HUGO AWARDS
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
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Description: What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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Description: Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse. Her newfound freedom is costly, for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road, the escape beckons.
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Description: Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race.
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Description: In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy.
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Description: In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England’s magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell’s pupil.
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Description: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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Description: A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man’s schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
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Description: A war breaks out between rich and poor nations over advanced technology which the rich refuse to share. Led by the U.S., the rich fight with robots, teleguided from chips in commanders’ brains.
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Description: A war breaks out between rich and poor nations over advanced technology which the rich refuse to share. Led by the U.S., the rich fight with robots, teleguided from chips in commanders’ brains.
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Description: After declaring independence from Earth, Mars still faces problems: an impending ice age, a search for religious meaning, and immigration.
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Description: Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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Description: In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth.
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Description: In a near-future western civilization that is threatened by corruptive practices within its technologically advanced information networks, a recovered Alzheimer’s victim and his family are caught up in a dangerous maelstrom beyond their worst imaginings.
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Description: The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time.
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Description: A joyous journey into a past and future of comic mishaps and historical cross-purposes, in which the power of human love can still make all the difference.
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Description: Tyler Dupree and his friends Jason and Diane Lawton witness what comes to be known as the Big Blackout, which occurs when an alien race generates a false barrier between Earth and the rest of the universe.