{"id":12709,"date":"2019-01-02T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2019-12-23T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T15:31:15","slug":"hugo-best-novel-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/hugo-best-novel-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Best Novel Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2128,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/hugo-reading&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20191121041034\\\/http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/hugo-reading&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 22:45:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 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22:09:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 22:09:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2049,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260126122319\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 21:57:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 03:15:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 22:09:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 22:09:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> As blog posts can be ephemeral, rather than updating this post any further, I&#8217;m going to track my progress <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/hugo-reading\">on my michaelhans.com site instead<\/a>. If you stumble across this post and are interested in seeing how I&#8217;m doing, please check <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/hugo-reading\">over there<\/a>! This post will not be updated after March 5, 2019.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/02\/12700\/\">decided<\/a> to work my way through reading all of the Best Novel Hugo Award winners over the coming year (or however long it actually takes), and will use this page to track my progress. While I&#8217;m starting with the most recent three winners, once I&#8217;m done with those, I&#8217;ll likely go back to the beginning and read forward chronologically. I actually expect this will take more than a single year, as I will definitely be pausing to read this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/con\/p-k-dick-award\/\">Philip K. Dick Award<\/a> nominees when they&#8217;re announced as I do every year, for several of the entries on this list I may well pause to read prior books in whatever series they come from, and sometimes I might just want to read something else entirely. This is a marathon, not a sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve read an entry for this project, I&#8217;ll link the title to my brief review on Goodreads.<\/p>\n<p>Key:<br \/>\n\u2713 = I read it at some point in the past, though I may not remember exactly when. I will probably be re-reading these as I go.<br \/>\n&#x2705;\u00a0= I&#8217;ve read it for this project.<\/p>\n<p>Current progress: 7\/73 (9.59%)<br \/>\nOverall, 27\/73 (36.99%)<\/p>\n<p>\u2713&#x2705; 1939 (Retro) T. H. White: <em>The Sword in the Stone<\/em> (read as book one of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2664730224\">The Once and Future King<\/a><\/em>)<br \/>\n&#x2705; 1941 (Retro) A. E. van Vogt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2712727641\"><em>Slan<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&#x2705;\u00a01943 (Retro) Robert A. Heinlein (as Anson MacDonald): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2715338673\"><em>Beyond This Horizon<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&#x2705;\u00a01946 (Retro) Isaac Asimov: <em>The Mule<\/em> (read as part two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/15563171?book_show_action=false&amp;from_review_page=1\"><em>Foundation and Empire<\/em><\/a>)<br \/>\n1951 (Retro) Robert A. Heinlein: <em>Farmer in the Sky<\/em><br \/>\n1953 Alfred Bester: <em>The Demolished Man<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1954 (Retro) Ray Bradbury: <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em><br \/>\n1955 Mark Clifton &amp; Frank Riley: <em>They&#8217;d Rather Be Right<\/em> (also known as <em>The Forever Machine<\/em>)<br \/>\n1956 Robert A. Heinlein: <em>Double Star<\/em><br \/>\n1958 Fritz Leiber: <em>The Big Time<\/em><br \/>\n1959 James Blish: <em>A Case of Conscience<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1960 Robert A. Heinlein: <em>Starship Troopers<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1961 Walter M. Miller, Jr.: <em>A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1962 Robert A. Heinlein: <em>Stranger in a Strange Land<\/em><br \/>\n1963 Philip K. Dick: <em>The Man in the High Castle<\/em><br \/>\n1964 Clifford D. Simak: <em>Here Gather the Stars<\/em> (also known as <em>Way Station<\/em>)<br \/>\n1965 Fritz Leiber: <em>The Wanderer<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1966 (1) Frank Herbert: <em>Dune<\/em><br \/>\n1966 (2) Roger Zelazny: <em>&#8230;And Call Me Conrad<\/em> (also known as <em>This Immortal<\/em>)<br \/>\n1967 Robert A. Heinlein: <em>The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress<\/em><br \/>\n1968 Roger Zelazny: <em>Lord of Light<\/em><br \/>\n1969 John Brunner: <em>Stand on Zanzibar<\/em><br \/>\n1970 Ursula K. Le Guin: <em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1971 Larry Niven: <em>Ringworld<\/em><br \/>\n1972 Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer: <em>To Your Scattered Bodies Go<\/em><br \/>\n1973 Isaac Asimov: <em>The Gods Themselves<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1974 Arthur C. Clarke: <em>Rendezvous with Rama<\/em><br \/>\n1975 Ursula K. Le Guin: <em>The Dispossessed<\/em><br \/>\n1976 Joe Haldeman: <em>The Forever War<\/em><br \/>\n1977 Kate Wilhelm: <em>Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang<\/em><br \/>\n1978 Frederik Pohl: <em>Gateway<\/em><br \/>\n1979 Vonda N. McIntyre: <em>Dreamsnake<\/em><br \/>\n1980 Arthur C. Clarke: <em>The Fountains of Paradise<\/em><br \/>\n1981 Joan D. Vinge: <em>The Snow Queen<\/em><br \/>\n1982 C. J. Cherryh: <em>Downbelow Station<\/em><br \/>\n1983 Isaac Asimov: <em>Foundation&#8217;s Edge<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1984 David Brin: <em>Startide Rising<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1985 William Gibson: <em>Neuromancer<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1986 Orson Scott Card: <em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1987 Orson Scott Card: <em>Speaker for the Dead<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1988 David Brin: <em>The Uplift War<\/em><br \/>\n1989 C. J. Cherryh: <em>Cyteen<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1990 Dan Simmons: <em>Hyperion<\/em><br \/>\n1991 Lois McMaster Bujold: <em>The Vor Game<\/em><br \/>\n1992 Lois McMaster Bujold: <em>Barrayar<\/em><br \/>\n1993 (1) Vernor Vinge: <em>A Fire Upon the Deep<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1993 (2) Connie Willis: <em>Doomsday Book<\/em><br \/>\n1994 Kim Stanley Robinson: <em>Green Mars<\/em><br \/>\n1995 Lois McMaster Bujold: <em>Mirror Dance<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 1996 Neal Stephenson: <em>The Diamond Age<\/em><br \/>\n1997 Kim Stanley Robinson: <em>Blue Mars<\/em><br \/>\n1998 Joe Haldeman: <em>Forever Peace<\/em><br \/>\n1999 Connie Willis: <em>To Say Nothing of the Dog<\/em><br \/>\n2000 Vernor Vinge: <em>A Deepness in the Sky<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 2001 J. K. Rowling: <em>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 2002 Neil Gaiman: <em>American Gods<\/em><br \/>\n2003 Robert J. Sawyer: <em>Hominids<\/em><br \/>\n2004 Lois McMaster Bujold: <em>Paladin of Souls<\/em><br \/>\n2005 Susanna Clarke: <em>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell<\/em><br \/>\n2006 Robert Charles Wilson: <em>Spin<\/em><br \/>\n2007 Vernor Vinge: <em>Rainbows End<\/em><br \/>\n2008 Michael Chabon: <em>The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 2009 Neil Gaiman: <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em><br \/>\n2010 (1) Paolo Bacigalupi: <em>The Windup Girl<\/em><br \/>\n2010 (2) China Mi\u00e9ville: <em>The City &amp; the City<\/em><br \/>\n2011 Connie Willis: <em>Blackout\/All Clear<\/em><br \/>\n2012 Jo Walton: <em>Among Others<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 2013 John Scalzi: <em>Redshirts<\/em><br \/>\n\u2713 2014 Ann Leckie: <em>Ancillary Justice<\/em><br \/>\n2015 Cixin Liu: <em>The Three-Body Problem<\/em><br \/>\n&#x2705; 2016 N. K. Jemisin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2647247390\"><em>The Fifth Season<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&#x2705; 2017 N. K. Jemisin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2653007580\"><em>The Obelisk Gate<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n&#x2705; 2018 N. K. 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