Hugo Award for Best Short Story: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Winners of the Hugo Award for best Short Story. Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below. In 1960-1964, 1966 the award was for "short fiction".

Winners and other nominees

• 2004: tbd 9/4/04
  • "Paying It Forward"   by Michael A. Burstein
  • "A Study in Emerald"   by Neil Gaiman
  • "Four Short Novels"   by Joe Haldeman
  • "The Tale of the Golden Eagle"   by David D. Levine
  • "Robots Don't Cry"   by Mike Resnick

• 2003: "Falling Onto Mars"   by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "Creation"   by Jeffrey Ford
  • "Lambing Season"   by Molly Gloss
  • "'Hello,' Said the Stick"   by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport"   by Michael Swanwick

• 2002: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"   by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Ghost Pit"   by Stephen Baxter
  • "Spaceships"   by Michael A. Burstein
  • "The Bones of the Earth"   by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"   by Mike Resnick

• 2001: "Different Kinds of Darkness"   by David Langford
  • "The Gravity Mine"   by Stephen Baxter
  • "Kaddish for the Last Survivor"   by Michael A. Burstein
  • "The Elephants on Neptune"   by Mike Resnick
  • "Moon Dogs"   by Michael Swanwick

• 2000: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"   by Michael Swanwick
  • "macs"   by Terry Bisson
  • "Sarajevo"   by Nicholas A. DiChario
  • "Hothouse Flowers"   by Mike Resnick
  • "Ancient Engines"   by Michael Swanwick

• 1999: "The Very Pulse of the Machine"   by Michael Swanwick
  • "Cosmic Corkscrew"   by Michael A. Burstein
  • "Whiptail"   by Robert Reed
  • "Maneki Neko"   by Bruce Sterling
  • "Radiant Doors"   by Michael Swanwick
  • "Wild Minds"   by Michael Swanwick

• 1998: "The 43 Antarean Dynasties"   by Mike Resnick
  • "Beluthahatchie"   by Andy Duncan
  • "Standing Room Only"   by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Itsy Bitsy Spider"   by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Hand You're Dealt"   by Robert J. Sawyer
  • "No Planets Strike"   by Gene Wolfe

• 1997: "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective"
  by Connie Willis
  • "Gone"   by John Crowley
  • "Decency"   by Robert Reed
  • "The Dead"   by Michael Swanwick
  • "Un-Birthday Boy"   by James White

• 1996: "The Lincoln Train"   by Maureen F. McHugh
  • "TeleAbsence"   by Michael A. Burstein
  • "Life on the Moon"   by Tony Daniel

• • "A Birthday"   by Esther M. Friesner
  • "Walking Out"   by Michael Swanwick

• 1995: "None So Blind"   by Joe Haldeman
  • "Mrs. Lincoln's China"   by M. Shayne Bell
  • "Dead Man's Curve"   by Terry Bisson
  • "Understanding Entropy"   by Barry N. Malzberg
  • "Barnaby in Exile"   by Mike Resnick
  • "I Know What You're Thinking"   by Kate Wilhelm

• 1994: "Death on the Nile"   by Connie Willis
  • "England Underway"   by Terry Bisson
  • "The Good Pup"   by Bridget McKenna
  • "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle"   by Mike Resnick
  • "The Story So Far"   by Martha Soukup

• 1993: "Even the Queen"   by Connie Willis
  • "The Winterberry"   by Nicholas A. DiChario
  • "The Mountain to Mohammed"   by Nancy Kress
  • "The Lotus and the Spear"   by Mike Resnick
  • "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"   by Martha Soukup

• 1992: "A Walk in the Sun"   by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "Press Ann"   by Terry Bisson
  • "Buffalo"   by John Kessel
  • "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals"   by Mike Resnick
  • "Winter Solstice"   by Mike Resnick
  • "Dog's Life"   by Martha Soukup
  • "In the Late Cretaceous"   by Connie Willis

• 1991: "Bears Discover Fire"   by Terry Bisson
  • "The Utility Man"   by Robert Reed
  • "Godspeed"   by Charles Sheffield
  • "VRM-547"   by W.R. Thompson
  • "Cibola"   by Connie Willis

• 1990: "Boobs"   by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • "Lost Boys"   by Orson Scott Card
  • "Computer Friendly"   by Eileen Gunn
  • "The Return of William Proxmire"   by Larry Niven
  • "Dori Bangs"   by Bruce Sterling
  • "The Edge of the World"   by Michael Swanwick

• 1989: "Kirinyaga"   by Mike Resnick
  • "The Giving Plague"   by David Brin
  • "Stable Strategies for Middle Management"   by Eileen Gunn
  • "Ripples in the Dirac Sea"   by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • "The Fort Moxie Branch"   by Jack McDevitt
  • "Our Neural Chernobyl"   by Bruce Sterling

• 1988: "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers"   by Lawrence Watt-Evans
  • "Angel"   by Pat Cadigan
  • "The Faithful Companion at Forty"   by Karen Joy Fowler
  • "Cassandra's Photographs"   by Lisa Goldstein
  • "Night of the Cooters"   by Howard Waldrop
  • "Forever Yours, Anna"   by Kate Wilhelm

• 1987: "Tangents"   by Greg Bear
  • "Robot Dreams"   by Isaac Asimov
  • "Still Life"   by David S. Garnett
  • "Rat"   by James Patrick Kelly
  • "The Boy Who Plaited Manes"   by Nancy Springer

• 1986: "Fermi and Frost"   by Frederik Pohl
  • "Snow"   by John Crowley
  • "Dinner in Audoghast"   by Bruce Sterling
  • "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll"   by Howard Waldrop
  • "Hong's Bluff"   by William F. Wu

• 1985: "The Crystal Spheres"   by David Brin
  • "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything"   by George Alec Effinger
  • "Rory"   by Steven Gould
  • "Symphony for a Lost Traveler"   by Lee Killough
  • "Ridge Running"   by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Salvador"   by Lucius Shepard

• 1984: "Speech Sounds"   by Octavia E. Butler
  • "The Peacemaker"   by Gardner Dozois
  • "Servant of the People"   by Frederik Pohl
  • "The Geometry of Narrative"   by Hilbert Schenck
  • "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"   by William F. Wu

• 1983: "Melancholy Elephants"   by Spider Robinson
  • "Sur"   by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Spider Rose"   by Bruce Sterling
  • "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever"   by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Ike at the Mike"   by Howard Waldrop

• 1982: "The Pusher"   by John Varley
  • "The Quiet"   by George Guthridge
  • "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile"   by Somtow Sucharitkul
  • "The Woman the Unicorn Loved"   by Gene Wolfe

• 1981: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer"   by Clifford D. Simak
  • "Cold Hands"   by Jeff Duntemann
  • "Guardian"   by Jeff Duntemann
  • "Spidersong"   by Susan C. Petry
  • "Our Lady of the Sauropods"   by Robert Silverberg

• 1980: "The Way of Cross and Dragon"   by George R.R. Martin
  • "giANTS"   by Edward Bryant
  • "Unaccompanied Sonata"   by Orson Scott Card
  • "Can These Bones Live?"   by Ted Reynolds
  • "Daisy, In the Sun"   by Connie Willis

• 1979: "Cassandra"   by C.J. Cherryh
  • "Stone"   by Edward Bryant
  • "Count the Clock that Tells the Time"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "View From a Height"   by Joan D. Vinge
  • "The Very Slow Time Machine"   by Ian Watson

• 1978: "Jeffty Is Five"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "Lauralyn"   by Randall Garrett
  • "Dog Day Evening"   by Spider Robinson
  • "Time-Sharing Angel"   by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • "Air Raid"   by John Varley

• 1977: "Tricentennial"   by Joe Haldeman
  • "A Crowd of Shadows"   by Charles L. Grant
  • "I See You"   by Damon Knight
  • "Custom Fitting"   by James White

• 1976: "Catch That Zeppelin!"   by Fritz Leiber
  • "Doing Lennon"   by Gregory Benford
  • "Rogue Tomato"   by Michael Bishop
  • "Croatoan"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "Sail the Tide of Mourning"   by Richard A. Lupoff
  • "Child of All Ages"   by P.J. Plauger

• 1975: "The Hole Man"   by Larry Niven
  • "The Four-Hour Fugue"   by Alfred Bester
  • "Cathadonian Odyssey"   by Michael Bishop
  • "The Day Before the Revolution"   by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Schwartz Between the Galaxies"   by Robert Silverberg

• 1974: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"   by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "With Morning Comes Mistfall"   by George R.R. Martin
  • "Wings"   by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • "Construction Shack"   by Clifford D. Simak

• 1973: "The Meeting"   by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
• 1973: "Eurema's Dam"   by R.A. Lafferty
  • "When It Changed"   by Joanna Russ
  • "When We Went to See the End of the World"   by Robert Silverberg
  • "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side"   by James Tiptree, Jr.

• 1972: "Inconstant Moon"   by Larry Niven
  • "All the Last Wars at Once"   by George Alec Effinger
  • "Sky"   by R.A. Lafferty
  • "Vaster than Empires and More Slow"   by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "The Autumn Land"   by Clifford D. Simak
  • "The Bear with the Knot on His Tail"   by Stephen Tall

• 1971: "Slow Sculpture"   by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Brillo"   by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
  • "Jean Duprès"   by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "Continued on Next Rock"   by R.A. Lafferty
  • "In the Queue"   by Keith Laumer

• 1970: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"   by Samuel R. Delany
  • "Deeper than the Darkness"   by Gregory Benford
  • "Winter's King"   by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "Not Long Before the End"   by Larry Niven
  • "Passengers"   by Robert Silverberg

• 1969: "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Dance of the Changer and the Three"   by Terry Carr
  • "The Steiger Effect"   by Betsy Curtis
  • "Masks"   by Damon Knight
  • "All the Myriad Ways"   by Larry Niven

• 1968: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "Aye, and Gomorrah…"   by Samuel R. Delany
  • "The Jigsaw Man"   by Larry Niven

• 1967: "Neutron Star"   by Larry Niven
  • "Man In His Time"   by Brian W. Aldiss
  • "Delusions for a Dragon Slayer"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "Rat Race"   by Raymond F. Jones
  • "The Secret Place"   by Richard McKenna
  • "Mr. Jester"   by Fred Saberhagen
  • "Light of Other Days"   by Bob Shaw
  • "Comes Now the Power"   by Roger Zelazny

• 1966: "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"   by Harlan Ellison
  • "Marque and Reprisal"   by Poul Anderson
  • "Day of the Great Shout"   by Philip José Farmer
  • "Stardock"   by Fritz Leiber
  • "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth"   by Roger Zelazny

• 1965: "Soldier, Ask Not"   by Gordon R. Dickson
  • "Once a Cop"   by Rick Raphael
  • "Little Dog Gone"   by Robert F. Young

• 1964: "No Truce With Kings"   by Poul Anderson
  • "Savage Pellucidar"   by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • "Code Three"   by Rick Raphael
  • "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"   by Roger Zelazny

• 1963: "The Dragon Masters"   by Jack Vance
  • "Myrrha"   by Gary Jennings
  • "The Unholy Grail"   by Fritz Leiber
  • "When You Care, When You Love"   by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Where Is the Bird of Fire?"   by Thomas Burnett Swann

• 1962: "Hothouse" (collected as: "The Long Afternoon of Earth") by Brian W. Aldiss
  • "Monument"   by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
  • "Scylla's Daughter"   by Fritz Leiber
  • "Status Quo"   by Mack Reynolds
  • "Lion Loose"   by James H. Schmitz

• 1961: "The Longest Voyage"   by Poul Anderson
  • "The Lost Kafoozalum"   by Pauline Ashwell
  • "Open to Me, My Sister"   by Philip José Farmer
  • "Need"   by Theodore Sturgeon

• 1960: "Flowers for Algernon"   by Daniel Keyes
  • "The Pi Man"   by Alfred Bester
  • "The Alley Man"   by Philip José Farmer
  • "The Man Who Lost the Sea"   by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "Cat and Mouse"   by Ralph Williams

• 1959: "That Hell-Bound Train"   by Robert Bloch
  • "They've Been Working On..."   by Anton Lee Baker
  • "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"   by Alfred Bester
  • "Triggerman"   by J.F. Bone
  • "The Edge of the Sea"   by Algis Budrys
  • "The Advent on Channel Twelve"   by C.M. Kornbluth
  • "Theory of Rocketry"   by C.M. Kornbluth
  • "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee"   by Fritz Leiber
  • "Space to Swing a Cat"   by Stanley Mullen
  • "Nine Yards of Other Cloth"   by Manly Wade Wellman

• 1958: "Or All the Seas with Oysters"   by Avram Davidson

• 1956: "The Star"   by Arthur C. Clarke

• 1955: "Allamagoosa"   by Eric Frank Russell

(awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which Worldcons didn't give awards)

• 1954: tbd 9/4/04
  • "Star Light, Star Bright"   by Alfred Bester
  • "It's a Good Life"   by Jerome Bixby
  • "The Nine Billion Names of God"   by Arthur C. Clarke
  • "Seventh Victim"   by Robert Sheckley
  • "A Saucer of Loneliness"   by Theodore Sturgeon

• 1951: "To Serve Man"   by Damon Knight (awarded in 2001)
  • "The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out"   by Reginald Bretnor
  • "A Subway Named Mobius" by A.J. Deutsch
  • "Coming Attraction"   by Fritz Leiber
  • "Born of Man and Woman"   by Richard Matheson

• 1946: "Uncommon Sense"   by Hal Clement (awarded in 1996)
  • "The Waveries", by Fredric Brown
  • "Correspondence Course", by Raymond F. Jones
  • "The Ethical Equations", by Murray Leinster
  • "What You Need", by Lewis Padgett

Fanac

• Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
• Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
• Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Pro's ac

• Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
• Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor