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}}The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. The 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 Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society since 1953, except in 1954 and 1957. In addition, beginning in 1996, Retrospective Hugo Awards or "Retro-Hugos" have been available for works published 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given. To date, Retro-Hugo awards have been given for novels for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The final selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie. The novels on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated. The 1953, 1955, and 1958 awards did not include a recognition of runner-up novels, but since 1959 all final candidates have been recorded. Initial nominations are made by members from January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly from April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations. Worldcons are generally held in August or early September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.During the 78 nomination years, 169 authors have had works nominated and 53 have won (including co-authors, ties, and Retro-Hugos). Two translators have been noted along with the author of a novel written in a language other than English: Ken Liu, in 2015 and 2017, for translations of two works from Chinese; and Rita Barisse, in 2019, who was retroactively noted as the translator of a 1963 French novel. Robert A. Heinlein has won the most Hugos for Best Novel, and also received the most nominations; he has six wins (four Hugos and two Retro-Hugos) on twelve nominations. Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on ten nominations. Five authors have won three times: Isaac Asimov and Fritz Leiber (with two Hugos and one Retro-Hugo each), N. K. Jemisin, Connie Willis, and Vernor Vinge. Nine other authors have won the award twice. The next-most nominations by a winning author are held by Robert J. Sawyer and Larry Niven, who have been nominated nine and eight times, respectively, and have each only won once. With nine nominations, Robert Silverberg has the greatest number of nominations without winning any. Three authors have won the award in consecutive years: Orson Scott Card (1986 and 1987), Lois McMaster Bujold (1991 and 1992), and N. K. Jemisin (2016, 2017, and 2018).

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the nominees on the short-list.  *   Winners and joint winners{| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" cellpadding="5" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"Winners and nominees}}! width="7%" scope="col"|Year! width="28%" scope="col"|Author(s)! width="35%" scope="col"|Novel! width="26%" scope="col"|Publisher! width="4%" scope="col" class="unsortable"|Ref. style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1953| Galaxy Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="2" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1955 They'd Rather Be Right (also known as The Forever Machine) Astounding Science-Fiction style="background:lightyellow;" style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1956Double Star >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Call Him Dead (also known as Three to Conquer) >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Doubleday Not This August >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday Doubleday style="background:lightyellow;"! scope="rowgroup" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" | 1958{{efn|The 1958 award was officially for "Best Novel or Novelette". It was won by a novel.}} Galaxy Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"! rowspan="5" scope="rowgroup" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" | 1959| Ballantine Books We Have Fed Our Sea (also known as The Enemy Stars) >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Who? (novel)>Who? Pyramid Books Have Space Suit—Will Travel>Have Space Suit — Will Travel Time Killer (also known as Immortality, Inc.) >| Galaxy Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1960Starship Troopers > Dorsai! (also known as The Genetic General) >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction That Sweet Little Old Lady (also known as Brain Twister) Astounding Science-Fiction | Dell Publishing style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1961| J. B. Lippincott & Co. Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Rogue Moon > Deathworld Astounding Science-Fiction Venus Plus X >Jove Books>Pyramid Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1962Stranger in a Strange Land >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Putnam Publishing Group Dark Universe (novel)>Dark Universe Bantam Books Planet of the Damned (also known as Sense of Obligation) Analog Science Fact & Fiction (also known as Time Is the Simplest Thing) >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Second Ending Fantastic style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1963G. P. Putnam's Sons>Putnam Publishing Group | Ace Books Harcourt (publisher)>Harcourt Trade Publishers Little Fuzzy >Avon (publisher)>Avon Publications name=Sylva|Sylva was the first translated work to appear on the Hugo ballot. The translator was not officially recognized until 2019.}} Sylva Putnam Publishing Group name=Sylva}} style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1964Here Gather the Stars (also known as Way Station (novel)>Way Station) Galaxy Science Fiction Glory Road > Witch World (novel)>Witch World Ace Books Dune (novel)>Dune World{{efnDune (novel)>Dune World was the title of the 1964 serialized novel; when "Dune World" and its sequel, "The Prophet of Dune", were incorporated into the 1966 edition of Dune, the book edition was allowed to be nominated in 1966.}} Analog Science Fact & Fiction Cat's Cradle >Holt McDougal>Holt, Rinehart and Winston style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="4" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1965 Ballantine Books Ballantine Books Davy (novel)>Davy Ballantine Books Pyramid Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1966Dune (novel)>Dune Chilton Company style="background:lightyellow;"...And Call Me Conrad (also known as This Immortal) > Ballantine Books If (magazine)>If Skylark DuQuesne If style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1967 If Babel-17 >| Ace Books Too Many Magicians >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Flowers for Algernon >Harcourt (publisher)>Harcourt Trade Publishers | Chilton Company Day of the Minotaur >| Ace Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1968Lord of Light >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday | Ace Books Chthon (novel)>Chthon Ballantine Books Jove Books>Pyramid Books Thorns (novel)>Thorns Ballantine Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1969 Stand on Zanzibar Doubleday Rite of Passage (novel)>Rite of Passage Ace Books Nova (novel)>Nova Doubleday Past Master (novel)>Past Master Ace Books | Galaxy Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1970| Ace Books Up the Line >| Ballantine Books Macroscope (novel)>Macroscope Avon Publications Slaughterhouse-Five >Dell Publishing>Delacorte Press Bug Jack Barron >Avon (publisher)>Avon Publications style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1971Ringworld >| Ballantine Books Tau Zero >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday Tower of Glass >| Charles Scribner's Sons Ace Books Star Light >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1972To Your Scattered Bodies Go >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Putnam Publishing Group | Amazing Stories Dragonquest >| Ballantine Books Jack of Shadows > | Galaxy Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1973| Galaxy Science Fiction When HARLIE Was One >| Ballantine Books There Will Be Time >New American Library>Signet Books | Charles Scribner's Sons Dying Inside >| Galaxy Science Fiction G. P. Putnam's Sons>Putnam Publishing Group style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1974Rendezvous with Rama >| Galaxy Science Fiction Time Enough for Love >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Putnam Publishing Group Protector (novel)>Protector Ballantine Books Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction | Random House style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1975HarperCollins>Harper & Row Fire Time >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday Simon & Schuster Galaxy Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1976| St. Martin's Press Doorways in the Sand >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Inferno Galaxy Science Fiction The Indian Giver) >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Berkley Putnam HarperCollins>Harper & Row style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1977Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang >HarperCollins>Harper & Row Mindbridge >| St. Martin's Press Children of Dune >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Man Plus > Shadrach in the Furnace >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1978Gateway (novel)>Gateway Galaxy Science Fiction | DAW Books Lucifer's Hammer Playboy Press Time Storm >| St. Martin's Press Dying of the Light (1977 novel)>Dying of the Light Analog Science Fact & Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="4" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1979Dreamsnake >Houghton Mifflin Harcourt>Houghton Mifflin Del Rey Books Galaxy Science Fiction Blind Voices >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Berkley Putnam style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1980| Victor Gollancz Ltd ''Titan (John Varley novel)'' >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Berkley Putnam Jem >| St. Martin's Press Harpist in the Wind >| Atheneum Books ''On Wings of Song (Disch novel) >'' style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1981 Dial Press Majipoor series>Lord Valentine's Castle Galileo (magazine)>Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction Beyond the Blue Event Horizon >| Del Rey Books ''Wizard (novel)'' >G. P. Putnam's Sons>Berkley Putnam style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1982Downbelow Station >| DAW Books | Timescape Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt>Houghton Mifflin Project Pope >| Del Rey Books Little, Big Bantam Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1983Foundation's Edge >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday DAW Books (2010: Odyssey Two) >| Del Rey Books Friday (novel)>Friday Holt, Rinehart and Winston Courtship Rite >Pocket Books>Timescape Pocket Books>Timescape style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1984Startide Rising >| Bantam Books Tea with the Black Dragon >| Bantam Books ''Millennium (novel)'' >| Berkley Books (Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern) >| Del Rey Books Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1985Neuromancer >| Ace Books Emergence (Palmer novel)>Emergence Bantam Books James Frenkel>Bluejay Books >| Del Rey Books | Del Rey Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1986Ender's Game >| Tor Books Cuckoo's Egg (book)>Cuckoo's Egg DAW Books | Bantam Spectra Footfall Del Rey Books Blood Music (novel)>Blood Music Arbor House style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1987Speaker for the Dead >| Tor Books | Victor Gollancz Ltd Count Zero >| Asimov's Science Fiction Marooned in Realtime >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Mission Earth (novel)>Black Genesis Bridge Publications style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1988| Bantam Spectra When Gravity Fails >| Arbor House Seventh Son (novel)>Seventh Son Tor Books | Tor Books | Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1989Cyteen >Hachette Book Group>Warner Books Red Prophet >| Tor Books Falling Free >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Islands in the Net >| Arbor House Mona Lisa Overdrive >| Victor Gollancz Ltd style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1990Hyperion (Simmons novel)>Hyperion Doubleday Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday Prentice Alvin >| Tor Books | Tor Books Grass (novel)>Grass Doubleday style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1991| Baen Books Earth (Brin novel)>Earth Bantam Spectra Doubleday | Ace Books Queen of Angels (novel)>Queen of Angels Warner Questar style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1992Barrayar >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Analog Science Fact & Fiction Bone Dance >| Ace Books All the Weyrs of Pern >| Del Rey Books Hachette Book Group>Warner Questar Xenocide >| Tor Books Stations of the Tide >| Asimov's Science Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1993| Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"Doomsday Book (novel)>Doomsday Book Bantam Spectra Mars trilogy>Red Mars HarperCollins China Mountain Zhang >| Tor Books Steel Beach Ace Books/Putnam Publishing Group style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1994Mars trilogy>Green Mars HarperCollins Moving Mars >| Tor Books Beggars in Spain >HarperCollins>Morrow AvoNova Glory Season >| Bantam Spectra Virtual Light >| Bantam Spectra style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1995Mirror Dance >| Baen Books Mother of Storms Tor Books Beggars and Choosers (novel)>Beggars and Choosers Tor Books Brittle Innings Bantam Books Towing Jehovah >Harcourt (publisher)>Harcourt Brace style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1996| Bantam Spectra HarperPrism Brightness Reef >| Bantam Books | Analog Science Fiction and Fact Remake (novel)>Remake Bantam Spectra style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1997Mars trilogy>Blue Mars HarperCollins Voyager Memory (Bujold novel)>Memory Baen Books Remnant Population >| Baen Books Starplex >| Analog Science Fiction and Fact Holy Fire (novel)>Holy Fire Bantam Spectra style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1998Forever Peace >| Ace Books City on Fire (1997 novel)>City on Fire HarperPrism | Bantam Spectra Frameshift >| Tor Books Jack Faust (novel)>Jack Faust Avon Publications style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1999To Say Nothing of the Dog >| Bantam Spectra Children of God (novel)>Children of God Villard Books Darwinia (novel)>Darwinia Tor Books Distraction >| Bantam Spectra Factoring Humanity >| Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2000| Tor Books | Baen Books Cryptonomicon >Avon (publisher)>Avon Publications Darwin's Radio >| HarperCollins Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban >| Bloomsbury Publishing style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2001Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire >| Bloomsbury Publishing HarperCollins>HarperCollins Voyager Calculating God >| Tor Books | Tor Books Midnight Robber >Hachette Book Group>Warner Aspect style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2002American Gods >| William Morrow and Company HarperCollins>Eos Passage (Willis novel)>Passage Bantam Books Perdido Street Station >| Macmillan Publishers | Tor Books Cosmonaut Keep >| Orbit Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2003The Neanderthal Parallax>Hominids Analog Science Fiction and Fact Kiln People (UK: Kil'n People) >| Tor Books Bones of the Earth >HarperCollins>Eos Del Rey Books | Bantam Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2004Paladin of Souls >HarperCollins>Eos Ilium (novel)>Ilium Eos Singularity Sky >| Ace Books Blind Lake (novel)>Blind Lake Tor Books The Neanderthal Parallax>Humans Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2005Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell >| Bloomsbury Publishing River of Gods Simon & Schuster Orbit Books Iron Sunrise >| Ace Books Iron Council >| Del Rey Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2006Spin (novel)>Spin Tor Books Learning the World >| Orbit Books HarperCollins>Voyager Books Old Man's War >| Tor Books Accelerando >| Ace Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2007Rainbows End (Vinge novel)>Rainbows End Tor Books Glasshouse (novel)>Glasshouse Ace Books His Majesty's Dragon >HarperCollins>Voyager Books Eifelheim >| Tor Books ''Blindsight (Watts novel)'' >| Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2008| HarperCollins | Tor Books Halting State >| Ace Books Rollback (novel)>Rollback Tor Books Brasyl Pyr style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2009| HarperCollins Little Brother (Doctorow novel)>Little Brother Tor Books Anathem >HarperCollins>Morrow Saturn's Children (novel)>Saturn's Children Ace Books Zoe's Tale >| Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2010| Night Shade Books style="background:lightyellow;"| Del Rey Books Boneshaker (novel)>Boneshaker Tor Books Wake (Robert J. Sawyer novel)>Wake Ace Books Palimpsest (novel)>Palimpsest Bantam Spectra (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America) >| Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2011Blackout/All Clear >Bantam Spectra>Spectra Books Cryoburn >| Baen Books Victor Gollancz Ltd / Pyr (publisher)>Pyr ''Feed (Grant novel)'' >| Orbit Books | Orbit Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2012Among Others >| Tor Books A Dance with Dragons >| Bantam Spectra ''Deadline (Grant novel)'' >| Orbit Books Embassytown >| Macmillan Publishers / Del Rey Books Leviathan Wakes >| Orbit Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2013Redshirts (novel)>Redshirts Tor Books 2312 (novel)>2312 Orbit Books ''Blackout (Grant novel)'' >| Orbit Books Captain Vorpatril's Alliance >| Baen Books Throne of the Crescent Moon >| DAW Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2014Ancillary Justice >| Orbit Books Neptune's Brood >| Ace Books ''Parasite (Grant novel)'' >| Orbit Books Warbound >| Baen Books }} Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2015{{efn|Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos was initially nominated for Best Novel in 2015, but was withdrawn by the author after the nominees were announced in protest for being promoted by the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies nomination slates, the first time a nominee was withdrawn after announcement. It was replaced on the ballot by The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, the eventual winner.}}name=translatorLiu Cixin>Cixin Liu's 2015 winner The Three-Body Problem and 2017 nominee Death's End are the only novels for which both the author and the translator (Ken Liu) were officially recognized during the awards process}} Chongqing Press (original)Tor Books (translation) style="background:lightyellow;"name=translator}}| Tor Books Tor Books Skin Game (The Dresden Files)>Skin Game Roc Books Ancillary Sword >| Orbit Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2016The Fifth Season (novel)>The Fifth Season Orbit Books Uprooted (novel)>Uprooted Del Rey Books Ancillary Mercy >| Orbit Books Seveneves >| William Morrow and Company Roc Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="7" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2017| Orbit Books All the Birds in the Sky >| Tor Books Hodder & Stoughton name=translator}} Death's End Chongqing Press (original)Tor Books (translation) name=translator}}Machineries of Empire>Ninefox Gambit Solaris Books Too Like the Lightning >| Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2018| Orbit Books | Tor Books New York 2140 >| Orbit Books Provenance (novel)>Provenance Orbit Books Raven Stratagem >| Solaris Books Six Wakes >| Orbit Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2019| Tor Books Hodder & Stoughton Revenant Gun >| Solaris Books Spinning Silver >| Del Rey Books Trail of Lightning >Simon & Schuster>Saga Press Space Opera (2018 novel)>Space Opera Saga Press style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2020| Tor Books | Tor Books Gideon the Ninth >Tor.com>Tor.com Publishing Simon & Schuster>Saga Press Middlegame >Tor.com>Tor.com Publishing Orbit Books>Redhook style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2021Network Effect (novel)>Network Effect Tor.com Publishing Black Sun (Roanhorse novel)>Black Sun Saga Press | Orbit Books Harrow the Ninth >Tor.com>Tor.com Publishing Piranesi (novel)>Piranesi Bloomsbury Publishing | Tor Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2022| Tor Books Harper Voyager/Hodder & Stoughton Light From Uncommon Stars >| Tor Books/St Martin's Press Tordotcom/Orbit Books>Orbit UK Project Hail Mary >| Ballantine Books/Del Rey Books She Who Became the Sun >Tor Books/Macmillan Publishers>Mantle Books style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2023{{efn|Voting statistics for the 2023 Hugo Awards from the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, which was held in Chengdu, China, later came into question due to the multiple works and people declared ineligible without explanation.WEB, Hawkins, Amy, Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors, the Guardian, January 24, 2024,weblink January 24, 2024, WEB, Gennis, Sadie, The biggest sci-fi/fantasy award has been accused of censorship, and the situation is a mess, Polygon, January 24, 2024,weblink January 24, 2024, WEB, Eddy, Cheryl, The Hugo Awards Are Facing Yet Another Controversy, Gizmodo, January 22, 2024,weblink January 24, 2024, }}Nettle & Bone >| Tor Books | Tor Books Legends & Lattes >| Tor Books Nona the Ninth >| Tordotcom | Del Rey Books | Tor Books !scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2024| Harper Voyager Tordotcom ''Some Desperate Glory (novel)'' >| Tordotcom/Orbit Books Starter Villain >| Tor Books Translation State >| Orbit Books Witch King (novel)>Witch King Tordotcom

Retro-Hugos

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro-Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 (the year of the first Worldcon) in which no Hugos were originally awarded. Retro-Hugos have been awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–46, 1951, and 1954.{| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" cellpadding="5" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"Retro Hugo winners and nominees}}! width="7%" scope="col"|Year! width="7%" scope="col"|Year awarded! width="21%" scope="col"|Author(s)! width="35%" scope="col"|Novel! width="26%" scope="col"|Publisher or publication! width="4%" scope="col" class="unsortable"|Ref. style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1939!align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2014 William Collins, Sons Carson of Venus >Argosy (magazine)>Argosy Galactic Patrol (novel)>Galactic Patrol Astounding Stories Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Out of the Silent Planet > style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1941!align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2016Slan >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science Fiction Gray Lensman >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science Fiction | William Collins, Sons Kallocain >| Bonnier Group Unknown (magazine)>Unknown style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1943!align="center" rowspan="6" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2018Beyond This Horizon >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science Fiction Darkness and the Light >| Methuen Publishing Donovan's Brain >Black Mask (magazine)>Black Mask Islandia (novel)>Islandia Farrar & Rinehart Second Stage Lensmen >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science Fiction Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="7" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1944!align="center" rowspan="7" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2019Conjure Wife >Unknown (magazine)>Unknown Worlds Earth's Last Citadel Argosy Gather, Darkness! >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) >Ernst Wasmuth Verlag>Fretz & Wasmuth Perelandra >The Bodley Head>John Lane, The Bodley Head Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="7" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1945!align="center" rowspan="7" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2020| Startling Stories Cassell (publisher)>Cassell Land of Terror >| Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (Sirius (novel)>Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord) Secker & Warburg | Macmillan Publishers Astounding Science-Fiction style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1946!align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1996 Astounding Science-Fiction Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction That Hideous Strength (also known as The Tortured Planet) >| John Lane Destiny Times Three >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction Red Sun of Danger (also known as Danger Planet) >| Startling Stories style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1951!align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2001Farmer in the Sky >| Boys' Life Pebble in the Sky >Doubleday (publisher)>Doubleday | Geoffrey Bles First Lensman >| Fantasy Press | Hillman Periodicals style="background:lightyellow;"!scope="rowgroup" align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 1954!align="center" rowspan="5" style="font-weight:normal;"| 2004Fahrenheit 451 >| Ballantine Books Childhood's End >| Ballantine Books Mission of Gravity >Analog Science Fiction and Fact>Astounding Science-Fiction | Galaxy Science Fiction More Than Human >| Farrar, Straus and Giroux

See also

• Nebula Award for Best Novel
• List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards
• List of literary awards
• Locus Award for Best Novel

Notes

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References

External links

• Hugo Award official site
• Original proposal for the award in Philcon II program book

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