Hugo Nominated Novels & Winners from the 1940s and 1950s

Explore the iconic Hugo Award-winning and nominated novels from the 1940s and 1950s. Discover classic sci-fi masterpieces that shaped the genre's golden era.

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Foundation and Empire

by Isaac Asimov

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Led by its …
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The World of Null-A

by A. E. van Vogt

Presents the science fiction classic set in the year 2650, where the Games Machine--twenty-five thousand electronic brains--sets the course of people's lives.
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That Hideous Strength

by Clive Staples Lewis

The dark forces that were repulsed in "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra" are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word …
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Pebble in the Sky

by Isaac Asimov

A satire on our own racial intolerances and our own militarists.
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Tales of the Dying Earth

by Jack Vance

All four books in "The Dying Earth" science fiction series are now available in single volume.
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The Demolished Man

by Alfred Bester

In 2301, a psychopathic business magnate comes up with the ultimate plan to eliminate his competition and destroy the order of society.
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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman, his job is to burn books, which are forbidden.
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Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries. Childhood’s End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey …
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Mission of Gravity

by Hal Clement

Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world …
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The Caves of Steel

by Isaac Asimov

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic …
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More Than Human

by Theodore Sturgeon

In this genre-bending novel—among the first to have launched sci-fi into the arena of literature—one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a …
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Double Star

by Robert Anson Heinlein

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career …
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A Case of Conscience

by James Blish

Winner of the Hugo Award • The future of Earth will rely upon one man’s sense of right and wrong. . . . Father Ruiz-Sanchez …
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