The Hugo Project

Because I’m insane and enjoy impossible undertakings, I decided I would try to read all the books that have won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. And because I have a blog that occasionally deals with writing, science fiction, social issues, and the like, I decided to share the results of this endeavor with you, dear readers (Hi, FBI!). Book reviews are posted every other Monday, with the occasional movie review or angry letter to Robert A. Heinlein on the off-weeks.

The books:

• 1953 – The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester (8/10)
• 1955 – They’d Rather Be Right aka The Forever Machine – Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (5/10)
• 1956 – Double Star – Robert A. Heinlein (5/10)
• 1958 – The Big Time – Fritz Leiber (6/10)
• 1959 – A Case of Conscious – James Blish (9/10)
• 1960 – Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein (8/10)
  Starship Troopers (1997) – film adaptation
• 1961 – A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller, Jr. (7/10)
  St. Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997) – sequel
• 1962 – Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein (10/10)
• 1963 – The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick (7/10)
• 1964 – Way Station – Clifford D. Simak (8/10)
• 1965 – The Wanderer – Fritz Leiber (9/10)
• 1966 – …And Call Me Conrad aka This Immortal – Roger Zelazny (8/10)
• 1966 – Dune – Frank Herbert (10/10)
  Dune (1984) – film adaptation
  Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976) – sequels
  Frank Herbert’s Dune (2000) and Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune (2003) – mini-series
  We’re Dune! – silliness
• 1967 – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein (9/10)
• 1968 – Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny (6/10)
• 1969 – Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner (9/10)
• 1970 – The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin (10/10)
• 1971 – Ringworld – Larry Niven (6/10)
• 1972 – To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip José Farmer (4/10)
• 1973 – The Gods Themselves – Isaac Asimov (9/10)
• 1974 – Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke (8/10)
  Rama II (1989), The Garden of Rama (1991) and Rama Revealed (1993) – sequilogy written with Gentry Lee
• 1975 – The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin (9/10)
• 1976 – The Forever War – Joe Haldeman (7/10)
  Forever Free (1999) – direct sequel
• 1977 – Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – Kate Wilhelm (8/10)
• 1978 – Gateway – Frederik Pohl (7/10)
  Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980), Heechee Rendezvous (1984), The Annals of the Heechee (1987) – a sequilogy of sorts
  The Gateway Trip (1990) and The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2004) – further Gateway/Heechee books
• 1979 – Dreamsnake – Vonda McIntyre (10/10)
• 1980 – The Fountains of Paradise – Arthur C. Clarke (6/10)
• 1981 – The Snow Queen – Joan D. Vinge (8/10)
  World’s End (1984), The Summer Queen (1991), and Tangled up in Blue (2000) – the sequel and supplements
• 1982 – Downbelow Station – C. J. Cherryh (7/10)
  Merchanter’s Luck (1982), Rimrunners (1989), Tripoint (1994), and Finity’s End (1997) – further Alliance/Union books
• 1983 – Foundation’s Edge – Isaac Asimov
  Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953) – the original Foundation Trilogy
• 1984 – Startide Rising – David Brin
  Sundiver (1980) – first book in series
• 1985 – Neuromancer – William Gibson
• 1986 – Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• 1987 – Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
• 1988 – The Uplift War – David Brin

Supplementary:

• Introduction
• Schrödinger’s Reading Glasses

Not Included (I might get around to them eventually):

• (1963 – The Man in the High Castle) Amazon TV adaptation
• (1966 – Dune) sequels after Dune Messiah
• (1968 – Lord of Light) Argo (very tangentially related)
• (1971 – Ringworld) sequels
• (1972 – To Your Scattered Bodies Go) sequels & Riverworld film adaptations
• (1974 – Rendezvous with Rama) additional works by Gentry Lee in the Rama universe
• (1982 – Downbelow Station) additional Alliance/Union books
• (1983 – Foundation’s Edge) additional Foundation books