# Hugo Award for Best Novella

The Hugo Award for Best Novella is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novella award is available for works of fiction of between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".
The Hugo Award for Best Novella has been awarded annually since 1968. In addition to the regular Hugo Awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novellas for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.
During the 65 nomination years, 189 authors have had works nominated; 47 of these have won, including coauthors and Retro Hugos. One translator has been noted along with the author of a novella written in a language other than English: Alex Woodend, in 2024, for translations of two works from Chinese. Connie Willis has received the most Hugos for Best Novella at four out of eight nominations. Willis and Charles Stross at three out of four nominations, and Robert A. Heinlein at three out of six nominations for Retro Hugos, are the only authors to have won more than twice. Seanan McGuire has earned nine nominations, the most of any author; Robert Silverberg has earned eight, Nancy Kress seven, and Heinlein, George R. R. Martin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lucius Shepard six, the only authors besides Willis to get more than five. Robinson has the highest number of nominations without winning.

## Selection

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by the supporting and attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie. These novellas on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year. Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the nominees is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This happened in the Best Novella category in 2015.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novella was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the nominees on the short-list. If the novella was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Winners and joint winners  + No winner selected
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author(s) | Novella | Publisher or publication |
| 1968 | Philip José Farmer* | "Riders of the Purple Wage" | Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
| 1968 | Anne McCaffrey* | "Weyr Search" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1968 | Roger Zelazny | "Damnation Alley" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1968 | Samuel R. Delany | "The Star Pit" | Worlds of Tomorrow |
| 1968 | Robert Silverberg | "Hawksbill Station" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1969 | Robert Silverberg* | "Nightwings" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1969 | Anne McCaffrey | "Dragonrider" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1969 | Samuel R. Delany | "Lines of Power" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1969 | Dean McLaughlin | "Hawk Among the Sparrows" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1970 | Fritz Leiber* | "Ship of Shadows" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1970 | Harlan Ellison | "A Boy and His Dog" | The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Avon Publications) |
| 1970 | James Blish | "We All Die Naked" | Three for Tomorrow (Meredith Press) |
| 1970 | Anne McCaffrey | "Dramatic Mission" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1970 | Robert Silverberg | "To Jorslem" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1971 | Fritz Leiber* | "Ill Met in Lankhmar" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1971 | Clifford D. Simak | "The Thing in the Stone" | If |
| 1971 | Harlan Ellison | "The Region Between" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1971 | Robert Silverberg | "The World Outside" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1971 | Dean Koontz | "Beastchild" | Venture Science Fiction Magazine |
| 1972 | Poul Anderson* | "The Queen of Air and Darkness" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1972 | Arthur C. Clarke | "A Meeting with Medusa" | Playboy |
| 1972 | Larry Niven | "The Fourth Profession" | Quark/4 (Paperback Library) |
| 1972 | John Brunner | "Dread Empire" | Fantastic |
| 1972 | Gardner Dozois | "A Special Kind of Morning" | New Dimensions 1 (Doubleday) |
| 1973 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | "The Word for World Is Forest" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
| 1973 | Frederik Pohl | "The Gold at the Starbow's End" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1973 | Gene Wolfe | "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" | Orbit #10 (Putnam Publishing Group) |
| 1973 | Joe Haldeman | "Hero" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1973 | Jerry Pournelle | "The Mercenary" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1974 | James Tiptree, Jr.* | "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" | New Dimensions 3 (Doubleday) |
| 1974 | Gene Wolfe | "The Death of Doctor Island" | Universe 3 (Bantam Spectra) |
| 1974 | Michael Bishop | "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" | If |
| 1974 | Michael Bishop | "The White Otters of Childhood" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1974 | Gardner Dozois | "Chains of the Sea" | Chains of the Sea (X-S Books) |
| 1975 | George R. R. Martin* | "A Song for Lya" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1975 | Gardner Dozois | "Strangers" | New Dimensions 4 (Doubleday) |
| 1975 | Robert Silverberg | "Born with the Dead" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1975 | Norman Spinrad | "Riding the Torch" | Threads of Time (Thomas Nelson) |
| 1975 | Jack Vance | "Assault on a City" | Universe 4 (Bantam Spectra) |
| 1976 | Roger Zelazny* | "Home Is the Hangman" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1976 | George R. R. Martin | "The Storms of Windhaven" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1976 | Lisa Tuttle | "The Storms of Windhaven" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1976 | Larry Niven | "ARM" | Epoch (Putnam Publishing Group) |
| 1976 | Algis Budrys | "The Silent Eyes of Time" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Richard Cowper | "The Custodians" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1977 | Spider Robinson* | "By Any Other Name" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1977 | James Tiptree, Jr.* | "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" | Aurora: Beyond Equality (Fawcett Publications) |
| 1977 | Michael Bishop | "The Samurai and the Willows" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1977 | Richard Cowper | "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1978 | Spider Robinson* | "Stardance" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1978 | Jeanne Robinson* | "Stardance" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1978 | John Varley | "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1978 | Vonda N. McIntyre | "Aztecs" | 2076: The American Tricentennial (Pyramid Books) |
| 1978 | Gregory Benford | "A Snark in the Night" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1978 | Keith Laumer | "The Wonderful Secret" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1979 | John Varley* | "The Persistence of Vision" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1979 | Joan D. Vinge | "Fireship" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1979 | Christopher Priest | "The Watched" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1979 | Brian Aldiss | "Enemies of the System" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1979 | Gene Wolfe | "Seven American Nights" | Orbit #20 (Putnam Publishing Group) |
| 1980 | Barry B. Longyear* | "Enemy Mine" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1980 | Orson Scott Card | "Songhouse" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1980 | Donald Kingsbury | "The Moon Goddess and the Son" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1980 | Ted Reynolds | "Ker-Plop" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1980 | Hilbert Schenck | "The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1981 | Gordon R. Dickson* | "Lost Dorsai" | Destinies #2 (Ace Books) |
| 1981 | George R. R. Martin | "One-Wing" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1981 | Lisa Tuttle | "One-Wing" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1981 | George R. R. Martin | "Nightflyers" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1981 | Thomas M. Disch | "The Brave Little Toaster" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1981 | Harlan Ellison | "All the Lies that Are My Life" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1982 | Poul Anderson* | "The Saturn Game" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1982 | Phyllis Eisenstein | "In the Western Tradition" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1982 | John Varley | "Blue Champagne" | New Voices #4 (Berkley Books) |
| 1982 | Kate Wilhelm | "With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1982 | Vernor Vinge | "True Names" | Binary Star #5 (Dell Publishing) |
| 1982 | David R. Palmer | "Emergence" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1983 | Joanna Russ* | "Souls" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1983 | David Brin | "The Postman" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1983 | George R. R. Martin | "Unsound Variations" | Amazing Stories |
| 1983 | Joseph H. Delaney | "Brainchild" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1983 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "To Leave a Mark" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1983 | John Kessel | "Another Orphan" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1984 | Timothy Zahn* | "Cascade Point" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1984 | Greg Bear | "Hardfought" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1984 | Joseph H. Delaney | "In the Face of My Enemy" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1984 | David R. Palmer | "Seeking" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1984 | Hilbert Schenck | "Hurricane Claude" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1985 | John Varley* | "Press Enter ■" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | David Brin | "Cyclops" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Joseph H. Delaney | "Valentina" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1985 | Marc Stiegler | "Valentina" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1985 | Charles L. Harness | "Summer Solstice" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1985 | Geoffrey A. Landis | "Elemental" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1986 | Roger Zelazny* | "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1986 | Robert Silverberg | "Sailing to Byzantium" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1986 | James Tiptree, Jr. | "The Only Neat Thing to Do" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1986 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "Green Mars" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1986 | C. J. Cherryh | "The Scapegoat" | Alien Stars (Baen Books) |
| 1987 | Robert Silverberg* | "Gilgamesh in the Outback" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "Escape from Kathmandu" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Lucius Shepard | "R&R" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Connie Willis | "Spice Pogrom" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Michael F. Flynn | "Eifelheim" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1988 | Orson Scott Card* | "Eye for Eye" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Robert Silverberg | "The Secret Sharer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "The Blind Geometer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "Mother Goddess of the World" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Michael F. Flynn | "The Forest of Time" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1989 | Connie Willis* | "The Last of the Winnebagos" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1989 | Lucius Shepard | "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1989 | Norman Spinrad | "Journals of the Plague Years" | Full Spectrum (Doubleday) |
| 1989 | Bradley Denton | "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1989 | Walter Jon Williams | "Surfacing" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Lois McMaster Bujold* | "The Mountains of Mourning" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1990 | Lucius Shepard | "The Father of Stones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Megan Lindholm | "A Touch of Lavender" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Connie Willis | "Time-Out" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Judith Moffett | "Tiny Tango" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Joe Haldeman* | "The Hemingway Hoax" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Mike Resnick | "Bully!" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "A Short, Sharp Shock" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Pat Murphy | "Bones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Pat Cadigan | "Fool to Believe" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Nancy Kress* | "Beggars in Spain" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "The Gallery of His Dreams" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Connie Willis | "Jack" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Michael Swanwick | Griffin's Egg | St. Martin's Press |
| 1992 | Nancy Kress | "And Wild for to Hold" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Lucius Shepard* | "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Frederik Pohl | Stopping at Slowyear | Bantam Spectra |
| 1993 | Maureen F. McHugh | "Protection" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Jonathan Carroll | "Uh-Oh City" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Bradley Denton | "The Territory" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1994 | Harry Turtledove* | "Down in the Bottomlands" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1994 | Walter Jon Williams | "Wall, Stone, Craft" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1994 | G. David Nordley | "Into the Miranda Rift" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1994 | Jack Cady | "The Night We Buried Road Dog" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1994 | Pat Murphy | "An American Childhood" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1994 | Harlan Ellison | "Mefisto In Onyx" | Omni |
| 1995 | Mike Resnick* | "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Brian Stableford | "Les Fleurs du Mal" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "Forgiveness Day" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Michael Bishop | "Cri de Coeur" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Michael F. Flynn | "Melodies of the Heart" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1996 | Allen Steele* | "The Death of Captain Future" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "A Woman's Liberation" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Mike Resnick | "Bibi" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Susan Shwartz | "Bibi" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "A Man of the People" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Nancy Kress | "Fault Lines" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1997 | George R. R. Martin* | "Blood of the Dragon" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1997 | Jack McDevitt | "Time Travelers Never Die" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1997 | Gregory Benford | "Immersion" | SF Age |
| 1997 | Jerry Oltion | "Abandon in Place" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1997 | Mary Rosenblum | "Gas Fish" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1997 | Maureen F. McHugh | "The Cost to Be Wise" | Starlight #1 (Tor Books) |
| 1998 | Allen Steele* | "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Adam-Troy Castro | "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Geoffrey A. Landis | "Ecopoiesis" | SF Age |
| 1998 | Paul Levinson | "Loose Ends" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1998 | Robert Reed | "Marrow" | SF Age |
| 1999 | Greg Egan* | "Oceanic" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1999 | Catherine Asaro | "Aurora in Four Voices" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1999 | Ted Chiang | "Story of Your Life" | Starlight #2 (Tor Books) |
| 1999 | Terry Bisson | "Get Me to the Church on Time" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1999 | Ian R. MacLeod | "The Summer Isles" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Connie Willis* | "The Winds of Marble Arch" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Harry Turtledove | "Forty, Counting Down" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Adam-Troy Castro | "The Astronaut from Wyoming" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2000 | Jerry Oltion | "The Astronaut from Wyoming" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2000 | Mike Resnick | "Hunting the Snark" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Kage Baker | "Son Observe the Time" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2001 | Jack Williamson* | "The Ultimate Earth" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2001 | Catherine Asaro | "A Roll of the Dice" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2001 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "The Retrieval Artist" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2001 | Greg Egan | "Oracle" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2001 | Ted Chiang | "Seventy-Two Letters" | Vanishing Acts (Tor Books) |
| 2001 | Lucius Shepard | "Radiant Green Star" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2002 | Vernor Vinge* | "Fast Times at Fairmont High" | The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (Tor Books) |
| 2002 | Allen Steele | "Stealing Alabama" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2002 | Brenda Clough | "May Be Some Time" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2002 | Andy Duncan | "The Chief Designer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2002 | Jack Dann | "The Diamond Pit" | Jubilee (Tor Books) |
| 2003 | Neil Gaiman* | Coraline | HarperCollins |
| 2003 | Richard Chwedyk | "Brontë's Egg" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Ian R. MacLeod | "Breathmoss" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Paul Di Filippo | A Year in the Linear City | PS Publishing |
| 2003 | Charles Coleman Finlay | "The Political Officer" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Pat Forde | "In Spirit" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2004 | Vernor Vinge* | "The Cookie Monster" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2004 | Kage Baker | "The Empress of Mars" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2004 | Connie Willis | "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2004 | Walter Jon Williams | "The Green Leopard Plague" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2004 | Catherine Asaro | "Walk in Silence" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2005 | Charles Stross* | "The Concrete Jungle" | The Atrocity Archives (Golden Gryphon Press) |
| 2005 | Bradley Denton | "Sergeant Chip" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2005 | Charles Stross | "Elector" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2005 | Lois McMaster Bujold | "Winterfair Gifts" | Irresistible Forces (New American Library) |
| 2005 | Michael A. Burstein | "Time Ablaze" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2006 | Connie Willis* | "Inside Job" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2006 | James Patrick Kelly | Burn | Tachyon Publications |
| 2006 | Kelly Link | "Magic for Beginners" | Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press) |
| 2006 | Ian McDonald | "The Little Goddess" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2006 | Robert J. Sawyer | "Identity Theft" | Down These Dark Spaceways (Science Fiction Book Club) |
| 2007 | Robert Reed* | "A Billion Eves" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Michael Swanwick | "Lord Weary's Empire" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Robert Charles Wilson | Julian: A Christmas Story | PS Publishing |
| 2007 | Paul Melko | "The Walls of the Universe" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2007 | William Shunn | "Inclination" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Connie Willis* | "All Seated on the Ground" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "Recovering Apollo 8" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Nancy Kress | "Fountain of Age" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Lucius Shepard | "Stars Seen Through Stone" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Gene Wolfe | "Memorare" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Nancy Kress* | "The Erdmann Nexus" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Robert Reed | "Truth" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Ian McDonald | "The Tear" | Galactic Empires (Science Fiction Book Club) |
| 2009 | Benjamin Rosenbaum | "True Names" | Fast Forward 2 (Pyr) |
| 2009 | Cory Doctorow | "True Names" | Fast Forward 2 (Pyr) |
| 2009 | Charles Coleman Finlay | "The Political Prisoner" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2010 | Charles Stross* | "Palimpsest" | Wireless (Ace Books) |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress | "Act One" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2010 | John Scalzi | The God Engines | Subterranean Press |
| 2010 | James Morrow | Shambling Towards Hiroshima | Tachyon Publications |
| 2010 | Ian McDonald | "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" | Cyberabad Days (Pyr) |
| 2010 | Kage Baker | The Women of Nell Gwynne's | Subterranean Press |
| 2011 | Ted Chiang* | The Lifecycle of Software Objects | Subterranean Press |
| 2011 | Rachel Swirsky | "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" | Subterranean Magazine |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Hand | "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" | Stories: New Tales (Morrow) |
| 2011 | Geoffrey A. Landis | "The Sultan of the Clouds" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2011 | Alastair Reynolds | "Troika" | Godlike Machines (Science Fiction Book Club) |
| 2012 | Kij Johnson* | "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2012 | Mira Grant | Countdown | Orbit Books |
| 2012 | Carolyn Ives Gilman | "The Ice Owl" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2012 | Mary Robinette Kowal | "Kiss Me Twice" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2012 | Ken Liu | "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" | Panverse 3 (Panverse Publishing) |
| 2012 | Catherynne M. Valente | Silently and Very Fast | WSFA Press |
| 2013 | Brandon Sanderson* | The Emperor's Soul | Tachyon Publications |
| 2013 | Nancy Kress | After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall | Tachyon Publications |
| 2013 | Aliette de Bodard | On a Red Station, Drifting | Immersion Press |
| 2013 | Mira Grant | San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats | Orbit Books |
| 2013 | Jay Lake | "The Stars Do Not Lie" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2014 | Charles Stross* | "Equoid" | Tor.com |
| 2014 | Dan Wells | The Butcher of Khardov | Privateer Press |
| 2014 | Brad R. Torgersen | "The Chaplain's Legacy" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2014 | Catherynne M. Valente | Six-Gun Snow White | Subterranean Press |
| 2014 | Andy Duncan | "Wakulla Springs" | Tor.com |
| 2014 | Ellen Klages | "Wakulla Springs" | Tor.com |
| 2015 | (no award)+ | | |
| 2015 | Arlan Andrews, Sr. | "Flow" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2015 | Tom Kratman | Big Boys Don't Cry | Castalia House |
| 2015 | John C. Wright | One Bright Star to Guide Them | Castalia House |
| 2015 | John C. Wright | "Pale Realms of Shade" | The Book of Feasts & Seasons (Castalia House) |
| 2015 | John C. Wright | "The Plural of Helen of Troy" | City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis (Castalia House) |
| 2016 | Nnedi Okorafor* | Binti | Tor.com |
| 2016 | Daniel Polansky | The Builders | Tor.com |
| 2016 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Penric's Demon | Spectrum Literary Agency |
| 2016 | Brandon Sanderson | Perfect State | Dragonsteel Entertainment |
| 2016 | Alastair Reynolds | Slow Bullets | Tachyon Publications |
| 2017 | Seanan McGuire* | Every Heart a Doorway | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2017 | Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2017 | Kij Johnson | The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2017 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Penric and the Shaman | Spectrum Literary Agency |
| 2017 | Kai Ashante Wilson | A Taste of Honey | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2017 | China Miéville | This Census-Taker | Del Rey Books / Picador |
| 2018 | Martha Wells* | All Systems Red | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2018 | Sarah Pinsker | "And Then There Were (N-One)" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2018 | Nnedi Okorafor | Binti: Home | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2018 | JY Yang | The Black Tides of Heaven | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2018 | Seanan McGuire | Down Among the Sticks and Bones | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2018 | Sarah Gailey | River of Teeth | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Martha Wells* | Artificial Condition | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Seanan McGuire | Beneath the Sugar Sky | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Nnedi Okorafor | Binti: The Night Masquerade | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God's Drums | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Kelly Robson | Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Aliette de Bodard | The Tea Master and the Detective | Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency |
| 2020 | Amal El-Mohtar* | This Is How You Lose the Time War | Saga Press |
| 2020 | Max Gladstone* | This Is How You Lose the Time War | Saga Press |
| 2020 | Ted Chiang | "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" | Exhalation: Stories |
| 2020 | Rivers Solomon | The Deep | Saga Press |
| 2020 | Daveed Diggs | The Deep | Saga Press |
| 2020 | William Hutson | The Deep | Saga Press |
| 2020 | Jonathan Snipes | The Deep | Saga Press |
| 2020 | P. Djèlí Clark | The Haunting of Tram Car 015 | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2020 | Seanan McGuire | In an Absent Dream | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2020 | Becky Chambers | To Be Taught, if Fortunate | Harper Voyager |
| 2021 | Nghi Vo* | The Empress of Salt and Fortune | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2021 | Nino Cipri | Finna | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2021 | P. Djèlí Clark | Ring Shout | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2021 | Seanan McGuire | Come Tumbling Down | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2021 | Tochi Onyebuchi | Riot Baby | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2021 | Sarah Gailey | Upright Women Wanted | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2022 | Becky Chambers* | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Tordotcom |
| 2022 | Seanan McGuire | Across the Green Grass Fields | Tordotcom |
| 2022 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Elder Race | Tordotcom |
| 2022 | Aliette de Bodard | Fireheart Tiger | Tordotcom |
| 2022 | Catherynne M. Valente | The Past Is Red | Tordotcom |
| 2022 | Alix E. Harrow | A Spindle Splintered | Tordotcom |
| 2023 | Seanan McGuire* | Where the Drowned Girls Go | Tordotcom |
| 2023 | C. L. Polk | Even Though I Knew the End | Tordotcom |
| 2023 | Nghi Vo | Into the Riverlands | Tordotcom |
| 2023 | Alix E. Harrow | A Mirror Mended | Tordotcom |
| 2023 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Ogres | Solaris Books |
| 2023 | Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher) | What Moves the Dead | Tor Nightfire |
| 2024 | Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher)* | Thornhedge | Tor Books/Titan Books |
| 2024 | He Xi (Chinese) | "Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet" | Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press) |
| 2024 | Alex Woodend (translator) | "Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet" | Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press) |
| 2024 | Nghi Vo | Mammoths at the Gates | Tordotcom |
| 2024 | Malka Older | The Mimicking of Known Successes | Tordotcom |
| 2024 | Arkady Martine | Rose/House | Subterranean Press |
| 2024 | Wang Jinkang (Chinese) | "Seeds of Mercury" | Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press) |
| 2024 | Alex Woodend (translator) | "Seeds of Mercury" | Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press) |

### Retro Hugos

Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society created the concept of "Retro Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years before the current year, if no awards were originally given that year. Retro Hugos have been awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.
Retro Hugo winners and nominees :
| Year | Year awarded | Author(s) | Novella | Publisher or publication |
| 1939 | 2014 | John W. Campbell (as Don A. Stuart)* | "Who Goes There?" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1939 | 2014 | Ayn Rand | Anthem | Cassell |
| 1939 | 2014 | H. L. Gold | "A Matter of Form" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1939 | 2014 | John Wyndham | "Sleepers of Mars" | Tales of Wonder |
| 1939 | 2014 | Henry Kuttner | "The Time Trap" | Marvel Science Stories |
| 1941 | 2016 | Robert A. Heinlein* | "If This Goes On…" | Astounding Science Fiction |
| 1941 | 2016 | Robert A. Heinlein | "Coventry" | Astounding Science Fiction |
| 1941 | 2016 | Robert A. Heinlein | "Magic, Inc." | Unknown |
| 1941 | 2016 | L. Sprague de Camp | "The Mathematics of Magic" | Unknown |
| 1941 | 2016 | Fletcher Pratt | "The Mathematics of Magic" | Unknown |
| 1941 | 2016 | L. Sprague de Camp | "The Roaring Trumpet" | Unknown |
| 1941 | 2016 | Fletcher Pratt | "The Roaring Trumpet" | Unknown |
| 1943 | 2018 | Robert A. Heinlein (as Anson MacDonald)* | "Waldo" | Astounding Science Fiction |
| 1943 | 2018 | A. E. van Vogt | "Asylum" | Astounding Science Fiction |
| 1943 | 2018 | Anthony Boucher | "The Compleat Werewolf" | Unknown |
| 1943 | 2018 | Alfred Bester | "Hell is Forever" | Unknown |
| 1943 | 2018 | Lester del Rey | "Nerves" | Astounding Science Fiction |
| 1943 | 2018 | Robert A. Heinlein (as John Riverside) | "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" | Unknown |
| 1944 | 2019 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry* | "The Little Prince" | Reynal & Hitchcock |
| 1944 | 2019 | Hal Clement | "Attitude" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1944 | 2019 | Henry Kuttner (as Lawrence O'Donnell) | "Clash by Night" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1944 | 2019 | C. L. Moore (as Lawrence O'Donnell) | "Clash by Night" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1944 | 2019 | H. P. Lovecraft | "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" | Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Arkham House) |
| 1944 | 2019 | Mary Norton | The Magic Bed-Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons | Hyperion Press |
| 1944 | 2019 | Anthony Boucher | "We Print the Truth" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1945 | 2020 | Theodore Sturgeon* | "Killdozer!" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1945 | 2020 | A. E. van Vogt | "The Changeling" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1945 | 2020 | Henry Kuttner | "A God Named Kroo" | Thrilling Wonder Stories |
| 1945 | 2020 | Ross Rocklynne | "Intruders from the Stars" | Amazing Stories |
| 1945 | 2020 | Leigh Brackett | "The Jewel of Bas" | Planet Stories |
| 1945 | 2020 | Murray Leinster | "Trog" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1946 | 1996 | George Orwell* | Animal Farm | Secker and Warburg |
| 1946 | 1996 | Isaac Asimov | "Dead Hand" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1946 | 1996 | A. Bertram Chandler | "Giant Killer" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1946 | 1996 | Richard S. Shaver | "I Remember Lemuria" | Amazing Stories |
| 1951 | 2001 | Robert A. Heinlein* | The Man Who Sold the Moon | Shasta Publishers |
| 1951 | 2001 | Theodore Sturgeon | "The Dreaming Jewels" | Fantastic Adventures |
| 1951 | 2001 | Isaac Asimov | "...And Now You Don't" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1951 | 2001 | H. Beam Piper | "Last Enemy" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1951 | 2001 | L. Ron Hubbard | "To the Stars" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1954 | 2004 | James Blish* | "A Case of Conscience" | If |
| 1954 | 2004 | Poul Anderson | "Three Hearts and Three Lions" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1954 | 2004 | Theodore Sturgeon | "...And My Fear is Great..." | Beyond Fantasy Fiction |
| 1954 | 2004 | Poul Anderson | "Un-Man" | Astounding Science-Fiction |
| 1954 | 2004 | Charles L. Harness | "The Rose" | Authentic Science Fiction |