A recurrent feature here at Science's Less Accurate Grandmother is my coverage of the Hugo Awards. I try to read/watch all the finalists in the prose fiction categories, plus a few others. I write up full reviews of the novels and a few things that strike my fancy from other categories, and then I provide run-downs of all the finalists in all the categories I vote in.
I am also slowly reading old winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novel that I have not previously read.
2024
- The Finalists
- Full Reviews
- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott
- The Witches of World War II by Paul Cornell and Valeria Burzo
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
- Witch King by Martha Wells
- Adventures in Space edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun
- Ballots
- Best Novella / Best Novelette / Best Short Story
- Best Novel / Best Related Work / Best Young Adult Book
- Best Dramatic Presentation / Best Graphic Story or Comic
- Thoughts on the Final Results
2023
- Full Reviews
- In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman
- The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
- Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
- Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely
- The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Monstress: Devourer by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Galaxy Awards 1 edited by Latssep and Francesco Verso
- Ballots and Other Writings
2022
- Full Reviews
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- Strange Adventures by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Evan "Doc" Shaner
- Monstress: The Vow by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell
- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
- A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
- The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- Ballots and Other Writings
2021
- Full Reviews of Prerequisites
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, Books 3–4 & 6
- Full Reviews of Finalists
- The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
- Monstress: Warchild by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
- The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
- Network Effect by Martha Wells
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Ballots and Other Writings
2020
- Full Reviews
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford
- Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
- Monstress: The Chosen by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- Paper Girls 6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Ballots and Other Writings
- Book(ish) Categories (Novel / Related Work / Young Adult Book)
- Short Fiction Categories (Short Story / Novelette / Novella)
- Visual Categories (Dramatic Presentation / Graphic Story or Comic)
- Results and Final Thoughts
2019
- Full Reviews
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
- Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
- Paper Girls 4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Space Opera by Catherynne Valente
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Monstress: Haven by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- Saga, Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- Ballots and Other Writings
- Short Fiction Categories (Short Story / Novelette / Novella)
- Visual Categories (Dramatic Presentation / Graphic Story)
- Book(ish) Categories (Novel / Related Work / Young Adult Book)
- Results and Final Thoughts
2018
- Full Reviews of Preludes
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Paper Girls 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
- Full Reviews of Finalists
- Monstress: The Blood by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
- Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
- Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee
- No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
- Provenance by Ann Leckie
- Paper Girls 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
- Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher
- A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
- Ballots and Other Writings
- Star Trek at the Hugos
- Visual Categories (Graphic Story / Dramatic Presentation)
- Short Fiction Categories (Short Story / Novelette / Novella)
- Book Categories (Novel / Related Work / Young Adult Book)
- Results and Final Thoughts
2017
- Full Reviews of Preludes
- Saga, Book One by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- Full Reviews of Finalists
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
- Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- Death's End by Cixin Liu
- Saga, Book Two by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan
- Ballots and Other Writings
- Short Fiction Categories (Short Story / Novelette / Novella)
- Dramatic Presentation Categories
- Book Categories (Graphic Story / Novel / Related Work)
- Results and Final Thoughts
Previous Winners of the Hugo Award
Every year that I vote in the Hugos, I also read a winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, starting from the beginning. I am, on the one hand, skipping ones that I have previously read, and, on the other hand, occasionally reading "bonus" books that somehow tie in to the year's winner (usually prequels, sequels, or other books by the same writer that I want an excuse to read). I also sometimes read winners of other categories, whenever they strike me as interesting.
- 1953: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
- 1955: The Forever Machine by Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
- 1956: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1958: The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
- Changewar by Fritz Leiber
- 1959: A Case of Conscience by James Blish [previously read]
- 1960: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein [previously read]
- 1961: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. [previously read]
- 1962: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein [previously read]
- Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
- 1963: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik by Philip K. Dick
- Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
- VALIS / The Divine Invasion / The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
- 1964: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
- The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
- City by Clifford D. Simak
- Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
- 1965: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
- Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
- 1966: Dune by Frank Herbert [previously read]
- ...And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick
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