Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

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 best short story award is "for science fiction or fantasy story of less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) words". From 1960-1966 the award was for "short fiction".

Some of these will be published online. If there isn’t a link or you don't find it in our catalogue try searching for the title in your preferred search engine.

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.

See other Hugo Award category winners.

See more literary prize winners.

2024

2023

  • “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022) Winner
  • “D.I.Y.”, by John Wiswell (Tor.com, August 2022)
  • “On the Razor’s Edge”, by Jiang Bo (Science Fiction World, January 2022)
  • “Resurrection”, by Ren Qing, translated by Blake Stone-Banks (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World, December 2022)
  • “The White Cliff”, by Lu Ban (Science Fiction World, May 2022)
  • “Zhurong on Mars”, by Regina Kanyu Wang (Frontiers, September 2022)

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2016

  • Asymmetrical Warfare” by S. R. Algernon (Nature, Mar 2015)
  • Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, January 2015) Winner
  • If You Were an Award, My Love” by Juan Tabo and S. Harris (voxday.blogspot.com, Jun 2015)
  • “Seven Kill Tiger” by Charles Shao (There Will Be War Volume X, Castalia House)
  • "Space Raptor Butt Invasion" by Chuck Tingle (Amazon Digital Services)

2015

  • No Award
  • “Totaled”, Kary English (Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, 07-2014)
  • “A Single Samurai”, Steven Diamond (The Baen Big Book of Monsters, Baen Books)
  • “Turncoat”, Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House)
  • “On A Spiritual Plain”, Lou Antonelli (Sci Phi Journal #2, 11-2014)
  • “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds”, John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House)

2014

2013

  • Mono no Aware, by Ken Liu in The Future is Japanese, VIZ Media LLC

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2006

  • Tk'tk'tk David D. Levine (Asimov’s March 2005)

2005

Cover of New Cthulhu2004

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Cover of Tales of Old Earth2000

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Cover of New skies1992

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  • Boobs Suzy McKee Charnas

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Cover of The collected stories of Greg Bear1987

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Cover of Wastelands, stories of the apocalypse1984

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Cover of Dreamsongs1980

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Cover of Paingod and other delusions1964

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Cover of Flowers for Algernon1960

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