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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    • Written by: Fritz Leiber
    • Narrated by: Norman Deitz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2007-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 1965 winner
    • Best novel
      The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber earned a Hugo Award for best novel in 1965. In this captivating title set in the future, men and women have colonized the moon, and technological advances have created a better life for those on Earth. But the arrival of "the Wanderer" threatens to change all that.

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    • Written by: Clifford D. Simak
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2008-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • 1964 winner
    • Best novel
      Clifford D. Simak’s Way Station won the iconic American science fiction author a Hugo Award for best novel in 1964. In this spectacular listen, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit who has been striding across his untended farm for over a century, carrying his gun from the Civil War. Inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.

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    • Written by: Philip K. Dick
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2015-06-02
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • 1963 winner
    • Best novel
      Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel is set in America in 1962, where slavery is legal again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In The Man in the High Castle, Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

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    • Written by: Walter M. Miller Jr.
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • 1961 winner
    • Best novel
      The 1961 winner of the best novel Hugo Award is Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. In a nightmarish, ruined world, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by monks. They are dedicated to studying and preserving the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. The story spans centuries of ignorance, violence and barbarism.

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    • Written by: Robert A. Heinlein
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 1998-12-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • 1960 winner
    • Best novel
      Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers was recognized in the 1960 Hugo Awards. The motto of The Third Space War is "join the army and see the universe". A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and straight into battle against humankind’s most alarming enemy.

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    • Written by: James Blish
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2008-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 1959 winner
    • Best novel
      A Case of Conscience, which won James Blish a Hugo Award for best novel in 1959, follows Father Ruiz-Sanchez, a dedicated priest who is also a scientist. He comes across a race of admirable aliens, except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith and science.

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    • Written by: Fritz Leiber
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2008-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 1958 winner
    • Best novel
      Fritz Leiber’s vintage sci-fi hit The Big Time won the Hugo Award for best novel back in 1958. It is the late American writer’s most famous work. The Big Time is written in the first person and told from the perspective of Greta, an entertainer who works in The Place, a rest-stop for the soldiers fighting in the Change War. They go there in search of R&R and to escape the never-ending battles to change the future and the past.

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