Hugo Award for Best Short Story

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Winners of the Hugo Award for best Short Story. Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below. In 1960-1964, 1966 the award was for "short fiction".

Winners and other nominees

• 2004: "A Study in Emerald" &nbsp by Neil Gaiman
  • "Paying It Forward" &nbsp by Michael A. Burstein
  • "Four Short Novels" &nbsp by Joe Haldeman
  • "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" &nbsp by David D. Levine
  • "Robots Don't Cry" &nbsp by Mike Resnick

• 2003: "Falling Onto Mars" &nbsp by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "Creation" &nbsp by Jeffrey Ford
  • "Lambing Season" &nbsp by Molly Gloss
  • "'Hello,' Said the Stick" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 2002: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Ghost Pit" &nbsp by Stephen Baxter
  • "Spaceships" &nbsp by Michael A. Burstein
  • "The Bones of the Earth" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" &nbsp by Mike Resnick

• 2001: "Different Kinds of Darkness" &nbsp by David Langford
  • "The Gravity Mine" &nbsp by Stephen Baxter
  • "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" &nbsp by Michael A. Burstein
  • "The Elephants on Neptune" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Moon Dogs" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 2000: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "macs" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "Sarajevo" &nbsp by Nicholas A. DiChario
  • "Hothouse Flowers" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Ancient Engines" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1999: "The Very Pulse of the Machine" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "Cosmic Corkscrew" &nbsp by Michael A. Burstein
  • "Whiptail" &nbsp by Robert Reed
  • "Maneki Neko" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "Radiant Doors" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "Wild Minds" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1998: "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Beluthahatchie" &nbsp by Andy Duncan
  • "Standing Room Only" &nbsp by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Itsy Bitsy Spider" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Hand You're Dealt" &nbsp by Robert J. Sawyer
  • "No Planets Strike" &nbsp 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" &nbsp by John Crowley
  • "Decency" &nbsp by Robert Reed
  • "The Dead" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick
  • "Un-Birthday Boy" &nbsp by James White

• 1996: "The Lincoln Train" &nbsp by Maureen F. McHugh
  • "TeleAbsence" &nbsp by Michael A. Burstein
  • "Life on the Moon" &nbsp by Tony Daniel

• • "A Birthday" &nbsp by Esther M. Friesner
  • "Walking Out" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1995: "None So Blind" &nbsp by Joe Haldeman
  • "Mrs. Lincoln's China" &nbsp by M. Shayne Bell
  • "Dead Man's Curve" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "Understanding Entropy" &nbsp by Barry N. Malzberg
  • "Barnaby in Exile" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "I Know What You're Thinking" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1994: "Death on the Nile" &nbsp by Connie Willis
  • "England Underway" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "The Good Pup" &nbsp by Bridget McKenna
  • "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "The Story So Far" &nbsp by Martha Soukup

• 1993: "Even the Queen" &nbsp by Connie Willis
  • "The Winterberry" &nbsp by Nicholas A. DiChario
  • "The Mountain to Mohammed" &nbsp by Nancy Kress
  • "The Lotus and the Spear" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" &nbsp by Martha Soukup

• 1992: "A Walk in the Sun" &nbsp by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "Press Ann" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "Buffalo" &nbsp by John Kessel
  • "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Winter Solstice" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "Dog's Life" &nbsp by Martha Soukup
  • "In the Late Cretaceous" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1991: "Bears Discover Fire" &nbsp by Terry Bisson
  • "The Utility Man" &nbsp by Robert Reed
  • "Godspeed" &nbsp by Charles Sheffield
  • "VRM-547" &nbsp by W.R. Thompson
  • "Cibola" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1990: "Boobs" &nbsp by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • "Lost Boys" &nbsp by Orson Scott Card
  • "Computer Friendly" &nbsp by Eileen Gunn
  • "The Return of William Proxmire" &nbsp by Larry Niven
  • "Dori Bangs" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "The Edge of the World" &nbsp by Michael Swanwick

• 1989: "Kirinyaga" &nbsp by Mike Resnick
  • "The Giving Plague" &nbsp by David Brin
  • "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" &nbsp by Eileen Gunn
  • "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" &nbsp by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "The Fort Moxie Branch" &nbsp by Jack McDevitt
  • "Our Neural Chernobyl" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling

• 1988: "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" &nbsp by Lawrence Watt-Evans
  • "Angel" &nbsp by Pat Cadigan
  • "The Faithful Companion at Forty" &nbsp by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Cassandra's Photographs" &nbsp by Lisa Goldstein
  • "Night of the Cooters" &nbsp by Howard Waldrop
  • "Forever Yours, Anna" &nbsp by Kate Wilhelm

• 1987: "Tangents" &nbsp by Greg Bear
  • "Robot Dreams" &nbsp by Isaac Asimov
  • "Still Life" &nbsp by David S. Garnett
  • "Rat" &nbsp by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" &nbsp by Nancy Springer

• 1986: "Fermi and Frost" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl
  • "Snow" &nbsp by John Crowley
  • "Dinner in Audoghast" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" &nbsp by Howard Waldrop
  • "Hong's Bluff" &nbsp by William F. Wu

• 1985: "The Crystal Spheres" &nbsp by David Brin
  • "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" &nbsp by George Alec Effinger
  • "Rory" &nbsp by Steven Gould
  • "Symphony for a Lost Traveler" &nbsp by Lee Killough
  • "Ridge Running" &nbsp by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Salvador" &nbsp by Lucius Shepard

• 1984: "Speech Sounds" &nbsp by Octavia E. Butler
  • "The Peacemaker" &nbsp by Gardner Dozois
  • "Servant of the People" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl
  • "The Geometry of Narrative" &nbsp by Hilbert Schenck
  • "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" &nbsp by William F. Wu

• 1983: "Melancholy Elephants" &nbsp by Spider Robinson
  • "Sur" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Spider Rose" &nbsp by Bruce Sterling
  • "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Ike at the Mike" &nbsp by Howard Waldrop

• 1982: "The Pusher" &nbsp by John Varley
  • "The Quiet" &nbsp by George Guthridge
  • "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile" &nbsp by Somtow Sucharitkul
  • "The Woman the Unicorn Loved" &nbsp by Gene Wolfe

• 1981: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" &nbsp by Clifford D. Simak
  • "Cold Hands" &nbsp by Jeff Duntemann
  • "Guardian" &nbsp by Jeff Duntemann
  • "Spidersong" &nbsp by Susan C. Petry
  • "Our Lady of the Sauropods" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1980: "The Way of Cross and Dragon" &nbsp by George R.R. Martin
  • "giANTS" &nbsp by Edward Bryant
  • "Unaccompanied Sonata" &nbsp by Orson Scott Card
  • "Can These Bones Live?" &nbsp by Ted Reynolds
  • "Daisy, In the Sun" &nbsp by Connie Willis

• 1979: "Cassandra" &nbsp by C.J. Cherryh
  • "Stone" &nbsp by Edward Bryant
  • "Count the Clock that Tells the Time" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "View From a Height" &nbsp by Joan D. Vinge
  • "The Very Slow Time Machine" &nbsp by Ian Watson

• 1978: "Jeffty Is Five" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Lauralyn" &nbsp by Randall Garrett
  • "Dog Day Evening" &nbsp by Spider Robinson
  • "Time-Sharing Angel" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Air Raid" &nbsp by John Varley

• 1977: "Tricentennial" &nbsp by Joe Haldeman
  • "A Crowd of Shadows" &nbsp by Charles L. Grant
  • "I See You" &nbsp by Damon Knight
  • "Custom Fitting" &nbsp by James White

• 1976: "Catch That Zeppelin!" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Doing Lennon" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "Rogue Tomato" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "Croatoan" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Sail the Tide of Mourning" &nbsp by Richard A. Lupoff
  • "Child of All Ages" &nbsp by P.J. Plauger

• 1975: "The Hole Man" &nbsp by Larry Niven
  • "The Four-Hour Fugue" &nbsp by Alfred Bester
  • "Cathadonian Odyssey" &nbsp by Michael Bishop
  • "The Day Before the Revolution" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Schwartz Between the Galaxies" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1974: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "With Morning Comes Mistfall" &nbsp by George R.R. Martin
  • "Wings" &nbsp by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • "Construction Shack" &nbsp by Clifford D. Simak

• 1973: "The Meeting" &nbsp by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
• 1973: "Eurema's Dam" &nbsp by R.A. Lafferty
  • "When It Changed" &nbsp by Joanna Russ
  • "When We Went to See the End of the World" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg
  • "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" &nbsp by James Tiptree, Jr.

• 1972: "Inconstant Moon" &nbsp by Larry Niven
  • "All the Last Wars at Once" &nbsp by George Alec Effinger
  • "Sky" &nbsp by R.A. Lafferty
  • "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "The Autumn Land" &nbsp by Clifford D. Simak
  • "The Bear with the Knot on His Tail" &nbsp by Stephen Tall

• 1971: "Slow Sculpture" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Brillo" &nbsp by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
  • "Jean Duprès" &nbsp by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "Continued on Next Rock" &nbsp by R.A. Lafferty
  • "In the Queue" &nbsp by Keith Laumer

• 1970: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" &nbsp by Samuel R. Delany
  • "Deeper than the Darkness" &nbsp by Gregory Benford
  • "Winter's King" &nbsp by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Not Long Before the End" &nbsp by Larry Niven
  • "Passengers" &nbsp by Robert Silverberg

• 1969: "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" &nbsp by Terry Carr
  • "The Steiger Effect" &nbsp by Betsy Curtis
  • "Masks" &nbsp by Damon Knight
  • "All the Myriad Ways" &nbsp by Larry Niven

• 1968: "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Aye, and Gomorrah…" &nbsp by Samuel R. Delany
  • "The Jigsaw Man" &nbsp by Larry Niven

• 1967: "Neutron Star" &nbsp by Larry Niven
  • "Man In His Time" &nbsp by Brian W. Aldiss
  • "Delusions for a Dragon Slayer" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Rat Race" &nbsp by Raymond F. Jones
  • "The Secret Place" &nbsp by Richard McKenna
  • "Mr. Jester" &nbsp by Fred Saberhagen
  • "Light of Other Days" &nbsp by Bob Shaw
  • "Comes Now the Power" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1966: "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" &nbsp by Harlan Ellison
  • "Marque and Reprisal" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "Day of the Great Shout" &nbsp by Philip José Farmer
  • "Stardock" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1965: "Soldier, Ask Not" &nbsp by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "Once a Cop" &nbsp by Rick Raphael
  • "Little Dog Gone" &nbsp by Robert F. Young

• 1964: "No Truce With Kings" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "Savage Pellucidar" &nbsp by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • "Code Three" &nbsp by Rick Raphael
  • "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" &nbsp by Roger Zelazny

• 1963: "The Dragon Masters" &nbsp by Jack Vance
  • "Myrrha" &nbsp by Gary Jennings
  • "The Unholy Grail" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "When You Care, When You Love" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Where Is the Bird of Fire?" &nbsp by Thomas Burnett Swann

• 1962: "Hothouse" (collected as: "The Long Afternoon of Earth") by Brian W. Aldiss
  • "Monument" &nbsp by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
  • "Scylla's Daughter" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Status Quo" &nbsp by Mack Reynolds
  • "Lion Loose" &nbsp by James H. Schmitz

• 1961: "The Longest Voyage" &nbsp by Poul Anderson
  • "The Lost Kafoozalum" &nbsp by Pauline Ashwell
  • "Open to Me, My Sister" &nbsp by Philip José Farmer
  • "Need" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon

• 1960: "Flowers for Algernon" &nbsp by Daniel Keyes
  • "The Pi Man" &nbsp by Alfred Bester
  • "The Alley Man" &nbsp by Philip José Farmer
  • "The Man Who Lost the Sea" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Cat and Mouse" &nbsp by Ralph Williams

• 1959: "That Hell-Bound Train" &nbsp by Robert Bloch
  • "They've Been Working On..." &nbsp by Anton Lee Baker
  • "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" &nbsp by Alfred Bester
  • "Triggerman" &nbsp by J.F. Bone
  • "The Edge of the Sea" &nbsp by Algis Budrys
  • "The Advent on Channel Twelve" &nbsp by C.M. Kornbluth
  • "Theory of Rocketry" &nbsp by C.M. Kornbluth
  • "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Space to Swing a Cat" &nbsp by Stanley Mullen
  • "Nine Yards of Other Cloth" &nbsp by Manly Wade Wellman

• 1958: "Or All the Seas with Oysters" &nbsp by Avram Davidson

• 1956: "The Star" &nbsp by Arthur C. Clarke

• 1955: "Allamagoosa" &nbsp by Eric Frank Russell

The "Retro Hugos"

(awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which Worldcons didn't give awards)

• 1954: "The Nine Billion Names of God" &nbsp by Arthur C. Clarke
  • "Star Light, Star Bright" &nbsp by Alfred Bester
  • "It's a Good Life" &nbsp by Jerome Bixby
  • "Seventh Victim" &nbsp by Robert Sheckley
  • "A Saucer of Loneliness" &nbsp by Theodore Sturgeon

• 1951: "To Serve Man" &nbsp by Damon Knight (awarded in 2001)
  • "The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out" &nbsp by Reginald Bretnor
  • "A Subway Named Mobius" by A.J. Deutsch
  • "Coming Attraction" &nbsp by Fritz Leiber
  • "Born of Man and Woman" &nbsp by Richard Matheson

• 1946: "Uncommon Sense" &nbsp by Hal Clement (awarded in 1996)
  • "The Waveries", by Fredric Brown
  • "Correspondence Course", by Raymond F. Jones
  • "The Ethical Equations", by Murray Leinster
  • "What You Need", by Lewis Padgett

See also

• Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• Hugo Award for Best Novel
• Hugo Award for Best Novella
• Hugo Award for Best Novelette
• Hugo Award for Best Short Story
• Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (awarded since 1961)
• Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book (awarded 1980 to 1998)
• Hugo Award for Best Related Book (awarded since 1999)

Fanac

• Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
• Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
• Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Pro's ac

• Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
• Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor

External links

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