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Award Category: Best Short Story (Retro Hugo Award)

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1996
1 Uncommon Sense Hal Clement
2 The Ethical Equations Murray Leinster
3 The Waveries Fredric Brown
4 What You Need Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
5 Correspondence Course Raymond F. Jones
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* Blind Alley Isaac Asimov
* De Profundis Murray Leinster
* Lefty Feep Gets Henpecked Robert Bloch
* Line to Tomorrow Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
* Paradoxical Escape (variant of Escape!) Isaac Asimov
* The Power Murray Leinster
* The World-Thinker Jack Vance
2001
1 To Serve Man Damon Knight
2 Coming Attraction Fritz Leiber
3 Born of Man and Woman Richard Matheson
4 A Subway Named Mobius A. J. Deutsch
5 The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out Reginald Bretnor
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* A Walk in the Dark Arthur C. Clarke
* The Silly Season C. M. Kornbluth
2004
1 The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke
2 It's a Good Life Jerome Bixby
3 Star Light, Star Bright Alfred Bester
4 A Saucer of Loneliness Theodore Sturgeon
5 Seventh Victim Robert Sheckley
2014
1 How We Went to Mars Arthur C. Clarke
2 Helen O'Loy Lester del Rey
3 "Hollerbochen's Dilemma" Ray Bradbury
4 Hyperpelosity L. Sprague de Camp
5 The Faithful Lester del Rey
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* An Experiment of the Dead Helen Simpson (1897-1940)
* Between Two Worlds Mary Lutyens
* Janice Shirley Jackson
* Robots Return Robert Moore Williams
* The Book H. P. Lovecraft
* The Brain Pirates John W. Campbell
* The Merman L. Sprague de Camp
* With and Without Buttons Mary Butts
2016
1 Robbie (variant of Strange Playfellow) Isaac Asimov
2 Requiem Robert A. Heinlein
3 Martian Quest Leigh Brackett
4 The Stellar Legion Leigh Brackett
5
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
 Jorge Luis Borges
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* Clerical Error Clifford D. Simak
* Dark Mission Lester del Rey
* Hindsight Jack Williamson
* Homo Sol Isaac Asimov
* Let There Be Light Robert A. Heinlein
* Nightfall Isaac Asimov
* Quietus Ross Rocklynne
* Song in a Minor Key C. L. Moore
* The Automatic Pistol Fritz Leiber
* The Bleak Shore Fritz Leiber
* The Tapestry Gate Leigh Brackett
2018
1 The Twonky Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
2 Proof Hal Clement
3 Runaround Isaac Asimov
4 The Sunken Land Fritz Leiber
5 Etaoin Shrdlu Fredric Brown
6 Mimic Martin Pearson
2019
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5 Pass 6 Runoff
King of the Gray Spaces (R is for Rocket) 143 143 149 159 194 263 386
Doorway into Time 109 110 115 125 158 196
Death Sentence 124 126 130 136 157
Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper 99 99 101 110
Q.U.R. 36 36 39
Exile 21 21
No Award 13 18
19 nominations with 11.67 final points.
 King of the Gray Spaces (variant of R Is for Rocket) Ray Bradbury
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5
Death Sentence 163 166 179 189 243
Doorway into Time 136 137 144 160 222
Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper 134 134 139 152
Q.U.R. 40 40 44
Exile 29 30
No Award 17
23 nominations with 15.08 final points.
 Death Sentence Isaac Asimov
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4
Doorway into Time 184 186 203 228
Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper 169 169 179 202
Q.U.R. 49 50 60
Exile 42 43
No Award 17
22 nominations with 14.08 final points.
 Doorway Into Time C. L. Moore
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Finalist Pass 1
Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper 210
Exile 91
Q.U.R. 76
No Award 18
26 nominations with 15.17 final points.
 Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper Robert Bloch
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Finalist Pass 1
Exile 164
Q.U.R. 123
No Award 19
17 nominations with 8.25 final points.
 Exile Edmond Hamilton
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Finalist Pass 1
Q.U.R. 260
No Award 22
24 nominations with 15.08 final points.
 Q. U. R. H. H. Holmes
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ⓘ8 nominations with 3.03 final points
 El milagro secreto Jorge Luis Borges
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ⓘ11 nominations with 7 final points
 Nothing But Gingerbread Left Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
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ⓘ8 nominations with 2.7 final points
 The Crowd Ray Bradbury
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ⓘ7 nominations with 2.45 final points
 The Devil Is Not Mocked Manly Wade Wellman
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ⓘ11 nominations with 5.87 final points
 The Geezenstacks Fredric Brown
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ⓘ10 nominations with 8.67 final points.
 The Gremlins Roald Dahl
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ⓘ14 nominations with 5.23 final points
 The Iron Standard Lewis Padgett
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ⓘ9 nominations with 4.75 final points
 The Scythe Ray Bradbury
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ⓘ5 nominations with 1.4 final points.
 The Wind Ray Bradbury
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ⓘ5 nominations with 2.92 final points
 They Bite Anthony Boucher
2020
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5 Pass 6 Runoff
I, Rocket 117 118 123 136 149 177 279
Desertion 65 65 69 90 117 138
The Wedge 56 56 62 66 71
And the Gods Laughed 46 47 49 54
Huddling Place 44 45 46
Far Centaurus 22 22
No Award 16 18
8 nominations with 4.83 final points.
 I, Rocket Ray Bradbury
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5
Desertion 80 80 87 122 167
The Wedge 80 82 95 105 118
And the Gods Laughed 64 65 73 81
Huddling Place 49 51 58
Far Centaurus 41 41
No Award 21
32 nominations with 16.42 final points.
 Desertion Clifford D. Simak
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4
Huddling Place 86 88 101 147
The Wedge 87 89 105 127
And the Gods Laughed 80 81 96
Far Centaurus 53 53
No Award 21
24 nominations with 12.75 final points.
 Huddling Place Clifford D. Simak
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3
The Wedge 108 110 144
And the Gods Laughed 103 105 139
Far Centaurus 82 82
No Award 21
10 nominations with 4.92 final points.
 The Wedge Isaac Asimov
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Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2
And the Gods Laughed 134 136
Far Centaurus 129 131
No Award 23
11 nominations with 6.17 final points.
 And the Gods Laughed Fredric Brown
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Finalist Pass 1
Far Centaurus 225
No Award 26
20 nominations with 10.42 final points.
 Far Centaurus A. E. van Vogt
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ⓘ4 nominations with 2.00 final points
And Then—the Silence?And Then-the Silence
 Ray Bradbury
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ⓘ10 nominations with 4.17 final points
 Catch That Rabbit Isaac Asimov
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ⓘ4 nominations with 1.75 final points
 Hoofs Manly Wade Wellman
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ⓘ6 nominations with 2.70 final points
 Housing Problem Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
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ⓘ4 nominations with 1.60 final points
 Invariant John R. Pierce
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ⓘ10 nominations with 3.28 final points
 Kindness Lester del Rey
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ⓘ5 nominations with 2.28 final points
 Sanity Fritz Leiber
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ⓘ3 nominations with 1.58 final points
 The Gothic Window Dorothy Quick
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ⓘ8 nominations with 4.50 final points
 The Lake Ray Bradbury
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ⓘ5 nominations with 2.42 final points
 The Yehudi Principle Fredric Brown
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