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".^[1][2]

Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Awarded for	The best science fiction or fantasy story of between 7,500 and 17,500 words published in the prior calendar year
Presented by	World Science Fiction Society
First award	1955
Most recent winner	Naomi Kritzer ("The Year Without Sunshine")
Website	thehugoawards.org

Poul Anderson (left, pictured in 1985) and Harlan Ellison (right, pictured in 1986) each won the award three times.

The Hugo Award for Best Novelette was first awarded in 1955, and was subsequently awarded in 1956 and 1959, lapsing in 1960.^{[Note 1]} 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.^[3] To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novelettes for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.^[4]

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.^[3] 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.^[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]

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

Winners and finalists

Year	Author(s)	Novelette	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1955	Walter M. Miller, Jr.*	"The Darfsteller"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[9]
1956	Murray Leinster*	"Exploration Team"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[10]
	L. Sprague de Camp	"A Gun for Dinosaur"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[10]
	Alan Nourse	"Brightside Crossing"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[10]
	Henry Kuttner	"Home There's No Returning"	No Boundaries (Ballantine Books)	[10]
	C. L. Moore
	Eric Frank Russell	"Legwork"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[10]
	F. L. Wallace	"The Assistant Self"	Fantastic Universe	[10]
	Algis Budrys	"The End of Summer"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[10]
	Theodore Sturgeon	"Who?"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[10]
1959	Clifford D. Simak*	"The Big Front Yard"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[11]
	Pauline Ashwell	"Unwillingly to School"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[11]
	Zenna Henderson	"Captivity"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[11]
	C.M. Kornbluth	"Reap the Dark Tide" (aka: "Shark Ship")	Vanguard	[11]
	Fritz Leiber	"A Deskful of Girls"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[11]
	Katherine MacLean	"Second Game"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[11]
	Rog Phillips	"Rat in the Skull"	If	[11]
	Jack Vance	"The Miracle-Workers"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[11]
1967	Jack Vance*	"The Last Castle"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[12]
	Gordon R. Dickson	"Call Him Lord"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[12]
	Robert M. Green, Jr.	"Apology to Inky"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[12]
	Charles L. Harness	"The Alchemist"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[12]
	Charles L. Harness	"An Ornament to His Profession"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[12]
	Hayden Howard	"The Eskimo Invasion"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[12]
	Thomas Burnett Swann	"The Manor of Roses"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[12]
	Roger Zelazny	"For a Breath I Tarry"	Fantastic	[12]
	Roger Zelazny	"This Moment of the Storm"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[12]
1968	Fritz Leiber*	"Gonna Roll the Bones"	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)	[13]
	Andre Norton	"Wizard's World"	If	[13]
	Philip K. Dick	"Faith of Our Fathers"	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)	[13]
	Harlan Ellison	"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"	Knight	[13]
1969	Poul Anderson*	"The Sharing of Flesh"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[14]
	Brian Aldiss	"Total Environment"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[14]
	Piers Anthony	"Getting Through University"	If	[14]
	Richard Wilson	"Mother to the World"	Orbit #3 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)	[14]
1973	Poul Anderson*	"Goat Song"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[15]
	William Rotsler	"Patron of the Arts"	Universe #2 (Bantam Spectra)	[15]
	Harlan Ellison	"Basilisk"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[15]
	Gardner Dozois	"A Kingdom by the Sea"	Orbit #10 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)	[15]
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"Painwise"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[15]
1974	Harlan Ellison*	"The Deathbird"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[16]
	Vonda N. McIntyre	"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[16]
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death"	The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books)	[16]
	George Alec Effinger	"The City on the Sand"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[16]
	Jerry Pournelle	"He Fell into a Dark Hole"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[16]
1975	Harlan Ellison*	"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[17]
	Isaac Asimov	"—That Thou art Mindful of Him"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[17]
	Fritz Leiber	"Midnight by the Morphy Watch"	If	[17]
	Richard A. Lupoff	"After the Dreamtime"	New Dimensions #4 (Doubleday)	[17]
	Jerry Pournelle	"Extreme Prejudice"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[17]
	William Walling	"Nix Olympica"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[17]
	Kate Wilhelm	"A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls"	Orbit #14 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)	[17]
1976	Larry Niven*	"The Borderland of Sol"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[18]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The New Atlantis"	The New Atlantis (Warner Books)	[18]
	George R. R. Martin	"And Seven Times Never Kill Man"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[18]
	Tom Reamy	"San Diego Lightfoot Sue"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[18]
	Jerry Pournelle	"Tinker"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[18]
1977	Isaac Asimov*	"The Bicentennial Man"	Stellar #2 (Ballantine Books)	[19]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The Diary of the Rose"	Future Power (Random House)	[19]
	John Varley	"Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[19]
	John Varley	"The Phantom of Kansas"	Galaxy Science Fiction	[19]
1978	Joan D. Vinge*	"Eyes of Amber"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[20]
	Orson Scott Card	"Ender's Game"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[20]
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"The Screwfly Solution"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[20]
	Samuel R. Delany	"Prismatica"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[20]
	Carter Scholz	"The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs"	Universe #7 (Bantam Spectra)	[20]
1979	Poul Anderson*	"Hunter's Moon"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[21]
	Orson Scott Card	"Mikal's Songbird"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[21]
	Thomas Disch	"The Man Who Had No Idea"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[21]
	Dean Ing	"Devil You Don't Know"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[21]
	John Varley	"The Barbie Murders"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[21]
1980	George R. R. Martin*	"Sandkings"	Omni	[22]
	Barry B. Longyear	"Homecoming"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[22]
	Larry Niven	"The Locusts"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[22]
	Vonda N. McIntyre	"Fireflood"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[22]
	John Varley	"Options"	Universe #9 (Bantam Spectra)	[22]
	Christopher Priest	"Palely Loitering"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[22]
1981	Gordon R. Dickson*	"The Cloak and the Staff"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[23]
	Barry B. Longyear	"Savage Planet"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[23]
	John Varley	"Beatnik Bayou"	New Voices #3: The Campbell Award Nominees (Berkley Books)	[23]
	Keith Roberts	"The Lordly Ones"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[23]
	Michael Shea	"The Autopsy"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[23]
	Howard Waldrop	"The Ugly Chickens"	Universe #10 (Bantam Spectra)	[23]
1982	Roger Zelazny*	"Unicorn Variation"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[24]
	George R. R. Martin	"Guardians"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[24]
	Edward Bryant	"The Thermals of August"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[24]
	Parke Godwin	"The Fire When It Comes"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[24]
	Michael Bishop	"The Quickening"	Universe #11 (Bantam Spectra)	[24]
1983	Connie Willis*	"Fire Watch"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[25]
	Phyllis Eisenstein	"Nightlife"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[25]
	Timothy Zahn	"Pawn's Gambit"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[25]
	S. P. Somtow	"Aquila"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[25]
	Bruce Sterling	"Swarm"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[25]
1984	Greg Bear*	"Blood Music"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[26]
	George R. R. Martin	"The Monkey Treatment"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[26]
	Connie Willis	"The Sidon in the Mirror"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[26]
	Ian Watson	"Slow Birds"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[26]
	Kim Stanley Robinson	"Black Air"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[26]
1985	Octavia E. Butler*	"Bloodchild"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[27]
	Lucius Shepard	"The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[27]
	Timothy Zahn	"Return to the Fold"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[27]
	Connie Willis	"Blued Moon"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[27]
	Hilbert Schenck	"Silicon Muse"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[27]
	Eric Vinicoff	"The Weigher"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[27]
	Kim Stanley Robinson	"The Lucky Strike"	Universe #14 (Bantam Spectra)
1986	Harlan Ellison*	"Paladin of the Lost Hour"	Universe #15 (Bantam Spectra)	[28]
	George R. R. Martin	"Portraits of His Children"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[28]
	Orson Scott Card	"The Fringe"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[28]
	Michael Bishop	"A Gift from the GrayLanders"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[28]
	Michael Swanwick	"Dogfight"	Omni	[28]
	William Gibson
1987	Roger Zelazny*	"Permafrost"	Omni	[29]
	David Brin	"Thor Meets Captain America"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	[29]
	William Gibson	"The Winter Market"	Stardate	[29]
	Orson Scott Card	"Hatrack River"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[29]
	Vernor Vinge	"The Barbarian Princess"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[29]
1988	Ursula K. Le Guin*	"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[30]
	Pat Murphy	"Rachel in Love"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[30]
	Walter Jon Williams	"Dinosaurs"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[30]
	Bruce Sterling	"Flowers of Edo"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[30]
	Bruce McAllister	"Dream Baby"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[30]
1989	George Alec Effinger*	"Schrödinger's Kitten"	Omni	[31]
	Steven Gould	"Peaches for Mad Molly"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[31]
	Howard Waldrop	"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[31]
	Harlan Ellison	"The Function of Dream Sleep"	Midnight Graffiti	[31]
	Neal Barrett, Jr.	"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[31]
1990	Robert Silverberg*	"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[32]
	Mike Resnick	"For I Have Touched the Sky"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[32]
	George Alec Effinger	"Everything But Honor"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[32]
	Connie Willis	"At the Rialto"	Omni	[32]
	Nancy Kress	"The Price of Oranges"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[32]
	Orson Scott Card	"Dogwalker"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[32]
1991	Mike Resnick*	"The Manamouki"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[33]
	Charles Sheffield	"A Braver Thing"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[33]
	Ted Chiang	"Tower of Babylon"	Omni	[33]
	Dafydd ab Hugh	"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[33]
	Martha Soukup	"Over the Long Haul"	Amazing Stories	[33]
1992	Isaac Asimov*	"Gold"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction	[34]
	Pat Cadigan	"Dispatches from the Revolution"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[34]
	Connie Willis	"Miracle"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[34]
	Howard Waldrop	"Fin de Cyclé"	Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories (Mark V. Ziesing)	[34]
	Ted Chiang	"Understand"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[34]
1993	Janet Kagan*	"The Nutcracker Coup"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[35]
	Pamela Sargent	"Danny Goes to Mars"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[35]
	Pat Cadigan	"True Faces"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[35]
	Susan Shwartz	"Suppose They Gave a Peace..."	Alternate Presidents (Tor Books)	[35]
	Barry N. Malzberg	"In the Stone House"	Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books)	[35]
1994	Charles Sheffield*	"Georgia on My Mind"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[36]
	Nancy Kress	"Dancing on Air"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[36]
	Terry Bisson	"The Shadow Knows"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[36]
	Bruce Sterling	"Deep Eddy"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[36]
	John Kessel	"The Franchise"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[36]
1995	David Gerrold*	"The Martian Child"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[37]
	Greg Egan	"Cocoon"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[37]
	Mike Resnick	"A Little Knowledge"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[37]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"Solitude"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[37]
	Geoffrey A. Landis	"The Singular Habits of Wasps"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[37]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The Matter of Seggri"	Crank	[37]
1996	James Patrick Kelly*	"Think Like a Dinosaur"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[38]
	Mike Resnick	"When the Old Gods Die"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[38]
	Allen Steele	"The Good Rat"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[38]
	Harry Turtledove	"Must and Shall"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[38]
	Greg Egan	"Luminous"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[38]
	Greg Egan	"TAP"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[38]
1997	Bruce Sterling*	"Bicycle Repairman"	Intersections (Tor Books)	[39]
	Mike Resnick	"The Land of Nod"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[39]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"Mountain Ways"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[39]
	Suzy McKee Charnas	"Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[39]
	William Barton	"Age of Aquarius"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[39]
1998	Bill Johnson*	"We Will Drink a Fish Together..."	Asimov's Science Fiction	[40]
	James Alan Gardner	"Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[40]
	Stephen Baxter	"Moon Six"	SF Age	[40]
	Michael A. Burstein	"Broken Symmetry"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[40]
	William Sanders	"The Undiscovered"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[40]
1999	Bruce Sterling*	"Taklamakan"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[41]
	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	"Echea"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[41]
	Allen Steele	"Zwarte Piet's Tale"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[41]
	Nancy Kress	"Steamship Soldier on the Information Front"	Future Histories (Horizon House)	[41]
	Greg Egan	"The Planck Dive"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[41]
	Ellen Klages	"Time Gypsy"	Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press)	[41]
	Robert Charles Wilson	"Divided by Infinity"	Starlight #2 (Tor Books)	[41]
2000	James Patrick Kelly*	"1016 to 1"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[42]
	Eleanor Arnason	"Stellar Harvest"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[42]
	Greg Egan	"Border Guards"	Interzone	[42]
	Jan Jensen	"The Secret History of the Ornithopter"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[42]
	Tom Purdom	"Fossil Games"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[42]
	Ian R. MacLeod	"The Chop Girl"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[42]
2001	Kristine Kathryn Rusch*	"Millennium Babies"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[43]
	Stephen Baxter	"On the Orion Line"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[43]
	Allen Steele	"Agape Among the Robots"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[43]
	Stanley Schmidt	"Generation Gap"	Artemis	[43]
	Mike Resnick	"Redchapel"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[43]
2002	Ted Chiang*	"Hell Is the Absence of God"	Starlight #3 (Tor Books)	[44]
	Allen Steele	"The Days Between"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[44]
	James Patrick Kelly	"Undone"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[44]
	Charles Stross	"Lobsters"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[44]
	Shane Tourtellotte	"The Return of Spring"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[44]
2003	Michael Swanwick*	"Slow Life"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[45]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The Wild Girls"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[45]
	Charles Stross	"Halo"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[45]
	Maureen F. McHugh	"Presence"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[45]
	Gregory Frost	"Madonna of the Maquiladora"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[45]
2004	Michael Swanwick*	"Legions in Time"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[46]
	Jeffrey Ford	"The Empire of Ice Cream"	Scifi.com	[46]
	Charles Stross	"Nightfall"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[46]
	Jay Lake	"Into the Gardens of Sweet Night"	Writers of the Future #19 (Galaxy Press)	[46]
	James Patrick Kelly	"Bernardo's House"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[46]
	Robert Reed	"Hexagons"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[46]
2005	Kelly Link*	"The Faery Handbag"	The Faery Reel (Viking Publishers)	[47]
	Michael F. Flynn	"The Clapping Hands of God"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[47]
	Paolo Bacigalupi	"The People of Sand and Slag"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[47]
	Benjamin Rosenbaum	"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum"	All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (Wheatland Press)	[47]
	Christopher Rowe	"The Voluntary State"	Scifi.com	[47]
2006	Peter S. Beagle*	"Two Hearts"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[48]
	Paolo Bacigalupi	"The Calorie Man"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[48]
	Michael A. Burstein	"TelePresence"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[48]
	Cory Doctorow	"I, Robot"	The Infinite Matrix	[48]
	Howard Waldrop	"The King of Where-I-Go"	Scifi.com	[48]
2007	Ian McDonald*	"The Djinn's Wife"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[49]
	Geoff Ryman	"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[49]
	Michael F. Flynn	"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[49]
	Mike Resnick	"All the Things You Are"	Jim Baen's Universe	[49]
	Paolo Bacigalupi	"Yellow Card Man"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[49]
2008	Ted Chiang*	"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[50]
	Daniel Abraham	"The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics"	Logorrhea (Bantam Books)	[50]
	Greg Egan	"Dark Integers"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[50]
	Greg Egan	"Glory"	The New Space Opera (Eos)	[50]
	David Moles	"Finisterra"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[50]
2009	Elizabeth Bear*	"Shoggoths in Bloom"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[51]
	John Kessel	"Pride and Prometheus"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[51]
	James Alan Gardner	"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[51]
	Paolo Bacigalupi	"The Gambler"	Fast Forward 2 (Pyr)	[51]
	Mike Resnick	"Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[51]
2010	Peter Watts*	"The Island"	The New Space Opera #2 (Eos)	[52]
	Rachel Swirsky	"Eros, Philia, Agape"	Tor.com	[52]
	Nicola Griffith	"It Takes Two"	Eclipse #3 (Night Shade Books)	[52]
	Paul Cornell	"One of Our Bastards is Missing"	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #3 (Solaris Books)	[52]
	Charles Stross	"Overtime"	Tor.com	[52]
	Eugie Foster	"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast"	Interzone	[52]
2011	Allen Steele*	"The Emperor of Mars"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[53]
	Sean McMullen	"Eight Miles"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[53]
	Aliette de Bodard	"The Jaguar House, in Shadow"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[53]
	Eric James Stone	"The Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[53]
	James Patrick Kelly	"Plus or Minus"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[53]
2012	Charlie Jane Anders*	"Six Months, Three Days"	Tor.com	[54]
	Paul Cornell	"The Copenhagen Interpretation"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[54]
	Rachel Swirsky	"Fields of Gold"	Eclipse #4 (Night Shade Books)	[54]
	Brad R. Torgersen	"Ray of Light"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[54]
	Geoff Ryman	"What We Found"	Fantasy & Science Fiction	[54]
2013	Pat Cadigan*	"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi"	Edge of Infinity (Solaris Books)	[55]
	Thomas Olde Heuvelt	"The Boy Who Cast No Shadow"	Postscripts: Unfit For Eden (PS Publishing)	[55]
	Catherynne M. Valente	"Fade to White"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[55]
	Seanan McGuire	"In Sea-Salt Tears"	Self-published	[55]
	Seanan McGuire	"Rat-Catcher"	A Fantasy Medley 2 (Subterranean Press)	[55]
2014	Mary Robinette Kowal*	"The Lady Astronaut of Mars"	Tor.com	[56]
	Vox Day	"Opera Vita Aeterna"	The Last Witchking (Marcher Lord Hinterlands)	[56]
	Brad R. Torgersen	"The Exchange Officers"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[56]
	Ted Chiang	"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"	Subterranean Magazine	[56]
	Aliette de Bodard	"The Waiting Stars"	The Other Half of the Sky (Candlemark & Gleam)	[56]
2015	Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Dutch)*[Note 2]	"The Day The World Turned Upside Down"	Lightspeed	[57]
	Lia Belt (translator)*[Note 2]
	Michael F. Flynn	"The Journeyman: In the Stone House"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[57]
	Edward M. Lerner	"Championship B’tok"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[57]
	Gray Rinehart	"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium"	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show	[57]
	Rajnar Vajra	"The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	[57]
2016	Hao Jingfang*[Note 2]	"Folding Beijing"*	Uncanny Magazine	[58]
	Ken Liu (translator)*[Note 2]
	Brooke Bolander	"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead"	Lightspeed	[58]
	Cheah Kai Wai	"Flashpoint: Titan"	There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House)	[58]
	Stephen King	"Obits"	The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Charles Scribner's Sons)	[58]
	David VanDyke	"What Price Humanity?"	There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House)	[58]
2017	Ursula Vernon*	"The Tomato Thief"	Apex Magazine	[59]
	Stix Hiscock	Alien Stripper Boned from Behind by the T-Rex	Self-published	[59]
	Nina Allan	"The Art of Space Travel"	Tor.com	[59]
	Fran Wilde	"The Jewel and Her Lapidary"	Tor.com	[59]
	Carolyn Ives Gilman	"Touring with the Alien"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[59]
	Alyssa Wong	"You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay"	Uncanny Magazine	[59]
2018	Suzanne Palmer*	"The Secret Life of Bots"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[60]
	Aliette de Bodard	"Children of Thorns, Children of Water"	Uncanny Magazine	[60]
	Yoon Ha Lee	"Extracurricular Activities"	Tor.com	[60]
	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	"A Series of Steaks"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[60]
	K. M. Szpara	"Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time"	Uncanny Magazine	[60]
	Sarah Pinsker	"Wind Will Rove"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[60]
2019	Zen Cho*	"If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again"	B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog	[61]
	Tina Connolly	"The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections"	Tor.com	[61]
	Daryl Gregory	"Nine Last Days on Planet Earth"	Tor.com	[61]
	Brooke Bolander	"The Only Harmless Great Thing"	Tor.com Publishing	[61]
	Naomi Kritzer	"The Thing About Ghost Stories"	Uncanny Magazine	[61]
	Simone Heller	"When We Were Starless"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[61]
2020	N. K. Jemisin*	Emergency Skin	Amazon.com	[62]
	Caroline M. Yoachim	"The Archronology of Love"	Lightspeed Magazine	[62]
	Sarah Gailey	"Away With the Wolves"	Uncanny Magazine	[62]
	Sarah Pinsker	"The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye"	Uncanny Magazine	[62]
	Siobhan Carroll	"For He Can Creep"	Tor.com	[62]
	Ted Chiang	"Omphalos"	Exhalation: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)	[62]
2021	Sarah Pinsker*	Two Truths and a Lie	Tor.com	[63]
	A. T. Greenblatt	"Burn, or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super"	Uncanny Magazine	[63]
	Isabel Fall	"Helicopter Story"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[63]
	Aliette de Bodard	"The Inaccessibility of Heaven"	Uncanny Magazine	[63]
	Naomi Kritzer	"Monster"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[63]
	Meg Elison	"The Pill"	Big Girl (PM Press)	[63]
2022	Suzanne Palmer*	"Bots of the Lost Ark"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[64]
	Caroline M. Yoachim	"Colors of the Immortal Palette"	Uncanny Magazine	[64]
	Catherynne M. Valente	"L'Esprit de L'Escalier"	Tor.com	[64]
	Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki	"O2 Arena"	Galaxy's Edge	[64]
	John Wiswell	"That Story Isn't the Story"	Uncanny Magazine	[64]
	Fran Wilde	"Unseelie Brothers, Ltd."	Uncanny Magazine	[64]
2023	Hai Ya*	"The Space-Time Painter"	Galaxy's Edge	[65]
	Catherynne M. Valente	"The Difference Between Love and Time"	Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance (Solaris Books)	[65]
	Wole Talabi	"A Dream of Electric Mothers"	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom)	[65]
	John Chu	"If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You"	Uncanny Magazine	[65]
	S. L. Huang	"Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[65]
	Marie Vibbert	"We Built This City"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[65]
2024	Naomi Kritzer*	"The Year Without Sunshine"	Uncanny Magazine	[66]
	Ai Jiang	I AM AI	Shortwave Publishing	[66]
	Gu Shi (Chinese)	"Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[66]
	Emily Jen (translator)
	C. L. Polk	"Ivy, Angelica, Bay"	Tor.com	[66]
	Nghi Vo	"On the Fox Roads"	Tor.com	[66]
	Sarah Pinsker	"One Man's Treasure"	Uncanny Magazine	[66]
2025	Thomas Ha	"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video"	Clarkesworld Magazine	[67]
	Premee Mohamed	"By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars"	Strange Horizons	[67]
	Naomi Kritzer	"The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea"	Asimov's Science Fiction	[67]
	Ann Leckie	"Lake of Souls"	Lake of Souls (Orbit Books)	[67]
	Eugenia Triantafyllou	"Loneliness Universe"	Uncanny Magazine	[67]
	Sarah Pinsker	"Signs of Life"	Uncanny Magazine	[67]

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.^[4]

Retro Hugo winners and nominees

Year	Year awarded	Author(s)	Novelette	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1939	2014	Clifford D. Simak*	"Rule 18"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[68]
		John W. Campbell	"Dead Knowledge"	Astounding Stories	[68]
		Henry Kuttner	"Hollywood on the Moon"	Thrilling Wonder Stories	[68]
		Robert E. Howard	"Pigeons from Hell"	Weird Tales	[68]
		C. L. Moore	"Werewoman"	Leaves	[68]
1941	2016	Robert A. Heinlein*	"The Roads Must Roll"	Astounding Science Fiction	[69]
		Robert A. Heinlein	"Blowups Happen"	Astounding Science Fiction	[69]
		Jack Williamson	"Darker Than You Think"	Unknown	[69]
		Harry Bates	"Farewell to the Master"	Astounding Science Fiction	[69]
		Theodore Sturgeon	"It!"	Unknown	[69]
1943	2018	Isaac Asimov*	"Foundation" (aka "The Encyclopedists")	Astounding Science Fiction	[70]
		Isaac Asimov	"Bridle and Saddle" (aka "The Mayors")	Astounding Science Fiction	[70]
		Robert A. Heinlein (as Anson MacDonald)	"Goldfish Bowl"	Astounding Science Fiction	[70]
		Fredric Brown	"The Star Mouse"	Planet Stories	[70]
		C. L. Moore	"There Shall Be Darkness"	Astounding Science Fiction	[70]
		A. E. van Vogt	"The Weapon Shop"	Astounding Science Fiction	[70]
1944	2019	C. L. Moore* (as Lewis Padgett)	"Mimsy Were the Borogoves"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[71]
		Henry Kuttner* (as Lewis Padgett)
		Leigh Brackett	"Citadel of Lost Ships"	Planet Stories	[71]
		Leigh Brackett	"The Halfling"	Astonishing Stories	[71]
		Henry Kuttner (as Lewis Padgett)	"The Proud Robot"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[71]
		Eric Frank Russell	"Symbiotica"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[71]
		Fritz Leiber	"Thieves' House"	Unknown Worlds	[71]
1945	2020	Clifford D. Simak*	"City"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[72]
		Fredric Brown	"Arena"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[72]
		Isaac Asimov	"The Big and the Little" ("The Merchant Princes")	Astounding Science-Fiction	[72]
		C. L. Moore (as Lawrence O'Donnell)	"The Children's Hour"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[72]
		Henry Kuttner (as Lawrence O'Donnell)
		C. L. Moore	"No Woman Born"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[72]
		C. L. Moore (as Lewis Padgett)	"When the Bough Breaks"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[72]
		Henry Kuttner (as Lewis Padgett)
1946	1996	Murray Leinster*	"First Contact"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[73]
		Fredric Brown	"Pi in the Sky"	Thrilling Wonder Stories	[73]
		Lester del Rey	"Into Thy Hands"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[73]
		A. E. van Vogt	"The Mixed Men"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[73]
		Lewis Padgett	"The Piper's Son"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[73]
1951	2001	Cyril M. Kornbluth*	"The Little Black Bag"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[74]
		Cordwainer Smith	"Scanners Live in Vain"	Fantasy Book	[74]
		Poul Anderson	"The Helping Hand"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[74]
		James Blish	"Okie"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[74]
		Eric Frank Russell	"Dear Devil"	Other Worlds	[74]
1954	2004	James Blish*	"Earthman, Come Home"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[75]
		Philip K. Dick	"Second Variety"	Space Science Fiction	[75]
		Poul Anderson	"The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound"	Universe	[75]
		Poul Anderson	"Sam Hall"	Astounding Science-Fiction	[75]
		Theodore Cogswell	"The Wall Around the World"	Beyond Fantasy Fiction	[75]

See also

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

Notes

1. In the 1958 awards, a 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" and Hao Jingfang's 2016 winner "Folding Beijing" are the only translated works to win the "Best Novelette" Hugo. Hugos were awarded to both the author and the translator.