Annal:1966 Hugo Award for Novel
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1966. Note that The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress receives no score for its nomination because it won this award in 1967. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Dune: Book 1 of the Dune Chronicles
- 1966 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1965 Nebula winner
- Score: 20.16
“Unique…I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings.” —Arthur C. Clarke
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.
A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula…
- 1966 Hugo-Novel winner
- Score: 10.16
Before any of his groundbreaking works, there was This Immortal, Roger Zelazny’s first published novel-and now ibooks is proud to present it to a new generation of readers…
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 when it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that has some bearing on the future of Earth itself!
- 1967 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1966 Nebula nominee
- 1966 Hugo-Novel nominee*
- Score: 16.17
Robert A. Heinlein won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people—a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic—who become the rebel movement’s leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution’s ultimate success.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
