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Hugo Award for Best Short Story

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Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Summary

Hugo Award for Best Short Story is a literary award[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (411 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story won the Eric Frank Russell[3].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story won the Arthur C. Clarke[4].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story won the Avram Davidson[5].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story won the Robert Bloch[6].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story won the Daniel Keyes[7].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story won the Poul Anderson[8].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story's instance of is recorded as literary award[9].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story's instance of is recorded as science fiction award[10].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story is part of Hugo Award[11].
  • 1955 marks the founding of Hugo Award for Best Short Story[12].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story's official website is recorded as http://www.thehugoawards.org/[13].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hugo Award for Best Short Story–winning works[14].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story's conferred by is recorded as World Science Fiction Society[15].
  • Hugo Award for Best Short Story's described by source is recorded as Science Fiction Awards Database[16].

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Context

Hugo Award for Best Short Story is part of Hugo Award[11]. Recorded instance of include literary award[9] and science fiction award[10].

Why It Matters

Hugo Award for Best Short Story ranks in the top 4% of literary_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (411 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

FAQs

What awards did Hugo Award for Best Short Story receive?

Honors received include Eric Frank Russell[3], Arthur C. Clarke[4], Avram Davidson[5], and Robert Bloch[6].

Related Entities

Alfred Bester Alice Bradley Sheldon Arthur C. Clarke Ben Bova Brian Aldiss Bruce Sterling C. J. Cherryh Clifford D. Simak Connie Willis Daniel Keyes David Brin Edgar Rice Burroughs Flowers for Algernon Frederik Pohl Fritz Leiber Gene Wolfe George R. R. Martin Greg Bear Gregory Benford Harlan Ellison Isaac Asimov Jack Vance James Blish Jeff Duntemann Joanna Russ Joe Haldeman John Scalzi Ken Liu Kim Stanley Robinson Larry Niven

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  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [6] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [7] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [8] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Conferred by → World Science Fiction Society
    Topic's main category → Category:Hugo Award for Best Short Story–winning works
    Category for recipients of this award → Category:Recipients of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story
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