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1. This 1962 winner by Robert A. Heinlein contributed the word "grok" to the English language.
2. The winner in 1967 is by Robert A. Heinlein. It is a story about a lunar colony that rebels against Earth.
3. This 1972 winner is by Philip Jose Farmer. It is the first in the Riverworld series and is about a man who dies and subsequently wakens in a place populated by people who have been similarly resurrected.
4. In 1977, Kate Wilhelm's novel about cloning was the Hugo winner. In it, a group of people have survived the fall of civilization on Earth but discover they are infertile. They resort to cloning for reproduction and later must deal with their "offspring."
5. This 1986 winner is Orson Scott Card's novel about a small child who defeats an insectoid species in an interstellar war.
6. In 1999, this book by Connie Willis won the Hugo Award. It is a humorous story about time-travelling historians searching for "the Bishop's bird stump" during the Victorian era.
7. In 1991, Lois McMaster Bujold won her first Hugo Award for Best Novel. It is the sixth novel of the Vorkosigan Saga. Miles is stationed on Kyril Island, then rescues Emperor Gregor and manages to get the Dendarii Mercenaries hired by ImpSec.
8. In this 1978 book, Frederik Pohl introduced us to the Heechee.
9. The winner in 2003 is Robert J. Sawyer's novel about travel between two alternate Earths. One Earth is similar to our own while in the second, Neanderthals have become the dominate species.
10. In 2011, the Hugo winner was actually a set of two volumes by Connie Willis that comprised a single story about time travel to World War II.
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