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The 1950s

Not every book published in the 1950s: the 24 that were shortlisted for, or won, Best Novel at the Retro Hugo Award or Hugo Award.

By year of publication

  • Farmer in the Sky — Robert A. Heinlein (1950)
  • First Lensman — Edward E. Smith (1950)
  • Galactic Patrol — Edward E. Smith (1950)
  • Gather, Darkness! — Fritz Leiber (1950)
  • Pebble in the Sky — Isaac Asimov (1950)
  • The Dying Earth — Jack Vance (1950)
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis (1950)
  • Gray Lensman — Edward E. Smith (1951)
  • Shadow Over Mars — Leigh Brackett (1951)
  • The Legion of Time — Jack Williamson (1952)
  • Childhood's End — Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
  • Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury (1953)
  • More Than Human — Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
  • Second Stage Lensmen — Edward E. Smith (1953)
  • The Demolished Man — Alfred Bester (1953)
  • Mission of Gravity — Hal Clement (1954)
  • The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov (1954)
  • Double Star — Robert A. Heinlein (1956)
  • They'd Rather Be Right — Frank Riley, Mark Clifton (1957)
  • A Case of Conscience — James Blish (1958)
  • The Big Time — Fritz Leiber (1958)
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
  • Dorsai! — Gordon R. Dickson (1959)
  • Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein (1959)