Hugo Award for Best Novelette
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The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best 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.
Winners of the Hugo Award for best novella are presented here.
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[edit] 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 (17,500) words." Hugo Awards are also given in other fiction categories for works which are shorter (stories) or longer (novellas or novels).
Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year.
[edit] Winners and other nominees
| Year | Winner | Other nominees |
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| 2006 | "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle |
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| 2005 | "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link |
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| 2004 | "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick |
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| 2003 | "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick |
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| 2002 | "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang |
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| 2001 | "Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
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| 2000 | "1016 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly |
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| 1999 | "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling |
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| 1998 | "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson |
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| 1997 | "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling |
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| 1996 | "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly |
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| 1995 | "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold |
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| 1994 | "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield |
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| 1993 | "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan |
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| 1992 | "Gold" by Isaac Asimov |
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| 1991 | "The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick |
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| 1990 | "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg |
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| 1989 | "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger |
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| 1988 | "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin |
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| 1987 | "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny |
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| 1986 | "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison |
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| 1985 | "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler |
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| 1984 | "Blood Music" by Greg Bear |
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| 1983 | "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis |
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| 1982 | "Unicorn Variations" by Roger Zelazny |
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| 1981 | "The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson |
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| 1980 | "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin |
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| 1979 | "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson |
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| 1978 | "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge |
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| 1977 | "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov |
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| 1976 | "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven |
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| 1975 | "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" by Harlan Ellison |
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| 1974 | "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison |
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| 1973 | "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson |
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| 1969 | "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson |
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| 1968 | "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber |
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| 1967 | "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance |
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| 1959 | "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak |
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| 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. |
[edit] The "Retro Hugos"
These were awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which Worldcons didn't give awards.
| Year | Winner | Other nominees |
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| 1954 (awarded in 2004) |
"Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish |
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| 1951 (awarded in 2001) |
"The Little Black Bag" by C.M. Kornbluth |
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| 1946 (awarded in 1996) |
"First Contact", by Murray Leinster |
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[edit] See also
| Hugo Award | |
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| Fiction |
Novel - Novella - Novelette - Short Story |
| Dramatic Presentation | |
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| Pro's ac | |
