Hugo Winners on Audio

Hugo Award-Winning Fiction on Audio

Here is our oft-updated list of audio versions of Hugo Award-winning fiction. The Hugo Award is given every year at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). The voters for the annual awards are the members of that year’s convention, mostly fans.
 

Hugo Awards from the 2000’s

1990’s (forthcoming) – 1980’s (forthcoming) – 1970’s (forthcoming) – 1960’s (forthcoming) – 1950’s (forthcoming)

 

2008

NOVEL:
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Read by Peter Riegert
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9780060823566
NOVELLA:
“All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis
No audio edition known.
NOVELETTE:
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang
Podcast edition by Starship Sofa
Read by James Campanella
2008
SHORT STORY:
“Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear
Podcast edition by Escape Pod (EP155)
Read by Stephen Eley
24 April 2008

 
 
 

2007

NOVEL:
Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge
Read by Eric Conger
14 hours, 45 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio (exclusive to Audible.com and iTunes)
Published: 2007
NOVELLA:
“A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed
No audio edition known.
NOVELETTE:
“The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald
No audio edition known.
SHORT STORY:
“Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt
Podcast edition by Escape Pod (EP105)
Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
10 May 2007

 
 
 

2006

NOVEL:
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Read by Scott Brick
17 hours, 33 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio (exclusive to Audible.com and iTunes)
Published: 2008
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NOVELLA:
“Inside Job” by Connie Willis
Read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Publisher: Audible Frontiers (exclusive to Audible.com and iTunes)
Published: 2008
NOVELETTE:
“Two Hearts” by Peter S. Beagle
No audio edition known.
SHORT STORY:
“Tk’tk’tk” by David D. Levine
Podcast edition by Escape Pod (EP054)
Read by Paul Tevis
18 May 2006

 
 
 

2005

NOVEL:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Read by Simon Prebble
32 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 2004
NOVELLA:
“The Concrete Jungle” by Charles Stross
No audio edition known.
NOVELETTE:
“The Faery Handbag” by Kelly Link
Broadcast on BBC7 as part of a series called Fantastic Journeys.
Read by Maggie Blake
[ABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7
SHORT STORY:
“Travels with My Cats” by Mike Resnick
Podcast edition by Escape Pod (EP082)
Read by Stephen Eley
30 Nov 2006

 
 
 

2004

NOVEL:
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Read by Kate Reading
15.4 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2005
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NOVELLA:
“The Cookie Monster” by Vernor Vinge
No audio edition known.
NOVELETTE:
“Legions in Time” by Michael Swanwick
No audio edition known.
SHORT STORY:
“A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman
Read by Neil Gaiman
42 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 2007
“A Study in Emerald” is also contained in the Fragile Things collection:
Read by Neil Gaiman
11 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 2006
ISBN: 9780061142376

 
 
 

2003

NOVEL:
Hominids: The Neanderthal Parallex, Book 1 by Robert J. Sawyer
Read by Jonathan Davis
11 hours 25 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible Frontiers (exclusive to Audible and iTunes)
Published: 2008
NOVELLA:
“Coraline” by Charles Stross
Read by Neil Gaiman
3 hours 36 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780060510480
NOVELETTE:
“Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick
Contained in The Best of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine
Publisher: Dell Magazines (exclusive to Audible and iTunes)
Published: 2003
SHORT STORY:
“Falling Onto Mars” by Geoffrey A. Landis
No audio edition known.

 
 
 

2002

NOVEL:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Read by George Guidall
20 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 2005
ISBN: 9780060836252
NOVELLA:
“Fast Times at Fairmont High” by Vernor Vinge
Read by Eric Michael Summerer
2 hours 47 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible Frontiers (exclusive to Audible and iTunes)
Published: 2008
NOVELETTE:
“Hell is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang
Podcast edition by Podcastle (PC040)
Read by James Trimarco
6 February 2009
SHORT STORY:
“The Dog Said Bow-Wow” by Michael Swanwick
Contained in: SciFi Audio: The Hugo Nominees 2002
Read by Ralph Lister
Publisher: SciFiAudio
Published: 2002

 
 
 

2001

NOVEL:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Read by Jim Dale
20 hours 30 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Listening Library (Random House)
Published: 2000
ISBN: 9780807282595
NOVELLA:
“The Ultimate Earth” by Jack Williamson
No audio editions known.
NOVELETTE:
“Millenium Babies” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
No audio edition known.
SHORT STORY:
“Different Kinds of Darkness” by David Langford
No audio edition known.

 
 
 

2000

NOVEL:
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
No audio edition known.
NOVELLA:
“The Winds of Marble Arch” by COnnie Willis
Read by Dennis Boutsikaris
1 hour 56 mins – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible Frontiers (exclusive to Audible and iTunes)
Published: 2008
NOVELETTE:
“10 to the 16 to 1” by James Patrick Kelly
Included in James Patrick Kelly’s Storypod 3.0
Read by James Patrick Kelly
Publisher: James Patrick Kelly (exclusive to Audible and iTunes)
Published: 2007
An edition of “10 to the 16 to 1” was also published by Random House Audible, read by Brian Corrigan. This version is no longer available.
SHORT STORY:
“Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick
Contained in: SciFi Audio Frequency: The Hugo Nominees 2000
Read by Tim Klein
Publisher: SciFi Audio
Published: 2000

 
 
 

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