Hugo Award for Best Novelette

About this award

According to Article 3.3.3 of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society, a novelette is "A science fiction or fantasy story of between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (1 7,500) words."

Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year.

Winners and other nominees

Year	Winner	Other nominees
2005	"The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link	"The People of Sand and Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi "The Clapping Hands of God" by Michael F Flynn "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum" by Benjamin Rosenbaum "The Voluntary State" by Christopher Rowe
2004	"Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick	"Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford "Bernardo's House" by James Patrick Kelly "Into the Gardens of Sweet Night" by Jay Lake "Hexagons(story)" by Robert Reed "Nightfall" by Charles Stross
2003	"Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick	"Liking What You See: A Documentary" by Ted Chiang "The Wild Girls" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Presence" by Maureen F. McHugh "Halo" by Charles Stross
2002	"Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang	"Undone" by James Patrick Kelly "The Days Between" by Allen Steele "Lobsters" by Charles Stross "The Return of Spring" by Shane Tourtellotte
2001	"Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch	"On the Orion Line" by Stephen Baxter "Redchapel" by Mike Resnick "Generation Gap" by Stanley Schmidt "Agape Among the Robots" by Allen Steele
2000	"1016 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly	"Stellar Harvest" by Eleanor Arnason "Border Guards" by Greg Egan "The Secret History of the Ornithopter" by Jan Lars Jensen "The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod "Fossil Games" by Tom Purdom
1999	"Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling	"The Planck Dive" by Greg Egan "Time Gypsy" by Ellen Klages "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front" by Nancy Kress "Echea" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Zwarte Piet's Tale" by Allen Steele "Divided by Infinity" by Robert Charles Wilson
1998	"We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson	"Moon Six" by Stephen Baxter "Broken Symmetry" by Michael A. Burstein "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" by James Alan Gardner "The Undiscovered" by William Sanders
1997	"Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling	"Age of Aquarius" by William Barton "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast" by Suzy McKee Charnas "Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin "The Land of Nod" by Mike Resnick
1996	"Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly	"Luminous" by Greg Egan "TAP" by Greg Egan "When the Old Gods Die" by Mike Resnick "The Good Rat" by Allen Steele "Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
1995	"The Martian Child" by David Gerrold	"Cocoon" by Greg Egan "The Singular Habits of Wasps" by Geoffrey A. Landis "The Matter of Seggri" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin "A Little Knowledge" by Mike Resnick
1994	"Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield	"The Shadow Knows" by Terry Bisson "The Franchise" by John Kessel "Dancing on Air" by Nancy Kress "Deep Eddy" by Bruce Sterling
1993	"The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan	"True Faces" by Pat Cadigan "In the Stone House" by Barry N. Malzberg "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." by Susan M. Schwartz
1992	"Gold" by Isaac Asimov	"Dispatches from the Revolution" by Pat Cadigan "Understand" by Ted Chiang "Fin de Cyclé" by Howard Waldrop "Miracle" by Connie Willis
1991	"The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick	"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" by Dafydd ab Hugh "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang "A Braver Thing" by Charles Sheffield "Over the Long Haul" by Martha Soukup
1990	"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg	"Dogwalker" by Orson Scott Card "Everything But Honor" by George Alec Effinger "The Price of Oranges" by Nancy Kress "For I Have Touched the Sky" by Mike Resnick "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis
1989	"Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger	"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" by Neal Barrett, Jr. "The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison "Peaches for Mad Molly" by Steven Gould "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" by Howard Waldrop
1988	"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin	"Dream Baby" by Bruce McAllister "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy "Flowers of Edo" by Bruce Sterling "Dinosaurs" by Walter Jon Williams
1987	"Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny	"Thor Meets Captain America" by David Brin "Hatrack River" by Orson Scott Card "The Winter Market" by William Gibson "The Barbarian Princess" by Vernor Vinge
1986	"Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison	"A Gift from the GrayLanders" by Michael Bishop "The Fringe" by Orson Scott Card "Dogfight" by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson "Portraits of His Children" by George R.R. Martin
1985	"Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler	"The Weigher" by Eric Vinicoff and Marcia Martin "The Lucky Strike" by Kim Stanley Robinson "Silicon Muse" by Hilbert Schenck "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" by Lucius Shepard "Blued Moon" by Connie Willis "Return to the Fold" by Timothy Zahn
1984	"Blood Music" by Greg Bear	"The Monkey Treatment" by George R.R. Martin "Black Air" by Kim Stanley Robinson "Slow Birds" by Ian Watson "The Sidon in the Mirror" by Connie Willis
1983	"Fire Watch" by Connie Willis	"Nightlife" by Phyllis Eisenstein "Swarm" by Bruce Sterling "Aquila" by Somtow Sucharitkul "Pawn's Gambit" by Timothy Zahn
1982	"Unicorn Variations" by Roger Zelazny	"The Quickening" by Michael Bishop "The Thermals of August" by Edward Bryant "The Fire When It Comes" by Parke Godwin "Guardians" by George R.R. Martin
1981	"The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson	"Savage Planet" by Barry B. Longyear "The Lordly Ones" by Keith Roberts "The Autopsy" by Michael Shea "Beatnik Bayou" by John Varley "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop
1980	"Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin	"The Locusts" by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes "Homecoming" by Barry B. Longyear "Fireflood" by Vonda N. McIntyre "Palely Loitering" by Christopher Priest "Options" by John Varley
1979	"Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson	"Mikal's Songbird" by Orson Scott Card "The Man Who Had No Idea" by Thomas M. Disch "Devil You Don't Know" by Dean Ing "The Barbie Murders" by John Varley
1978	"Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge	"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card "Prismatica" by Samuel R. Delany "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" by Carter Scholz "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr.
1977	"The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov	"The Diary of the Rose" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" by John Varley "The Phantom of Kansas" by John Varley
1976	"The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven	"The New Atlantis" by Ursula K. Le Guin "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" by George R.R. Martin "Tinker" by Jerry Pournelle "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy
1975	"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" by Harlan Ellison	"?That Thou Art Mindful of Him!" by Isaac Asimov "Midnight by the Morphy Watch" by Fritz Leiber "After the Dreamtime" by Richard A. Lupoff "Extreme Prejudice" by Jerry Pournelle "Nix Olympica" by William Walling "A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls" by Kate Wilhelm
1974	"The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison	"The City on the Sand" by George Alec Effinger "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre "He Fell Into a Dark Hole" by Jerry Pournelle "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree, Jr.
1973	"Goat Song" by Poul Anderson	"A Kingdom by the Sea" by Gardner Dozois "Basilisk" by Harlan Ellison "Patron of the Arts" by Bill Rotsler "Painwise" by James Tiptree, Jr.
1969	"The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson	"Total Environment" by Brian W. Aldiss "Getting Through University" by Piers Anthony "Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson
1968	"Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber	"Faith of Our Fathers" by Philip K. Dick "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" by Harlan Ellison "Wizard's World" by Andre Norton
1967	"The Last Castle" by Jack Vance	"Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson "Apology to Inky" by Robert M., Green, Jr. "The Alchemist" by Charles L. Harness "An Ornament to His Profession" by Charles L. Harness "The Eskimo Invasion" by Hayden Howard "The Manor of Roses" by Thomas Burnett Swann "For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny "This Moment of the Storm" by Roger Zelazny
1959	"The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak	"Unwillingly to School" by Pauline Ashwell "Second Game" by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet "Captivity" by Zenna Henderson "Shark Ship (aka: Reap the Dark Tide)" by C.M. Kornbluth "A Deskful of Girls" by Fritz Leiber "Rat in the Skull" by Rog Phillips "The Miracle-Workers" by Jack Vance
1958	"The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber [In 1958, novels and novelettes shared a category]
1956	"Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster
1955	"The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The "Retro Hugos"

These were awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which Worldcons didn't give awards.

Year	Winner	Other nominees
1954 (awarded in 2004)	"Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish	"Sam Hall" by Poul Anderson "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" by Poul Anderson "The Wall Around the World" by Theodore Cogswell "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick
1951 (awarded in 2001)	"The Little Black Bag" by C.M. Kornbluth	"The Helping Hand" by Poul Anderson "Okie" by James Blish "Dear Devil" by Eric Frank Russell "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith
1946 (awarded in 1996)	"First Contact", by Murray Leinster	"Pi in the Sky", by Fredric Brown "Into Thy Hands", by Lester del Rey "The Piper's Son", by Lewis Padgett "The Mixed Men", by A. E. van Vogt

See also

• Nebula Award for Best Novelette

External links

• Hugo Award official site
• Original proposal of the award in Philcon II
• List of Hugo Award nominees in Locus magazine