Hugo Award for Best Short Story

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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.

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

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

[edit] 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.

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".

[edit] Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Other nominees
2008		Last Contact by Stephen Baxter Tideline by Elizabeth Bear Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? by Ken MacLeod Distant Replay by Mike Resnick A Small Room in Koboldtown by Michael Swanwick
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
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 Lanigan Down Memory Lane 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1977	Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman	A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant I See You by Damon Knight Custom Fitting by James White
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1965	Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson	Once a Cop by Rick Raphael Little Dog Gone by Robert F. Young
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
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
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
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
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
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
1958	Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson
1956	The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
1955	Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell

[edit] 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)	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
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
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

[edit] See also

• Nebula Award for Best Short Story

[edit] External links

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

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v • d • e Hugo Award for Best Short Story 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) Complete List · 1946–1960 · 1961–1980 · 1981–2000 · 2001–present