Best Novella Hugo
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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.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1939 | Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell |
| 1941 | If This Goes On… by Robert A. Heinlein |
| 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 José 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 by Nancy Kress |
| 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 |
| 2011 | The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang |
| 2012 | The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson |
| 2013 | The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson |
| 2014 | Equoid by Charles Stross |
| 2015 | no award |
| 2016 | Binti by Nnedi Okorafor |
| 2017 | Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire |
| 2018 | The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red by Martha Wells |
| 2019 | Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells |
| Hugos | 1939— |
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