Hugo Awards
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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  • Play Doomsday Book
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    Doomsday Book
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1993

    Doomsday Book

    • UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Connie Willis
    • Narrated By Jenny Sterlin
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong.

    Paul says: "Don't let the bad reviews stop you!"
  • Play The Vor Game: A Miles Vorkosigan Novel
    AUDIOBOOK
    The Vor Game: A Miles Vorkosigan Novel
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1991

    The Vor Game: A Miles Vorkosigan Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Lois McMaster Bujold
    • Narrated By Grover Gardner
    Overall
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    (441)
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    Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus.

    David says: "Finally!"
  • Play Hyperion
    AUDIOBOOK
    Hyperion
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1990

    Hyperion

    • UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By Dan Simmons
    • Narrated By Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
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    (1096)
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    (1100)

    On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

    Mark says: "Brilliant and Well Crafted"
  • Play The Uplift War: The Uplift Saga, Book 3
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    The Uplift War: The Uplift Saga, Book 3
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1988

    The Uplift War: The Uplift Saga, Book 3

    • UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 56 mins)
    • By David Brin
    • Narrated By George Wilson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (186)
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    (73)
    Story
    (78)

    Earth has been allowed to colonize the planet Garth only because its previous occupants went berserk and wiped out virtually all life there. But now humans, chimps, and their alien allies on Garth are being held hostage in a conflict that could affect the fate of the entire Five Galaxies.

    Andrew says: "BIG ENTHUSIASTIC WOW"
  • Play Speaker for the Dead
    AUDIOBOOK
    Speaker for the Dead
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1987

    Speaker for the Dead

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 9 mins)
    • By Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated By David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
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    (1776)
    Story
    (1805)

    In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. But again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.

    Joe says: "The Enderverse"
  • Play Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition
    AUDIOBOOK
    Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1986

    Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 57 mins)
    • By Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison
    Overall
    (12643)
    Performance
    (4635)
    Story
    (4709)

    Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.

    Kapila says: "6 titles in the series so far"
  • Play Startide Rising: The Uplift Saga, Book 2
    AUDIOBOOK
    Startide Rising: The Uplift Saga, Book 2
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1984

    Startide Rising: The Uplift Saga, Book 2

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 25 mins)
    • By David Brin
    • Narrated By George Wilson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (222)
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    (85)
    Story
    (91)

    When Streaker - the first starship designed and crewed by dolphins - discovers a derelict ancient armada with evidence of the first sentient species ever, she sets off a war between dozens of galactic races eager to use the information for their own advancement.

    Andrew says: "Getting Better"
  • Play Dreamsnake
    AUDIOBOOK
    Dreamsnake
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1979

    Dreamsnake

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
    • By Vonda N. McIntyre
    • Narrated By Anna Fields
    Overall
    (48)
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    (17)
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    (17)

    When the healer Snake was summoned, she traveled the blasted landscape with her three serpents. From the venom of two of them, she distilled her medicines. But most valued of all was the alien dreamsnake, whose bite could ease the fear and pain of death.

    Christine says: "Average"
  • Play Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
    AUDIOBOOK
    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1977

    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
    • By Kate Wilhelm
    • Narrated By Anna Fields
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (141)
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    (44)
    Story
    (41)

    When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post holocaust citadel. Their descendants would have everything they needed to raise food and do the scientific research necessary for survival. But the family was soon plagued by sterility, and the creation of clones offered the only answer.

    Jack says: "Great read!"
  • Play The Forever War
    AUDIOBOOK
    The Forever War
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1976

    The Forever War

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Joe Haldeman
    • Narrated By George Wilson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
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    (401)
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    William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?

    John says: "A classic."
  • Play Rendezvous with Rama
    AUDIOBOOK
    Rendezvous with Rama
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1974

    Rendezvous with Rama

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 4 mins)
    • By Arthur C. Clarke
    • Narrated By Peter Ganim, Robert J. Sawyer
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1234)
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    (530)
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    (543)

    At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence.

    AussieUser says: "Rama Revisited"
  • Play To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1
    AUDIOBOOK
    To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1972

    To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
    • By Philip Jose Farmer
    • Narrated By Paul Hecht
    Overall
    (283)
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    (91)
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    (95)

    For explorer Richard Francis Burton, Alice Liddell Hargreaves - the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland - and the rest of humanity, death is nothing like they expected. Instead of heaven, hell, or even the black void of nothingness, all of the 36 billion people who ever lived on Earth are simultaneously resurrected on a world that has been transformed into a giant river valley.

    Katherine says: "I was completely enthralled."
  • Play Ringworld
    AUDIOBOOK
    Ringworld
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1971

    Ringworld

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Larry Niven
    • Narrated By Tom Parker
    Overall
    (2027)
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    (764)
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    (775)

    Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

    Kennet says: "Genuinely Creative"
  • Play The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    AUDIOBOOK
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1967

    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 12 mins)
    • By Robert A. Heinlein
    • Narrated By Lloyd James
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    In what is considered one of Heinlein's most hair-raising, thought-provoking, and outrageous adventures, the master of modern science fiction tells the strange story of an even stranger world. It is 21st-century Luna, a harsh penal colony where a revolt is plotted between a bashful computer and a ragtag collection of maverick humans, a revolt that goes beautifully until the inevitable happens. But that's the problem with the inevitable: it always happens.

    Harry says: "Reasonable adaption, but pauses in funny places"
  • Play This Immortal
    AUDIOBOOK
    This Immortal
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1966

    This Immortal

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Roger Zelazny
    • Narrated By Victor Bevine
    Overall
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    (86)
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    (89)

    Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And as arts commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes - especially since it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that has some bearing on the future of Earth itself.

    phelixdakat says: "Master of Sci-Fi"
  • Play Dune
    AUDIOBOOK
    Dune
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1966

    Dune

    • UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 8 mins)
    • By Frank Herbert
    • Narrated By Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
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    Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

    Joshua says: "Wonderful production!"
  • Play The Wanderer
    AUDIOBOOK
    The Wanderer
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1965

    The Wanderer

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 25 mins)
    • By Fritz Leiber
    • Narrated By Norman Deitz
    Overall
    (49)
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    (13)
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    In the future, men and women have colonized the moon, and dazzling technological advances have created a better life for those on Earth. But the arrival of "the Wanderer" may change all that. A sphere of immense size, it appears suddenly one night during a lunar eclipse, causing crushing quakes on the Moon and catastrophes on Earth. Now, Lt. Don Merriam must find a way to reach the Wanderer and discover its purpose.

    Robert says: "dated scifi"
  • Play Way Station
    AUDIOBOOK
    Way Station
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1964

    Way Station

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
    • By Clifford D. Simak
    • Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer
    Overall
    (771)
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    (395)
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    (399)

    In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.

    Noe says: "A very special novel that will inspire you."
  • Play The Man in the High Castle
    AUDIOBOOK
    The Man in the High Castle
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1963

    The Man in the High Castle

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Philip K. Dick
    • Narrated By Tom Weiner
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (280)
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    (119)
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    (120)

    It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. It's all because, some 20 years earlier, the United States lost a war - and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.

    Dane says: "Possibly the best of PKD"
  • Play Stranger in a Strange Land
    AUDIOBOOK
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    UNABRIDGED
    Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1962

    Stranger in a Strange Land

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 21 mins)
    • By Robert A. Heinlein
    • Narrated By Christopher Hurt
    Overall
    (2090)
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    (691)
    Story
    (693)

    Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, an earthling born and educated on Mars, who arrives on Earth with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. Smith is destined to become a freak, a media commodity, a scam artist, a searcher, and finally, a messiah.

    Harris says: "A Parable for the Ages"
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