Hugo best sci fi novels of the 1960's

Saturday, 13 August 2016

Hugo best sci fi novels of the 1960's

This is a list of the best novel award for the 1960's
The Hugos have been awarded since the 1950s.

My personal favourites from the 60's : Dune, Starship Troopers,
And Call Me Conrad (alt: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny,
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (Nebula Awards)
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (1961)
Ice, by Anna Kavan (1967)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K Dick (1968)

1960 - Best Novel

Starship Troopers (alt: Starship Soldier) by Robert A. Heinlein [F&SF Oct,Nov 1959; Putnam, 1959]

Publisher    G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
    November 5, 1959[4]
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    263 (paperback edition)

The story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) as Starship Soldier,

October 1959 ***

November 1959 ***

1960 - best short story

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17)
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1961- Best Novel

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. [J. B. Lippincott, 1959]

Published    October, 1959 (J. B. Lippincott & Co.)
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    320

The novel is a fix-up of three short stories Miller published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction that were inspired by the author's participation in the bombing of the monastery at the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II.

April 1955 F& SF - A Canticle for Leibowitz +

August 1956 F & SF "And the Light Is Risen" +

Feb 1957 F & SF "The Last Canticle" +

1962 - Best Novel

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein [Putnam, 1961]

Publisher    G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
    June 1, 1961
Media type    Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages    408 (208,018 words)
ISBN    978-0-441-79034-0

1963 - Best Novel

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick [Putnam, 1962]
Publisher    Putnam
Publication date
    October 1962
Media type    Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages    240
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+ The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K Dick -Review

1964 - Best Novel

Here Gather the Stars (alt: Way Station) by Clifford D. Simak [Galaxy Jun,Aug 1963]

Publisher    Doubleday
Publication date
    1963
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN    978-0345284204

1965 - Best Novel

The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber [Ballantine, 1964]

Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	318
ISBN	0-575-07112-5 (SF Masterworks series edition)

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1966 - Best Novel
Dune by Frank Herbert [Chilton, 1965] (tie)
And Call Me Conrad (alt: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny [F&SF Oct,Nov 1965; Ace, 1965] (tie)

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (nebula awards)

Dune by Frank Herbert [Chilton, 1965] (tie)

Published   August 1965
Publisher   Chilton Books
Media type   Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages   412

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And Call Me Conrad (alt: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny [F&SF Oct,Nov 1965; Ace, 1965] (tie)

Publisher    Ace Books
Publication date
    July 1966
Media type    Print (Paperback)

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1966 - Best All-Time Series

A special mention about the 1966 Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series".

This was won by Isaac Asimov for his "Foundation" Series.

This beat JRR Tolken for his "Lord of the Rings" and Robert A. Heinlein for "Future History" .

It's interesting to note that Tolken never won a Hugo award.

Seems that though the Hugos did not exclude fantasy, the award in the 60's was aimed more at science fiction. Times and tastes have certainly changed.

The first fantasy novel to win was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2001.

Since then the Fantasy Genre has found greater acceptance.

Hugo (fantasy) winners include American Gods (2002), Paladin of Souls (2004), Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2005), The Graveyard Book (2009) & the Broken Earth Trilogy (2016,17,18).

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1967 - Best Novel

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Publication date
   June 2, 1966
Media type   Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages   382 (1997 Orb books softcover ed.)
ISBN   0-312-86355-1 (1997 Orb books softcover ed.)

Originally serialized monthly in the magazine Worlds of If (December 1965–April 1966)
[Dec 1965***,Jan***,Feb***,Mar***,Apr*** 1966; Putnam, 1966]

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The Best short story award for 1967 was given to Larry Niven, for "Neutron Star".

It was originally published in the October 1966 issue (Issue 107, Vol 16, No 10) of Worlds of If.

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The story is set in Niven's fictional Known Space universe. It is notable for including a neutron star before their (then hypothetical) existence was widely known.

Larry Niven won the Hugo award for his later novel Ringworld in 1970. Also set in the "Known Space" universe.

1968 - Best Novel

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny [Doubleday, 1967]

Published 1967 Doubleday

Media type Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages 257

Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – "Dawn" in April 1967, and "Death and the Executioner" in June 1967.

1969 - Best Novel