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)
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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