Best Novelette Hugo Category
The Best Novelette Hugo category is one of the long-time stable Hugo categories. It was first used in 1955 and 1956, dropped in 1957 and 1958, merged with the other short fiction categories into Best Short Fiction from 1960 to 1966, returned in 1967-1969, dropped for 1970-1972 and finally returned permanently starting in 1973.
The category is for fiction in lengths longer than the Best Short Story category and shorter than the Best Novella category: 7,500-17,500 words. See Hugo category boundaries for a discussion of some of the finer points of defining Hugo categories.
See also the Hugo Awards and List of Hugo Categories.
Click on the year for detailed results.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1946 | "First Contact" by Murray Leinster |
| 1951 | "The Little Black Bag" by C. M. Kornbluth |
| 1954 | "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish |
| 1955 | "The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
| 1956 | "Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster |
| 1959 | "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak |
| 1967 | "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance |
| 1968 | "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber |
| 1969 | "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson |
| During 1970-72, the Best Novelette Hugo category was merged into the Best Short Story category | |
| 1973 | "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson |
| 1974 | "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison |
| 1975 | "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans" by Harlan Ellison |
| 1976 | "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven |
| 1977 | "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov |
| 1978 | "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge |
| 1979 | "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson |
| 1980 | "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin |
| 1981 | "The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson |
| 1982 | "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny |
| 1983 | "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis |
| 1984 | "Blood Music" by Greg Bear |
| 1985 | "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler |
| 1986 | "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison |
| 1987 | "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny |
| 1988 | "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1989 | "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger |
| 1990 | "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg |
| 1991 | "The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick |
| 1992 | "Gold" by Isaac Asimov |
| 1993 | "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan |
| 1994 | "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield |
| 1995 | "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold |
| 1996 | "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly |
| 1997 | "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling |
| 1998 | "We Will Drink a Fish Together…" by Bill Johnson |
| 1999 | "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling |
| 2000 | "1016 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly |
| 2001 | "Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| 2002 | "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang |
| 2003 | "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick |
| 2004 | "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick |
| 2005 | "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link |
| 2006 | "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle |
| 2007 | "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald |
| 2008 | "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang |
| 2009 | "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear |
| 2010 | "The Island", Peter Watts |
| 2011 | "The Emperor of Mars", Allen M. Steele |
| 2012 | "Six Months, Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders |
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