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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".

The Hugo Award for Best Novelette was first awarded in 1955, and was subsequently awarded in 1956 and 1959, lapsing in 1960. 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. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novelettes for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.

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 nominees, 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. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.

During the 66 nomination years, 211 authors have had works nominated; 51 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 nominated a total of six times, while seven other authors have won twice. Mike Resnick has had the most 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 nominees

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

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. Retro Hugos have been awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.

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

See also