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[ffutures]

Gacked from Secondsilk, another of those memes I don't usually do.

The following is a list of Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning novels (not including retro-Hugos)
Bold the ones you’ve finished
Italicise the ones you’ve started but not finished
Underline the ones were you’ve seen the film/tv show



...And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
The Children’s War by J. N. Stroyar
Collaborator by Murray Davies
Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
Declare by Tim Powers
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce
The Family Trade, The Hidden Family and The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Galveston by Sean Stewart
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Here Gather the Stars (aka: Way Station) by Clifford D. Simak
Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Koko by Peter Straub
Last Call by Tim Powers
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big by John Crowley
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Lyonesse: Madouc by Jack Vance
Making History by Stephen Fry
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Pasquale’s Angel by Paul J. McAuley
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
The Severed Wing by Martin J. Gidron
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Startide Rising by David Brin
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
They’d Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (it's terrible)
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Thraxas by Martin Scott
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (I'm currently writing the RPG!)
Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
The Uplift War by David Brin
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
Voyage by Stephen Baxter
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm



I've read quite a few of them. No real surprises there considering I've been reading SF and fantasy since I was 12.

Comments

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

I liked the list because it had a rationale behind which ones were included. Not that I've read anymore from this list than other SF lists I've seen.

It also, actually, includes Sideways Award winners as well.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's an excellent list for a good overview of SF, if you omit the two or three that suck.

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Which two or three are that?
I feel bad that there are so many I've never even come across before, let alone gotten out to read.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The ones I've italicised, plus
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman - VERY disappointing after The Forever War
They’d Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley - nobody could understand why this one won a Hugo even in the year it was awarded, it's it's a mixture of John W. Campbell psionic gobbledygook and Dianetics-style "science"

Most of the rest are at least readable.

Just checked the Wikipedia article on the Hugos to see if I could work out why the They'd Rather Be Right won - unfortunately it doesn't say much or list the other nominees for that year, it just says "They'd Rather Be Right (also published as The Forever Machine) is a science fiction novel by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley. It was first published as a four-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1954. It won the Hugo award for best novel in 1955.It has been widely labeled as the worst novel to ever win a Hugo. [citation needed]"

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Review here

http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/ratherbe.html