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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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The Darfsteller
The Darfsteller is a 1955 novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr. which won the first Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
It is the 21st century story of an old stage actor who has become a theater janitor in order to remain near "show biz". The theater has...
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Exploration Team
Exploration Team is a science fiction novelette by Murray Leinster. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1956.
On an extremely dangerous unsettled planet, an illegal colonist with his team of trained bears make a dangerous trek to rescue the...
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The Big Front Yard
The Big Front Yard is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak which was given the Hugo Award in 1959 as best novelette of the year.
The story is about the conversion of an ordinary house into an interplanetary portal by mysterious alien...
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The Last Castle
"The Last Castle" is a science fiction novelette by Jack Vance. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1967 and the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1966.
The author expanded this story into a novel of the same name published in 1973.
Humanity...
Gonna Roll the Bones
"Gonna Roll the Bones" is a short story by Fritz Leiber, in which Joe Slattermill plays craps with Death. First published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, it won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
The story centers on Joe...
The Sharing of Flesh
"The Sharing of Flesh" is a science fiction novelette by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1969, and was nominated for a Nebula Award.
After a galactic dark age, humanity sends and expedition to a primitive human planet,...
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Goat Song
"Goat Song" is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson.
This story has strong parallels to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
In a future world humanity is dominated by a massive computer, SUM, which claims to record the soul, and promises a...
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The Deathbird
The Deathbird is a well-known novelette by Harlan Ellison. It won the 1974 Hugo and Locus Poll awards for best novelette. It is written in a style which allows for much examination; it is nonlinear but gradually forms a picture of the situation. It...
The Bicentennial Man
The Bicentennial Man is a novella in the Robot Series by Isaac Asimov. The story formed the basis of the novel The Positronic Man (1993), co-written with Robert Silverberg, and the 1999 film Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams.
The original...
The Borderland of Sol
The Borderland of Sol is an English language science fiction novelette written in 1975 by Larry Niven. It is the fifth in the Known Space series of stories about crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer.
The story was originally published in Analog, January...
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Eyes of Amber
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Sandkings
Sandkings is a novelette by George R. R. Martin, published in the August 1979 issue of Omni. It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the only one of Martin's stories to have done so.
Simon Kress, a wealthy playboy, loves to collect dangerous, exotic...
Hunter's Moon
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The Cloak and the Staff
"The Cloak and the Staff" is a science fiction novelette by Gordon R. Dickson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1981.
A skilled human translator tries to balance his desire to stay alive with his need to lash out at Earth's hulking...
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Unicorn Variation
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Bloodchild
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Paladin of the Lost Hour
"Paladin of the Lost Hour" is the second segment of the seventh episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
An old man standing at a grave, apparently grieving, is suddenly attacked by a couple of...
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Permafrost
"Permafrost" is a science fiction novelette by Roger Zelazny. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1987, and was nominated for the Nebula Award.
A strange confrontation between a frozen planet, a formerly-human program, and a has-been con-man....
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Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight is a science fiction novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1988, and was nominated for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
A lost child tumbles into the...
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Schrödinger's Kitten
"Schrödinger's Kitten" is a 1988 novelette by George Alec Effinger, which won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as the Japanese Seiun Award. It was later expanded into a novel, published in 1992 under the same name.
The story utilizes a...
Gold
"Gold" is a short story by Isaac Asimov, originally appearing in the September 1991 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact and collected in the eponymous volume Gold. It was one of the last short stories he wrote in his life, and is considered by...
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The Manamouki
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Georgia On My Mind
"Georgia on My Mind" (1993) is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which won both the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award in 1994.
The novelette involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer. The...
The Nutcracker Coup
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The Martian Child
"The Martian Child" is a novelette by David Gerrold. It won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award and HOMer Award and the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and was nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon award for best short fiction....
Think Like a Dinosaur
"Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) is a science fiction novelette written by James Patrick Kelly. Originally published in the June 1995 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, it was subsequently featured in:
The story won the 1996 Hugo Award for...
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Bicycle Repairman
Bicycle Repairman is a postcyberpunk short story by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling. It deals with the titular character, who lives in a functioning anarchist community in the near future and has an encounter with the misguided authorities. As...
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Taklamakan
Bruce Sterling's short story "Taklamakan" is about a group of Chinese habitats that simulate generation ships in a cave under the Taklamakan Desert. It won the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette as well as the 1999 Foreign Short Story Hayakawa Award....
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10^16 to 1
"10 to 1" is a science fiction novelette published in 1999 by James Patrick Kelly. It was the winner of the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. It was also nominated for the 2000 Locus award and Asimov's Reader Poll.
The story follows Ray Beaumont,...
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Millennium Babies
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Slow Life
"Slow Life" is a science fiction novelette by Michael Swanwick. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2003.
The first explorers on Titan find that the ocean is a weird chemical soup. But there doesn't seem to be any life in it, until one of...
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Legions in Time
"Legions in Time" is a science fiction novelette by Michael Swanwick. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2004.
An elderly widow with the strange job to sit in an empty office and guard an empty closet, decides to take action and steps...
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The Faery Handbag
"The Faery Handbag" is a fantasy novelette published in 2004 by Kelly Link. It was the winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 2005 Locus Award.
The story follows Genevieve, a girl who...
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Two Hearts
Two Hearts is a novelette written by Peter S. Beagle in 2004 as a coda to The Last Unicorn (1968), despite his decades-long reluctance to continue the original story. It was first published as the cover story of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine...
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" is a fantasy novelette by Ted Chiang originally published in 2007 by Subterranean Press and reprinted in the September 2007 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and...
The Djinn's Wife
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