Hugo Award for Best Novella

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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 Novella award is " for a science fiction or fantasy story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) words."

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

Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher Winner
“Seeds of Mercury”, Wang Jinkang / 水星播种, 王晋康, translated by Alex Woodend (Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers)
Rose/House, Arkady Martine
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo
“Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet”, He Xi / 人生不相见, 何夕,translated by Alex Woodend (Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers)

2023

Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire Winner
Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk
Into the Riverlands, by Nghi Vo
A Mirror Mended, by Alix E. Harrow
Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher

2022

A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers Winner
Across the Green Grass Fields Seanan McGuire
Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fireheart Tiger Aliette de Bodard
The Past Is Red Catherynne M. Valente
A Spindle Splintered Alix E. Harrow

2021

The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo Winner
Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire
Finna, Nino Cipri
Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark
Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi
Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey

2020

This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Winner
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, by P. Djèlí Clark
In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers

2019

Artificial Condition Martha Wells Winner
Beneath the Sugar Sky Seanan McGuire
Binti: The Night Masquerade Nnedi Okorafor
The Black God’s Drums P. Djèlí Clark
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach Kelly Robson
The Tea Master and the Detective Aliette de Bodard

2018

Martha Wells Winner
“And Then There Were (N-One),” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny, March/April 2017)
Binti: Home Nnedi Okorafor
The Black Tides of Heaven JY Yang
Down Among the Sticks and Bones Seanan McGuire
River of Teeth Sarah Gailey

2017

Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire Winner
The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, by Kij Johnson
Penric and the Shaman, by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Taste of Honey, by Kai Ashante Wilson
This Census-Taker, by China Miéville

2016

by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com) Winner
The Builders by Daniel Polansky (Tor.com)
Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum)
Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson (Dragonsteel Entertainment)
Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)

2015

No Award
“Flow”, Arlan Andrews, Sr. (Analog, 11-2014)
Big Boys Don’t Cry, Tom Kratman (Castalia House)
One Bright Star to Guide Them, John C. Wright (Castalia House)
“The Plural of Helen of Troy”, John C. Wright (City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis, Castalia House)
“Pale Realms of Shade”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House)