Hugo Awards 1956
Winners and nominees of the 1956 Hugo Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Double Star — Robert A. Heinlein(winner)
- ✦The Long Tomorrow — Leigh Brackett(nominee)
- ✦Three to Conquer — Eric Frank Russell (nominee)
- ✦The End of Eternity — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Not This August — Cyril M. Kornbluth (nominee)
Best Book Reviewer
- 🏆 Damon Knight (winner)
Best Fanzine
- 🏆 Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser (winner)
Best Feature Writer
- 🏆 Willy Ley (winner)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Exploration Team — Murray Leinster (winner)
- ✦ Brightside Crossing (nominee)
- ✦Bulkhead — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Home There's No Returning — Catherine Lucile Moore (nominee)
- ✦A Gun for Dinosaur — L. Sprague de Camp(nominee)
- ✦Legwork — Eric Frank Russell (nominee)
- ✦Brightside Crossing — Alan E. Nourse (nominee)
- ✦The Assistant Self(nominee)
- ✦The End of Summer — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Home There's No Returning — Henry Kuttner (nominee)
Best Professional Artist
- 🏆 Frank Kelly Freas (winner)
Best Professional Magazine
- 🏆Analog Science Fiction and Fact — John W. Campbell (winner)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Star — Arthur C. Clarke(winner)
- ✦Twink — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦King of the Hill — James Blish(nominee)
- ✦Citizen in Space — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦End as a World(nominee)
- ✦Nobody Bothers Gus — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦The Game of Rat and Dragon — Cordwainer Smith (nominee)
Overall
- 🏆 Robert Silverberg (winner)
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