Hugo Awards

Discover These Hugo Award Winners
and Their Spellbinding Audiobooks

Hugo Awards are given for excellence in science fiction and fantasy. Awarded annually since 1955, the awards are run by and voted upon by fans. The prestigious sci-fi awards are presented yearly at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). Awards are given across different categories, from the best novel and best novella to the best graphic story and best fancast. Past winners include N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Arkady Martine, and John Scalzi. Discover our list of the most spellbinding sci-fi works that earned a Hugo Award over the years.
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    • A Miles Vorkosigan Novel
    • Written by: Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Vorkosigan Saga (chronological), Book 10
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2007-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • 1995 winner
    • Best novel
      Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 1995, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Mirror Dance is a sci-fi thriller with an ethical core. Dwarfish yet brilliant, Miles Vorkosigan recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Mark. Miles doesn’t hold a grudge. But when he lets his clone brother assume his secret identity as the leader of a mission to liberate clones across the planet, Mark is in over his head. Then things get messy.

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    • Written by: Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Series: Mars Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • 1994 winner
    • Best novel
      In this stunning sequel to Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson takes the colonization of Mars to a new generation with a new set of problems and concerns. Green Mars, which won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1994, takes listeners to the farthest frontier of humanity's struggle to survive.

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    • Written by: Connie Willis
    • Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
    • Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • 1993 winner
    • Best novel
      Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travel series won its first Hugo Award for best novel in 1993 with Doomsday Book. In this dark and gripping novel, Oxford student and avid time traveler Kivrin gets trapped in one of the deadliest eras in history—the 14th century. Her struggle to survive and return to the present sheds light on what makes us most human through the ages.

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    • A Miles Vorkosigan Novel
    • Written by: Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Vorkosigan Saga (chronological), Book 5
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2005-07-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • 1991 winner
    • Best novel
      First published in 1990, The Vor Game won Lois McMaster Bujold a Hugo Award for the best novel the following year. Protagonist Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy and leads a mutiny against his military commander's criminal orders. He rejoins his team of mercenaries and tries to rescue Emperor Gregor.

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    • Written by: Dan Simmons
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
    • Series: Hyperion, Book 1
    • Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2008-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 683 ratings
    • 1990 winner
    • Best novel
      The first of four books in Dan Simmons’s series, Hyperion won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990. Opening on the eve of Armageddon, it follows seven pilgrims on a final voyage to the world of Hyperion. There waits a creature called the Shrike. Some worship it, some fear it and some vow to destroy it. What these pilgrims are seeking is answers to the riddles of their lives.

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    • The Uplift Saga, Book 3
    • Written by: David Brin
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Series: Uplift Saga, Book 3
    • Length: 27 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 1988 winner
    • Best novel
      The Uplift War from David Brin’s Uplift Saga won a Hugo Award in 1988. This epic sci-fi listen is set in a universe where no species has reached sentience without the "uplifting" help of a patron race. The story delves into the greatest mystery of all: Who uplifted humankind?

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    • Special 20th Anniversary Edition
    • Written by: Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
    • Series: The Ender Saga, Book 1, The Enderverse, Book 6
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2001-12-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • 1986 winner
    • Best novel
      Orson Scott Card’s military science fiction won the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel. Ender’s Game tells the story of Ender Wiggin, who gets sent to a training academy named Battle School, located in orbit. He starts to train as a soldier that will eventually battle against an alien race called "Buggers."

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    • The Uplift Saga, Book 2
    • Written by: David Brin
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Series: Uplift Saga, Book 2
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 1984 winner
    • Best novel
      In David Brin’s Startide Rising, winner of the 1984 Hugo Award for best novel, the first starship designed and crewed by dolphins discovers a derelict armada with evidence of the first sentient species ever. The starship starts a war between dozens of galactic races eager to use the information for their advancement.

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    • Written by: Isaac Asimov
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Foundation, Book 6
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2011-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • 1983 winner
    • Best novel
      Isaac Asimov’s Foundation’s Edge is the 1983 winner of the Hugo Award for best novel. It is set against a costly and bitter war between the two Foundations, which has finally ended. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation set out in search of the mythical planet Earth and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.

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    • Written by: C. J. Cherryh
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2012-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 1982 winner
    • Best novel
      In C. J. Cherryh’s 1982 Hugo Award-winning novel, Pell’s Station is orbiting the alien world called Downbelow. It has always remained neutral in the ever-escalating conflict between The Company, whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pell's location makes her the focal point in a battle between colonies, played out in Downbelow Station.

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    • Written by: Vonda N. McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2008-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 1979 winner
    • Best novel
      In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, a gifted woman named Snake travels the Earth, healing the sick and injured. Her companion is a slithering alien whose bite has the power to ease the fear and pain of death. Vonda N. McIntyre’s Dreamsnake won the 1979 Hugo Award for best novel.

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    • Written by: Kate Wilhelm
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2007-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 1977 winner
    • Best novel
      Winner of the 1977 best novel Hugo, Kate Wilhelm’s Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a post- apocalyptic tale with a twist. When doomsday came, the wealthy Sumner family was ready. Their descendants would have everything they needed to not only survive but also continue to do scientific research. But the family was soon plagued by sterility, and the creation of clones offered the only answer.

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    • Written by: Joe Haldeman
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Series: The Forever War, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • 1976 winner
    • Best novel
      In Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 1976, William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. With each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the war ends?

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 5
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2010-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • 1975 winner
    • Best novel
      Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed claimed the Hugo for best novel in 1975. Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe.

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    • Rama Series, Book 1
    • Written by: Arthur C. Clarke
    • Narrated by: Toby Longworth
    • Series: Rama, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2013-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • 1974 winner
    • Best novel
      Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama won a Hugo Award in 1974. At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers call Rama. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object but an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and scientists prepare for humankind’s first encounter with alien intelligence.

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    • Written by: Philip José Farmer
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Series: Riverworld, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-31
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • 1972 winner
    • Best novel
      First published in 1971, this hit sci-fi story won Philip Jose Farmer a Hugo Award for best novel in 1972. To Your Scattered Bodies Go combines two stories—it explores what would happen to humanity if all people were resurrected in a massive river valley and follows one man's struggle to discover those who caused this resurrection.

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    • Written by: Larry Niven
    • Narrated by: Tom Parker
    • Series: Known Space, Book 12, Ringworld, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2012-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • 1971 winner
    • Best novel
      In Ringworld, winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 1971, Larry Niven takes listeners on a tour of a strange phenomenon in space. About the size of the Earth’s orbit around the sun, Ringworld stands out for its remarkable gravitational force, which means there’s no need for a roof, among its many unusual features. But who made it?

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