1953 Retro Hugo Nominees

Explore the complete list of 1953 Retro Hugo Award nominees, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy books of 1952. Discover classic titles that shaped the genre!

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The Caves of Steel

by Isaac Asimov

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic …
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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman, his job is to burn books, which are forbidden.
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Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, …
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Mission of Gravity

by Hal Clement

Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world …
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More Than Human

by Theodore Sturgeon

In this genre-bending novel—among the first to have launched sci-fi into the arena of literature—one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a …
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An Ornament to His Profession

by Charles L. Harness

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A Case of Conscience

by James Blish

Winner of the Hugo Award • The future of Earth will rely upon one man’s sense of right and wrong. . . . Father Ruiz-Sanchez …
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Hoka Hoka Hoka

by Poul Anderson

Alexander Jones, a representative of the Interbeing League for the teddy-bear-like Hoka species, finds his assignment challenging when the human-emulating Hokas are unable to discern …
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Cities in flight

 

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Second Variety

by Philip K. Dick

The stories within SECOND VARIETY were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are …
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