Annal:2006 Hugo Award for Novel
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2006 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2006 Campbell 2nd
- Score: 18.56
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk—a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world’s artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their…
Learning the World: A Scientific Romance
- 2006 Prometheus winner
- 2006 Clarke shortlist
- 2006 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 22.56
Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.
The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager…
A Feast for Crows: Book 4 of A Song of Ice and Fire
- 2006 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears….With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them…
- 2006 Clarke shortlist
- 2006 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.56
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and…
- 2006 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
You’re sixty-five years old, your wife is dead, and your life is winding down. What do you do next? If you’re John Perry, the answer is simple: You join the military. The Colonial Defense Forces take Earth’s senior citizens and retrofit them young, strong bodies—and then throws them into the unending war humanity is waging against other civilizations up there among the stars. John Perry is in the middle of it all and learning fast to survive, because the alternatives—for him and humanity—are grim. And it’s in the middle of this struggle for survival that Perry meets a woman who seems achingly familiar…
