1960 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
Juan Rico volunteers for the Mobile Infantry of the Terran Federation, an orbital drop-capsule strike force that lands elite armored soldiers onto planetary targets. Through boot camp at Camp Currie and brutal combat against the alien Arachnids and Skinnies, Rico learns the moral basis of civic franchise: full citizenship is granted solely to those who risk their lives for the defense of the body politic.
1962 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
Library of Congress "Books that Shaped America"
Valentine Michael Smith, born of human astronauts on Mars and raised entirely by Martians, returns to Earth as a legal heir to untold wealth and power. Possessing strange psionic abilities and Martian concepts like "grokking" and "water-brotherhood", Mike is sheltered by cynical polymath lawyer-doctor Jubal Harshaw, eventually founding a revolutionary movement that challenges Earth's religious, sexual, and social dogmas.
1967 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
Prometheus Hall of Fame Winner
The lunar penal colony of Luna City lives under the thumb of Earth's Lunar Authority, exporting grain at fixed sub-economic prices. Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, a computer technician, discovers that the central HOLMES IV mainframe has awakened into sentience (Mike). Joining radical agitator Wyoh Knot and philosopher Professor Bernardo de la Paz, they launch a lunar revolution using railgun mass drivers.
1974 Hugo and Nebula Award Nominee
Lazarus Long (Woodrow Wilson Smith), the Senior of the Howard Families, has lived for over two thousand years and has grown weary of living. His descendants refuse to allow him to die, striking a bargain: in exchange for submitting to rejuvenation, Lazarus will recount his vast memoirs, and they will present him with adventures he has never experienced before.
1956 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel
Lawrence Smith, an arrogant and down-on-his-luck Shakespearean actor known as "The Great Lorenzo", is hired for the role of a lifetime: impersonate John Joseph Bonforte, the brilliant leader of the Expansionist coalition who has been kidnapped by political enemies on the eve of a critical Martian adoption ceremony.
1959 Hugo Award Nominee
High school senior Kip Russell enters a soap slogan contest hoping to win a trip to the Moon, and instead wins a used, surplus EVA spacesuit. After restoring the suit with elbow grease and engineering textbooks, Kip tests it in his backyard and accidentally flags down a flying saucer, plunging into a galactic tribunal that puts the human species on trial.