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Hugo Award for Best Novel
Order these Hugo Best Novel winners by the year each won. You place all 45 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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How the Hugo Award for Best Novel timeline works
Every card is a Hugo Award-winning novel, the author printed below the title, and you sort the winners by the year they won. One book starts on the timeline with its year in view. Every card after that goes where you choose. The right gap reveals its year; a wrong gap still sends the book to its real place and takes one of your three lives.
The winners move from hard science fiction and space opera through cyberpunk and military SF to fantasy, alternate history and the newer voices of recent years. Several authors won more than once, sometimes in back-to-back years with books from the same series. Sequels are the trap: you'll know the series, but not which volume won when.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 45 cards you might be dealt, with 17 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke
- The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge
- Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov
- Startide Rising David Brin
- Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
- The Uplift War David Brin
- Cyteen C. J. Cherryh
- The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold
- Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold
- Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson
- Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
- To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis
- A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge
- American Gods Neil Gaiman
- Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke
- Rainbows End Vernor Vinge
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon
- The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi
- Among Others Jo Walton
- Redshirts John Scalzi
- The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu
- The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin
- A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine
- Network Effect Martha Wells
- Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher
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