| The Hugo Winners | |
| Border: | yes |
| Editor: | Isaac Asimov |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Release Date: | 1962 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 318 |
| Followed By: | The New Hugo Winners |
The Hugo Winners was a series of books which collected science fiction and fantasy stories that won a Hugo Award for Short Story, Novelette or Novella at the World Science Fiction Convention between 1955 and 1982. Each volume was edited by American writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote the introduction and a short essay about each author featured in the book. Through these essays, Asimov reveals personal anecdotes, which authors he's jealous of, and how other writers winning awards ahead of him made him angry. Additionally, he discusses his political beliefs (he supported the ending of the Vietnam War, while Poul Anderson didn't), friendships, and his affinity for writers of "hard science fiction". The first two volumes were collected by Doubleday into a single book,[1] which lacks a publishing date and ISBN.
The Hugo Winners was followed by The New Hugo Winners, which collected Hugo Award-winning stories from 1983 to 1994.
Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction rated the collection five stars out of five, stating that "This is a sure-fire collection of Can't Misses".[2]