| Year | Award | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Retro Hugo Award | Best Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1949 |
|
Astounding Science Fiction, May 1949 | Street & Smith Publications, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 7 |
| June 1949 |
|
Astounding Science Fiction, June 1949 | Street & Smith Publications, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 85 |
| 1950 |
|
Needle | Doubleday | Novel | |
| 1950 |
|
Needle | Doubleday | Novel | |
| 1952 |
|
Needle | Doubleday | Novel | |
| 1953 | Needle | Doubleday / SFBC | Novel | ||
| May 1954 |
|
Le microbe détective | Hachette | Novel | |
| 1957 |
|
From Outer Space | Avon | Novel | 5 |
| 1957 | Persecución Cósmica | Jacobo Muchnik | Novel | ||
| 1960 |
|
Symbiose | Balowa / Gebrüder Zimmermann | Novel | |
| 1961 |
|
Needle | Gollancz | Novel | |
| January 1962 |
|
Symbiose | Moewig | Novel | 1 |
| January 1962 |
|
Symbiose (2. Teil) | Moewig | Novel | 1 |
| July 1962 |
|
Urania #287 | Mondadori | MAGAZINE | 3 |
| September 1962 |
|
Needle | The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) | Novel | |
| 1963 |
|
From Outer Space | Avon | Novel | 5 |
| 1963 |
|
Needle | Corgi | Novel | 7 |
| 1964 |
|
Agulha | Ulisseia | Novel | |
| February 1967 |
|
Needle | Avon | Novel | 5 |
| February 1967 |
|
Needle | Avon | Novel | 5 |
| September 1969 |
|
Needle | Lancer Books | Novel | |
| September 1972 |
|
Urania #600 | Mondadori | MAGAZINE | 3 |
| October 1972 |
|
Needle | Lancer Books | Novel | 5 |
| April 1976 |
|
Needle | Equinox / Avon | Novel | |
| May 1979 |
|
Needle | Avon Books | Novel | |
| July 1980 |
|
Strisciava sulla sabbia | Mondadori | Novel | |
| July 1983 |
|
Die Nadelsuche | Heyne | Novel | 9 |
| February 1999 |
|
The Essential Hal Clement, Volume. 1: Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter | NESFA Press | Omnibus | 21 |
| 2010 |
|
Needle | Audible Frontiers | Novel | |
| September 2011 |
|
Needle | Gateway / Orion | Novel | |
| February 2024 |
|
Meskelin Series & Others | MotionAudiobooks | Omnibus | |5 |