Annal:2005 Hugo Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Hugo Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
- 2005 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2005 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 2005 WFA–Novel winner
- 2005 Nebula nominee
- 2004 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- 2004 Whitbread-1st Novel shortlist
- Score: 48.55
English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.
But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England’s magical past and regained some of the powers of England’s magicians. He goes to London and…
- 2005 Clarke winner
- 2005 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2005 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 22.55
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later.
It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs…
- 2005 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.55
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.
The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.
Seconded to a military-religious order he’s barely…
- 2005 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.55
A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden.
But New Dresden wasn’t responsible, and as deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown—an unimaginable—enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden, but also the very order of the universe.
And…
- 2005 Clarke shortlist
- 2005 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.55
Happy Hundredth Birthday, India…In the mid twenty-first century, Mother India is all the things she is now—ancient and vibrant, poor yet staggeringly rich. Diverse, violent, beautiful and terrible, thrilling and bewildering. A nation choked with peoples and cultures, riven with almost seismic contrasts and contradictions. Nearly two billion humans crowd the subcontinent and her seething cities—the cyberabads—where timeless culture and the highest of high-technologies meet to spawn new societies, and—possibly—new sentient species.
River of Gods is a book…
