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Amusingly enough, I didn't know most of these were Hugo winners, as I don't really track the Hugo or Nebula awards. I am thinking of giving a couple of these another try, but some are just not ever going to happen, like American Gods or Starship Troopers. Just not my cuppa tea. I should probably read Blue Mars, as I liked Red Mars and Green Mars ok. I just found it more political than compelling– science fiction that's more 'traditional fiction in a science setting' than something that revolves around the other-worldliness of it all.
Quite shocked to see so much 'fantasy' on the Hugo list, they were traditionally very hard-science folks for a long, long time. If someone had told me a Harry Potter book won a Hugo, I'd have said 'no way'.
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2004 Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (loved it)
2003 Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer
(read series, excellent, recommend)
2002 American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling (I read 'em all)
2000 A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
(found it very disappointing after the excellent 'Fire Upon the Deep' pseudo-prequel)
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
1998 Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
1997 Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
1996 The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (*love* this book, need to replace my loaner copy)
1995 Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold (*love all the Bujold Vorkosigan stuff)
1994 Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
1993 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
1993 A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge (Great book, great aliens, etc)
1992 Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold
1990 Hyperion, Dan Simmons
1989 Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh (Really liked this; do they mean the trilogy, or just the first one, though? Read all of them, wish there were more Ariane Emory stories)
1988 The Uplift War, David Brin (*love* it; wish his subsequent trilogy compared to the first 3 in this series)
1987 Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card (ditto on the 'first trilogy/series was better'; these books are great, follow-on books more lame, less intricate)
1986 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
1985 Neuromancer, William Gibson
1984 Startide Rising, David Brin
1983 Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov (never been a foundation fan, bleah)
1982 Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh (awesome vintage Cherryh; if you like, try 'Forty Thousand in Gehenna' too)
1981 The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
1980 The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
1979 Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre (nice novel expansion of the short story)
1978 Gateway, Frederik Pohl
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
1976 The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke (Figured it would be great, as everyone talked about how classic it is; eh, not impressed!)
1973 The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer (Always meant to read Riverworld series, seemed too contrived; ironically, after the TV series, I'm more tempted to read it)
1971 Ringworld, Larry Niven (classic, and subsequent books were good too, though are starting to exhibit suckage)
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (liked this better as adult than teen)
1969 Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (good, but the one I go back to again and again is 'Shockwave Rider')
1968 Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
(love it, read it about annually)
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
1966 Dune, Frank Herbert (ditto! and the first trilogy is 'ok', the middle ones drag on a lot but have some good ideas (meta-predation, the face dancers evolution), and the new series is just gratuitous, though some of the backstory is of interest)
1966 “…And Call Me Conrad” (This Immortal), Roger Zelazny
1965 The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
1964 “Here Gather the Stars” (Way Station), Clifford D. Simak
1963 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
(Mike loves it, I'm not inspired to read the 'sequel' that came out recently)
1960 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
1959 A Case of Conscience, James Blish
1958 The Big Time, Fritz Leiber
1956 Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (The Forever Machine), Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
1953 The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester (Seemed boring; his 'The Stars My Destination ' is an all-time favorite of mine)
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