Book prize

Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel winners

4 winners and 13 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

All prizes

The Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel has 4 winners we hold, from 1996 to 2019, and 13 nominees. The most recent winner here is Conjure Wife (2019). Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2019 Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber First edition not yet identified
  2. 2018 Beyond This Horizon by Robert A. Heinlein First edition: Fantasy Press 1948
  3. 2014 The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White First edition: Collins 1938
  4. 2001 Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein First edition: Scribner 1950
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2019 Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber First edition not yet identified
  2. 2019 Perelandra by C. S. Lewis First edition: Bodley Head 1943
  3. 2018 Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright First edition: Farrar & Rinehart 1942
  4. 2018 The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle First edition: Saunders 1942
  5. 2016 Kallocain by Karin Boye First edition not yet identified
  6. 2014 Galactic Patrol by Edward Elmer Smith First edition: Fantasy Press 1950
  7. 2014 Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis First edition: Bodley Head 1938
  8. 2004 Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Ballantine Books 1953
  9. 2004 Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement First edition not yet identified
  10. 2004 The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov First edition: Doubleday 1954
  11. 2001 Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov First edition: Doubleday 1950
  12. 1996 That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis First edition: Bodley Head 1945
  13. 1996 The World of Ā by A. E. van Vogt First edition not yet identified

Prize records from Wikidata (CC0). Only books in our catalogue are listed.

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