1959 Best Short Story Hugo

The 1959 Best Short Story Hugo was presented September 7 at Detention.

For the first time the modern nominations ballot followed by a final ballot process was followed so we have a list of nominees and a winner, but we do not have the order of finish after first place. (Note that the modern rules were not yet in places, so this category had ten nominees plus No Award. On the Hugo final ballot, the committee noted that when the nomination ballot showed there was no clearly preferred nominee, the committee added No Award as a choice.)

Winner: "That Hell-Bound Train" by Robert Bloch [F&SF Sep 1958]

Runners-up:

• "They've Been Working On ..." by Anton Lee Baker [AstoundingAug 1958]
• "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" by Alfred Bester [F&SF Oct 1958]
• "Triggerman" by J. F. Bone [AstoundingDec 1958]
• "The Edge of the Sea" by Algis Budrys [Venture Mar 1958]
• "The Advent on Channel Twelve" by C. M. Kornbluth [Star Science Fiction Stories #4 ed. by Frederik Pohl (Ballantine), 1958]
• "Theory of Rocketry" by C. M. Kornbluth [F&SF Jul 1958]
• "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee" by Fritz Leiber [F&SF May 1958]
• "Space to Swing a Cat" by Stanley Mullen [Astounding Jun 1958]
• "Nine Yards of Other Cloth" by Manly Wade Wellman [F&SF Nov 1958]

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