Mistress Owens, and ancient Roman, an opinionated young witch, a hack poet, and his guardian Silas, who is neither living nor dead.
Gaiman got the idea for the book in 1985 when he observed his then-two-year-old son pedaling his tricycle in a graveyard across the street from his home. He combined this with inspiration from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" and wrote the chapters as short stories, some of which have analogs in Kipling's book.
The novel won the 2009 Newberry Medal from the American Library Association.
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2009 Nominees
Little Brother
Winner of the 2009 White Pine Award and 2009 Prometheus Award.
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Saturn's Children
Nominated for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
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2008 Winner: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
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Publishers Weekly calls the book "a murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller." Chabon takes the idea Franklin D. Roosevelt actually proposed on the eve of World War II: a temporary Jewish homeland on the Alaska panhandle, and brings it into a present in which Israel never got established. Two million Jews, displaced by the war, end up in Sitka, where they are known as the "frozen Chosen." There's murder, intrigue, Orthodox black-hat gangs and crime-lord rabbis in this book with a film noir feel.
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2008 Nominees
Brasyl
Brasyl also made the longlist of the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing.
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The Last Colony
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Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)
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2007 Winner: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Rainbows End
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In the year 2025, Robert Gu is a poet and recovering Alzheimer's patient. He's in remedial classes at a local high school in San Diego and becomes involved in a protest against the destruction of the University of California-San Diego library, which has been made obsolete by online data banks. He becomes a pawn of international conspirators out to unleash a deadly biological virus. It's a tale set in a fascinating and well-constructed near future.
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2007 Nominees
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)
His Majesty's Dragon won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for best Science Fiction/Fantasy novel by a first time author during 2006.
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Glasshouse
Glasshouse won the 2007 Prometheus Award "for libertarian SF".
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2006 Winner: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Spin
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Wilson packs a lot into Spin. It's an SF thriller, a coming of age story, love story, and an ecological and apocalyptic warning. Ten-year-old Tyler Dupree watches the stars go out one night. As he grows into young manhood, scientists, including Tyler's friend Jason, learn that aliens have surrounded Earth with a field that makes one of its days last for 100 million years outside the field. This gives the scientists of Earth forty years, as measured inside the field, to save humanity before the sun dies. Wilson not only presents wonders of biological, astrophysical, and medical science, he also proves very adept at deep and convincing characterization.
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2006 Nominees
Learning the World: a Scientific Romance
Learning the World also won the 2006 Prometheus Award.
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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
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Old Man's War
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Accelerando (Singularity)
Accelerando won the 2006 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. It was also nominated for the 2005 British ScienceFiction Association award and the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The novel is made up of nine connected short stories, several of which won awards. The short story "Lobsters" (June 2001) was nominated the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was a runner-up for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Theshort story "Halo" was nominated for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. The short story "Router" was nominated for the 2003 BSFA Award. The short story "Nightfall" was nominated for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. The short story "Elector" was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
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2005 Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
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In Clarke's first novel, Mr. Norrell is one of the last practitioners of English magic in 1808, the age of Napoleon. Jonathan Strange, a natural at magic who has never studied formally, is at first resented by the fusty, reclusive Mr. Norrell. But Norrell agrees to take on Strange as his pupil. While at first they work together to defeat Napoleon, at one time using a fleet of English ships conjured out of rainwater to blockade French ports, they separate and their impasse nearly undoes everything Mr. Norrell has achieved. As reviewer Regina Marler remarks, it's a "sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust."
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2005 Nominees
The Algebraist
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Iron Council
Iron Council also won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2005, and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.
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Iron Sunrise (Singularity)
Iron Sunrise is a sequel to Stross' Singularity Sky.
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River of Gods
River of Gods won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel in 2004 and was a nominee for both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel and the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel in 2005.
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2004 Winner: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Paladin of Souls
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This is a sequel to Bujold's fantasy novel The Curse of Chalion, a 2002 Hugo Award nominee. In a land ruled by Five Gods "just around some strange corner of perception," Dowager Royina Ista Dy Baocia has been freed of a curse of madness and sets out on a pilgrimage. It becomes a more dangerous journey than she ever imagined as she defends both Chalion and her soul from destruction.Order the book from Amazon.co.uk: Paladin of Souls
2004 Nominees
Humans (Volume Two of The Neanderthal Parallax)
Humans was also an Aurora Award nominee.
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Ilium
Ilium also won the Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2003.
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Singularity Sky
Singularity Sky's sequel Iron Sunrise was a 2005 Hugo nominee.
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Blind Lake
Blind Lake also won and Aurora Award for Best Long Form in 2004.
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2003 Winner: Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax)
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Hominids is the first book of the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy that examines two species of people. In a parallel universe, Neanderthals became the dominant branch of humanity, developing levels of science and culture that compares with those of humans, only with radical differences in some areas. Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal scientist, passes through the barrier between his world and the world of homo sapiens. He is recognized as a Neanderthal at first, and later, as communication improves, as a scientist. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner and Ponter's daughter, on their side of the barrier, struggle to find out what happened to Ponter and keep his partner from being convicted of murder.
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2003 Nominees
Kiln People (The Kiln Books)
Kiln People, published in the UK as Kil'n People, was also a nominee for the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
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The Years of Rice and Salt
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Bones of the Earth
Bones of the Earth was nominated for a Nebula Award in 2002.
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2002 Winner: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Gods: A Novel
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Shadow Moon, released from prison a few days early when his wife is killed in a car crash, meets Mr. Wednesday on the flight home. Mr. Wednesday is actually the old Norse god Odin, who is traveling around American to round up his quietly retired fellow gods to do battle against the modern upstart gods of the Internet, credit cards, television and the like. In addition to the Hugo Award, the novel also won the 2002 Nebula Award and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award.
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2002 Nominees
The Curse of Chalion
The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2002.
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Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station was a Nebula Award Nominee in 2002. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award in 2001 and both the Premio Ignotus in 2002 and Kurd Labwitz in 2003 and Best Foreign Novel Awards. It also won the Amazon.com Editors' Choice Award in Fantasy in 2001.
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Cosmonaut Keep (The Engines of Light, Book 1)
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The Chronoliths
The Chronoliths tied for the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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2001 Winner: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
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The fourth book of the Harry Potter series is darker than its predecessors. Harry is 14, and is picked for the first Triwizard Tournament, which replaces the traditional inter-house Quidditch Cup match. Voldemort is after Harry, and uses the tournament to that end. Wonders and delights still abound, and new characters such as young reporter Rita Skeeter are introduced. At the close, Rowling leaves several plotlines open for the fifth installment. The awarding of the Hugo to a children's fantasy caused some controversy as apparently many Worldcon members who usually don't vote and weren't familiar with the other nominees cast votes for Harry Potter.
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2001 Nominees
Midnight Robber
Midnight Robber was nominated for the James R. Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award in 2000.
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The Sky Road (Fall Revolution)
The Sky Road was the winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel in 1999.
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A Storm of Swords: 1 (Song of Ice and Fire)
A Storm of Swords won the Locus Award in 2001. It also won the Geffen Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2002.
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Calculating God
Calculating God was a John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee and an Aurora Award nominee.
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2000 Winner: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
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This novel is set in the same universe as Vinge's 1993 Hugo Award winning A Fire Upon the Deep, only it's 30,000 years earlier. The spiderlike natives of Arachna periodically hibernate when their variable sun cools. As they emerge, two fleets of starships with humans aboard arrive, one a fleet of merchants, the other slavers. Both fleets are crippled in a battle, and the tyrants win. Both the spiders on the surface and the humans in the sky battle to free themselves from tyranny. Vinge amply demonstrates his abilities to create detailed cultures on a grand scale.
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2000 Nominees
Darwin's Radio
Darwin's Radio won the Nebula Award in 2000 for Best Novel and the 2000 Endeavour Award.
An anthropologist has discovered an ice cave in the Alps containing the mummified remains of a Neanderthal couple and their abnormal newborn child. A molecular biologist specializing in retroviruses has turned up evidence that "junk DNA" might be re-awakening. A virus hunter at the National Center for Infectious Diseases is on the trail of a virus which seems to strike only expectant mothers and their fetuses. Together, they come to realize that humankind is on the verge of its greatest crisis as the connections become clear.
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A Civil Campaign
A Civil Campaign won first place in the Sapphire Awards from the Science Fiction Romance Newsletter. It has also won the Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature Award. It was a nominee for the HOMer Award for Best Novel 1999 and a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2000.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
The book won the FCBG Children's Book Award and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year in 1999. It also won the Bram Stoker Award for Work for Young Readers.
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Cryptonomicon
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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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