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Hugo Award for Best Novelette
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories.
Winners of the Hugo Award for best novelette are presented here....
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| 2009 | Elizabeth Bear |
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Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer,...
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Shoggoths in Bloom | ||
| 2008 | Ted Chiang |
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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and...
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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate | ||
| 2007 | Ian McDonald |
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Ian McDonald (1960-) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.
McDonald was born in 1960, in...
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The Djinn's Wife | ||
| 2006 | Peter S. Beagle |
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Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He won early recognition from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as a high school...
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Two Hearts | ||
| 2005 | Kelly Link |
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Kelly Link (born 1969 in Miami, Florida) is an American editor and author of short stories . While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination...
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The Faery Handbag | ||
| 2004 | Michael Swanwick |
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Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.
His published novels are: In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a...
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Legions in Time | ||
| 2003 | Michael Swanwick |
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Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.
His published novels are: In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a...
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Slow Life | ||
| 2002 | Ted Chiang |
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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and...
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Hell is the Absence of God | ||
| 2001 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 1960) is an American writer. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream.
Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2001 for her...
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Millennium Babies | |||
| 2000 | James Patrick Kelly |
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James Patrick Kelly (born 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the SF field.
Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a...
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10^16 to 1 | ||
| 1999 | Bruce Sterling |
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Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy...
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Taklamakan | ||
| 1998 | Bill Johnson |
Bill Johnson (born in the late 1950s in South Dakota) is a science fiction writer whose works often have a "regional" tone influenced by his South Dakota origins. This is particularly true of his story We Will Drink a Fish Together, which in 1998...
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We Will Drink a Fish Together... | |||
| 1997 | Bruce Sterling |
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Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy...
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Bicycle Repairman | ||
| 1996 | James Patrick Kelly |
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James Patrick Kelly (born 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the SF field.
Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a...
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Think Like a Dinosaur | ||
| 1995 | David Gerrold |
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman on 24 January 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series...
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The Martian Child | |||
| 1994 | Charles Sheffield |
Charles Sheffield (June 25, 1935 – November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. He had been a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society....
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Georgia On My Mind | |||
| 1993 | Janet Kagan |
Janet Kagan (1946 – February 29, 2008) was an author of two science fiction novels and one science fiction collection, plus numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in publications such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact and...
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The Nutcracker Coup | |||
| 1992 | Mike Resnick |
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Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942), better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is an American science fiction author. He is executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe.
Resnick attended the University of Chicago from 1959...
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The Manamouki | ||
| 1992 | Isaac Asimov |
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Isaac Asimov (born Isaac Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular...
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Gold | ||
| 1990 | Robert Silverberg |
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Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he...
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Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another | ||
| 1989 | George Alec Effinger |
George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published...
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Schrödinger's Kitten | |||
| 1988 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pronounced /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction....
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Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight | ||
| 1987 | Roger Zelazny |
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Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations)...
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Permafrost | ||
| 1986 | Harlan Ellison |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an Jewish American writer. His principle genre is science fiction.
His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not...
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Paladin of the Lost Hour | ||
| 1985 | Octavia E. Butler |
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science...
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Bloodchild | ||
| 1984 | Greg Bear |
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Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen...
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Blood Music | ||
| 1983 | Connie Willis |
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Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an American science fiction writer.
She has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for All Seated on the Ground (August 2008)....
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Fire Watch | ||
| 1982 | Roger Zelazny |
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Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations)...
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Unicorn Variation | ||
| 1981 | Gordon R. Dickson |
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Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight...
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The Cloak and the Staff | ||
| 1980 | George R. R. Martin |
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George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing epic A Song of Ice and Fire series.
George R. R....
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Sandkings | ||
| 1979 | Poul Anderson |
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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926, Bristol, Pennsylvania – July 31, 2001, Orinda, California) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.
Anderson...
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Hunter's Moon | ||
| 1978 | Joan D. Vinge |
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Joan D. Vinge (pronounced /ˈvɪndʒi/) (born 2 April 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series...
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Eyes of Amber | ||
| 1977 | Isaac Asimov |
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Isaac Asimov (born Isaac Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular...
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The Bicentennial Man | ||
| 1976 | Larry Niven |
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Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 Los Angeles, California) is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction,...
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The Borderland of Sol | ||
| 1975 | Harlan Ellison |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an Jewish American writer. His principle genre is science fiction.
His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not...
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Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W | ||
| 1974 | Harlan Ellison |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an Jewish American writer. His principle genre is science fiction.
His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not...
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The Deathbird | ||
| 1973 | Poul Anderson |
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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926, Bristol, Pennsylvania – July 31, 2001, Orinda, California) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.
Anderson...
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Goat Song | ||
| 1969 | Poul Anderson |
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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926, Bristol, Pennsylvania – July 31, 2001, Orinda, California) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.
Anderson...
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The Sharing of Flesh | ||
| 1968 | Fritz Leiber |
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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer.
Leiber (first syllable rhymes with "shy") was born Dec 24, 1910...
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Gonna Roll the Bones | ||
| 1967 | Jack Vance |
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John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3...
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The Last Castle | ||
| 1959 | Clifford D. Simak |
Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 - April 27, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award, and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 1977....
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The Big Front Yard | |||
| 1956 | Murray Leinster |
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Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 in Norfolk, Virginia- June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and...
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Exploration Team | ||
| 1955 | Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
Walter Michael Miller, Jr. (January 23 1923 – January 9 1996) was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific...
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The Darfsteller | |||
