Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

{{Short description|1987 novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin}}

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{{Infobox short story |

| name = Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

| author = Ursula K. Le Guin

| genre = Science fiction

| image = 220px

| publisher = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

| release_date = November 1987

}}

"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, originally published in the November 1987 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and collected in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987).{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58823|title=Bibliography: Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight|work=isfdb.org|accessdate=21 November 2015}} The title is borrowed from the song "Buffalo Gals" where the first line of the chorus is "Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight?"

It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the World Fantasy Award—Novella in 1988, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit77.html#3061 Locus Index to SF Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817121243/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit77.html#3061 |date=August 17, 2009 }}

It was re-published in 1994 by Pomegranate Artbooks with illustrations provided by Susan Seddon Boulet.