Hugo Award for Best Novelette

The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of between 7,500 and 17,500 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novella and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".<ref name="GuardianHugo"/><ref name="LitroHugo"/>

The Hugo Award for Best Novelette was first awarded in 1955, and was subsequently awarded in 1956 and 1959, lapsing in 1960.<ref group="Note" name="TBT58"/> The category was reinstated for 1967 through 1969, before lapsing again in 1970; after returning in 1973, it has remained to date. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given.<ref name="thafaq"/> To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novelettes for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.<ref name="LocusRetroHugoinfo"/>

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 finalists, 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.<ref name="thafaq"/> Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six finalists is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.<ref name="thaabout"/> Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations.<ref name="2017change"/> Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.<ref name="LocusHugoinfo"/><ref name="worldcon"/>

During the 67 nomination years, 215 authors have had works as finalists; 52 of these have won, including coauthors and Retro Hugos. Three translators have been noted along with the author of a novelette written in a language other than English: Lia Belt for a translation from Dutch in 2015, Ken Liu for a translation from Chinese in 2016, and Emily Jen for a translation from Chinese in 2024. Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, and Harlan Ellison both have received the most Hugos for Best Novelette at three, with Ellison having been a finalist a total of six times, while seven other authors have won twice. Mike Resnick has had the most final ballot 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.

Winners and finalists

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the finalists on the short-list. If the novelette was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the publisher's name is included after the book title.

  *   Winners and joint winners

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Year	Author(s)	Novelette	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1955	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo55"/>
1956	Template:Sortname*	"Exploration Team"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Brightside Crossing"	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Home There's No Returning"	No Boundaries (Ballantine Books)	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	"Legwork"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Fantastic Universe	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Who?"	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo56"/>
1959	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Unwillingly to School"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Captivity"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Reap the Dark Tide" (aka: "Shark Ship")	Vanguard	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Second Game"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Rat in the Skull"	If	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo59"/>
1967	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Call Him Lord"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Apology to Inky"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	"For a Breath I Tarry"	Fantastic	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
	Template:Sortname	"This Moment of the Storm"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo67"/>
1968	Template:Sortname*	"Gonna Roll the Bones"	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)	<ref name="Hugo68"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Wizard's World"	If	<ref name="Hugo68"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Faith of Our Fathers"	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)	<ref name="Hugo68"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"	Knight	<ref name="Hugo68"/>
1969	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo69"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Total Environment"	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo69"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Getting Through University"	If	<ref name="Hugo69"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Mother to the World"	Template:Sort (G. P. Putnam's Sons)	<ref name="Hugo69"/>
1973	Template:Sortname*	"Goat Song"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo73"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Patron of the Arts"	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)	<ref name="Hugo73"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Basilisk"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo73"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (G. P. Putnam's Sons)	<ref name="Hugo73"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Painwise"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo73"/>
1974	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo74"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo74"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death"	Template:Sort (Ballantine Books)	<ref name="Hugo74"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo74"/>
	Template:Sortname	"He Fell into a Dark Hole"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo74"/>
1975	Template:Sortname*	"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Midnight by the Morphy Watch"	If	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
	Template:Sortname	"After the Dreamtime"	New Dimensions #4 (Doubleday)	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Extreme Prejudice"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Nix Olympica"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (G. P. Putnam's Sons)	<ref name="Hugo75"/>
1976	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo76"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Warner Books)	<ref name="Hugo76"/>
	Template:Sortname	"And Seven Times Never Kill Man"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo76"/>
	Template:Sortname	"San Diego Lightfoot Sue"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo76"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Tinker"	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo76"/>
1977	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Stellar #2 (Ballantine Books)	<ref name="Hugo77"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Future Power (Random House)	<ref name="Hugo77"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance"	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo77"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Galaxy Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo77"/>
1978	Template:Sortname*	"Eyes of Amber"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo78"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Ender's Game"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo78"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo78"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Prismatica"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo78"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)	<ref name="Hugo78"/>
1979	Template:Sortname*	"Hunter's Moon"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo79"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Mikal's Songbird"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo79"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo79"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Devil You Don't Know"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo79"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo79"/>
1980	Template:Sortname*	"Sandkings"	Omni	<ref name="Hugo80"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Homecoming"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo80"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo80"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Fireflood"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo80"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Options"	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)	<ref name="Hugo80"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Palely Loitering"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo80"/>
1981	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo81"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Savage Planet"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo81"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Beatnik Bayou"	New Voices #3: The Campbell Award Nominees (Berkley Books)	<ref name="Hugo81"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo81"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo81"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)	<ref name="Hugo81"/>
1982	Template:Sortname*	"Unicorn Variation"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo82"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Guardians"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo82"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo82"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo82"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)	<ref name="Hugo82"/>
1983	Template:Sortname*	"Fire Watch"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo83"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Nightlife"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo83"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Pawn's Gambit"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo83"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Aquila"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo83"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Swarm"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo83"/>
1984	Template:Sortname*	"Blood Music"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo84"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo84"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo84"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Slow Birds"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo84"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Black Air"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo84"/>
1985	Template:Sortname*	"Bloodchild"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo85"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo85"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Return to the Fold"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo85"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Blued Moon"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo85"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Silicon Muse"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo85"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo85"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)
1986	Template:Sortname*	"Paladin of the Lost Hour"	Template:Sort (Bantam Spectra)	<ref name="Hugo86"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Portraits of His Children"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo86"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo86"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo86"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dogfight"	Omni	<ref name="Hugo86"/>
	Template:Sortname
1987	Template:Sortname*	"Permafrost"	Omni	<ref name="Hugo87"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Thor Meets Captain America"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo87"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Stardate	<ref name="Hugo87"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Hatrack River"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo87"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo87"/>
1988	Template:Sortname*	"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo88"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Rachel in Love"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo88"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dinosaurs"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo88"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Flowers of Edo"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo88"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dream Baby"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo88"/>
1989	Template:Sortname*	"Schrödinger's Kitten"	Omni	<ref name="Hugo89"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Peaches for Mad Molly"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo89"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo89"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Midnight Graffiti	<ref name="Hugo89"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo89"/>
1990	Template:Sortname*	"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo90"/>
	Template:Sortname	"For I Have Touched the Sky"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo90"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Everything But Honor"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo90"/>
	Template:Sortname	"At the Rialto"	Omni	<ref name="Hugo90"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo90"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dogwalker"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo90"/>
1991	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo91"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo91"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Tower of Babylon"	Omni	<ref name="Hugo91"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo91"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Over the Long Haul"	Amazing Stories	<ref name="Hugo91"/>
1992	Template:Sortname*	"Gold"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	<ref name="Hugo92"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dispatches from the Revolution"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo92"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Miracle"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo92"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Fin de Cyclé"	Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories (Mark V. Ziesing)	<ref name="Hugo92"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Understand"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo92"/>
1993	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo93"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Danny Goes to Mars"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo93"/>
	Template:Sortname	"True Faces"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo93"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Suppose They Gave a Peace..."	Alternate Presidents (Tor Books)	<ref name="Hugo93"/>
	Template:Sortname	"In the Stone House"	Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books)	<ref name="Hugo93"/>
1994	Template:Sortname*	"Georgia on My Mind"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo94"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dancing on Air"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo94"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo94"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Deep Eddy"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo94"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo94"/>
1995	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo95"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Cocoon"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo95"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo95"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Solitude"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo95"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo95"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Crank	<ref name="Hugo95"/>
1996	Template:Sortname*	"Think Like a Dinosaur"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo96"/>
	Template:Sortname	"When the Old Gods Die"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo96"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo96"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Must and Shall"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo96"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Luminous"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo96"/>
	Template:Sortname	"TAP"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo96"/>
1997	Template:Sortname*	"Bicycle Repairman"	Intersections (Tor Books)	<ref name="Hugo97"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo97"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Mountain Ways"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo97"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo97"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Age of Aquarius"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo97"/>
1998	Template:Sortname*	"We Will Drink a Fish Together..."	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo98"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo98"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Moon Six"	SF Age	<ref name="Hugo98"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Broken Symmetry"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo98"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo98"/>
1999	Template:Sortname*	"Taklamakan"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Echea"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Zwarte Piet's Tale"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"	Future Histories (Horizon House)	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Time Gypsy"	Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Divided by Infinity"	Starlight #2 (Tor Books)	<ref name="Hugo99"/>
2000	Template:Sortname*	"1016 to 1"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo00"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Stellar Harvest"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo00"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Border Guards"	Interzone	<ref name="Hugo00"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo00"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Fossil Games"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo00"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo00"/>
2001	Template:Sortname*	"Millennium Babies"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo01"/>
	Template:Sortname	"On the Orion Line"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo01"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Agape Among the Robots"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo01"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Generation Gap"	Artemis	<ref name="Hugo01"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Redchapel"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo01"/>
2002	Template:Sortname*	"Hell Is the Absence of God"	Starlight #3 (Tor Books)	<ref name="Hugo02"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo02"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Undone"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo02"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Lobsters"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo02"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo02"/>
2003	Template:Sortname*	"Slow Life"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo03"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo03"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Halo"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo03"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Presence"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo03"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Madonna of the Maquiladora"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo03"/>
2004	Template:Sortname*	"Legions in Time"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo04"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Scifi.com	<ref name="Hugo04"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Nightfall"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo04"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Into the Gardens of Sweet Night"	Writers of the Future #19 (Galaxy Press)	<ref name="Hugo04"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Bernardo's House"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo04"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Hexagons"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo04"/>
2005	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Viking Publishers)	<ref name="Hugo05"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo05"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo05"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum"	All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (Wheatland Press)	<ref name="Hugo05"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Scifi.com	<ref name="Hugo05"/>
2006	Template:Sortname*	"Two Hearts"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo06"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo06"/>
	Template:Sortname	"TelePresence"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo06"/>
	Template:Sortname	"I, Robot"	Template:Sort	<ref name="Hugo06"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Scifi.com	<ref name="Hugo06"/>
2007	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo07"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo07"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo07"/>
	Template:Sortname	"All the Things You Are"	Jim Baen's Universe	<ref name="Hugo07"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Yellow Card Man"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo07"/>
2008	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo08"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Logorrhea (Bantam Books)	<ref name="Hugo08"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Dark Integers"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo08"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Glory"	Template:Sort (Eos)	<ref name="Hugo08"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Finisterra"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo08"/>
2009	Template:Sortname*	"Shoggoths in Bloom"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo09"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Pride and Prometheus"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo09"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo09"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Fast Forward 2 (Pyr)	<ref name="Hugo09"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo09"/>
2010	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Eos)	<ref name="Hugo10"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Eros, Philia, Agape"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo10"/>
	Template:Sortname	"It Takes Two"	Eclipse #3 (Night Shade Books)	<ref name="Hugo10"/>
	Template:Sortname	"One of Our Bastards is Missing"	Template:Sort (Solaris Books)	<ref name="Hugo10"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Overtime"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo10"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast"	Interzone	<ref name="Hugo10"/>
2011	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo11"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Eight Miles"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo11"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo11"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo11"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Plus or Minus"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo11"/>
2012	Template:Sortname*	"Six Months, Three Days"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo12"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo12"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Fields of Gold"	Eclipse #4 (Night Shade Books)	<ref name="Hugo12"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Ray of Light"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo12"/>
	Template:Sortname	"What We Found"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo12"/>
2013	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Edge of Infinity (Solaris Books)	<ref name="Hugo13"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Postscripts: Unfit For Eden (PS Publishing)	<ref name="Hugo13"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Fade To White"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo13"/>
	Template:Sortname	"In Sea-Salt Tears"	Self-published	<ref name="Hugo13"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Rat-Catcher"	Template:Sort (Subterranean Press)	<ref name="Hugo13"/>
2014	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo14"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Opera Vita Aeterna"	Template:Sort (Marcher Lord Hinterlands)	<ref name="Hugo14"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo14"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Subterranean Magazine	<ref name="Hugo14"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Sort (Candlemark & Gleam)	<ref name="Hugo14"/>
2015	Template:Sortname (Dutch)*<ref group="Note" name="Translated"/>	Template:Sort	Lightspeed	<ref name="Hugo15"/>
	Template:Sortname (translator)*<ref group="Note" name="Translated"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo15"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Championship B’tok"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo15"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium"	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show	<ref name="Hugo15"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Hugo15"/>
2016	Template:Sortname*<ref group="Note" name="Translated"/>	"Folding Beijing"*	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo16"/>
	Template:Sortname (translator)*<ref group="Note" name="Translated"/>
	Template:Sortname	"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead"	Lightspeed	<ref name="Hugo16"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Flashpoint: Titan"	There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House)	<ref name="Hugo16"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Obits"	Template:Sort (Charles Scribner's Sons)	<ref name="Hugo16"/>
	Template:Sortname	"What Price Humanity?"	There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House)	<ref name="Hugo16"/>
2017	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Apex Magazine	<ref name="Hugo17"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Self-published	<ref name="Hugo17"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo17"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo17"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Touring with the Alien"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo17"/>
	Template:Sortname	"You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo17"/>
2018	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo18"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Children of Thorns, Children of Water"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo18"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Extracurricular Activities"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo18"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo18"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo18"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Wind Will Rove"	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo18"/>
2019	Template:Sortname*	"If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again"	B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog	<ref name="Hugo19"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo19"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Nine Last Days on Planet Earth"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo19"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor.com Publishing	<ref name="Hugo19"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo19"/>
	Template:Sortname	"When We Were Starless"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo19"/>
2020	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Amazon.com	<ref name="Hugo20" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Lightspeed Magazine	<ref name="Hugo20" />
	Template:Sortname	"Away With the Wolves"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo20"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo20"/>
	Template:Sortname	"For He Can Creep"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo20"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Omphalos"	Exhalation: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)	<ref name="Hugo20"/>
2021	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo21"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Burn, or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo21"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Helicopter Story"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo21"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo21"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Monster"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo21"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Big Girl (PM Press)	<ref name="Hugo21"/>
2022	Template:Sortname*	"Bots of the Lost Ark"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo22"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Colors of the Immortal Palette"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo22"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo22"/>
	Template:Sortname	"O2 Arena"	Galaxy's Edge	<ref name="Hugo22"/>
	Template:Sortname	"That Story Isn't the Story"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo22"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Unseelie Brothers, Ltd."	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo22"/>
2023	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Galaxy's Edge	<ref name="Hugo23"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance (Solaris Books)	<ref name="Hugo23"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom)	<ref name="Hugo23"/>
	Template:Sortname	"If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo23"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo23"/>
	Template:Sortname	"We Built This City"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo23"/>
2024	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo24"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Shortwave Publishing	<ref name="Hugo24"/>
	Template:Sortname (Chinese)	"Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition"	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo24"/>
	Template:Sortname (translator)
	Template:Sortname	"Ivy, Angelica, Bay"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo24"/>
	Template:Sortname	"On the Fox Roads"	Tor.com	<ref name="Hugo24"/>
	Template:Sortname	"One Man's Treasure"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo24"/>
2025	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Clarkesworld Magazine	<ref name="Hugo25"/>
	Template:Sortname	"By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars"	Strange Horizons	<ref name="Hugo25"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Asimov's Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo25"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Lake of Souls"	Lake of Souls (Orbit Books)	<ref name="Hugo25"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Loneliness Universe"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo25"/>
	Template:Sortname	"Signs of Life"	Uncanny Magazine	<ref name="Hugo25"/>

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.<ref name="thafaq"/> Retro Hugos have been awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.<ref name="LocusRetroHugoinfo"/>

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Year	Year awarded	Author(s)	Novelette	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1939	2014	Template:Sortname*	"Rule 18"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo39"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Dead Knowledge"	Astounding Stories	<ref name="Hugo39"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Hollywood on the Moon"	Thrilling Wonder Stories	<ref name="Hugo39"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Pigeons from Hell"	Weird Tales	<ref name="Hugo39"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Werewoman"	Leaves	<ref name="Hugo39"/>
1941	2016	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo41"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Blowups Happen"	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo41"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Darker Than You Think"	Unknown	<ref name="Hugo41"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Farewell to the Master"	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo41"/>
		Template:Sortname	"It!"	Unknown	<ref name="Hugo41"/>
1943	2018	Template:Sortname*	"Foundation" (aka "The Encyclopedists")	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo43"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Bridle and Saddle" (aka "The Mayors")	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo43"/>
		Template:Sortname (as Anson MacDonald)	"Goldfish Bowl"	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo43"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Planet Stories	<ref name="Hugo43"/>
		Template:Sortname	"There Shall Be Darkness"	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo43"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo43"/>
1944	2019	Template:Sortname* (as Lewis Padgett)	"Mimsy Were the Borogoves"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo44"/>
		Template:Sortname* (as Lewis Padgett)
		Template:Sortname	"Citadel of Lost Ships"	Planet Stories	<ref name="Hugo44"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astonishing Stories	<ref name="Hugo44"/>
		Template:Sortname (as Lewis Padgett)	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo44"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Symbiotica"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo44"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Thieves' House"	Unknown Worlds	<ref name="Hugo44"/>
1945	2020	Template:Sortname*	"City"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo45"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Arena"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo45"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo45"/>
		Template:Sortname (as Lawrence O'Donnell)	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo45"/>
		Template:Sortname (as Lawrence O'Donnell)
		Template:Sortname	"No Woman Born"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo45"/>
		Template:Sortname (as Lewis Padgett)	"When the Bough Breaks"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo45"/>
		Template:Sortname (as Lewis Padgett)
1946	1996	Template:Sortname*	"First Contact"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo46"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Pi in the Sky"	Thrilling Wonder Stories	<ref name="Hugo46"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Into Thy Hands"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo46"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo46"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo46"/>
1951	2001	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo51"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Scanners Live in Vain"	Fantasy Book	<ref name="Hugo51"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo51"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Okie"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo51"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Dear Devil"	Other Worlds	<ref name="Hugo51"/>
1954	2004	Template:Sortname*	"Earthman, Come Home"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo54"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Second Variety"	Space Science Fiction	<ref name="Hugo54"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Universe	<ref name="Hugo54"/>
		Template:Sortname	"Sam Hall"	Astounding Science-Fiction	<ref name="Hugo54"/>
		Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Beyond Fantasy Fiction	<ref name="Hugo54"/>

See also

• Nebula Award for Best Novelette
• List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards

External links

• Hugo Award official site Template:Webarchive
• List of Hugo Award nominees in Locus magazine

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