Annal:1971 Hugo Award for Novel
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1971. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1971 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1970 Nebula winner
- Score: 20.21
A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
- 1971 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.21
For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship’s deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself.
- 1971 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1970 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.21
Simeon Krug has a vision—and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he’s constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it view Krug as their god. But, Krug is only flesh-and-blood, and when his androids discover the truth, their anger knows no bounds…and it threatens much more than the tower.
