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Double Winners

Two awards are probably the most highly prized in the SF&F world: the Hugo and the Nebula. If a book gets one of these, it's probably good. If it gets both, you shouldn't miss it. There are 15 books that have received this double honor. Kristin is now trying to read them all- wish her luck!

Only four people have ever had two novels win both the Hugo and the Nebula: Ursula K. LeGuin, Arthur C. Clarke, Orson Scott Card (in back to back years), and Joe Haldeman (as of 1998).

Here is the list:

  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969 Nebula, 1970 Hugo)
  • Ringworld by Larry Niven (1970 Nebula, 1971 Hugo)
  • The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1972 Nebula, 1973 Hugo)
  • Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973 Nebula, 1974 Hugo)
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974 Nebula, 1975 Hugo)
  • The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1975 Nebula, 1976 Hugo)
  • Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1977 Nebula, 1978 Hugo)
  • Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre (1978 Nebula, 1979 Hugo)
  • The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (1979 Nebula, 1980 Hugo)
  • Startide Rising by David Brin (1983 Nebula, 1984 Hugo)
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985 Nebula, 1986 Hugo)
  • Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1986 Nebula, 1987 Hugo)
  • Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1992 Nebula, 1993 Hugo [tie])
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984 Nebula, 1985 Hugo)
  • Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1998 Nebula, 1998 Hugo)

A complete list of winners can be found at Awardweb

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Newbery Medal
for children's and young adult's fiction

The following Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels have won:

  • 1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • 1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
  • 1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
  • 1976 The Grey King by Susan Cooper
  • 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
  • 1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander
  • 1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  • 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
  • 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

The following Historical books have won and are personally recommended by Raven:

  • 1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
  • 1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
  • 1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
  • 1950 The Door In The Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
  • 1934 Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs

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Raven's reading...

Forever War by Joe Haldeman. There is a reason this book is a classic. It starts off simple, narrated by an ordinary (if well-educated) fellow who has been drafted into a war he doesn't expect to survive. Fighting an alien species through the vast expanses of space turns out to require decades or even centuries for travel time between battles. William witnesses the horrors of war and of losing his place in the universe first-hand, yet he understates it. He regards losing a leg as a stroke of luck, since it means he can go to the planet known as Heaven to recover. Obviously an allegory for Vietnam, the story nonetheless takes on a life of its own as the most convincing anti-war novel I have ever read. Read it. You may be disturbed, but you will not be disappointed.

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