The Hugo Awards are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded every year since 1955. The awards are run by and voted on by fans.
The Hugo Awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, a famous magazine editor who did much to bring science fiction to a wider audience. Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first major American SF magazine, in 1926. He is widely credited with sparking a boom in interest in written SF. In addition to having the Hugo Awards named after him he has been recognized as the “Father of Magazine SF” and has a crater on the Moon named after him.
2012 - Among Others, Jo Walton
2011 - Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis
2010 - The City & The City, China Miéville
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
2009 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
2007 - Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
2006 - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2004 - Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 - Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
2002 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2001 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
1999 - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
1998 - Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
1997 - Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
1996 - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
1995 - Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
1994 - Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1992 - Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 - The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
1990 - Hyperion by Dan Simmons
1989 - Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
1988 - The Uplift War by David Brin
1987 - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
1986 - Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
1985 - Neuromancer by William Gibson
1984 - Startide Rising by David Brin
1983 - Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov
1982 - Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
1981 - The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
1979 - Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
1978 - Gateway by Frederik Pohl
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
1976 - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
1975 - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 - Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
1973 - The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
1971 - Ringworld by Larry Niven
1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 - Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
1968 - Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
1967 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
1966 - Dune by Frank Herbert
- And Call Me Conrad (alt: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny