Not Ursula K. Le Guin, as I had always heard, but Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1963.
Best Novel
| Winner: | The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick [Putnam, 1962] |
| Runners-up: | |
| Sword of Aldones by Marion Zimmer Bradley [Ace, 1961] | |
| A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke [Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962] | |
| Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper [Avon, 1962] | |
| Sylva by Vercors [Putnam, 1961] |