The Hugo Award for Best Short Story 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 short story award is available for works of fiction of fewer than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novelette, 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 Short Story has been awarded annually since 1955, except in 1957. The award was titled "Best Short Fiction" rather than "Best Short Story" in 1960–1966. During this time no Novelette category was awarded and the Novella category had not yet been established; the award was defined only as a work "of less than novel length" that was not published as a stand-alone book. 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 short stories for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.

During the 77 nomination years, 219 authors have had works nominated; 59 of these have won, including co-authors and Retro Hugos. One translator has been noted along with the author of a story written in a language other than English: Alex Woodend, in 2024, for a translation of a work from Chinese. Harlan Ellison has received the most Hugos for Best Short Story at four, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Mike Resnick, Michael Swanwick, and Connie Willis have each won three times, and Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Naomi Kritzer, and Ken Liu have won twice, the only other authors to win more than once. Resnick has received the most nominations at 18, while Swanwick has received 14; no other author has gotten more than 7. Michael A. Burstein, with 7, has the highest number of nominations without winning.

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening 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 short stories on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated. The 1955 and 1958 awards did not include any recognition of runner-up stories, but since 1959 all six candidates have been recorded. 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 Labor Day, and are held in a different city around the world each year. Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the nominees is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This happened in the Best Short Story category in 2015.

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the short story was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.

  *   Winners and joint winners   +   No winner selected

Winners and nominees

Year	Author(s)	Short story	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1955	Eric Frank Russell*	"Allamagoosa"	Astounding Science-Fiction
1956	Arthur C. Clarke*	"The Star"	Infinity Science Fiction
	F. L. Wallace	"End as a World"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	James Blish	"King of the Hill"	Infinity Science Fiction
	Algis Budrys	"Nobody Bothers Gus"	Astounding Science-Fiction
	Cordwainer Smith	"The Game of Rat and Dragon"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Ray Bradbury	"The Dragon"	Esquire
	Robert Sheckley	"Spy Story"	Playboy
	Theodore Sturgeon	"Twink"	Galaxy Science Fiction
1958	Avram Davidson*	"Or All the Seas with Oysters"	Galaxy Science Fiction
1959	Robert Bloch*	"That Hell-Bound Train"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Anton Lee Baker	"They've Been Working On..."	Astounding Science-Fiction
	Alfred Bester	"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	J. F. Bone	"Triggerman"	Astounding Science-Fiction
	Algis Budrys	"The Edge of the Sea"	Venture Science Fiction
	C. M. Kornbluth	"The Advent on Channel Twelve"	Star Science Fiction Stories #4 (Ballantine Books)
	C. M. Kornbluth	"Theory of Rocketry"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Fritz Leiber	"Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Stanley Mullen	"Space to Swing a Cat"	Astounding Science-Fiction
	Manly Wade Wellman	"Nine Yards of Other Cloth"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1960	Daniel Keyes*	"Flowers for Algernon"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Philip José Farmer	"The Alley Man"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Alfred Bester	"The Pi Man"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Theodore Sturgeon	"The Man Who Lost the Sea"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Ralph Williams	"Cat and Mouse"	Astounding Science-Fiction
1961	Poul Anderson*	"The Longest Voyage"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Pauline Ashwell	"The Lost Kafoozalum"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Philip José Farmer	"Open to Me, My Sister" (aka. "My Sister's Brother")	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Theodore Sturgeon	"Need"	Beyond Fantasy Fiction
1962	Brian Aldiss*	"Hothouse" (series)	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Lloyd Biggle, Jr.	"Monument"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Fritz Leiber	"Scylla's Daughter"	Fantastic
	Mack Reynolds	"Status Quo"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	James H. Schmitz	"Lion Loose"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1963	Jack Vance*	"The Dragon Masters"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Gary Jennings	"Myrrha"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Fritz Leiber	"The Unholy Grail"	Fantastic
	Theodore Sturgeon	"When You Care, When You Love"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Thomas Burnett Swann	"Where Is the Bird of Fire?"	Science Fantasy
1964	Poul Anderson*	"No Truce with Kings"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Rick Raphael	"Code Three Archived 2017-12-11 at the Wayback Machine"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Roger Zelazny	"A Rose for Ecclesiastes"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Edgar Rice Burroughs	"Savage Pellucidar"	Amazing Stories
1965	Gordon R. Dickson*	"Soldier, Ask Not"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Rick Raphael	"Once a Cop"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Robert F. Young	"Little Dog Gone"	Worlds of Tomorrow
1966	Harlan Ellison*	""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Poul Anderson	"Marque and Reprisal"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Philip José Farmer	"Day of the Great Shout"	Worlds of Tomorrow
	Fritz Leiber	"Stardock"	Fantastic
	Roger Zelazny	"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1967	Larry Niven*	"Neutron Star"	If
	Brian Aldiss	"Man In His Time"	Who Can Replace a Man? (Signet Books)
	Harlan Ellison	"Delusions for a Dragon Slayer"	Knight
	Raymond F. Jones	"Rat Race"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Richard McKenna	"The Secret Place"	Orbit #1 (Putnam Publishing Group)
	Fred Saberhagen	"Mr. Jester"	If
	Bob Shaw	"Light of Other Days"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Roger Zelazny	"Comes Now the Power"	Magazine of Horror
1968	Harlan Ellison*	"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"	If
	Larry Niven	"The Jigsaw Man"	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
	Samuel R. Delany	"Aye, and Gomorrah"	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
1969	Harlan Ellison*	"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Larry Niven	"All the Myriad Ways"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Terry Carr	"The Dance of the Changer and the Three"	The Farthest Reaches (Pocket Books)
	Betsy Curtis	"The Steiger Effect"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Damon Knight	"Masks"	Playboy
1970	Samuel R. Delany*	"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"	New Worlds
	Robert Silverberg	"Passengers"	Orbit #4 (Putnam Publishing Group)
	Larry Niven	"Not Long Before the End"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Gregory Benford	"Deeper than the Darkness"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"Winter's King"	Orbit #5 (Putnam Publishing Group)
1971	Theodore Sturgeon*	"Slow Sculpture"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	R. A. Lafferty	"Continued on Next Rock"	Orbit #7 (Putnam Publishing Group)
	Gordon R. Dickson	"Jean Duprès"	Nova #1 (Delacorte Press)
	Keith Laumer	"In the Queue"	Orbit #7 (Putnam Publishing Group)
	Ben Bova	"Brillo"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1972	Larry Niven*	"Inconstant Moon"	All the Myriad Ways (Ballantine Books)
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"Vaster than Empires and More Slow"	New Dimensions #1 (Doubleday)
	Clifford D. Simak	"The Autumn Land"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Stephen Tall	"The Bear with the Knot on His Tail"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	R. A. Lafferty	"Sky"	New Dimensions #1 (Doubleday)
	George Alec Effinger	"All the Last Wars at Once"	Universe #1 (Bantam Spectra)
1973	R. A. Lafferty*	"Eurema's Dam"	New Dimensions #2 (Doubleday)
	Frederik Pohl*	"The Meeting"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	C. M. Kornbluth*
	Robert Silverberg	"When We Went to See the End of the World"	Universe #2 (Bantam Spectra)
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Joanna Russ	"When It Changed"	Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
1974	Ursula K. Le Guin*	"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"	New Dimensions #3 (Doubleday)
	George R. R. Martin	"With Morning Comes Mistfall"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Clifford D. Simak	"Construction Shack"	If
	Vonda N. McIntyre	"Wings"	The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books)
1975	Larry Niven*	"The Hole Man"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Alfred Bester	"The Four-Hour Fugue"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Michael Bishop	"Cathadonian Odyssey"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The Day Before the Revolution"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Robert Silverberg	"Schwartz Between the Galaxies"	Stellar #1 (Ballantine Books)
1976	Fritz Leiber*	"Catch That Zeppelin!"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Harlan Ellison	"Croatoan"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	P. J. Plauger	"Child of All Ages"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Richard A. Lupoff	"Sail the Tide of Mourning"	New Dimensions #5 (Doubleday)
	Michael Bishop	"Rogue Tomato"	New Dimensions #5 (Doubleday)
	Gregory Benford	"Doing Lennon"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1977	Joe Haldeman*	"Tricentennial"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Charles L. Grant	"A Crowd of Shadows"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Damon Knight	"I See You"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James White	"Custom Fitting"	Stellar #2 (Ballantine Books)
1978	Harlan Ellison*	"Jeffty Is Five"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	John Varley	"Air Raid"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Spider Robinson	"Dog Day Evening"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Randall Garrett	"Lauralyn"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"Time-Sharing Angel"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1979	C. J. Cherryh*	"Cassandra"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Harlan Ellison	"Count the Clock that Tells the Time"	Omni
	Joan D. Vinge	"View From a Height"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Edward Bryant	"Stone"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Ian Watson	"The Very Slow Time Machine"	Anticipations (Faber and Faber)
1980	George R. R. Martin*	"The Way of Cross and Dragon"	Omni
	Orson Scott Card	"Unaccompanied Sonata"	Omni
	Ted Reynolds	"Can These Bones Live?"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Edward Bryant	"giANTS"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Connie Willis	"Daisy, In the Sun"	Galileo
1981	Clifford D. Simak*	"Grotto of the Dancing Deer"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Robert Silverberg	"Our Lady of the Sauropods"	Omni
	Susan C. Petrey	"Spidersong"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jeff Duntemann	"Cold Hands"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Jeff Duntemann	"Guardian"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1982	John Varley*	"The Pusher"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Gene Wolfe	"The Woman the Unicorn Loved"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Somtow Sucharitkul	"Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	George Guthridge	"The Quiet"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1983	Spider Robinson*	"Melancholy Elephants"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"Sur"	The New Yorker
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Bruce Sterling	"Spider Rose"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Howard Waldrop	"Ike at the Mike"	Omni
1984	Octavia E. Butler*	"Speech Sounds"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Frederik Pohl	"Servant of the People"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Hilbert Schenck	"The Geometry of Narrative"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Gardner Dozois	"The Peacemaker"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	William F. Wu	"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"	Amazing Stories
1985	David Brin*	"The Crystal Spheres"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	George Alec Effinger	"The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Lee Killough	"Symphony for a Lost Traveler"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Lucius Shepard	"Salvador"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Kim Stanley Robinson	"Ridge Running"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Steven Gould	"Rory"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1986	Frederik Pohl*	"Fermi and Frost"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Howard Waldrop	"Flying Saucer Rock & Roll"	Omni
	John Crowley	"Snow"	Omni
	Bruce Sterling	"Dinner in Audoghast"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	William F. Wu	"Hong's Bluff"	Omni
1987	Greg Bear*	"Tangents"	Omni
	Isaac Asimov	"Robot Dreams"	Robot Dreams (Berkley Books)
	Nancy Springer	"The Boy Who Plaited Manes"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	David S. Garnett	"Still Life"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James Patrick Kelly	"Rat"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1988	Lawrence Watt-Evans*	"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Kate Wilhelm	"Forever Yours, Anna"	Omni
	Pat Cadigan	"Angel"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Howard Waldrop	"Night of the Cooters"	Omni
	Karen Joy Fowler	"The Faithful Companion at Forty"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Lisa Goldstein	"Cassandra's Photographs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1989	Mike Resnick*	"Kirinyaga"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	David Brin	"The Giving Plague"	Interzone
	Geoffrey A. Landis	"Ripples in the Dirac Sea"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Bruce Sterling	"Our Neural Chernobyl"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Eileen Gunn	"Stable Strategies for Middle Management"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Jack McDevitt	"The Fort Moxie Branch"	Full Spectrum (Doubleday)
1990	Suzy McKee Charnas*	"Boobs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Orson Scott Card	"Lost Boys"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Eileen Gunn	"Computer Friendly"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Larry Niven	"The Return of William Proxmire"	What Might Have Been? Vol. 1: Alternate Empires (Bantam Spectra)
	Michael Swanwick	"The Edge of the World"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Bruce Sterling	"Dori Bangs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1991	Terry Bisson*	"Bears Discover Fire"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Connie Willis	"Cibola"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Charles Sheffield	"Godspeed"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Robert Reed	"The Utility Man"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	W. R. Thompson	"VRM-547"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1992	Geoffrey A. Landis*	"A Walk in the Sun"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"One Perfect Morning, With Jackals"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Connie Willis	"In the Late Cretaceous"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"Winter Solstice"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Terry Bisson	"Press Ann"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	John Kessel	"Buffalo"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Martha Soukup	"Dog's Life"	Amazing Stories
1993	Connie Willis*	"Even the Queen"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Nancy Kress	"The Mountain to Mohammed"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"The Lotus and the Spear"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Martha Soukup	"The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Nicholas A. DiChario	"The Winterberry"	Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books)
1994	Connie Willis*	"Death on the Nile"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"Mwalimu in the Squared Circle"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Martha Soukup	"The Story So Far"	Full Spectrum 4 (Doubleday)
	Bridget McKenna	"The Good Pup"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Terry Bisson	"England Underway"	Omni
1995	Joe Haldeman*	"None So Blind"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Kate Wilhelm	"I Know What You're Thinking"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"Barnaby in Exile"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Terry Bisson	"Dead Man's Curve"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Barry N. Malzberg	"Understanding Entropy"	SF Age
	M. Shayne Bell	"Mrs. Lincoln's China"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1996	Maureen F. McHugh*	"The Lincoln Train"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Esther Friesner	"A Birthday"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Michael A. Burstein	"TeleAbsence"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Tony Daniel	"Life on the Moon"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"Walking Out"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1997	Connie Willis*	"The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	James White	"Un-Birthday Boy"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Michael Swanwick	"The Dead"	Starlight #1 (Tor Books)
	Robert Reed	"Decency"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	John Crowley	"Gone"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
1998	Mike Resnick*	"The 43 Antarean Dynasties"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	James Patrick Kelly	"Itsy Bitsy Spider"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Gene Wolfe	"No Planets Strike"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Robert J. Sawyer	"The Hand You're Dealt"	Free Space (Tor Books)
	Karen Joy Fowler	"Standing Room Only"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Andy Duncan	"Beluthahatchie"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1999	Michael Swanwick*	"The Very Pulse of the Machine"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Bruce Sterling	"Maneki Neko"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"Radiant Doors"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"Wild Minds"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael A. Burstein	"Cosmic Corkscrew"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Robert Reed	"Whiptail"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2000	Michael Swanwick*	"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"Ancient Engines"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"Hothouse Flowers"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Terry Bisson	"macs"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Nicholas A. DiChario	"Sarajevo"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
2001	David Langford*	"Different Kinds of Darkness"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Michael A. Burstein	"Kaddish for the Last Survivor"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Michael Swanwick	"Moon Dogs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"The Elephants on Neptune"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Stephen Baxter	"The Gravity Mine"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2002	Michael Swanwick*	"The Dog Said Bow-Wow"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The Bones of the Earth"	Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt)
	Mike Resnick	"Old MacDonald Had a Farm"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Stephen Baxter	"The Ghost Pit"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael A. Burstein	"Spaceships"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
2003	Geoffrey A. Landis*	"Falling onto Mars"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Michael Swanwick	"'Hello,' Said the Stick"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Michael Swanwick	"The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Jeffrey Ford	"Creation"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Molly Gloss	"Lambing Season"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2004	Neil Gaiman*	"A Study in Emerald"	Shadows Over Baker Street (Del Rey Books)
	Michael A. Burstein	"Paying It Forward"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Mike Resnick	"Robots Don't Cry"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Joe Haldeman	"Four Short Novels"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	David D. Levine	"The Tale of the Golden Eagle"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
2005	Mike Resnick*	"Travels with My Cats"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	James Patrick Kelly	"The Best Christmas Ever"	Scifi.com
	Mike Resnick	"A Princess of Earth"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Robert J. Sawyer	"Shed Skin"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Michael A. Burstein	"Decisions"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
2006	David D. Levine*	"Tk'tk'tk"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael A. Burstein	"Seventy-Five Years"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Dominic Green	"The Clockwork Atom Bomb"	Interzone
	Margo Lanagan	"Singing My Sister Down"	Black Juice (Eos)
	Mike Resnick	"Down Memory Lane"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2007	Tim Pratt*	"Impossible Dreams"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Neil Gaiman	"How to Talk to Girls at Parties"	Fragile Things (William Morrow and Company)
	Robert Reed	"Eight Episodes"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Bruce McAllister	"Kin"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Benjamin Rosenbaum	"The House Beyond Your Sky"	Strange Horizons
2008	Elizabeth Bear*	"Tideline"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"A Small Room in Koboldtown"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Stephen Baxter	"Last Contact"	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #1 (Solaris Books)
	Ken MacLeod	"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?"	The New Space Opera (Eos)
	Mike Resnick	"Distant Replay"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2009	Ted Chiang*	"Exhalation"	Eclipse #2 (Night Shade Books)
	Kij Johnson	"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mary Robinette Kowal	"Evil Robot Monkey"	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #2 (Solaris Books)
	Mike Resnick	"Article of Faith"	Jim Baen's Universe
2010	Will McIntosh*	"Bridesicle"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mike Resnick	"The Bride of Frankenstein"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Lawrence M. Schoen	"The Moment"	Footprints (Hadley Rille Books)
	N. K. Jemisin	"Non-Zero Probabilities"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Kij Johnson	"Spar"	Clarkesworld Magazine
2011	Mary Robinette Kowal*	"For Want of a Nail"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Carrie Vaughn	"Amaryllis"	Lightspeed Magazine
	Kij Johnson	"Ponies"	Tor.com
	Peter Watts	"The Things"	Clarkesworld Magazine
2012	Ken Liu*	"The Paper Menagerie"	Fantasy & Science Fiction
	E. Lily Yu	"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Mike Resnick	"The Homecoming"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Nancy Fulda	"Movement"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	John Scalzi	"The Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue"	Tor.com
2013	Ken Liu*	"Mono no Aware"	The Future is Japanese (Viz Media)
	Aliette de Bodard	"Immersion"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Kij Johnson	"Mantis Wives"	Clarkesworld Magazine
2014	John Chu*	"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere"	Tor.com
	Rachel Swirsky	"If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love"	Apex Magazine
	Thomas Olde Heuvelt	"The Ink Readers of Doi Saket"	Tor.com
	Sofia Samatar	"Selkie Stories Are for Losers"	Strange Horizons
2015	(no award)+
	Lou Antonelli	"On a Spiritual Plain"	Sci Phi Journal
	Steven Diamond	"A Single Samurai"	The Baen Big Book of Monsters (Baen Books)
	Kary English	"Totaled"	Galaxy's Edge
	Steve Rzasa	"Turncoat"	Riding the Red Horse (Castalia House)
	John C. Wright	"The Parliament of Beasts and Birds"	The Book of Feasts & Seasons (Castalia House)
2016	Naomi Kritzer*	"Cat Pictures Please"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	S. R. Algernon	"Asymmetrical Warfare"	Nature
	Juan Tabo	"If You Were an Award, My Love"	voxday.blogspot.com
	S. Harris
	Charles Shao	"Seven Kill Tiger"	There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House)
	Chuck Tingle	Space Raptor Butt Invasion	Amazon Digital Services
2017	Amal El-Mohtar*	"Seasons of Glass and Iron"	The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga Press)
	N. K. Jemisin	"The City Born Great"	Tor.com
	Alyssa Wong	"A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers"	Tor.com
	Brooke Bolander	"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"	Uncanny Magazine
	Carrie Vaughn	"That Game We Played During the War"	Tor.com
	John C. Wright	"An Unimaginable Light"	God, Robot (Castalia House)
2018	Rebecca Roanhorse*	"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™"	Apex Magazine
	Caroline M. Yoachim	"Carnival Nine"	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
	Fran Wilde	"Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand"	Uncanny Magazine
	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	"Fandom for Robots"	Uncanny Magazine
	Linda Nagata	"The Martian Obelisk"	Tor.com
	Ursula Vernon	"Sun, Moon, Dust"	Uncanny Magazine
2019	Alix E. Harrow*	"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies"	Apex Magazine
	Brooke Bolander	"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat"	Uncanny Magazine
	P. Djèlí Clark	"The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington"	Fireside Magazine
	Sarah Gailey	"STET"	Fireside Magazine
	Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher)	"The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society"	Uncanny Magazine
	Sarah Pinsker	"The Court Magician"	Lightspeed
2020	S. L. Huang*	"As the Last I May Know"	Tor.com
	Shiv Ramdas	"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing"	Strange Horizons
	Rivers Solomon	"Blood Is Another Word for Hunger"	Tor.com
	Fran Wilde	"A Catalog of Storms"	Uncanny Magazine
	Alix E. Harrow	"Do Not Look Back, My Lion"	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
	Nibedita Sen	"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island"	Nightmare Magazine
2021	Ursula Vernon* (as T. Kingfisher)	"Metal Like Blood in the Dark"	Uncanny Magazine
	Rae Carson	"Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse"	Uncanny Magazine
	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	"A Guide for Working Breeds"	Made to Order: Robots and Revolution (Solaris Books)
	Naomi Kritzer	"Little Free Library"	Tor.com
	Yoon Ha Lee	"The Mermaid Astronaut"	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
	John Wiswell	"Open House on Haunted Hill"	Diabolical Plots
2022	Sarah Pinsker*	"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather"	Uncanny Magazine
	Alix E. Harrow	"Mr. Death"	Apex Magazine
	José Pablo Iriarte	"Proof by Induction"	Uncanny Magazine
	Catherynne M. Valente	"The Sin of America"	Uncanny Magazine
	Seanan McGuire	"Tangles"	Magic Story (Magicthegathering.com)
	Blue Neustifter	"Unknown Number"	Self-published, via Twitter
2023	Samantha Mills*	"Rabbit Test"	Uncanny Magazine
	John Wiswell	"D.I.Y."	Tor.com
	Jiang Bo	"On the Razor's Edge"	Science Fiction World
	Ren Qing	"Resurrection"	Future Fiction/Science Fiction World
	Lu Ban	"The White Cliff"	Science Fiction World
	Regina Kanyu Wang	"Zhurong on Mars"	Frontiers
2024	Naomi Kritzer*	"Better Living Through Algorithms"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Han Song (Chinese)	"Answerless Journey"	Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press)
	Alex Woodend (translator)
	P. Djèlí Clark	"How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub"	Uncanny Magazine
	Aliette de Bodard	"The Mausoleum's Children"	Uncanny Magazine
	Rachael K. Jones	"The Sound of Children Screaming"	Nightmare Magazine
	Baoshu	"Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times"	Galaxy's Edge

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)	Short story	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1939	2014	Arthur C. Clarke*	"How We Went to Mars"	Amateur Science Stories
		Lester del Rey	"The Faithful"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Lester del Rey	"Helen O'Loy"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Ray Bradbury	"Hollerbochen's Dilemma"	Imagination!
		L. Sprague de Camp	"Hyperpilosity"	Astounding Science-Fiction
1941	2016	Isaac Asimov*	"Robbie"	Super Science Stories
		Leigh Brackett	"Martian Quest"	Astounding Science Fiction
		Robert A. Heinlein	"Requiem"	Astounding Science Fiction
		Leigh Brackett	"The Stellar Legion"	Planet Stories
		Jorge Luis Borges	"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"	Sur
1943	2018	C. L. Moore* (as Lewis Padgett)	"The Twonky"	Astounding Science Fiction
		Henry Kuttner* (as Lewis Padgett)
		Fredric Brown	"Etaoin Shrdlu"	Unknown
		Donald A. Wollheim (as Martin Pearson)	"Mimic"	Astonishing Stories
		Hal Clement	"Proof"	Astounding Science Fiction
		Isaac Asimov	"Runaround"	Astounding Science Fiction
		Fritz Leiber	"The Sunken Land"	Unknown
1944	2019	Ray Bradbury*	"King of the Gray Spaces" (aka "R is for Rocket")	Famous Fantastic Mysteries
		Isaac Asimov	"Death Sentence"	Astounding Science Fiction
		C. L. Moore	"Doorway into Time"	Famous Fantastic Mysteries
		Edmond Hamilton	"Exile"	Super Science Stories
		Anthony Boucher (as H. H. Holmes)	"Q.U.R."	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Robert Bloch	"Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper"	Weird Tales
1945	2020	Ray Bradbury*	"I, Rocket"	Amazing Stories
		Fredric Brown	"And the Gods Laughed"	Planet Stories
		Clifford D. Simak	"Desertion"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		A. E. van Vogt	"Far Centaurus"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Clifford D. Simak	"Huddling Place"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Isaac Asimov	"The Wedge" ("The Traders")	Astounding Science-Fiction
1946	1996	Hal Clement*	"Uncommon Sense"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Murray Leinster	"The Ethical Equations"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Fredric Brown	"The Waveries"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Lewis Padgett	"What You Need"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Raymond F. Jones	"Correspondence Course"	Astounding Science-Fiction
1951	2001	Damon Knight*	"To Serve Man"	Galaxy Science Fiction
		Fritz Leiber	"Coming Attraction"	Galaxy Science Fiction
		Richard Matheson	"Born of Man and Woman"	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
		A. J. Deutsch	"A Subway Named Mobius"	Astounding Science-Fiction
		Reginald Bretnor	"The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out"	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
1954	2004	Arthur C. Clarke*	"The Nine Billion Names of God"	Star Science Fiction Stories #1 (Ballantine Books)
		Jerome Bixby	"It's a Good Life"	Star Science Fiction Stories #2 (Ballantine Books)
		Alfred Bester	"Star Light, Star Bright"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
		Theodore Sturgeon	"A Saucer of Loneliness"	Galaxy Science Fiction
		Robert Sheckley	"Seventh Victim"	Galaxy Science Fiction

• Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• Hugo Award official site Archived 2021-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
• List of Hugo Award nominees in Locus magazine