1959 Best Novelette Hugo

The 1959 Best Novelette Hugo was presented September 7 at Detention. For the first time the modern nominations ballot followed by a final ballot process was followed so we have a list of nominees and a winner, but we do not have the order of finish after first place

Winner: "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak [Astounding Oct 1958]
Runners-up:

• "Unwillingly to School" by Pauline Ashwell [Astounding Jan 1958]
• "Captivity" by Zenna Henderson [F&SF Jun 1958]
• "Reap the Dark Tide" (alt: "Shark Ship") by C. M. Kornbluth [Vanguard Jun 1958]
• "A Deskful of Girls" by Fritz Leiber [F&SF Apr 1958]
• "Second Game" by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet [Astounding Mar 1958]
• "Rat in the Skull" by Rog Phillips [If Dec 1958]
• "The Miracle-Workers" by [[Jack Vance]]] [Astounding Jul 1958]

See also: Hugo Awards, 1959 Hugo Results, 1958 Best Novel or Novelette Hugo, 1960 Best Short Fiction Hugo.