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The World Science Fiction Convention, which is also responsible for administering them. The Hugo novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette, and novella categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".

The Hugo Awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, a famous magazine editor brought science fiction to a wider audience. In 1926, he founded Amazing Stories, the first major American SF magazine. He is widely credited with sparking a boom in interest in written Science Fiction. In addition to having the Hugo Awards named after him he has been recognized as the “Father of Magazine SF” and has a crater on the Moon named after him.

Sources: the books on this page have been compiled from Portalist blog, official Hugo Awards website.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling

Fantasy

The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin

Fantasy

The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin

Fantasy

Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold

Science Fiction

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A Deepness in the Sky

Vernor Vinge

Science Fiction

The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin

Fantasy

Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold

Science Fiction

The Vor Game

Lois McMaster Bujold

Science Fiction

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First Round Capital

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Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Science Fiction

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Naval Ravikant

Peter Thiel

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The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson

Science Fiction

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Harold Bloom

Fiction

Orson Scott Card's

Aaron Johnston

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

Paladin of Souls

Lois McMaster Bujold

Fantasy

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The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction

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A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge

Science Fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

Harold Bloom

Literary Criticism

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis

Science Fiction

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Fantasy

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Patrick Collison

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Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction

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George RR Martin

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny

Science Fiction

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction

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Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction

The Uplift War

David Brin

Science Fiction

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Mark Zuckerberg

Barack Obama

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The Three Body Problem

Liu Cixin

Science Fiction

Startide Rising

David Brin

Science Fiction

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Comics

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

Science Fiction

Spin

Robert Charles Wilson

Science Fiction

Cyteen

C.J. Cherryh

Science Fiction

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

The Martian Named Smith

William H. Patterson Jr.

Default

The Role of History in Susanna Clarke's 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'

Arite Keller

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

Science Fiction

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Science Fiction

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Alan Cooper

Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner

Science Fiction

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge

Science Fiction

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction

This Immortal

Roger Zelazny

Sf

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Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science Fiction

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Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science Fiction

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The Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

The City & the City

China Miéville

Fantasy

Downbelow Station

C.J. Cherryh

Science Fiction

The Sword in the Stone

T.H. White

Fantasy

Double Star

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm

Science Fiction

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

Science Fiction

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Alan Cooper

Redshirts

John Scalzi

Science Fiction

Blackout

Connie Willis

Science Fiction

William Gibson's Neuromancer

William Gibson

Comics

Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Fiction

New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's the Dispossessed

Laurence Davis

Fiction

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

Science Fiction

Farmer in the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

Science Fiction

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Forever Peace

Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction

Beyond This Horizon

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction

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Stephen King

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Fiction

Slan

A.E. van Vogt

Science Fiction

Among Others

Jo Walton

Fantasy

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

Science Fiction

The Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld

Kevin Stein

Science Fiction

The Wanderer

Fritz Leiber

Science Fiction

The Big Time

Fritz Leiber

Science Fiction

They'd Rather Be Right

Mark Clifton

Science Fiction

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