Annal:1983 Hugo Award for Novel
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1983. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Foundation's Edge: Book 4 of the Foundation Novels
- 1983 Hugo-Novel winner
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 16.33
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth…and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or…
2010: Odyssey Two
- 1983 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.33
2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all those questions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequel to the international bestseller.…
- 1983 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1983 Prometheus finalist
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.33
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as “Boss.” Operating from and over a near-future Earth, where chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on assignment at Boss’s seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America’s disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of the bestselling Stranger in a Strange Land, has Robert Heinlein created a more captivating…
The Sword of the Lictor: Volume 3 of The Book of the New Sun
- 1983 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1983 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1982 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.33
The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe’s remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.
- 1983 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.33
No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt-toothed and blunt-fingered. Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur.
Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the…
