Annal:1956 Hugo Award for Novel
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1956. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1956 Hugo-Novel winner
- Score: 10.06
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was—as usual—in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.
Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake—failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe’s own life was on the line—for if he wasn’t assassinated, there was always…
