Hugo Awards — Best Short Story

Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael K. Jones
2025 Hugo Short Story
Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
2024 Hugo Short Story
Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills
2023 Hugo Short Story
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker
2022 Hugo Short Story
As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang
2020 Hugo Short Story
A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow
2019 Hugo Short Story
Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse
2018 Hugo Short Story
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
2017 Hugo Short Story
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
2016 Hugo Short Story
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
2009 Hugo Short Story
Tideline by Elizabeth Bear
2008 Hugo Short Story
Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt
2007 Hugo Short Story
Tk’tk’tk by David D. Levine
2006 Hugo Short Story
Travels with My Cats by Mike Resnick
2005 Hugo Short Story
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
2004 Hugo Short Story
Falling onto Mars by Geoffrey A. Landis
2003 Hugo Short Story
The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick
2002 Hugo Short Story
Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford
2001 Hugo Short Story
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick
2000 Hugo Short Story
The Very Pulse of the Machine by Michael Swanwick
1999 Hugo Short Story
The 43 Antarean Dynasties by Mike Resnick
1998 Hugo Short Story
The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Connie Willis
1997 Hugo Short Story
The Lincoln Train by Maureen F. McHugh
1996 Hugo Short Story
None So Blind by Joe Haldeman
1995 Hugo Short Story
Death on the Nile by Connie Willis
1994 Hugo Short Story
Even the Queen by Connie Willis
1993 Hugo Short Story
A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis
1992 Hugo Short Story
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
1991 Hugo Short Story
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
1990 Hugo Short Story
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
1989 Hugo Short Story
Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans
1988 Hugo Short Story
Tangents by Greg Bear
1987 Hugo Short Story
Fermi and Frost by Frederik Pohl
1986 Hugo Short Story
The Crystal Spheres by David Brin
1985 Hugo Short Story
Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler
1984 Hugo Short Story
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
1983 Hugo Short Story
The Pusher by John Varley
1982 Hugo Short Story
Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak
1981 Hugo Short Story
The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin
1980 Hugo Short Story
Cassandra by C. J. Cherryh
1979 Hugo Short Story
Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
1978 Hugo Short Story
Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman
1977 Hugo Short Story
Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber
1976 Hugo Short Story
The Hole Man by Larry Niven
1975 Hugo Short Story
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 Hugo Short Story
Eurema’s Dam by R. A. Lafferty
1973 Hugo Short Story
Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
1972 Hugo Short Story
Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon
1971 Hugo Short Story
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany
1970 Hugo Short Story
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
1969 Hugo Short Story
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
1968 Hugo Short Story
Neutron Star by Larry Niven
1967 Hugo Short Story
That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch
1959 Hugo Short Story
Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson
1958 Hugo Short Story
The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
1956 Hugo Short Story
Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
1955 Hugo Short Story
The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
1954 Hugo Short Story
To Serve Man by Damon Knight
1951 Hugo Short Story
Uncommon Sense by Hal Clement
1946 Hugo Short Story
I, Rocket by Ray Bradbury
1945 Hugo Short Story
King of the Gray Spaces” (“R is for Rocket”) by Ray Bradbury
1944 Hugo Short Story
The Twonky by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner
1943 Hugo Short Story
Robbie by Isaac Asimov
1941 Hugo Short Story