| Year | Short Story | Author | Publication | Ref |
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| 1971 | "The Region Between" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1972 | "The Queen of Air and Darkness" | Poul Anderson | | |
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| 1973 | "Basilisk" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1974 | "The Deathbird" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1975 | "The Day Before the Revolution" | Ursula K. Le Guin | | |
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| 1976 | "Croatoan" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1977 | "Tricentennial" | Joe Haldeman | | |
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| 1978 | "Jeffty Is Five" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1979 | "Count the Clock that Tells the Time" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1980 | "The Way of Cross and Dragon" | George R. R. Martin | | |
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| 1981 | "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" | Clifford D. Simak | | |
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| 1982 | "The Pusher" | John Varley | | |
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| 1983 | "Sur" | Ursula K. Le Guin | | |
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| 1984 | "Beyond the Dead Reef" | James Tiptree, Jr. | | |
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| 1985 | "Salvador" | Lucius Shepard | | |
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| 1986 | "With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1987 | "Robot Dreams" | Isaac Asimov | | |
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| 1988 | "Angel" | Pat Cadigan | | |
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| 1989 | "Eidolons" | Harlan Ellison | | |
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| 1990 | "Lost Boys" | Orson Scott Card | | |
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| 1991 | "Bears Discover Fire" | Terry Bisson | | |
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| 1992 | "Buffalo" | John Kessel | | |
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| 1993 | "Even the Queen" | Connie Willis | | |
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| 1994 | "Close Encounter" | Connie Willis | | |
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| 1995 | "None So Blind" | Joe Haldeman | | |
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| 1996 | "The Lincoln Train" | Maureen F. McHugh | | |
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| 1997 | "Gone" | John Crowley | | |
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| 1998 | "Itsy Bitsy Spider" | James Patrick Kelly | | |
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| 1999 | "Maneki Neko" | Bruce Sterling | | |
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| 2000 | "macs" | Terry Bisson | | |
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| 2001 | "The Missing Mass" | Larry Niven | | |
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| 2002 | "The Bones of the Earth" | Ursula K. Le Guin | | |
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| 2003 | "October in the Chair" | Neil Gaiman | | |
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| 2004 | "Closing Time" | Neil Gaiman | | |
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| 2005 | "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" | Neil Gaiman | | |
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| 2006 | "Sunbird" | Neil Gaiman | | |
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| 2007 | "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" | Neil Gaiman | | |
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| 2008 | "A Small Room in Koboldtown" | Michael Swanwick | | |
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| 2009 | "Exhalation" | Ted Chiang | | [2] |
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| 2010 | "An Invocation of Incuriosity" | Neil Gaiman | Songs of the Dying Earth | [3][4][5] |
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| 2011 | "The Thing About Cassandra" | Neil Gaiman | Songs of Love and Death | [6][7][8] |
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| 2012 | "The Case of Death and Honey" | Neil Gaiman | A Study in Sherlock | [9][10] |
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| 2013 | "Immersion" | Aliette de Bodard | Clarkesworld (#69), June 2012[11] | [12][13] |
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| 2014 | "The Road of Needles" | Caitlín R. Kiernan | Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales | [14][15][16] |
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| 2015 | "The Truth About Owls" | Amal El-Mohtar | Kaleidoscope | [17][18] |
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| 2016 | "Cat Pictures Please" | Naomi Kritzer | Clarkesworld (#110), Jan 2015[19] | [20][21][22] |
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| 2017 | "Seasons of Glass and Iron" | Amal El-Mohtar | The Starlit Wood | [23][24] |
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| 2018 | "The Martian Obelisk" | Linda Nagata | Tor.com, 7/19/2017[25] | [26][27] |
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| 2019 | "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" | P. Djèlí Clark | Fireside #52, Feb 2018[28] | [29][30][31] |
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| 2020 | "The Bookstore at the End of America" | Charlie Jane Anders | A People's Future of the United States,Penguin's One World[32][33] | [34][35] |
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| 2021 | “Little Free Library“ | Naomi Kritzer | Tor.com, 4/8/2020[36] | [37][38] |
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| 2022 | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | Sarah Pinsker | Uncanny #39, Mar/Apr 2021[39] | [40][41] |
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| 2023 | "Rabbit Test" | Samantha Mills | Uncanny #49, Nov/Dec 2022 | |
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| 2024 | "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" | P. Djèlí Clark | Uncanny #50, Jan/Feb 2023 | [42] |
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| 2025 | Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole | Isabel J. Kim | Clarkesworld February 2024 | [43] |
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