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Poul Anderson (left, pictured in 1985) and Harlan Ellison (right, pictured in 1986) each won the award three
times.
During the 64 nomination years, 200 authors have had works nominated; 49 of these have won,
including coauthors and Retro Hugos. 1 translator has been noted along with the author whose
work she translated. Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, and Harlan Ellison both have received the most
Hugos for Best Novelette at three, with Ellison having been nominated a total of six times, while
seven other authors have won twice. Mike Resnick has had the most nominations at eight, and
Ursula K. Le Guin and Greg Egan have been nominated seven times each. Fifteen other authors
have been nominated at least four times, while Egan has the most nominations without winning.
Contents
Selection
Winners and nominees
Retro Hugos
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See also
Notes
References
External links
Selection
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual
World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the award presentation constitutes its central
event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as
instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie. The novelettes on the ballot are
the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be
nominated.[3] Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting
on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change
depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.[5] Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it
was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations.[6] Worldcons
are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world
each year.[7][8]
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Publisher or
Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Astounding Science- [9]
1955 Walter M. Miller, Jr.* "The Darfsteller"
Fiction
Astounding Science- [10]
Murray Leinster* "Exploration Team"
Fiction
Galaxy Science [10]
L. Sprague de Camp "A Gun for Dinosaur"
Fiction
Galaxy Science [10]
Alan Nourse "Brightside Crossing"
Fiction
Henry Kuttner "Home There's No No Boundaries [10]
C. L. Moore Returning" (Ballantine Books)
1956
Astounding Science- [10]
Eric Frank Russell "Legwork"
Fiction
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Galaxy Science [13]
Hayden Howard "The Eskimo Invasion"
Fiction
The Magazine of
Thomas Burnett [13]
"The Manor of Roses" Fantasy & Science
Swann
Fiction
The Magazine of
Roger Zelazny "This Moment of the Storm" Fantasy & Science [13]
Fiction
Dangerous Visions [14]
Fritz Leiber* "Gonna Roll the Bones"
(Doubleday)
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
"Adrift Just Off the Islets of The Magazine of
Harlan Ellison* Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' Fantasy & Science [18]
N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" Fiction
The Magazine of
"—That Thou art Mindful of [18]
Isaac Asimov Fantasy & Science
Him"
Fiction
"Midnight by the Morphy [18]
Fritz Leiber If
Watch"
1975
New Dimensions #4 [18]
Richard A. Lupoff "After the Dreamtime"
(Doubleday)
Analog Science Fact [18]
Jerry Pournelle "Extreme Prejudice"
& Fiction
Analog Science Fact [18]
William Walling "Nix Olympica"
& Fiction
"A Brother to Dragons, a Orbit #14 (G. P. [18]
Kate Wilhelm
Companion of Owls" Putnam's Sons)
Analog Science Fact [19]
Larry Niven* "The Borderland of Sol"
& Fiction
The New Atlantis [19]
Ursula K. Le Guin "The New Atlantis"
(Warner Books)
"And Seven Times Never Kill Analog Science Fact [19]
George R. R. Martin
1976 Man" & Fiction
The Magazine of
Tom Reamy "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" Fantasy & Science [19]
Fiction
Galaxy Science [19]
Jerry Pournelle "Tinker"
Fiction
Stellar #2 (Ballantine [20]
Isaac Asimov* "The Bicentennial Man"
Books)
Future Power [20]
Ursula K. Le Guin "The Diary of the Rose"
(Random House)
1977
Galaxy Science [20]
John Varley "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance"
Fiction
Galaxy Science [20]
John Varley "The Phantom of Kansas"
Fiction
Analog Science Fact [21]
Joan D. Vinge* "Eyes of Amber"
& Fiction
Analog Science Fact [21]
Orson Scott Card "Ender's Game"
& Fiction
Analog Science Fact [21]
James Tiptree, Jr. "The Screwfly Solution"
& Fiction
1978
The Magazine of
Samuel R. Delany "Prismatica" Fantasy & Science [21]
Fiction
"The Ninth Symphony of
Universe #7 (Bantam [21]
Carter Scholz Ludwig van Beethoven and
Spectra)
Other Lost Songs"
1979 Analog Science Fact [22]
Poul Anderson* "Hunter's Moon"
& Fiction
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Analog Science Fact [22]
Orson Scott Card "Mikal's Songbird"
& Fiction
The Magazine of
Thomas Disch "The Man Who Had No Idea" Fantasy & Science [22]
Fiction
Analog Science Fact [22]
Dean Ing "Devil You Don't Know"
& Fiction
Asimov's Science [22]
John Varley "The Barbie Murders"
Fiction
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Asimov's Science [26]
Connie Willis* "Fire Watch"
Fiction
The Magazine of
Phyllis Eisenstein "Nightlife" Fantasy & Science [26]
Fiction
Analog Science Fact [26]
1983 Timothy Zahn "Pawn's Gambit"
& Fiction
Asimov's Science [26]
S. P. Somtow "Aquila"
Fiction
The Magazine of
Bruce Sterling "Swarm" Fantasy & Science [26]
Fiction
Analog Science Fact [27]
Greg Bear* "Blood Music"
& Fiction
The Magazine of
George R. R. Martin "The Monkey Treatment" Fantasy & Science [27]
Fiction
Asimov's Science [27]
Connie Willis "The Sidon in the Mirror"
1984 Fiction
The Magazine of
Ian Watson "Slow Birds" Fantasy & Science [27]
Fiction
The Magazine of
Kim Stanley Robinson "Black Air" Fantasy & Science [27]
Fiction
Asimov's Science [28]
Octavia E. Butler* "Bloodchild"
Fiction
The Magazine of
"The Man Who Painted the [28]
Lucius Shepard Fantasy & Science
Dragon Griaule"
Fiction
Analog Science Fact [28]
Timothy Zahn "Return to the Fold"
& Fiction
1985 Asimov's Science [28]
Connie Willis "Blued Moon"
Fiction
Analog Science Fact [28]
Hilbert Schenck "Silicon Muse"
& Fiction
Analog Science Fact [28]
Eric Vinicoff "The Weigher"
& Fiction
Universe #14
Kim Stanley Robinson "The Lucky Strike"
(Bantam Spectra)
1986 Universe #15 [29]
Harlan Ellison* "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
(Bantam Spectra)
Asimov's Science [29]
George R. R. Martin "Portraits of His Children"
Fiction
The Magazine of
Orson Scott Card "The Fringe" Fantasy & Science [29]
Fiction
"A Gift from the Asimov's Science [29]
Michael Bishop
GrayLanders" Fiction
Michael Swanwick "Dogfight" Omni [29]
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Publisher or
Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
William Gibson
The Magazine of
"Thor Meets Captain [30]
David Brin Fantasy & Science
America"
Fiction
1987 William Gibson "The Winter Market" Stardate [30]
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Publisher or
Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
"The Coon Rolled Down and
Ruptured His Larinks, A Asimov's Science [34]
Dafydd ab Hugh
Squeezed Novel by Mr. Fiction
Skunk"
Publisher or
Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Asimov's Science [39]
Mike Resnick "When the Old Gods Die"
Fiction
Analog Science [39]
Allen Steele "The Good Rat"
Fiction and Fact
Asimov's Science [39]
Harry Turtledove "Must and Shall"
Fiction
Asimov's Science [39]
Greg Egan "Luminous"
Fiction
Asimov's Science [39]
Greg Egan "TAP"
Fiction
Intersections (Tor [40]
Bruce Sterling* "Bicycle Repairman"
Books)
Asimov's Science [40]
Mike Resnick "The Land of Nod"
Fiction
Asimov's Science [40]
1997 Ursula K. Le Guin "Mountain Ways"
Fiction
"Beauty and the Opéra or Asimov's Science [40]
Suzy McKee Charnas
The Phantom Beast" Fiction
Asimov's Science [40]
William Barton "Age of Aquarius"
Fiction
"We Will Drink a Fish Asimov's Science [41]
Bill Johnson*
Together..." Fiction
"Three Hearings on the
Asimov's Science [41]
James Alan Gardner Existence of Snakes in the
Fiction
Human Bloodstream"
1998 [41]
Stephen Baxter "Moon Six" SF Age
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Asimov's Science [43]
Eleanor Arnason "Stellar Harvest"
Fiction
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Asimov's Science [47]
Robert Reed "Hexagons"
Fiction
The Faery Reel [48]
Kelly Link* "The Faery Handbag"
(Viking Publishers)
"The Clapping Hands of Analog Science [48]
Michael F. Flynn
God" Fiction and Fact
"The People of Sand and Fantasy & Science [48]
Paolo Bacigalupi
2005 Slag" Fiction
"Biographical Notes to 'A
All-Star Zeppelin
Discourse on the Nature of [48]
Benjamin Rosenbaum Adventure Stories
Causality, with Airplanes', by
(Wheatland Press)
Benjamin Rosenbaum"
Mike Resnick "All the Things You Are" Jim Baen's Universe [50]
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
"Alastair Baffle's Emporium Asimov's Science [52]
Mike Resnick
of Wonders" Fiction
The New Space [53]
Peter Watts* "The Island"
Opera #2 (Eos)
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Analog Science [57]
Brad R. Torgersen "The Exchange Officers"
Fiction and Fact
"The Truth of Fact, the Truth Subterranean [57]
Ted Chiang
of Feeling" Magazine
The Other Half of the
Aliette de Bodard "The Waiting Stars" Sky (Candlemark & [57]
Gleam)
Thomas Olde
Heuvelt*[Note 2] "The Day The World Turned
Lightspeed [58]
Lia Belt Upside Down"
(translator)*[Note 2]
2016 House)
The Bazaar of Bad
Stephen King "Obits" Dreams (Charles [59]
Scribner's Sons)
There Will Be War
David VanDyke "What Price Humanity?" Volume X (Castalia [59]
House)
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Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
publication
Clarkesworld [61]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad "A Series of Steaks"
Magazine
"Small Changes Over Long [61]
K. M. Szpara Uncanny Magazine
Periods of Time"
Asimov's Science [61]
Sarah Pinsker "Wind Will Rove"
Fiction
"If at First You Don't B&N Sci-Fi and [62]
Zen Cho*
Succeed, Try, Try Again" Fantasy Blog
"The Last Banquet of [62]
Tina Connolly Tor.com
Temporal Confections"
"Nine Last Days on Planet [62]
Daryl Gregory Tor.com
Earth"
2019
"The Only Harmless Great [62]
Brooke Bolander Tor.com Publishing
Thing"
"The Thing About Ghost [62]
Naomi Kritzer Uncanny Magazine
Stories"
Clarkesworld [62]
Simone Heller "When We Were Starless"
Magazine
Retro Hugos
Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of
"Retro Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for years 50, 75, or 100
years before the current year, if no awards were originally given that year.[3] Retro Hugos have
been awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943—1946, 1951, and 1954.[Note 3][4]
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Year Publisher or
Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
awarded publication
Clifford D. Astounding [65]
"Rule 18"
Simak* Science-Fiction
John W. [65]
"Dead Knowledge" Astounding Stories
Campbell
Henry Kuttner
Astounding [68]
(as Lewis "The Proud Robot"
Science-Fiction
Padgett)
Eric Frank Astounding [68]
"Symbiotica"
Russell Science-Fiction
Year Publisher or
Year Author(s) Novelette Ref.
awarded publication
Astounding [69]
Fredric Brown "Arena"
Science-Fiction
"The Big and the Little"
Astounding [69]
Isaac Asimov ("The Merchant
Science-Fiction
Princes")
C. L. Moore (as
Lawrence
O'Donnell) Astounding
"The Children's Hour" [69]
Henry Kuttner Science-Fiction
(as Lawrence
O'Donnell)
Astounding [69]
C. L. Moore "No Woman Born"
Science-Fiction
C. L. Moore (as
Lewis Padgett)
"When the Bough Astounding [69]
Henry Kuttner Breaks" Science-Fiction
(as Lewis
Padgett)
Murray Astounding [70]
"First Contact"
Leinster* Science-Fiction
Thrilling Wonder [70]
Fredric Brown "Pi in the Sky"
Stories
Astounding [70]
1946 1996 Lester del Rey "Into Thy Hands"
Science-Fiction
Astounding [70]
A. E. van Vogt "The Mixed Men"
Science-Fiction
Astounding [70]
Lewis Padgett "The Piper's Son"
Science-Fiction
Cyril M. Astounding [71]
"The Little Black Bag"
Kornbluth* Science-Fiction
Cordwainer [71]
"Scanners Live in Vain" Fantasy Book
Smith
Astounding [71]
1951 2001 Poul Anderson "The Helping Hand"
Science-Fiction
Astounding [71]
James Blish "Okie"
Science-Fiction
Eric Frank [71]
"Dear Devil" Other Worlds
Russell
"Earthman, Come Astounding [72]
James Blish*
Home" Science-Fiction
Space Science [72]
Philip K. Dick "Second Variety"
Fiction
"The Adventure of the [72]
1954 2004 Poul Anderson Universe
Misplaced Hound"
Astounding [72]
Poul Anderson "Sam Hall"
Science-Fiction
Theodore "The Wall Around the Beyond Fantasy [72]
Cogswell World" Fiction
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See also
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards
Notes
1. In the 1958 awards, the category was called "Best Novel or Novelette", with the winner as the
novel The Big Time. No novella category was presented that year.
2. Thomas Olde Heuvelt's 2015 winner "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" is the only
translated work to win the "Best Novelette" Hugo. Hugos were awarded to both the author and
the translator.
3. Although no "Best Novelette" Hugo was awarded at the 1957 convention, Hugos were
awarded in other categories, hence there was no "Retro Hugo" for 1957 awarded in 2007.
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External links
Hugo Award official site (http://thehugoawards.org/)
List of Hugo Award nominees (https://web.archive.org/web/20110920202744/http://www.locus
mag.com/SFAwards/Db/HugoNomList.html) in Locus magazine
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