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When was the last time even award-winning sf/fantasy managed to crawl out of the sci-fi ghetto and into the mainstream consciousness anyway?
Looking at the Hugo and Locus winners up on Wikipedia, I could really only argue for Stranger in a Strange Land for 60s counter-culture, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for libertarians, The Mists of Avalon for New Age/Celtic/Pagan revival types, but those are closer to fringe groups, really.
The causality for Harry Potter goes the other way, and Fahrenheit 451, which is the only one I'd think that practically everybody today knows the basic idea of, is actually a retro-Hugo, awarded after they realized its cultural impact.
Maybe Dune and Starship Troopers because of the movies/tv. People at least know what the stuff in those books look like, even if they may not really know what they're about.
And The Handmaid's Tale, because that tends to get used in Canadian Literature and Women's Studies classes.
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