Hugo Awards - Best novels of the 1970's

This is a list of the best novel award for the 1970's
The Hugos have been awarded since the 1950s.

My Personal Favourites: The Left Hand of Darkness & The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin,
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. 
Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) by Stephen Donaldson .. a personal fav, though it didn't win a Hugo.
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy  ...  .. a personal fav, though it didn't win a Hugo.
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick (1977)


1970

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [Ace, 1969]

 Published    1969 (Ace Books)[2]
Media type    Print (paperback original; hardcover also 1969)
Pages    286 (first edition)

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1971

Ringworld by Larry Niven [Ballantine, 1970]

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 Publisher    Ballantine Books
Publication date
    October 1970
Media type    Print (hardcover, paperback), audiobook
Pages    342 pages
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1971)
ISBN    0-345-02046-4








 1972

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer [Putnam, 1971]


 Genre    Science fiction
Publisher    Putnam Publishing Group
Publication date
    June 1971
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)

Note: The short stories "Day of the Great Shout" (Worlds of Tomorrow" magazine Jan-1965) and "The Suicide Express" (Worlds of Tomorrow" magazine, Mar-1966) were edited and combined into the first published Riverworld novel "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" (1971)
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1973

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov [Galaxy Mar/Apr,May/Jun 1972; If Mar/Apr 1972]

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 Publisher    Doubleday
Publication date
    1972
Media type    Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages    288
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1973)
ISBN    0-385-02701-X

The book is divided into three main parts, which were first published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If as three consecutive stories.

 
+ The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov - summary & review

galaxy magazine march 1972 ***

Worlds of If magazine April 1972 ***

galaxy magazine may 1972 ***

 

 

 

 

 

1974

Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke [Galaxy Sep,Oct 1973; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973]
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 Publisher    Gollancz (UK)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (US)
Publication date
    Jun 1973 (UK)
Aug 1973 (US)
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    256 (UK)
69,048 words[3]
Awards    Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Locus Award for Best Novel, etc.
ISBN    0-575-01587-X (UK)

Review:  Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

Rendezvous With Rama also appeared in Galaxy magazine
  Sep1973

Oct 1973; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973]


















1975

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin [Harper & Row, 1974]


 Published    1974 (Harper & Row)
Media type    Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages    341 (first edition)
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1975)
ISBN    0-06-012563-2 (first edition, hardcover)











1976

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman [St. Martin’s, 1974]

Publisher    St. Martin's Press
Publication date
    1974
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    236
Awards    Nebula Award for Best Novel (1975)

Locus Award for Best Novel (1976)
Hugo Award for Best Novel (1976)
ISBN    0-312-29890-0






1977

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm [Harper & Row, 1976]

Publisher    Harper & Row
Publication date
    1976
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    207
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1977)
ISBN    0-06-014654-0

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1978

Gateway by Frederik Pohl [Galaxy Nov,Dec 1976,Mar 1977; St. Martin’s, 1977]

Publisher    St. Martin's Press
Publication date
    April 1977
(serial from Nov 1976)[1]
Media type    Print (hardcover)
Pages    313 (first ed.)
Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1978)
ISBN    0-312-31780-8
OCLC    2862581

Awards    Locus Award for Best Novel (1978)

                1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel,

                1978 John W. Campbell Memorial Award 

                         for Best Science Fiction Novel

It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed (five books overall). 

 

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Gateway was serialized in Galaxy prior to its hardcover publication.

November 1976, (Book 1, Part 1), 

Dec 1976, (Book 1, Part 2)

March 1977, (Book 1, Part 3)

 

1979

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre [Houghton Mifflin, 1978]

Publisher    Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
    1978
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    277
Awards   

    Hugo Award for Best Novel (1979)
    Locus Award for Best Novel (1979)
    Nebula Award for Best Novel (1978)

ISBN    0-395-26470-7 

A portion of this book originally appeared in ANALOG Science Fiction/Science Fact.(february 1978 ?? serpent's death )

"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"  by Vonda N. McIntyre. which was first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in October 1973, formed the first chapter of McIntyre's 1978 novel Dreamsnake. 

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