Best Novella Hugo Category
The Best Novella Hugo category was established in 1968 and has been one of the Hugo categories ever since. Prior to 1968, novella was covered by the Best Short Fiction category.
The category is for fiction in lengths longer than the Best Novelette category and shorter than the Best Novel category: 17,500-40,000 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.
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| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1946 | Animal Farm by George Orwell |
| 1951 | "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1954 | "A Case of Conscience" by James Blish |
| 1968 | (tie) "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip Jose Farmer and "Weyr Search" by Anne McCaffrey |
| 1969 | "Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg |
| 1970 | "Ship of Shadows" by Fritz Leiber |
| 1971 | "Ill Met in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber |
| 1972 | "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson |
| 1973 | "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1974 | "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1975 | "A Song for Lya" by George R. R. Martin |
| 1976 | "Home Is the Hangman" by Roger Zelazny |
| 1977 | (tie) "By Any Other Name" by Spider Robinson and "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1978 | "Stardance" by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson |
| 1979 | "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley |
| 1980 | "Enemy Mine" by Barry B. Longyear |
| 1981 | "Lost Dorsai" by Gordon R. Dickson |
| 1982 | "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson |
| 1983 | "Souls" by Joanna Russ |
| 1984 | "Cascade Point" by Timothy Zahn |
| 1985 | "Press Enter []" by John Varley |
| 1986 | "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" by Roger Zelazny |
| 1987 | "Gilgamesh in the Outback" by Robert Silverberg |
| 1988 | "Eye for Eye" by Orson Scott Card |
| 1989 | "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis |
| 1990 | "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 1991 | "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman |
| 1992 | "Beggars in Spain" |
| 1993 | "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard |
| 1994 | "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove |
| 1995 | "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick |
| 1996 | "The Death of Captain Future" by Allen Steele |
| 1997 | "Blood of the Dragon" by George R. R. Martin |
| 1998 | "…Where Angels Fear to Tread" by Allen Steele |
| 1999 | "Oceanic" by Greg Egan |
| 2000 | "The Winds of Marble Arch" by Connie Willis |
| 2001 | "The Ultimate Earth" by Jack Williamson |
| 2002 | "Fast Times at Fairmont High" by Vernor Vinge |
| 2003 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman |
| 2004 | "The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge |
| 2005 | "The Concrete Jungle" by Charles Stross |
| 2006 | "Inside Job" by Connie Willis |
| 2007 | "A Billion Eves" by Robert Reed |
| 2008 | "All Seated on the Ground" by Connie Willis |
| 2009 | "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress |
| 2010 | "Palimpsest", Charles Stross |
| 2011 | The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang |
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