Hugo Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Hugo Awards date back to 1953. They are named after Hugo Gernsback ... he is called the father of the science fiction magazine. The Hugo awards are the oldest and most prestigious science fiction awards.

Alfred Bester won the first award in 1953 for The Demolished Man.

Requirements are that the book be either science fiction or fantasy. (J.K. Rowling won in 2004 for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).

For the 2010 awards, the book must have been published in 2009. And in the best novel category, the book must be 40,000 words or more.

World Science Fiction Society members nominate and vote to determine winners. Books are nominated in January through March A shortlist of finalists is determined in April.

Balloting is in July ... and the convention is usually in August or September.

The awards are given each year at the World Science Fiction Convention. Each award is a new design and must include a rocket.

In 2010 ... the awards will be presented in Melbourne, Australia on September 5th.

Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best Novel:

Cherie Priest	Boneshaker	Tor
China Mieville	The City and The City ... Winner!	Del Rey
Robert Charles Wilson	Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America	Tor
Catherynne M. Valente	*Palimpsest*	Bantam Spectra
Paolo Bacigalupi	The Windup Girl ... Winner!	Night Shade
Robert J. Sawyer	Wake	Ace

Previous Hugo Awards from 1976:

Year	Author	Book
2010	Paolo Bacigalupi and China Mieville (tie)	The Windup Girl and The City and The City
2009	Neil Gaiman	The Graveyard Book
2008	Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policeman's Union
2007	Vernor Vinge	Rainbow's End
2006	Charles Wilson	Spin
2005	Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
2004	Lois McMaster	Paladin of Souls
2003	Robert J. Sawyer	Hominids
2002	Neil Gaiman	American Gods
2001	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2000	Vernor Vinge	A Deepness in the Sky
1999	Connie Willis	To Say Nothing of the Dog
1998	Joe Haldeman	Forever Peace
1997	Kim Stanley Robinson	Blue Mars
1996	Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age
1995	Lois McMaster Bujold	Mirror Dance
1994	Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars
1993	Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon the Deep
1993	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book
1992	Lois McMaster Bujold	Barrayar
1991	Lois McMaster Bujold	The Vor Game
1990	Dan Simmons	Hyperion
1989	C. J. Cherryh	Cyteen
1988	David Brin	The Uplift War
1987	Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead
1986	Orson Scott Card	Ender’s Game
1985	William Gibson	Neuromancer
1984	David Brin	Startide Rising
1983	Isaac Asimov	Foundation’s Edge
1982	C. J. Cherryh	Downbelow Station
1981	Joan D. Vinge	The Snow Queen
1980	Arthur C. Clarke	The Fountains of Paradise
1979	Vonda N. McIntyre	Dreamsnake
1978	Frederik Pohl	Gateway
1977	Kate Wilhelm	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War

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