Hugo Award for Best Short Story: Information from Answers.com

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best English language science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories.

The winners for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story are presented here.

1 About this award
2 Winners and nominees
- 2.1 Retro Hugos
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

About this award

According to Article 3.3.4 of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society, a short story is "A science fiction or fantasy story of less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) words." Additional Hugo Awards are given for longer pieces of fiction: novelette, novella and novel. Author Harlan Ellison has won it more times than anyone else with 4 wins.

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

The category definitions have changed over the years. In 1960–1964 and 1966 the award was for "Short Fiction".

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Other nominees
1955	“Allamagoosa” by Eric Frank Russell
1956	“The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke
1958	“Or All the Seas with Oysters” by Avram Davidson
1959	“That Hell-Bound Train” by Robert Bloch	“They've Been Working On...” by Anton Lee Baker “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” by Alfred Bester “Triggerman” by J. F. Bone “The Edge of the Sea” by Algis Budrys “The Advent on Channel Twelve” by C. M. Kornbluth “Theory of Rocketry” by C. M. Kornbluth “Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee” by Fritz Leiber “Space to Swing a Cat” by Stanley Mullen “Nine Yards of Other Cloth” by Manly Wade Wellman
1960	“Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes	“The Pi Man” by Alfred Bester “The Alley Man” by Philip José Farmer “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon “Cat and Mouse” by Ralph Williams
1961	“The Longest Voyage” by Poul Anderson	“The Lost Kafoozalum” by Pauline Ashwell “Open to Me, My Sister” by Philip José Farmer “Need” by Theodore Sturgeon
1962	“Hothouse” by Brian W. Aldiss	“Monument” by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. “Scylla's Daughter” by Fritz Leiber “Status Quo” by Mack Reynolds “Lion Loose” by James H. Schmitz
1963	“The Dragon Masters” by Jack Vance	“Myrrha” by Gary Jennings “The Unholy Grail” by Fritz Leiber “When You Care, When You Love” by Theodore Sturgeon “Where Is the Bird of Fire?” by Thomas Burnett Swann
1964	“No Truce with Kings” by Poul Anderson	“Savage Pellucidar” by Edgar Rice Burroughs “Code Three” by Rick Raphael “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny
1965	“Soldier, Ask Not” by Gordon R. Dickson	“Once a Cop” by Rick Raphael “Little Dog Gone” by Robert F. Young
1966	“"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison	“Marque and Reprisal” by Poul Anderson “Day of the Great Shout” by Philip José Farmer “Stardock” by Fritz Leiber “The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth” by Roger Zelazny
1967	“Neutron Star” by Larry Niven	“Man In His Time” by Brian W. Aldiss “Delusions for a Dragon Slayer” by Harlan Ellison “Rat Race” by Raymond F. Jones “The Secret Place” by Richard McKenna “Mr. Jester” by Fred Saberhagen “Light of Other Days” by Bob Shaw “Comes Now the Power” by Roger Zelazny
1968	“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison	“Aye, and Gomorrah…” by Samuel R. Delany “The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven
1969	“The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World” by Harlan Ellison	“The Dance of the Changer and the Three” by Terry Carr “The Steiger Effect” by Betsy Curtis “Masks” by Damon Knight “All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven
1970	“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” by Samuel R. Delany	“Deeper than the Darkness” by Gregory Benford “Winter's King” by Ursula K. Le Guin “Not Long Before the End” by Larry Niven “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg
1971	“Slow Sculpture” by Theodore Sturgeon	“Brillo” by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison “Jean Duprès” by Gordon R. Dickson “Continued on Next Rock” by R. A. Lafferty “In the Queue” by Keith Laumer
1972	“Inconstant Moon” by Larry Niven	“All the Last Wars at Once” by George Alec Effinger “Sky” by R. A. Lafferty “Vaster than Empires and More Slow” by Ursula K. Le Guin “The Autumn Land” by Clifford D. Simak “The Bear with the Knot on His Tail” by Stephen Tall
1973	(tie) “Eurema's Dam” by R. A. Lafferty “The Meeting” by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth	“When It Changed” by Joanna Russ “When We Went to See the End of the World” by Robert Silverberg “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side” by James Tiptree, Jr.
1974	“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin	“With Morning Comes Mistfall” by George R. R. Martin “Wings” by Vonda N. McIntyre “Construction Shack” by Clifford D. Simak
1975	“The Hole Man” by Larry Niven	“The Four-Hour Fugue” by Alfred Bester “Cathadonian Odyssey” by Michael Bishop “The Day Before the Revolution” by Ursula K. Le Guin “Schwartz Between the Galaxies” by Robert Silverberg
1976	“Catch That Zeppelin!” by Fritz Leiber	“Doing Lennon” by Gregory Benford “Rogue Tomato” by Michael Bishop “Croatoan” by Harlan Ellison “Sail the Tide of Mourning” by Richard A. Lupoff “Child of All Ages” by P. J. Plauger
1977	“Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman	“A Crowd of Shadows” by Charles L. Grant “I See You” by Damon Knight “Custom Fitting” by James White
1978	“Jeffty Is Five” by Harlan Ellison	“Lauralyn” by Randall Garrett “Dog Day Evening” by Spider Robinson “Time-Sharing Angel” by James Tiptree, Jr. “Air Raid” by John Varley
1979	“Cassandra” by C. J. Cherryh	“Stone” by Edward Bryant “Count the Clock that Tells the Time” by Harlan Ellison “View From a Height” by Joan D. Vinge “The Very Slow Time Machine” by Ian Watson
1980	“The Way of Cross and Dragon” by George R. R. Martin	“giANTS” by Edward Bryant “Unaccompanied Sonata” by Orson Scott Card “Can These Bones Live?” by Ted Reynolds “Daisy, In the Sun” by Connie Willis
1981	“Grotto of the Dancing Deer” by Clifford D. Simak	“Cold Hands” by Jeff Duntemann “Guardian” by Jeff Duntemann “Spidersong” by Susan C. Petry “Our Lady of the Sauropods” by Robert Silverberg
1982	“The Pusher” by John Varley	“The Quiet” by George Guthridge “Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile” by Somtow Sucharitkul “The Woman the Unicorn Loved” by Gene Wolfe
1983	“Melancholy Elephants” by Spider Robinson	“Sur” by Ursula K. Le Guin “Spider Rose” by Bruce Sterling “The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever” by James Tiptree, Jr. “Ike at the Mike” by Howard Waldrop
1984	“Speech Sounds” by Octavia E. Butler	“The Peacemaker” by Gardner Dozois “Servant of the People” by Frederik Pohl “The Geometry of Narrative” by Hilbert Schenck “Wong's Lost and Found Emporium” by William F. Wu
1985	“The Crystal Spheres” by David Brin	“The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything” by George Alec Effinger “Rory” by Steven Gould “Symphony for a Lost Traveler” by Lee Killough “Ridge Running” by Kim Stanley Robinson “Salvador” by Lucius Shepard
1986	“Fermi and Frost” by Frederik Pohl	“Snow” by John Crowley “Dinner in Audoghast” by Bruce Sterling “Flying Saucer Rock & Roll” by Howard Waldrop “Hong's Bluff” by William F. Wu
1987	“Tangents” by Greg Bear	“Robot Dreams” by Isaac Asimov “Still Life” by David S. Garnett “Rat” by James Patrick Kelly “The Boy Who Plaited Manes” by Nancy Springer
1988	“Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers” by Lawrence Watt-Evans	“Angel” by Pat Cadigan “The Faithful Companion at Forty” by Karen Joy Fowler “Cassandra's Photographs” by Lisa Goldstein “Night of the Cooters” by Howard Waldrop “Forever Yours, Anna” by Kate Wilhelm
1989	“Kirinyaga” by Mike Resnick	“The Giving Plague” by David Brin “Stable Strategies for Middle Management” by Eileen Gunn “Ripples in the Dirac Sea” by Geoffrey A. Landis “The Fort Moxie Branch” by Jack McDevitt “Our Neural Chernobyl” by Bruce Sterling
1990	“Boobs” by Suzy McKee Charnas	“Lost Boys” by Orson Scott Card “Computer Friendly” by Eileen Gunn “The Return of William Proxmire” by Larry Niven “Dori Bangs” by Bruce Sterling “The Edge of the World” by Michael Swanwick
1991	“Bears Discover Fire” by Terry Bisson	“The Utility Man” by Robert Reed “Godspeed” by Charles Sheffield “VRM-547” by W. R. Thompson “Cibola” by Connie Willis
1992	“A Walk in the Sun” by Geoffrey A. Landis	“Press Ann” by Terry Bisson “Buffalo” by John Kessel “One Perfect Morning, With Jackals” by Mike Resnick “Winter Solstice” by Mike Resnick “Dog's Life” by Martha Soukup “In the Late Cretaceous” by Connie Willis
1993	“Even the Queen” by Connie Willis	“The Winterberry” by Nicholas A. DiChario “The Mountain to Mohammed” by Nancy Kress “The Lotus and the Spear” by Mike Resnick “The Arbitrary Placement of Walls” by Martha Soukup
1994	“Death on the Nile” by Connie Willis	“England Underway” by Terry Bisson “The Good Pup” by Bridget McKenna “Mwalimu in the Squared Circle” by Mike Resnick “The Story So Far” by Martha Soukup
1995	“None So Blind” by Joe Haldeman	“Mrs. Lincoln's China” by M. Shayne Bell “Dead Man's Curve” by Terry Bisson “Understanding Entropy” by Barry N. Malzberg “Barnaby in Exile” by Mike Resnick “I Know What You're Thinking” by Kate Wilhelm
1996	“The Lincoln Train” by Maureen F. McHugh	“TeleAbsence” by Michael A. Burstein “Life on the Moon” by Tony Daniel “A Birthday” by Esther M. Friesner “Walking Out” by Michael Swanwick
1997	“The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective” by Connie Willis	“Gone” by John Crowley “Decency” by Robert Reed “The Dead” by Michael Swanwick “Un-Birthday Boy” by James White
1998	“The 43 Antarean Dynasties” by Mike Resnick	“Beluthahatchie” by Andy Duncan “Standing Room Only” by Karen Joy Fowler “Itsy Bitsy Spider” by James Patrick Kelly “The Hand You're Dealt” by Robert J. Sawyer “No Planets Strike” by Gene Wolfe
1999	“The Very Pulse of the Machine” by Michael Swanwick	“Cosmic Corkscrew” by Michael A. Burstein “Whiptail” by Robert Reed “Maneki Neko” by Bruce Sterling “Radiant Doors” by Michael Swanwick “Wild Minds” by Michael Swanwick
2000	“Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick	“macs” by Terry Bisson “Sarajevo” by Nicholas A. DiChario “Hothouse Flowers” by Mike Resnick “Ancient Engines” by Michael Swanwick
2001	“Different Kinds of Darkness” by David Langford	“The Gravity Mine” by Stephen Baxter “Kaddish for the Last Survivor” by Michael A. Burstein “The Elephants on Neptune” by Mike Resnick “Moon Dogs” by Michael Swanwick
2002	“The Dog Said Bow-Wow” by Michael Swanwick	“The Ghost Pit” by Stephen Baxter “Spaceships” by Michael A. Burstein “The Bones of the Earth” by Ursula K. Le Guin “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” by Mike Resnick
2003	“Falling Onto Mars” by Geoffrey A. Landis	“Creation” by Jeffrey Ford “Lambing Season” by Molly Gloss “'Hello,' Said the Stick” by Michael Swanwick “The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport” by Michael Swanwick
2004	“A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman	“Paying It Forward” by Michael A. Burstein “Four Short Novels” by Joe Haldeman “The Tale of the Golden Eagle” by David D. Levine “Robots Don't Cry” by Mike Resnick
2005	“Travels with My Cats” by Mike Resnick	“Decisions” by Michael A. Burstein “The Best Christmas Ever” by James Patrick Kelly “A Princess of Earth” by Mike Resnick “Shed Skin” by Robert J. Sawyer
2006	“Tk'tk'tk” by David D. Levine	“Seventy-Five Years” by Michael A. Burstein “The Clockwork Atom Bomb” by Dominic Green “Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan “Down Memory Lane” by Mike Resnick
2007	“Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt	“Eight Episodes” by Robert Reed “The House Beyond Your Sky” by Benjamin Rosenbaum “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman “Kin” by Bruce McAllister
2008	“Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear	“Last Contact” by Stephen Baxter “Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?” by Ken MacLeod “Distant Replay” by Mike Resnick “A Small Room in Koboldtown” by Michael Swanwick
2009	"Exhalation" by Ted Chiang^[1]^[2]	"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick "Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Articles of Faith" by Mike Resnick

Retro Hugos

These were awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which Worldcons did not give awards.

Year	Winner	Other nominees
1946 (awarded in 1996)	“Uncommon Sense” by Hal Clement	“The Waveries”, by Fredric Brown “Correspondence Course” by Raymond F. Jones “The Ethical Equations” by Murray Leinster “What You Need” by Lewis Padgett
1951 (awarded in 2001)	“To Serve Man” by Damon Knight	“The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out” by Reginald Bretnor “A Subway Named Mobius” by A. J. Deutsch “Coming Attraction” by Fritz Leiber “Born of Man and Woman” by Richard Matheson
1954 (awarded in 2004)	“The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke	“Star Light, Star Bright” by Alfred Bester “It's a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby ”Seventh Victim” by Robert Sheckley “A Saucer of Loneliness” by Theodore Sturgeon

References

^ Thill, Scott (August 10, 2009). "2009 Hugo Awards Honor Gaiman, Dr. Horrible, More". Wired. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/08/2009-hugo-awards-honor-gaiman-dr-horrible-more/. Retrieved September 8, 2009.
^ Lalumière, Claude (August 10, 2009). "The Hugo Awards". The Montreal Gazette. http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/narratives/archive/2009/08/10/the-hugo-awards.aspx. Retrieved September 8, 2009.

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Fiction	Novel (1946–present) · Novella (1946–present) · Novelette (1946–present) · Short Story (1946–present) · Graphic Story (2009-present)

Dramatic presentation	Dramatic Presentation (1946–2002) · Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2003–present) · Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (2003–present)

Non-fiction	Non-Fiction Book (1980–1998) · Related Book (1999–present)

Professional activities	Professional Magazine (1953–1972) · Professional Editor (1973–2006) · Professional Artist (1946–present) · Semiprozine (1984–present) · Editor Long Form (2007–present) · Editor Short Form (2007–present)

Fan activities	Fanzine (1946–present) · Fan Artist (1946–present) · Fan Writer (1946–present)

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Retro Hugos	“Uncommon Sense” by Hal Clement (1946) • “To Serve Man” by Damon Knight (1951) • “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke (1954)

1955–1960	“Allamagoosa” by Eric Frank Russell (1955) • “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke (1956) • “Or All the Seas with Oysters” by Avram Davidson (1958) • “That Hell-Bound Train” by Robert Bloch (1959) • “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes (1960)

1961–1970	“The Longest Voyage” by Poul Anderson (1961) • “Hothouse” by Brian W. Aldiss (1962) • “The Dragon Masters” by Jack Vance (1963) • “No Truce with Kings” by Poul Anderson (1964) • “Soldier, Ask Not” by Gordon R. Dickson (1965) • “"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison (1966) • “Neutron Star” by Larry Niven (1967) • “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison (1968) • “The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World” by Harlan Ellison (1969) • “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” by Samuel R. Delany (1970)

1971–1980	“Slow Sculpture” by Theodore Sturgeon (1971) • “Inconstant Moon” by Larry Niven (1972) • “Eurema's Dam” by R. A. Lafferty and “The Meeting” by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (1973) • “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) • “The Hole Man” by Larry Niven (1975) • “Catch That Zeppelin!” by Fritz Leiber (1976) • “Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman (1977) • “Jeffty Is Five” by Harlan Ellison (1978) • “Cassandra” by C. J. Cherryh (1979) • “The Way of Cross and Dragon” by George R. R. Martin (1980)

1981–1990	“Grotto of the Dancing Deer” by Clifford D. Simak (1981) • “The Pusher” by John Varley (1982) • “Melancholy Elephants” by Spider Robinson (1983) • “Speech Sounds” by Octavia E. Butler (1984) • “The Crystal Spheres” by David Brin (1985) • “Fermi and Frost” by Frederik Pohl (1986) • “Tangents” by Greg Bear (1987) • “Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers” by Lawrence Watt-Evans (1988) • “Kirinyaga” by Mike Resnick (1989) • “Boobs” by Suzy McKee Charnas (1990)

1991–2000	“Bears Discover Fire” by Terry Bisson (1991) • “A Walk in the Sun” by Geoffrey A. Landis (1992) • “Even the Queen” by Connie Willis (1993) • “Death on the Nile” by Connie Willis (1994) • “None So Blind” by Joe Haldeman (1995) • “The Lincoln Train” by Maureen F. McHugh (1996) • “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” by Connie Willis (1997) • “The 43 Antarean Dynasties” by Mike Resnick (1998) • “The Very Pulse of the Machine” by Michael Swanwick (1999) • “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael Swanwick (2000)

2001–present	“Different Kinds of Darkness” by David Langford (2001) • “The Dog Said Bow-Wow” by Michael Swanwick (2002) • “Falling Onto Mars” by Geoffrey A. Landis (2003) • “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman (2004) • “Travels with My Cats” by Mike Resnick (2005) • “Tk'tk'tk” by David D. Levine (2006) • “Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt (2007) • “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear (2008) • “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (2009)

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Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Contents

About this award

Winners and nominees

Retro Hugos

See also

References

External links