Hugo Awards - Best Sci Fi Novels - 1980s

This is a list of the best novel award for the 1980's
The Hugos have been awarded since the 1950s.

The official Hugo Awards website is:
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/

My personal favourites from this decade are: Ender’s Game & Speaker for the Dead
Neuromancer by William Gibson,  Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
+The golden Torc by Julian May (1982) ... didn't win any award, but a personal fave.
Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks (1987), The player of Games by Iain M. Banks (1988).


1980

The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke [Gollancz, 1979; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979]
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Publisher	Victor Gollancz (UK) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (US)
Publication date	1979
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	256
ISBN	0-575-02520-4

First UK edition, precedes the U.S. first edition.







1981

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge [Dial Press, 1980]

Publisher    Dial Press (USA)
Publication date
    1980
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    471
Award    Hugo Award for Best Novel,
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (all 1981)
ISBN    0-8037-7739-6

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1982

Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh [DAW, 1981]
Published    1981 (DAW Books)
Media type    Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Hardback has 439 pages
I understand that the Book club edition (SFCB - Science Fiction Book Club) was the first edition in hardcover.
L10 gutter code page 438 

Award    Hugo Award for Best Novel
ISBN    84-7002-376-4

This is the first book in the  Union-Alliance novels
It's part of the space opera covering the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung colonies 

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The Paperback first edition has 420 pages
This peceded the Science Fiction Book Club edition. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4, *4-103. Cover art by David Mattingly.

Award    Hugo Award for Best Novel
ISBN    84-7002-376-4
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1983

Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov [Doubleday, 1982]

Published    1982 (Doubleday)
Media type    Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages    367
Awards    Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1983)
ISBN    0-385-17725-9











1984

Startide Rising by David Brin [Bantam, 1983]

Publisher    Bantam Books
Publication date
    1983
Media type    Print (Paperback & Hardback)
Pages    462 (first edition, paperback)
Award    Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1984)
ISBN    0-553-23495-1 (first edition, paperback)
This is the second of 6 books in the "Uplift War Series".

The six books are:

 Sundiver
Startide Rising
The Uplift War
Brightness Reef
Infinity's Shore
Heaven's Reach

1985

Neuromancer by William Gibson [Ace, 1984]

Publisher    Ace
Publication date
    July 1, 1984
Media type    Print (paperback and hardback)
Pages    271
ISBN    0-441-56956-0











1986

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card [Tor, 1985]

Publisher    Tor Books
Publication date
    15 January 1985
Media type    Print (Hardcover, Paperback & Ebook)
Pages    324
ISBN    0-312-93208-1



Ender's Game was recognized as "best novel" by the 1985 Nebula Award and the 1986 Hugo Award

 There are four sequels—Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1991), Children of the Mind (1996), and Ender in Exile (2008)

The book originated as a short story of the same name, published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

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1987

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card [Tor, 1986]

This is an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game.
Like Ender's Game, the book won the Nebula Award in 1986 and the Hugo Award in 1987.

Publisher    Tor Books
Publication date
    March 1986
Pages    415
Award    Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1987)
ISBN    0-312-93738-5







1988

The Uplift War by David Brin [Phantasia, 1987; Bantam Spectra, 1987]

Publisher    Bantam Spectra
Publication date
    1987
Media type    Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages    506
Award    Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988)
ISBN    0-932096-44-1

nominated as the best novel for the 1987 Nebula Award and won the 1988 Hugo and Locus Awards.

 

 

 

This is the third of 6 books in the "Uplift War Series".

The six books are:

 Sundiver
Startide Rising
The Uplift War
Brightness Reef
Infinity's Shore
Heaven's Reach 

1989

Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh [Warner, 1988]

Publisher    Warner Books
Publication date
    May 1988
Pages    680 (Hardback)
Awards    Hugo Award for Best Novel (1989)
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1989)
ISBN    0-446-51428-4
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