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Hugo Award for Best Novella

Annual award for science fiction or fantasy


Annual award for science fiction or fantasy

FieldValue
nameHugo Award for Best Novella
awarded_forThe best science fiction or fantasy story of between 17,500 and 40,000 words published in the prior calendar year
presenterWorld Science Fiction Society
year1968
holderRay Nayler (The Tusks of Extinction)
holder_labelMost recent winner
website

The Hugo Award for Best Novella 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 novella award is available for works of fiction of between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette 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 Novella has been awarded annually since 1968. In addition to the regular Hugo Awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. 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 novellas for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.

During the 66 nomination years, 192 authors have had works as finalists; 48 of these have won, including coauthors and Retro Hugos. One translator has been noted along with the author of a novella written in a language other than English: Alex Woodend, in 2024, for translations of two works from Chinese. Connie Willis has received the most Hugos for Best Novella at four out of eight final ballot nominations. Willis and Charles Stross at three out of four nominations, and Robert A. Heinlein at three out of six nominations for Retro Hugos, are the only authors to have won more than twice. Seanan McGuire has earned nine nominations, the most of any author; Robert Silverberg has earned eight, Nancy Kress seven, and Heinlein, George R. R. Martin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lucius Shepard six, the only authors besides Willis to get more than five. Robinson has the highest number of nominations without winning.

Selection

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by the supporting and 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 finalists, except in the case of a tie. These novellas on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six finalists 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 the start of September, 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 finalists 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 Novella category in 2015.

Winners and finalists

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novella was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the finalists on the short-list. If the novella 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
YearAuthor(s)NovellaPublisher or publicationRef.1968196919701971197219731974197519761977197819791980198119821983198419851986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
*"Riders of the Purple Wage"Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
*"Weyr Search"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Damnation Alley"Galaxy Science Fiction
Worlds of Tomorrow
"Hawksbill Station"Galaxy Science Fiction
*"Nightwings"Galaxy Science Fiction
"Dragonrider"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Lines of Power"
"Hawk Among the Sparrows"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*"Ship of Shadows"
(Avon Publications)
"We All Die Naked"Three for Tomorrow (Meredith Press)
"Dramatic Mission"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"To Jorslem"Galaxy Science Fiction
*"Ill Met in Lankhmar"
If
Galaxy Science Fiction
Galaxy Science Fiction
"Beastchild"Venture Science Fiction Magazine
*
Playboy
Quark/4 (Paperback Library)
"Dread Empire"Fantastic
New Dimensions 1 (Doubleday)
*Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
Orbit #10 (Putnam Publishing Group)
"Hero"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*New Dimensions 3 (Doubleday)
Universe 3 (Bantam Spectra)
"Death and Designation Among the Asadi"If
"Chains of the Sea"Chains of the Sea (X-S Books)
*Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Strangers"New Dimensions 4 (Doubleday)
"Born with the Dead"
"Riding the Torch"Threads of Time (Thomas Nelson)
"Assault on a City"Universe 4 (Bantam Spectra)
*"Home Is the Hangman"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"ARM"Epoch (Putnam Publishing Group)
*"By Any Other Name"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"Aurora: Beyond Equality (Fawcett Publications)
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
*"Stardance"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*
"In the Hall of the Martian Kings"
"Aztecs"2076: The American Tricentennial (Pyramid Books)
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*
"Fireship"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Enemies of the System"
"Seven American Nights"Orbit #20 (Putnam Publishing Group)
*"Enemy Mine"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Songhouse"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Ker-Plop"Asimov's Science Fiction
*"Lost Dorsai"Destinies #2 (Ace Books)
"One-Wing"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Nightflyers"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"All the Lies that Are My Life"
*Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"In the Western Tradition"
"Blue Champagne"New Voices #4 (Berkley Books)
"With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope"Asimov's Science Fiction
"True Names"Binary Star #5 (Dell Publishing)
"Emergence"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*"Souls"
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Unsound Variations"Amazing Stories
"Brainchild"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"To Leave a Mark"
"Another Orphan"
*"Cascade Point"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Hardfought"Asimov's Science Fiction
"In the Face of My Enemy"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Seeking"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Hurricane Claude"
*"Press Enter ■"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Cyclops"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Valentina"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Summer Solstice"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
"Elemental"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*"24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Sailing to Byzantium"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Green Mars"Asimov's Science Fiction
Alien Stars (Baen Books)
*"Gilgamesh in the Outback"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Escape from Kathmandu"Asimov's Science Fiction
"R&R"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Spice Pogrom"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Eifelheim"Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*"Eye for Eye"Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Mother Goddess of the World"Asimov's Science Fiction
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
*Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Journals of the Plague Years"Full Spectrum (Doubleday)
Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Surfacing"Asimov's Science Fiction
*Analog Science Fact & Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Time-Out"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Tiny Tango"Asimov's Science Fiction
*Asimov's Science Fiction
"Bully!"Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Bones"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Fool to Believe"Asimov's Science Fiction
*"Beggars in Spain"Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Jack"Asimov's Science Fiction
St. Martin's Press
"And Wild for to Hold"Asimov's Science Fiction
*"Barnacle Bill the Spacer"Asimov's Science Fiction
Bantam Spectra
"Protection"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Uh-Oh City"Fantasy & Science Fiction
Fantasy & Science Fiction
*"Down in the Bottomlands"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"Wall, Stone, Craft"Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Into the Miranda Rift"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Mefisto In Onyx"Omni
*"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge"Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Les Fleurs du Mal"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Forgiveness Day"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Cri de Coeur"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Melodies of the Heart"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
*Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Bibi"Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Fault Lines"Asimov's Science Fiction
*"Blood of the Dragon"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Time Travelers Never Die"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Immersion"SF Age
"Abandon in Place"Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Gas Fish"Asimov's Science Fiction
Starlight #1 (Tor Books)
*Asimov's Science Fiction
Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Ecopoiesis"SF Age
"Loose Ends"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"Marrow"SF Age
*"Oceanic"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Aurora in Four Voices"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"Story of Your Life"Starlight #2 (Tor Books)
"Get Me to the Church on Time"Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
*Asimov's Science Fiction
"Forty, Counting Down"Asimov's Science Fiction
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"Hunting the Snark"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Son Observe the Time"Asimov's Science Fiction
*Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"Oracle"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Seventy-Two Letters"Vanishing Acts (Tor Books)
"Radiant Green Star"Asimov's Science Fiction
*"Fast Times at Fairmont High"(Tor Books)
"Stealing Alabama"Asimov's Science Fiction
"May Be Some Time"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Asimov's Science Fiction
Jubilee (Tor Books)
*HarperCollins
"Brontë's Egg"Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Breathmoss"Asimov's Science Fiction
PS Publishing
Fantasy & Science Fiction
"In Spirit"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
*Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Just Like the Ones We Used to Know"Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Walk in Silence"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
*(Golden Gryphon Press)
"Sergeant Chip"Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Elector"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Winterfair Gifts"Irresistible Forces (New American Library)
"Time Ablaze"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
*"Inside Job"Asimov's Science Fiction
Tachyon Publications
"Magic for Beginners"Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press)
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Identity Theft"Down These Dark Spaceways (Science Fiction Book Club)
*Asimov's Science Fiction
"Lord Weary's Empire"Asimov's Science Fiction
PS Publishing
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Inclination"Asimov's Science Fiction
*"All Seated on the Ground"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Recovering Apollo 8"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Fountain of Age"Asimov's Science Fiction
"Stars Seen Through Stone"Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Memorare"Fantasy & Science Fiction
*Asimov's Science Fiction
"Truth"Asimov's Science Fiction
Galactic Empires (Science Fiction Book Club)
"True Names"Fast Forward 2 (Pyr)
Fantasy & Science Fiction
*"Palimpsest"Wireless (Ace Books)
"Act One"Asimov's Science Fiction
Subterranean Press
Tachyon Publications
"Vishnu at the Cat Circus"Cyberabad Days (Pyr)
Subterranean Press
*Subterranean Press
Subterranean Magazine
Stories: New Tales (Morrow)
Asimov's Science Fiction
"Troika"Godlike Machines (Science Fiction Book Club)
*Asimov's Science Fiction
Orbit Books
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
Panverse 3 (Panverse Publishing)
WSFA Press
*Tachyon Publications
Tachyon Publications
Immersion Press
Orbit Books
Asimov's Science Fiction
*Tor.com
Privateer Press
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Subterranean Press
Tor.com
(no award)+
"Flow"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Castalia House
Castalia House
"Pale Realms of Shade"The Book of Feasts & Seasons (Castalia House)
City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis (Castalia House)
*Tor.com
Tor.com
Spectrum Literary Agency
Dragonsteel Entertainment
Tachyon Publications
*Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Spectrum Literary Agency
Tor.com Publishing
Del Rey Books / Picador
*Tor.com Publishing
"And Then There Were (N-One)"Uncanny Magazine
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
*Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency
*Saga Press
*
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"Exhalation: Stories
Saga Press
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Harper Voyager
*Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
Tor.com Publishing
*Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
*Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Solaris Books
(as T. Kingfisher)Tor Nightfire
(as T. Kingfisher)*Tor Books/Titan Books
(Chinese)"Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet"Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press)
(translator)
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Subterranean Press
(Chinese)"Seeds of Mercury"Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press)
(translator)
*Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Tordotcom
Navigational EntanglementsTordotcom
Tordotcom
(as T. Kingfisher)What Feasts at NightNightfire

Retro Hugos

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.

YearYear awardedAuthor(s)NovellaPublisher or publicationRef.1939201419412016194320181944201919452020194619961951200119542004
(as Don A. Stuart)*"Who Goes There?"Astounding Science-Fiction
Cassell
Astounding Science-Fiction
"Sleepers of Mars"Tales of Wonder
Marvel Science Stories
*Astounding Science Fiction
Astounding Science Fiction
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
(as Anson MacDonald)*"Waldo"Astounding Science Fiction
"Asylum"Astounding Science Fiction
Unknown
"Hell is Forever"Unknown
"Nerves"Astounding Science Fiction
(as John Riverside)Unknown
*Reynal & Hitchcock
"Attitude"Astounding Science-Fiction
(as Lawrence O'Donnell)"Clash by Night"Astounding Science-Fiction
(as Lawrence O'Donnell)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Arkham House)
Hyperion Press
"We Print the Truth"Astounding Science-Fiction
*"Killdozer!"Astounding Science-Fiction
Astounding Science-Fiction
Thrilling Wonder Stories
"Intruders from the Stars"Amazing Stories
Planet Stories
"Trog"Astounding Science-Fiction
*Secker and Warburg
"Dead Hand"Astounding Science-Fiction
"Giant Killer"Astounding Science-Fiction
"I Remember Lemuria"Amazing Stories
*Shasta Publishers
Fantastic Adventures
Astounding Science-Fiction
"Last Enemy"Astounding Science-Fiction
"To the Stars"Astounding Science-Fiction
*If
"Three Hearts and Three Lions"
Beyond Fantasy Fiction
"Un-Man"Astounding Science-Fiction
Authentic Science Fiction

Notes

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