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The Hugo & Nebula Awards: 1970-1980



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The official name was originally the Science Fiction Achievement Awards, but since 1992 they are simply the Hugos. Voted on by readers and administered by the World Science Fiction Society. Presented at the annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and dated by the year following the publication of the nominated works.

 

Awarded from votes by the membership of the SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America). Presented in the spring of each year but dated by year of eligibility of the nominated works.

 

 

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1980

 

 

1979

 

Novel: The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke

Titan - John Varley
Jem - Frederik Pohl
Harpist in the Wind - Patricia A. McKillip
On Wings of Song - Thomas M. Disch

 

Novel: The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke

On Wings of Song - Thomas M. Disch
Titan - John Varley
The Road to Corlay - Richard Cowper
Jem - Frederik Pohl
Juniper Time - Kate Wilhelm

 

Novella: Enemy Mine - Barry B. Longyear

Songhouse - Orson Scott Card
The Moon Goddess and the Son - Donald Kingsbury
Ker-Plop - Ted Reynolds
The Battle of the Abaco Reefs - Hilbert Schenck

 

Novella: Enemy Mine - Barry B. Longyear

Fireship - Joan D. Vinge
The Tale of Gorgik - Samuel R. Delany
Mars Masked - Frederik Pohl
The Battle of the Abaco Reefs - Hilbert Schenck
The Story Writer - Richard Wilson

 

Novelette: Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Homecoming - Barry B. Longyear
The Locusts - Steven Barnes & Larry Niven
Fireflood - Vonda N. McIntyre
Options - John Varley
Palely Loitering - Christopher Priest

 

Novelette: Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Options - John Varley
The Ways of Love - Poul Anderson
Camps - Jack Dann
The Pathways of Desire - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Angel of Death - Michael Shea

 

Short Story: The Way of Cross and Dragon - George R. R. Martin

Unaccompanied Sonata - Orson Scott Card
Can These Bones Live? - Ted Reynolds
giANTS - Edward Bryant
Daisy, in the Sun - Connie Willis

 

 

Short Story: giANTS - Edward Bryant

Vernalfest Morning - Michael Bishop
Unaccompanied Sonata - Orson Scott Card
Red as Blood - Tanith Lee
The Way of Cross and Dragon - George R. R. Martin
The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand - Joanna Russ

 

Non-Fiction Book: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia - Peter Nicholls

In Memory Yet Green - Isaac Asimov
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials - Wayne Barlowe & Ian Summers
Wonderworks - Michael Whelan
The Language of the Night - Susan Wood & Ursula K. Le Guin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dramatic Presentation: Alien

Time After Time
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Muppet Movie

 

 

 

 

 

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1979

 

 

1978

 

Novel: Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre

The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey
The Faded Sun: Kesrith - C. J. Cherryh
Blind Voices - Tom Reamy

 

Novel: Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre

The Faded Sun: Kesrith - C. J. Cherryh
Blind Voices - Tom Reamy
Strangers - Gardner Dozois
Kalki - Gore Vidal

 

Novella: The Persistence of Vision - John Varley

Fireship - Joan D. Vinge
The Watched - Christopher Priest
Enemies of the System - Brian W. Aldiss
Seven American Nights - Gene Wolfe

 

Novella: The Persistence of Vision - John Varley

Seven American Nights - Gene Wolfe

 

 

Novelette: Hunter's Moon - Poul Anderson

Mikal's Songbird - Orson Scott Card
The Man Who Had No Idea - Thomas M. Disch
Devil You Don't Know - Dean Ing
The Barbie Murders - John Varley

 

Novelette: A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye - Charles L. Grant

Mikal's Songbird - Orson Scott Card
Devil You Don't Know - Dean Ing

 

Short Story: Cassandra - C. J. Cherryh

Count the Clock That Tells the Time - Harlan Ellison
View from a Height - Joan D. Vinge
Stone - Edward Bryant
The Very Slow Time Machine - Ian Watson

 

Short Story: Stone - Edward Bryant

Cassandra - C. J. Cherryh
A Quiet Revolution for Death - Jack Dann

 

 

Dramatic Presentation: Superman

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio play)
Watership Down
The Lord of the Rings
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

 

 

Grand Master - L. Sprague de Camp

 

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1978

 

 

1977

 

Novel: Gateway - Frederik Pohl

The Forbidden Tower - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lucifer's Hammer - Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Time Storm - Gordon R. Dickson
Dying of the Light - George R. R. Martin

 

Novel: Gateway - Frederik Pohl

In the Ocean of Night - Gregory Benford
Cirque - Terry Carr
Moonstar Odyssey - David Gerrold
Sword of the Demon - Richard A. Lupoff

 

Novella: Stardance - Jeanne & Spider Robinson

In the Hall of the Martian Kings - John Varley
Aztecs - Vonda N. McIntyre
A Snark in the Night - Gregory Benford
The Wonderful Secret - Keith Laumer

 

Novella: Stardance - Jeanne & Spider Robinson

Aztecs - Vonda N. McIntyre

 

 

Novelette: Eyes of Amber - Joan D. Vinge

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Screwfly Solution - James Tiptree Jr. (as Raccoona Sheldon)
Prismatica - Samuel R. Delany
The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs - Carter Scholz

 

Novelette: The Screwfly Solution - James Tiptree Jr. (as Raccoona Sheldon)

A Rite of Spring - Fritz Leiber
Particle Theory - Edward Bryant
The Stone City - George R. R. Martin
The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs - Carter Scholz

 

Short Story: Jeffty is Five - Harlan Ellison

Air Raid - John Varley (as Herb Boehm)
Dog Day Evening - Spider Robinson
Lauralyn - Randall Garrett
Time-Sharing Angel - James Tiptree, Jr.

 

Short Story: Jeffty is Five - Harlan Ellison

Tin Woodsman - Dennis Bailey & David Bischoff
The Hibakusha Gallery - Edward Bryant
Camera Obscura - Thomas F. Monteleone
Air Raid - John Varley (as Herb Boehm)

 

Dramatic Presentation: Star Wars

Wizards
The Hobbit
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper

 

Dramatic Presentation

(special award, not a Nebula): Star Wars

 

 

 

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1977

 

 

1976

 

Novel: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm

Mindbridge - Joe Haldeman
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
Man Plus - Frederik Pohl
Shadrach in the Furnace - Robert Silverberg

 

Novel: Man Plus - Frederik Pohl

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
Shadrach in the Furnace - Robert Silverberg
Triton - Samuel R. Delany (now known as Trouble on Triton)
Inferno - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Islands - Marta Randall

 

Novella: (Tie) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - James Tiptree, Jr. / By Any Other Name - Spider Robinson

The Samurai and the Willows - Michael Bishop
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Richard Cowper

 

Novella: Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - James Tiptree, Jr.

The Samurai and the Willows - Michael Bishop
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Richard Cowper
The Eyeflash Miracles - Gene Wolfe

 

Novelette: The Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov

The Diary of the Rose - Ursula K. Le Guin
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance - John Varley
The Phantom of Kansas - John Varley

 

Novelette: The Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov

His Hour Upon the Stage - Grant Carrington
The Diary of the Rose - Ursula K. Le Guin
Custer's Last Jump - Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop
In the Bowl - John Varley

 

Short Story: Tricentennial - Joe Haldeman

A Crowd of Shadows - Charles L. Grant
I See You - Damon Knight
Custom Fitting - James White

 

 

 

Short Story: A Crowd of Shadows - Charles L. Grant

Tricentennial - Joe Haldeman
Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep - Thomas F. Monteleone
Back to the Stone Age - Jake Saunders
Stone Circle - Lisa Tuttle
Mary Margaret Road-Grader - Howard Waldrop

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Master - Clifford D. Simak

 

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1976

 

 

1975

 

Novel: The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

Doorways in the Sand - Roger Zelazny
Inferno - Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
The Computer Connection - Alfred Bester
The Stochastic Man - Robert Silverberg

 

Novel: The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
A Midsummer Tempest - Poul Anderson
The Computer Connection - Alfred Bester

 

Novella: Home Is the Hangman - Roger Zelazny

The Storms of Windhaven - George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
ARM - Larry Niven
The Silent Eyes of Time - Algis Budrys
The Custodians - Richard Cowper

 

Novella: Home Is the Hangman - Roger Zelazny

The Storms of Windhaven - George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
A Momentary Taste of Being - James Tiptree, Jr.
Sunrise West - William K. Carlson

 

Novelette: The Borderland of Sol - Larry Niven

The New Atlantis - Ursula K. Le Guin
And Seven Times Never Kill Man - George R. R. Martin
San Diego Lightfoot Sue - Tom Reamy
Tinker - Jerry Pournelle

 

Novelette: San Diego Lightfoot Sue - Tom Reamy

A Galaxy Called Rome - Barry N. Malzberg
The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhaill - Randall Garrett
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons - Eleanor Arnason
Blooded on Arachne - Michael Bishop

 

Short Story: Catch That Zeppelin! - Fritz Leiber

Croatoan - Harlan Ellison
Child of All Ages - P. J. Plauger
Sail the Tide of Mourning - Richard A. Lupoff
Rogue Tomato - Michael Bishop
Doing Lennon - Gregory Benford

 

Short Story: Catch That Zeppelin! - Fritz Leiber

Child of All Ages - P. J. Plauger
Shatterday - Harlan Ellison
Doing Lennon - Gregory Benford
White Creatures - Gregory Benford

 

Dramatic Presentation: A Boy and His Dog

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dark Star
Rollerball

 

Dramatic Presentation: Young Frankenstein

Dark Star
A Boy and His Dog

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Master: Jack Williamson

 

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1975

 

 

1974

 

Novel: The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

Fire Time - Poul Anderson
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
The Mote in God's Eye - Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Inverted World - Christopher Priest

 

Novel: The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
334 - Thomas M. Disch
The Godwhale - T. J. Bass

 

 

Novella: A Song for Lya - George R. R. Martin

Strangers - Gardner Dozois
Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg
Riding the Torch - Norman Spinrad
Assault on a City - Jack Vance

 

Novella: Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg

A Song for Lya - George R. R. Martin
On the Street of Serpents or, The Assassination of Chairman Mao, as Effected by the Author in Seville, Spain, in the Spring of 1992, a Year of No Certain Historicity - Michael Bishop

 

Novelette: Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - Harlan Ellison

-- That Thou Art Mindful of Him! - Isaac Asimov
Midnight by the Morphy Watch - Fritz Leiber
After the Dreamtime - Richard A. Lupoff
Extreme Prejudice - Jerry Pournelle

 

Novelette: If the Stars Are Gods - Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund

The Rest is Silence - Charles L. Grant
Twilla - Tom Reamy

 

 

Short Story: The Hole Man - Larry Niven

The Four-Hour Fugue - Alfred Bester
Cathadonian Odyssey - Michael Bishop
The Day Before the Revolution - Ursula K. Le Guin
Schwartz Between the Galaxies - Robert Silverberg

 

Short Story: The Day Before the Revolution - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Engine at Heartspring's Center - Roger Zelazny
After King Kong Fell - Philip José Farmer

 

Dramatic Presentation: Young Frankenstein

Zardoz
Flesh Gordon
Phantom of the Paradise
The Questor Tapes

 

Dramatic Presentation: Sleeper

Frankenstein: The True Story
The Fantastic Planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

The *First* Grand Master
Robert A. Heinlein

 

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1974

 

 

1973

 

Novel: Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein
Protector - Larry Niven
The People of the Wind - Poul Anderson
The Man Who Folded Himself - David Gerrold

 

Novel: Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

The People of the Wind - Poul Anderson
The Man Who Folded Himself - David Gerrold
Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

 

Novella: The Girl Who Was Plugged In - James Tiptree, Jr.

The Death of Doctor Island - Gene Wolfe
Death and Designation Among the Asadi - Michael Bishop
The White Otters of Childhood - Michael Bishop
Chains of the Sea - Gardner Dozois

 

Novella: The Death of Doctor Island - Gene Wolfe

Death and Designation Among the Asadi - Michael Bishop
The White Otters of Childhood - Michael Bishop
Junction - Jack Dann
Chains of the Sea - Gardner Dozois

 

Novelette: The Deathbird - Harlan Ellison

Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - Vonda N. McIntyre
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - James Tiptree, Jr.
The City on the Sand - George Alec Effinger
He Fell into a Dark Hole - Jerry Pournelle

 

Novelette: Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - Vonda N. McIntyre

The Deathbird - Harlan Ellison
Case and the Dreamer - Theodore Sturgeon
The Girl Who Was Plugged In - James Tiptree, Jr.

 

Short Story: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

With Morning Comes Mistfall - George R. R. Martin
Construction Shack - Clifford D. Simak
Wings - Vonda N. McIntyre

 

 

Short Story: Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - James Tiptree, Jr.

Shark - Edward Bryant
With Morning Comes Mistfall - George R. R. Martin
Wings - Vonda N. McIntyre
A Thing of Beauty - Norman Spinrad
How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion - Gene Wolfe

 

Dramatic Presentation: Sleeper

Genesis II
Soylent Green
The Six Million Dollar Man
Westworld

 

Dramatic Presentation: Soylent Green

Westworld
Steambath
Catholics

 

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1973

 

 

1972

 

Novel: The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov

When Harlie Was One - David Gerrold
There Will Be Time - Poul Anderson
The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg
Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
A Choice of Gods - Clifford D. Simak

 

Novel: The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov

The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner
What Entropy Means to Me - George Alec Effinger
When Harlie Was One - David Gerrold
The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg
Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
The Iron Dream - Norman Spinrad

 

Novella: The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Gold at the Starbow's End - Frederik Pohl
The 5th Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe
Hero - Joe Haldeman
The Mercenary - Jerry Pournelle

 

Novella: A Meeting With Medusa - Arthur C. Clarke

Son of the Morning - Phyllis Gotlieb
The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama - Richard A. Lupoff
The Gold at the Starbow's End - Frederik Pohl
The 5th Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe

 

Novelette: Goat Song - Poul Anderson

Patron of the Arts William Rotsler
Basilisk - Harlan Ellison
A Kingdom by the Sea - Gardner Dozois
Painwise - James Tiptree, Jr.

 

 

Novelette: Goat Song - Poul Anderson

The Animal Fair - Alfred Bester
A Kingdom by the Sea - Gardner Dozois
Basilisk - Harlan Ellison
In the Deadlands - David Gerrold
Patron of the Arts - William Rotsler
The Funeral - Kate Wilhelm

 

Short Story: (Tie) Eurema's Dam - R. A. Lafferty
The Meeting - C. M. Kornbluth & Frederik Pohl

When We Went to See the End of the World - Robert Silverberg
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - James Tiptree, Jr.
When It Changed - Joanna Russ

 

Short Story: When It Changed - Joanna Russ

On the Downhill Side - Harlan Ellison
Shaffery Among the Immortals - Frederik Pohl
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - James Tiptree, Jr.
Against the Lafayette Escadrille - Gene Wolfe

 

Dramatic Presentation: Slaughterhouse Five

Silent Running
The People
Between Time and Timbuktu

 

 

 

 

 

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1972

 

 

1971

 

Novel: To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer

The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey
Jack of Shadows - Roger Zelazny
A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberg

 

Novel: A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberg

The Byworlder - Poul Anderson
Half Past Human - T. J. Bass
The Devil is Dead - R. A. Lafferty
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret and I - Kate Wilhelm

 

Novella: The Queen of Air and Darkness - Poul Anderson

A Meeting with Medusa - Arthur C. Clarke
The Fourth Profession - Larry Niven
Dread Empire - John Brunner
A Special Kind of Morning - Gardner Dozois

 

Novella: The Missing Man - Katherine MacLean

Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
The God House - Keith Roberts
The Infinity Box - Kate Wilhelm
The Plastic Abyss - Kate Wilhelm

 

Short Story: Inconstant Moon - Larry Niven

Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Autumn Land - Clifford D. Simak
The Bear with the Knot on His Tail - Stephen Tall
Sky - R. A. Lafferty
All the Last Wars at Once - George Alec Effinger

 

Novelette: The Queen of Air and Darkness - Poul Anderson

A Special Kind of Morning - Gardner Dozois
Mount Charity - Edgar Pangborn
Poor Man, Beggar Man - Joanna Russ
The Encounter - Kate Wilhelm

 

Dramatic Presentation: A Clockwork Orange

The Andromeda Strain
THX 1138
Los Angeles: A.D. 2017
I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus - Firesign Theater

 

Short Story: Good News from the Vatican - Robert Silverberg

Horse of Air - Gardner Dozois
The Last Ghost - Stephen Goldin
Heathen God - George Zebrowski

 

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1971

 

 

1970

 

Novel: Ringworld - Larry Niven

Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg
Star Light - Hal Clement
The Year of the Quiet Sun - Wilson Tucker

 

Novel: Ringworld - Larry Niven

The Steel Crocodile - D. G. Compton
Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty
And Chaos Died - Joanna Russ
Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun - Wilson Tucker

 

Novella: Ill Met in Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber

The Thing in the Stone - Clifford D. Simak
The Region Between - Harlan Ellison
Beastchild - Dean R. Koontz
The World Outside - Robert Silverberg

 

Novella: Ill Met in Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber

The Fatal Fulfillment - Poul Anderson
The Region Between - Harlan Ellison
The Thing in the Stone - Clifford D. Simak
April Fool's Day Forever - Kate Wilhelm

 

Short Story: Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon

Continued on Next Rock - R. A. Lafferty
Jean Dupres - Gordon R. Dickson
Brillo - Harlan Ellison & Ben Bova
In the Queue - Keith Laumer

 

Novelette: Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon

The Asian Shore - Thomas M. Disch
Dear Aunt Annie - Gordon Eklund
Shaker Revival - Gerald Jonas
Continued on Next Rock - R. A. Lafferty
The Second Inquisition - Joanna Russ

 

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2010s

 

 

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1990s

 

 

1980s

 

 

1970s

 

 

1953-70

 

 

Retros

 

 

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