Hugo Award for Best Novel
The Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel is given each year for works published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.[1] A work of fiction is defined as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer. The Hugo for Best Novel has been awarded annually since 1953 except in 1954 and 1957.
Robert A. Heinlein has received the most Hugos for Best Novel, with five wins (including one Retro Hugo) and eleven nominations. Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on eight nominations; the only other authors to win more than twice are Vernor Vinge and Isaac Asimov (including one Retro Hugo), who each won three times. Ten other authors have won the award twice. Larry Niven and Robert J. Sawyer have each been nominated eight times, but have only won once. Vernor and Joan D. Vinge are the only married couple to have each won Hugo Awards for Best Novel (although they have since divorced).[2]
Other Hugo Awards for fiction are given for pieces of shorter lengths in the short story, novelette and novella categories.
Winners and nominees
1 Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel
Retro Hugos
Retro Hugos were awarded 50 years after years in which World Science Fiction Conventions did not give awards. Note: no "Best Novel" Hugo was awarded at the 1957 convention, but Hugos were awarded in other categories, hence there was no "Retro Hugo" for 1957 awarded in 2007.
Year (awarded) |
Winner | Other nominees |
---|---|---|
1946
(1996) |
The Mule by Isaac Asimov (republished as Part II of Foundation and Empire) |
|
1951
(2001) |
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein |
|
1954
(2004) |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
See also
- Nebula Award for Best Novel
- Locus Award
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for science fiction and fantasy.
References
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