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The Hugo Awards are given for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Awarded annually since 1955, the awards are run by, and voted on, by fans.The Hugo Awards are presented each year at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
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  • The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu
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    • By Cixin Liu
    • Narrated By Luke Daniels
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    Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.

    Josh says: "They create a computer using a 30 million man Army"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2015
  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | Chris Wyatt, Marvel Press
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    Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

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    • By Chris Wyatt, Marvel Press
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    An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy tells the story of a group of cosmic misfits - Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot - who band together to protect a mysterious orb against Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe.

    Amazon Customer says: "not the whole story"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, 2015
  • Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie
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    • By Ann Leckie
    • Narrated By Celeste Ciulla
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    On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body.

    Greyflood says: "Difficult story, awful narration"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2014
  • Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas | John Scalzi
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    • By John Scalzi
    • Narrated by Wil Wheaton
    • Length:7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release Date: 06-05-12
    • 4.20  (10331 ratings)
    Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

    Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

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    • By John Scalzi
    • Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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    Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.

    Kent says: "Clever, creative, and FUN!"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2013
  • The Emperor's Soul | Brandon Sanderson
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    The Emperor's Soul

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    • By Brandon Sanderson
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    New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson is widely celebrated for his Mistborn Trilogy and contribution to the final three books of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. In The Emperor's Soul, a Forger named Shai can copy and re-create any item by using magic to rewrite its history. After being condemned to death for attempting to steal the emperor's scepter, Shai is given one final chance. She' ll be allowed to live if she can create a new soul for the emperor, who hovers near death.

    debbie says: "A Great Short Novella that is Long in Story"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novella, 2013
  • A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1 | George R. R. Martin
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    • By George R. R. Martin
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    In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow.

    DCinMI says: "Review of First 5 Books"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Dramatic Presentation, 2013
  • Among Others | Jo Walton
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    Among Others

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    • By Jo Walton
    • Narrated By Katherine Kellgren
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    Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

    Eoin says: "Subtle Character Piece"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2012
  • Six Months, Three Days: A Tor.Com Original | Charlie Jane Anders
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    Six Months, Three Days: A Tor.Com Original

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    • By Charlie Jane Anders
    • Narrated By James MacKenzie
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    Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can't both be right, but over and over again, they are. Obviously these are the last two people in the world who should date. So, naturally, they do.

    L H says: "Just a story"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novelette, 2012
  • Blackout | Connie Willis
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    Blackout

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    • By Connie Willis
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    In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

    Monica says: "Double review - Blackout and All Clear"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2011
  • All Clear | Connie Willis
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    All Clear

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    • By Connie Willis
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    Three time-traveling historians are visiting World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.

    Mike From Mesa says: "Rescued by the second half"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2011
  • The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi
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    • By Paolo Bacigalupi
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    Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.

    Marius says: "Al Gore nightmare meets Blade Runner."
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2010
  • The City & The City | China Mieville
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    • By China Mieville
    • Narrated by John Lee
    • Length:10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release Date: 05-26-09
    • 4.00  (1194 ratings)
    The City & The City

    The City & The City

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    • By China Mieville
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    When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlof the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borl must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own.

    James says: "Interesting Premise"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2010
  • The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman
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    • By Neil Gaiman
    • Length:7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release Date: 09-30-08
    • 4.50  (9028 ratings)
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    The Graveyard Book

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    Why we think it’s a great listen: Gaiman’s not just an award-winning author, but a narrator who earns rave reviews – and fields requests from other authors to perform their books, too! Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead....

    Guillermo says: "Masterful Fantasy for the Jaded Heart"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2009
  • Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge
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    • By Vernor Vinge
    • Narrated By Eric Conger
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    Set a few decades from now, Rainbows End is an epic adventure that encapsulates in a single extended family the challenges of the technological advances of the first quarter of the 21st century. The information revolution of the past 30 years blossoms into a web of conspiracies that could destroy Western civilization. At the center of the action is Robert Gu, a former Alzheimer's victim who has regained his mental and physical health through radical new therapies, and his family.

    Steve says: "Great Discovery"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2007
  • Spin | Robert Charles Wilson
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    Spin

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    • By Robert Charles Wilson
    • Narrated By Scott Brick
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    One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.

    Brian says: "Great Listen!"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2006
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke
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    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

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    • By Susanna Clarke
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    English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.

    D. McMillen says: "Hang in there!"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2005
  • Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold
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    • By Lois McMaster Bujold
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    Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets, for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road, escape, beckons...A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of Chalion.

    Dave S says: "Excellent Sequel"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2004
  • Hominids: The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1 | Robert J. Sawyer
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    Hominids: The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1

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    • By Robert J. Sawyer
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    Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist Mary Vaughan, promptly identifies and warmly receives Ponter. Solving the language problem and much else is a mini-computer, called a Companion, implanted in the brain of every Neanderthal. But it can't help his fellow scientist back in his world, Adikor Huld, when the authorities charge Adikor with his murder.

    Scott says: "Scicen Fiction Can Be Literature"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2003
  • American Gods | Neil Gaiman
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    American Gods

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    • By Neil Gaiman
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    For the three years Shadow spent in prison, all he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place.

    Aaron says: "Perfect match of story maker and teller."
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2002
  • A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge
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    A Deepness in the Sky

    • UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 25 mins)
    • By Vernor Vinge
    • Narrated By Peter Larkin
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    After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. There are two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches.

    Amen-Ra says: "A science fiction classic"
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 2000
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