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Hugo Award Winners: Best Short Story
1.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
by:
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37 avg rating — 49,645 ratings
2.
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by:
Ken Liu
4.36 avg rating — 36,812 ratings
3.
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
by:
Harlan Ellison
3.89 avg rating — 47,876 ratings
4.
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
by:
Harlan Ellison
4.13 avg rating — 3,758 ratings
5.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
by:
Octavia E. Butler
4.35 avg rating — 26,122 ratings
6.
The Nine Billion Names of God
by:
Arthur C. Clarke
4.06 avg rating — 8,477 ratings
7.
A Study in Emerald
by:
Neil Gaiman
4.16 avg rating — 9,247 ratings
8.
Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories
by:
Connie Willis
3.83 avg rating — 524 ratings
9.
The Star
by:
Arthur C. Clarke
4.08 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
10.
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
by:
John Chu
3.81 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
11.
Bridesicle
by:
Will McIntosh
4.04 avg rating — 171 ratings
12.
Impossible Dreams
by:
Tim Pratt
4.25 avg rating — 346 ratings
13.
Different Kinds of Darkness
by:
David Langford
4.09 avg rating — 408 ratings
14.
Space Magic
by:
David D. Levine
3.75 avg rating — 127 ratings
15.
Bears Discover Fire
by:
Terry Bisson
3.89 avg rating — 970 ratings
16.
None So Blind
by:
Joe Haldeman
3.70 avg rating — 338 ratings
17.
Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #4)
by:
Clifford D. Simak
4.08 avg rating — 232 ratings
18.
Boobs
by:
Suzy McKee Charnas
3.78 avg rating — 120 ratings
19.
Fermi and Frost
by:
Frederik Pohl
3.56 avg rating — 84 ratings
20.
Inconstant Moon
by:
Larry Niven
4.04 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
21.
The Dragon Masters
by:
Jack Vance
3.79 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
22.
The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan
by:
Masumi Washington
3.81 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
23.
Eclipse Two
by:
Jonathan Strahan
4.22 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
24.
Bloodchild
by:
Octavia E. Butler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,733 ratings
25.
Travels with My Cats
by:
Mike Resnick
3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings
26.
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur
by:
Michael Swanwick
3.42 avg rating — 65 ratings
27.
The Dog Said Bow-Wow
by:
Michael Swanwick
3.85 avg rating — 548 ratings
28.
Jeffty Is Five
by:
Harlan Ellison
4.10 avg rating — 380 ratings
29.
Tangents
by:
Greg Bear
3.70 avg rating — 826 ratings
30.
A Walk in the Sun
by:
Geoffrey A. Landis
3.64 avg rating — 70 ratings
31.
Kirinyaga (A Fable of Utopia, #1)
by:
Mike Resnick
4.01 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
32.
Melancholy Elephants
by:
Spider Robinson
4.08 avg rating — 372 ratings
33.
Slow Sculpture
by:
Theodore Sturgeon
4.25 avg rating — 126 ratings
34.
Nebula Award Stories 11
by:
Ursula K. Le Guin
3.82 avg rating — 88 ratings
34.
The Hole Man
by:
Larry Niven
3.88 avg rating — 146 ratings
36.
No Truce with Kings
by:
Poul Anderson
3.41 avg rating — 137 ratings
37.
Neutron Star (Known Space)
by:
Larry Niven
4.13 avg rating — 12,950 ratings
38.
Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle, #3)
by:
Gordon R. Dickson
3.94 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
39.
For Want of a Nail
by:
Mary Robinette Kowal
3.71 avg rating — 662 ratings
40.
Or All the Seas with Oysters
by:
Avram Davidson
3.72 avg rating — 173 ratings
41.
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 121, October 2016
by:
Neil Clarke
3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
42.
Falling onto Mars
by:
Geoffrey A. Landis
3.44 avg rating — 52 ratings
43.
The 43 Antarean Dynasties
by:
Mike Resnick
3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings
43.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1981 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #365)
by:
Edward L. Ferman
4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings
45.
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers
by:
Lawrence Watt-Evans
4.17 avg rating — 275 ratings
46.
The Crystal Spheres
by:
David Brin
3.93 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
47.
New Dimensions 2: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories
by:
Robert Silverberg
3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
48.
World's Best Science Fiction 1969
by:
Donald A. Wollheim
3.76 avg rating — 119 ratings
49.
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
by:
Harlan Ellison
4.08 avg rating — 2,373 ratings
50.
Hothouse
by:
Brian W. Aldiss
3.62 avg rating — 6,025 ratings
51.
The Longest Voyage
by:
Poul Anderson
3.33 avg rating — 64 ratings
51.
Apex Magazine, Issue 99 August 2017
by:
Jason Sizemore
4.12 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
53.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1958 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #88)
by:
Robert P. Mills
3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
54.
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007
by:
Sheila Williams
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
55.
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
by:
Eric Frank Russell
3.96 avg rating — 208 ratings
56.
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
by:
Connie Willis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
57.
The Lincoln Train
by:
Maureen F. McHugh
3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
58.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1978 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #329)
by:
Edward L. Ferman
3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
59.
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. 96, No. 7, July 1976
by:
Ben Bova
3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
60.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1972 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #258)
by:
Edward L. Ferman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
61.
To Serve Man
by:
Damon Knight
3.93 avg rating — 447 ratings
62.
The Best of Hal Clement
by:
Hal Clement
3.81 avg rating — 139 ratings
63.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
by:
Arthur C. Clarke
4.30 avg rating — 6,276 ratings