Best Short Story Hugo
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The Best Short Story Hugo category is one of the long-time stable Hugo categories. It was first used in 1955 and 1956, skipped in 1957, merged with the other short fiction categories into Best Short Fiction from 1960 to 1966, and returned permanently starting in 1967.
The category is for the shortest fiction, between 0 and 7500 words, shorter than the Best Novelette Hugo category.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell |
| 1956 | The Star by Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1958 | Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson |
| 1959 | That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch |
| 1967 | Neutron Star by Larry Niven |
| 1968 | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison |
| 1969 | The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison |
| 1970 | Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany |
| 1971 | Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon |
| 1972 | Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven |
| 1973 | (tie) Eurema's Dam by R. A. Lafferty and The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth |
| 1974 | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1975 | The Hole Man by Larry Niven |
| 1976 | Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber |
| 1977 | Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman |
| 1978 | Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison |
| 1979 | Cassandra by C. J. Cherryh |
| 1980 | The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin |
| 1981 | Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak |
| 1982 | The Pusher by John Varley |
| 1983 | Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson |
| 1984 | Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler |
| 1985 | The Crystal Spheres by David Brin |
| 1986 | Fermi and Frost by Frederik Pohl |
| 1987 | Tangents by Greg Bear |
| 1988 | Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans |
| 1989 | Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick |
| 1990 | Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas |
| 1991 | Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson |
| 1992 | A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis |
| 1993 | Even the Queen by Connie Willis |
| 1994 | Death on the Nile by Connie Willis |
| 1995 | None So Blind by Joe Haldeman |
| 1996 | The Lincoln Train by Maureen F. McHugh |
| 1997 | The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Connie Willis |
| 1998 | The 43 Antarean Dynasties by Mike Resnick |
| 1999 | The Very Pulse of the Machine by Michael Swanwick |
| 2000 | Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick |
| 2001 | Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford |
| 2002 | The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick |
| 2003 | Falling onto Mars by Geoffrey A. Landis |
| 2004 | A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman |
| 2005 | Travels with My Cats by Mike Resnick |
| 2006 | Tk'tk'tk by David D. Levine |
| 2007 | Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt |
| 2008 | Tideline by Elizabeth Bear |
| 2009 | Exhalation by Ted Chiang |
| 2010 | Bridesicle by Will McIntosh |
| 2011 | For Want of a Nail by Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2012 | The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu |
| 2013 | Mono No Aware by Ken Liu |
| 2014 | The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu |
| 2015 | no award |
| 2016 | Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer |
| 2017 | Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar |
| 2018 | Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse |
| 2019 | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies," by Alix E. Harrow |
| 2020 | "As the Last I May Know," by S. L. Huang |
| 2021 | "Metal Like Blood in the Dark," by Ursula Vernon as by T. Kingfisher |
| 2022 | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather," by Sarah Pinsker |
| 2023 | "Rabbit Test," by Samantha Mills (Hugo renounced by Mills) |
See also: Best Short Story Retro Hugo.
| Hugos | 1955— |
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