Best Short Story Hugo

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.

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