Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Award winners and finalists

Who this page is for

Readers choosing science fiction, fantasy or horror who want books recognised by the genre's own awards, from Dune (1966 Hugo) to the 2024 winners. Every award listed here was checked against the prize's official list of winners and finalists. Where a book has more than one award, all verified ones are shown.

How the awards differ

• Hugo Awards: presented since 1953 and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
• Nebula Awards: voted on and presented by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), and given each year since 1965. SFWA labels each award by the year before the ceremony.
• Arthur C. Clarke Award: given each year by a panel of judges to a science fiction novel first published in the UK during the previous year.
• Locus, BSFA and World Fantasy awards: also listed where the publisher names them and the official list confirms them.

Award winners

• A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Related Work 2024. Non-fiction for readers curious about settling space: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith look at what it would take to have children, farm and form nations beyond Earth, drawing on interviews with space scientists, engineers and legal experts.
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes. Winner: Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024. For readers of literary science fiction: a marine biologist follows a discovery in an Atlantic trench to a new space agency, and must choose between her family and a journey into space.
• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. Winner: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2024. For readers of historical horror: in a story based on the Dozier School for Boys, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to a segregated reform school in 1950 Florida.
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. Winner: Locus Award for Best Novella 2023; Finalist: Nebula Award for Best Novella 2022. For readers who enjoyed A Psalm for the Wild-Built: the second Monk and Robot book, in which Sibling Dex and the robot Mosscap travel on to the villages and cities of Panga.
• Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novel 2023. For fantasy readers who want a fairy tale that goes differently: Marra, a shy, convent-raised princess, takes on three impossible tasks set by a witch to save her sister from an abusive royal husband.
• Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. Winner: Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023. For readers of near-future fiction about extinction: a mining executive facing prison and a biologist with her own purposes search Europe for a fish that may have just died out.
• What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher. Winner: Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2023; Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novella 2023. For horror readers: a reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher', in which retired soldier Alex Easton finds fungal growths and possessed wildlife at the Usher family home.
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novella 2022; Finalist: Locus Award for Best Novella 2022. For readers who want hopeful science fiction: in the first Monk and Robot book, a tea monk meets a robot who has come to ask what people need.
• City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Winner: BSFA Award for Best Novel 2022; Finalist: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2024. For fantasy readers who like stories set in a single city: Ilmar, under Palleseen occupation and in the grip of its criminal underworld, is on the verge of revolution.
• Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles. Winner: Arthur C. Clarke Award 2022. For readers interested in poetry and minority languages: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect, printed with a parallel English translation and set on a struggling space station.
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novel 2020; Shortlisted: Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020. For readers of political space opera: in the first book of the Teixcalaan duology, an ambassador from a small mining station reaches the capital of an interstellar empire and finds that her predecessor was murdered.
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin. Winner: BSFA Award for Best Novel 2020; Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novel 2021; Finalist: Nebula Award for Best Novel 2020. For readers of urban fantasy: in the first book of a series, five New Yorkers must come together to defend their city from an ancient evil stirring beneath it.
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novel 2016; Finalist: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2016; Nominated: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2016; Finalist: Nebula Award for Best Novel 2015. For readers of epic fantasy: book 1 of the Broken Earth trilogy, set in the Stillness, a land used to catastrophe where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon.
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel 2014. For readers of eco-fiction and cosmic mysteries: in the first Southern Reach novel, four women make the twelfth expedition into Area X, a region cut off for decades where nature has taken over.
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novel 2009; Winner: Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel 2009. A children's novel for readers aged 12 to 15, illustrated by Chris Riddell: Bod is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, while the man Jack has sinister plans for him.
• Watchmen (DC Compact Comics edition) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Winner: Hugo Award (Other Forms) 1988. For readers of graphic novels: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's story of outlawed superheroes in an alternate 1980s America, in DC's compact paperback format.
• Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. Winner: Locus Award for Best Collection 1986. For readers who like horror and suspense in short-story form: a Stephen King collection that includes 'The Mist' and 'The Monkey'.
• Neuromancer by William Gibson (also in another paperback edition). Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novel 1985; Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel 1984. For readers interested in cyberpunk: William Gibson's 1984 debut, from the writer who coined the term 'cyberspace', follows Case, a burnt-out hacker offered repaired nerves in exchange for one job.
• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novella 1973. For readers of science fiction about colonialism: Ursula K. Le Guin's novella, part of her Hainish Cycle, follows the peaceful Athsheans as they fight back against the humans who enslaved them.
• Dune by Frank Herbert. Winner: Hugo Award for Best Novel 1966; Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel 1965. For readers starting on classic science fiction: the first Dune novel, in which Paul Atreides must go to the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the spice melange.

Finalists and shortlisted books

• Metronome by Tom Watson. Shortlisted: Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023. For readers of literary near-future fiction: after twelve years of exile on an island, Aina and Whitney wait for a warden who does not come.
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic 2023. For comics readers: the complete story (issues 1 to 8) in which Supergirl heads into space with an alien girl seeking revenge for her destroyed world.
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix. Finalist: Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2021. For horror readers: a Charleston woman and her true-crime book club come to suspect that a newcomer to their small Southern town is behind missing children, and this edition includes a reading group guide.
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. Finalist: Hugo Award for Best Novel 2020; Finalist: Locus Award for Best First Novel 2020; Finalist: Nebula Award for Best Novel 2019. For readers who like stories about stories: January Scaller, ward of the wealthy Mr Locke, finds a book about secret doors to other worlds that turns out to be tied to her own life.

Questions people ask

What is the difference between the Hugo and the Nebula?

The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention. The Nebula Awards are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, a writers' organisation.

Which books here won both the Hugo and the Nebula for Best Novel?

Dune by Frank Herbert and Neuromancer by William Gibson.

What does the Arthur C. Clarke Award cover?

It is given to a science fiction novel first published in the UK during the previous year. Recent winners on this page are In Ascension (2024), Venomous Lumpsucker (2023) and Deep Wheel Orcadia (2022).

Selected by Fox & Fable from books in stock. Award details checked against the official prize lists. Last updated 30 September 2026.