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Hugo Award for Best Short Story
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best English language 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.
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| 2009 | 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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Exhalation | ||
| 2008 | 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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Tideline | ||
| 2007 | Tim Pratt |
Tim Pratt (December 12, 1976) is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended Appalachian State University, where he earned a Bachelor's in English. In 1999 he attended the Clarion...
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Impossible Dreams | |||
| 2006 | David D. Levine |
David D. Levine (born February 21, 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American science fiction writer who won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2006.
Although he has a long interest in writing science fiction he began as a writer of...
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Tk'tk'tk | |||
| 2005 | 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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Travels with My Cats | ||
| 2004 | Neil Gaiman |
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Neil Richard Gaiman (pronounced /ˈɡeɪmən/) (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include The Sandman graphic novel...
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A Study in Emerald | ||
| 2003 | Geoffrey A. Landis |
Geoffrey A. Landis works as a scientist and writer of science fiction.
Landis holds undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Brown University. He works for the NASA John Glenn...
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Falling Onto Mars | |||
| 2002 | 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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The Dog Said Bow-Wow | ||
| 2001 | David Langford |
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David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter Ansible.
David Langford was born and grew up in Newport,...
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Different Kinds of Darkness | ||
| 2000 | 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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Scherzo with Tyrannosaur | ||
| 1999 | 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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The Very Pulse of the Machine | ||
| 1998 | 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 43 Antarean Dynasties | ||
| 1997 | 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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The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective | ||
| 1996 | Maureen F. McHugh |
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Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer.
Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel,...
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The Lincoln Train | ||
| 1995 | Joe Haldeman |
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Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.
Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a...
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None So Blind | ||
| 1994 | 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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Death on the Nile | ||
| 1993 | 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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Even the Queen | ||
| 1992 | Geoffrey A. Landis |
Geoffrey A. Landis works as a scientist and writer of science fiction.
Landis holds undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Brown University. He works for the NASA John Glenn...
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A Walk in the Sun | |||
| 1991 | Terry Bisson |
Terry Ballantine Bisson (born February 12, 1942, Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
A...
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Bears Discover Fire | |||
| 1990 | Suzy McKee Charnas |
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Suzy McKee Charnas (born 1939 in New York City) is an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award...
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Boobs | ||
| 1989 | 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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Kirinyaga | ||
| 1988 | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer). Born in Arlington Massachusetts as the fourth of...
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Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers | |||
| 1987 | 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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Tangents | ||
| 1986 | Frederik Pohl |
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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine if, winning the Hugo...
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Fermi and Frost | ||
| 1985 | David Brin |
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Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.
Brin was born in Glendale, California in 1950. In 1973, he graduated...
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The Crystal Spheres | ||
| 1984 | 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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Speech Sounds | ||
| 1983 | Spider Robinson |
Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.
Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by...
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Melancholy Elephants | |||
| 1982 | John Varley |
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John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947 in Austin, Texas) is an American science fiction author.
Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a...
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The Pusher | ||
| 1981 | 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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Grotto of the Dancing Deer | |||
| 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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The Way of Cross and Dragon | ||
| 1979 | C. J. Cherryh |
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Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award winning novels...
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Cassandra | ||
| 1978 | 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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Jeffty Is Five | ||
| 1977 | Joe Haldeman |
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Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.
Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a...
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Tricentennial | ||
| 1976 | 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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Catch That Zeppelin! | ||
| 1975 | 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 Hole Man | ||
| 1974 | 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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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas | ||
| 1973 | Frederik Pohl |
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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine if, winning the Hugo...
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The Meeting | ||
| Cyril M. Kornbluth |
Cyril Michael Kornbluth (July 23, 1923–March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S.D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C...
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| 1973 | R. A. Lafferty |
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Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of...
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Eurema's Dam | ||
| 1972 | 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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Inconstant Moon | ||
| 1971 | Theodore Sturgeon |
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Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; 26 February 1918 — 8 May 1985) was an American science fiction author.
He was known to use a technique known as "rhythmic prose", in which his prose text would drop into a standard poetic meter. This...
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Slow Sculpture | ||
| 1970 | Samuel R. Delany |
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Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and nonfiction essays on...
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Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones | ||
| 1969 | 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 Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World | ||
| 1968 | 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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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | ||
| 1967 | 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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Neutron Star | ||
| 1966 | 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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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman | ||
| 1965 | 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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Soldier, Ask Not | ||
| 1959 | Robert Bloch |
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction.
Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction and,...
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That Hell-Bound Train | |||
| 1958 | Avram Davidson |
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Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy...
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Or All the Seas with Oysters | ||
| 1956 | Arthur C. Clarke |
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
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The Star | ||
| 1955 | Eric Frank Russell |
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Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 - February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction...
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Allamagoosa | ||
