Two ways to choose a winner
Both honor the year's best science fiction and fantasy. The difference is who votes.
Hugo Awards
- Voted by
- Fans: members of that year's Worldcon
- First given
- 1953 (none in 1954, annual since 1955)
- In our catalog
- 25 winners
Named for pioneering magazine editor Hugo Gernsback and presented each year at the World Science Fiction Convention.
Browse Hugo winners and nominees Nebula Awards
- Voted by
- Writers: members of SFWA
- First given
- 1966, for 1965 works
- In our catalog
- 24 winners
Presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, so the voters are people who write the genre for a living.
Browse Nebula winners and nominees Won both: 14 books
Fans and professional writers vote separately, and they often pick different books. Of the 25 Hugo and 24 Nebula winners in our catalog, these 14, from 1966 to 2021, won both.
Browse all 14 books that won both
Hugo Nebula
Martha Wells
2021
Science Fiction Space OperaCyberpunk
Murderbot, a security unit that has hacked its own governor module, continues its adventures while trying to protect the humans it reluctantly cares for.
Hugo Nebula
Mary Robinette Kowal
2019
Science Fiction Alternate History
An alternate history where a meteorite strikes Earth in the 1950s, accelerating the space program with a female mathematician pilot leading the way.
Hugo Nebula
N.K. Jemisin
2018
Fantasy Post-Apocalyptic
A mother with earth-shattering powers must find and reconcile with her daughter before one of them ends their dying world forever.
Hugo Nebula
Ann Leckie
2014
Science Fiction Space OperaMilitary Sci-fi
The story of a warship's artificial intelligence that ends up in a human body seeking revenge.
Hugo Nebula
Jo Walton
2012
Fantasy Contemporary FantasyMagical Realism
A Welsh teenager with the ability to see fairies is sent to boarding school after her twin's death and her mother's descent into madness.
Hugo Nebula
Connie Willis
2011
Science Fiction Historical Sci-fi
Time-traveling historians find themselves trapped in London during the Blitz of World War II, where their actions may change the course of history.
Hugo Nebula
Paolo Bacigalupi
2010
Science Fiction Post-Apocalyptic
A biopunk vision of a future Thailand struggling with climate change and biotechnology.
Hugo Nebula
Michael Chabon
2008
Science Fiction Alternate History
In an alternate history where Jewish refugees settled in Alaska after World War II, a detective investigates a murder that may have messianic implications.
Hugo Nebula
Lois McMaster Bujold
2004
Fantasy High FantasyRomance
A middle-aged queen dowager, long believed mad, embarks on a pilgrimage that leads her into political intrigue and divine mysteries.
Hugo Nebula
Neil Gaiman
2002
Fantasy Contemporary FantasyUrban FantasyDark Fantasy
A dark fantasy that blends Americana, mythology, and the immigrant experience.
Hugo Nebula
Orson Scott Card
1987
Science Fiction Space Opera
Thousands of years after the events of Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin travels to a colony world to speak the truth about a dead man and confront an alien species that may be doomed to the same fate as the Buggers.
Hugo Nebula
Joe Haldeman
1976
Science Fiction Military Sci-fi
Soldiers fighting an interstellar war experience time dilation, returning to an increasingly unrecognizable Earth as centuries pass.
Hugo Nebula
Ursula K. Le Guin
1970
Science Fiction Political Sci-fi
A human ambassador is sent to the planet Winter, where the inhabitants are ambisexual, shifting between male and female, challenging his understanding of gender and humanity.
Hugo Nebula
Frank Herbert
1966
Science Fiction Space Opera
A sweeping epic of politics, religion, and ecology on the desert planet Arrakis.