Best SF Books that weren't Nominated for Hugo or Nebula
Vote for your favourite Science Fiction novels and novellas that, to your shock and surprise, weren't even nominated for either a Hugo or a Nebula!
No Fantasy titles please!
Hugo Award history for both winners and nominees can be seen here:
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-his...
Nebula Award winners and nominees are listed here:
http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/N...
Please add only books published 1945 and after; no Hugos have been given for years before that.
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No Fantasy titles please!
Hugo Award history for both winners and nominees can be seen here:
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-his...
Nebula Award winners and nominees are listed here:
http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/N...
Please add only books published 1945 and after; no Hugos have been given for years before that.
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Rasheed
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Jul 17, 2009 12:15PM

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Those lists already exist.
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/67...
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/66...
"Books that werent even nominated for the two biggest awards in the genre seems a bit limiting..."
It could reasonably be argued that the Locus Award is the biggest award in the genre since it has the largest pool of voters.
As for limiting, I'd say no. At most we're excluding 10 books a year (a number of which are fantasy instead of sci-fi), usually less with books often being nominated for both awards. The annual Locus Recommended Reading list for sci-fi has at least twice that number of novels each year. Also, because these are American awards there is a bias towards American authors, since those are the authors with the highest profile here.
Take for example The Sparrow. It has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis and the British Science Fiction Association Award, but was not even nominated for the Hugo or Nebula, not even the Nebula longlists (preliminary ballots with usually about two dozen books).


1984 was first published in 1949, I think.

However, reto-awards for 1951 (1950) and 1954 (1953) were held in 2001 and 2004 respectively.

Anything else?"
Yes, please: Starmaker (1937).
It's a great book but its place is on other lists like Best Classic SF Novels (1930-1950).

However, reto-awards for 1951 (1950) and 1954 (1953) were held in 2001 and 2004 respectively."
Yep. None have been given for 1949 so far, however.



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