Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are awarded for science fiction and fantasy writing. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention and administered by the World Science Fiction Society.

The Novelette award is "for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seven thousand five hundred (7,500) and seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) words."

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Note: It is possible for Hugo voters to vote "No Award" if they don't think that any of the nominees warrant an award. In years where "No Award" receives the most votes no award is given in that category.

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2024

"The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23) Winner
I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
“One Man’s Treasure”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23)
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay”, C.L. Polk (Tor.com 12/8/23)
“Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition”, Gu Shi /〈2181序曲〉再版导言, 顾适, translated by Emily Jen (Clarkesworld 2/23)
“On the Fox Roads”, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23)

2023

“The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022) Winner
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Solaris)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Tordotcom)
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, by John Chu (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022)
“Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, by S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld, December 2022)
“We Built This City”, by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)

2022

“Bots of the Lost Ark” Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, Jun 2021) Winner
“Colors of the Immortal Palette” Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny Magazine, Mar/Apr 2021)
L’Esprit de L’Escalier Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
“O2 Arena” Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge, Nov 2021)
“That Story Isn’t the Story” John Wiswell (Uncanny Magazine, Nov/Dec 2021)
“Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, May/Jun 2021)

2021

Two Truths and a Lie, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com) Winner
“Burn, or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2020)
“Helicopter Story”, Isabel Fall (Clarkesworld, January 2020)
“The Inaccessibility of Heaven”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2020)
“Monster”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, January 2020)
“The Pill”, Meg Elison (from Big Girl, PM Press)

2020

Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon) Winner
“The Archronology of Love”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, April 2019)
“Away With the Wolves”, by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019)
“For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, 10 July 2019)
“Omphalos”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation)

2019

“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 29 November 2018) Winner
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections,” by Tina Connolly (Tor.com, 11 July 2018)
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth,” by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com, 19 September 2018)
"The Only Harmless Great Thing," by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com publishing)
“The Thing About Ghost Stories,” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine 25, November-December 2018)
“When We Were Starless,” by Simone Heller (Clarkesworld 145, October 2018)

2018

“The Secret Life of Bots,” by Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld, September 2017) Winner
“Children of Thorns, Children of Water,” by Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny, July-August 2017)
“Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com, February 15, 2017)
“A Series of Steaks,” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld, January 2017)
“Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time,” by K.M. Szpara (Uncanny, May/June 2017)
“Wind Will Rove,” by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s, September/October 2017)

2017

“The Tomato Thief”, by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016) Winner
Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock
“The Art of Space Travel”, by Nina Allan (Tor.com, July 2016)
The Jewel and Her Lapidary, by Fran Wilde (Tor.com, May 2016)
“Touring with the Alien”, by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016)
“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016)

2016

“And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed, Feb2015)
“Flashpoint: Titan” by CHEAH Kai Wai (There Will Be War Volume X, Castalia House)
“Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, trans. Ken Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Jan-Feb 2015) Winner
“Obits” by Stephen King (The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Scribner)
“What Price Humanity?” by David VanDyke (There Will Be War Volume X, Castalia House)

2015

“The Day the World Turned Upside Down”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Lia Belt translator (Lightspeed, 04-2014) Winner
“The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale”, Rajnar Vajra (Analog, 07/08-2014)
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium”, Gray Rinehart (Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, 05-2014)
“The Journeyman: In the Stone House”, Michael F. Flynn (Analog, 06-2014)
“Championship B’tok”, Edward M. Lerner (Analog, 09-2014)

2014

The Lady Astronaut of Mars, Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinettekowal.com/Tor.com, 09-2013) Winner
Opera Vita Aeterna, Vox Day (The Last Witchking, Marcher Lord Hinterlands)
The Exchange Officers, Brad Torgersen (Analog, Jan-Feb 2013)
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, Ted Chiang (Subterranean, Fall 2013)
The Waiting Stars, Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky, Candlemark & Gleam)