Best Novelette Hugo
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The Best Novelette Hugo category is one of the long-time stable Hugo categories. It was first used in 1955 and 1956, dropped in 1957 and 1958, merged with the other short fiction categories into Best Short Fiction from 1960 to 1966, returned in 1967-1969, dropped for 1970-1972 and finally returned permanently starting in 1973.
The category is for fiction in lengths longer than the Best Short Story category and shorter than the Best Novella category: 7,500-17,500 words. See Hugo category boundaries for a discussion of some of the finer points of defining Hugo categories.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1955 | The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
| 1956 | Exploration Team by Murray Leinster |
| 1959 | The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak |
| 1967 | The Last Castle by Jack Vance |
| 1968 | Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber |
| 1969 | The Sharing of Flesh by Poul Anderson |
| During 1970-72, the Best Novelette Hugo category was merged into the Best Short Story category | |
| 1973 | Goat Song by Poul Anderson |
| 1974 | The Deathbird by Harlan Ellison |
| 1975 | Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans by Harlan Ellison |
| 1976 | The Borderland of Sol by Larry Niven |
| 1977 | The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov |
| 1978 | Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge |
| 1979 | Hunter's Moon by Poul Anderson |
| 1980 | Sandkings by George R. R. Martin |
| 1981 | The Cloak and the Staff by Gordon R. Dickson |
| 1982 | Unicorn Variation by Roger Zelazny |
| 1983 | Fire Watch by Connie Willis |
| 1984 | Blood Music by Greg Bear |
| 1985 | Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler |
| 1986 | Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison |
| 1987 | Permafrost by Roger Zelazny |
| 1988 | Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1989 | Schrödinger's Kitten by George Alec Effinger |
| 1990 | Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg |
| 1991 | The Manamouki by Mike Resnick |
| 1992 | Gold by Isaac Asimov |
| 1993 | The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan |
| 1994 | Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield |
| 1995 | The Martian Child by David Gerrold |
| 1996 | Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly |
| 1997 | Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling |
| 1998 | We Will Drink a Fish Together... by Bill Johnson |
| 1999 | Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling |
| 2000 | 10^^16^^ to 1 by James Patrick Kelly |
| 2001 | Millennium Babies by Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| 2002 | Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang |
| 2003 | Slow Life by Michael Swanwick |
| 2004 | Legions in Time by Michael Swanwick |
| 2005 | The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link |
| 2006 | Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle |
| 2007 | The Djinn's Wife by Ian McDonald |
| 2008 | The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang |
| 2009 | Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear |
| 2010 | The Island, Peter Watts |
| 2011 | The Emperor of Mars, Allen M. Steele |
| 2012 | Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders |
| 2011 | The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi, Pat Cadigan |
| 2012 | The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2013 | The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi by Pat Cadigan |
| 2014 | The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal |
| 2015 | The Day the World Turned Upside Down by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Lia Belt |
| 2016 | Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu |
| 2017 | The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon |
| 2018 | The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer |
| 2019 | "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again," by Zen Cho |
| Hugos | 1955— |
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