Two ways to choose a winner

Both honor the year's best science fiction and fantasy. The difference is who votes.

Hugo Award logo: a rocket above the words HUGO AWARD

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.

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Nebula Awards logo: a purple and gold badge with a spiral galaxy above the word NEBULA

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.

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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.

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Hugo Nebula

Network Effect

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

The Calculating Stars

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

The Stone Sky

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

Ancillary Justice

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

Among Others

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

Blackout/All Clear

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

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

2010

Science Fiction Post-Apocalyptic

A biopunk vision of a future Thailand struggling with climate change and biotechnology.

Hugo Nebula

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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

Paladin of Souls

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

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

2002

Fantasy Contemporary FantasyUrban FantasyDark Fantasy

A dark fantasy that blends Americana, mythology, and the immigrant experience.

Hugo Nebula

Speaker for the Dead

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

The Forever War

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

The Left Hand of Darkness

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

Dune

Frank Herbert

1966

Science Fiction Space Opera

A sweeping epic of politics, religion, and ecology on the desert planet Arrakis.

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