# Hugo Award for Best Novel winners of the 1970s

The ten novels that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel from 1970 to 1979, with two wins for Ursula K. Le Guin.

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- Mar 12, 2023 · Natalie Foster
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## Top 10

1. **Ringworld — Larry Niven** (26 · ▲27 ▼1) — 1971. An artificial ring around a distant star.
2. **Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang — Kate Wilhelm** (21 · ▲23 ▼2) — 1977. Clones after the collapse of civilisation.
3. **The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin** (20 · ▲24 ▼4) — 1970. An envoy on Gethen, a planet whose people have no fixed sex.
4. **The Forever War — Joe Haldeman** (20 · ▲22 ▼2) — 1976. A soldier aged by time dilation in an interstellar war.
5. **Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke** (18 · ▲20 ▼2) — 1974. A giant alien cylinder enters the solar system.
6. **The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov** (17 · ▲21 ▼4) — 1973. An energy pump between parallel universes.
7. **To Your Scattered Bodies Go — Philip José Farmer** (17 · ▲19 ▼2) — 1972. All of humanity resurrected along a vast river.
8. **The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin** (14 · ▲19 ▼5) — 1975. A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet.
9. **Gateway — Frederik Pohl** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — 1978. Prospectors ride abandoned alien ships.
10. **Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre** (4 · ▲11 ▼7) — 1979. A healer who uses snakes in a post-apocalyptic world.

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