| Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref. |
|---|
| 1955 | Eric Frank Russell* | "Allamagoosa" | Astounding Science-Fiction | [11] |
|---|
| 1956 | Arthur C. Clarke* | "The Star" | Infinity Science Fiction | [12] |
|---|
| F. L. Wallace | "End as a World" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [12] |
| James Blish | "King of the Hill" | Infinity Science Fiction | [12] |
| Algis Budrys | "Nobody Bothers Gus" | Astounding Science-Fiction | [12] |
| Cordwainer Smith | "The Game of Rat and Dragon" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [12] |
| Ray Bradbury | "The Dragon" | Esquire | [12] |
| Robert Sheckley | "Spy Story" | Playboy | [12] |
| Theodore Sturgeon | "Twink" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [12] |
| 1958 | Avram Davidson* | "Or All the Seas with Oysters" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [13] |
|---|
| 1959 | Robert Bloch* | "That Hell-Bound Train" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
|---|
| Anton Lee Baker | "They've Been Working On..." | Astounding Science-Fiction | [14] |
| Alfred Bester | "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
| J. F. Bone | "Triggerman" | Astounding Science-Fiction | [14] |
| Algis Budrys | "The Edge of the Sea" | Venture Science Fiction | [14] |
| C. M. Kornbluth | "The Advent on Channel Twelve" | Star Science Fiction Stories #4 (Ballantine Books) | [14] |
| C. M. Kornbluth | "Theory of Rocketry" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
| Fritz Leiber | "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
| Stanley Mullen | "Space to Swing a Cat" | Astounding Science-Fiction | [14] |
| Manly Wade Wellman | "Nine Yards of Other Cloth" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [14] |
| 1960[a] | Daniel Keyes* | "Flowers for Algernon" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [15] |
|---|
| Philip José Farmer | "The Alley Man" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [15] |
| Alfred Bester | "The Pi Man" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [15] |
| Theodore Sturgeon | "The Man Who Lost the Sea" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [15] |
| Ralph Williams | "Cat and Mouse" | Astounding Science-Fiction | [15] |
| 1961[a] | Poul Anderson* | "The Longest Voyage" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [16] |
|---|
| Pauline Ashwell | "The Lost Kafoozalum" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [16] |
| Philip José Farmer | "Open to Me, My Sister" (aka. "My Sister's Brother") | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [16] |
| Theodore Sturgeon | "Need" | Beyond Fantasy Fiction | [16] |
| 1962[a] | Brian Aldiss* | Hothouse (series) | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [17] |
|---|
| Lloyd Biggle, Jr. | "Monument" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [17] |
| Fritz Leiber | "Scylla's Daughter" | Fantastic | [17] |
| Mack Reynolds | "Status Quo" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [17] |
| James H. Schmitz | "Lion Loose" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [17] |
| 1963[a] | Jack Vance* | "The Dragon Masters" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [18] |
|---|
| Gary Jennings | "Myrrha" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [18] |
| Fritz Leiber | "The Unholy Grail" | Fantastic | [18] |
| Theodore Sturgeon | "When You Care, When You Love" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [18] |
| Thomas Burnett Swann | "Where Is the Bird of Fire?" | Science Fantasy | [18] |
| 1964[a] | Poul Anderson* | "No Truce with Kings" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [19] |
|---|
| Rick Raphael | "Code ThreeArchived 2017-12-11 at theWayback Machine" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [19] |
| Roger Zelazny | "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [19] |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | "Savage Pellucidar" | Amazing Stories | [19] |
| 1965[a] | Gordon R. Dickson* | "Soldier, Ask Not" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [20] |
|---|
| Rick Raphael | "Once a Cop" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [20] |
| Robert F. Young | "Little Dog Gone" | Worlds of Tomorrow | [20] |
| 1966[a] | Harlan Ellison* | ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [21] |
|---|
| Poul Anderson | "Marque and Reprisal" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [21] |
| Philip José Farmer | "Day of the Great Shout" | Worlds of Tomorrow | [21] |
| Fritz Leiber | "Stardock" | Fantastic | [21] |
| Roger Zelazny | "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [21] |
| 1967 | Larry Niven* | "Neutron Star" | If | [22] |
|---|
| Brian Aldiss | "Man In His Time" | Who Can Replace a Man? (Signet Books) | [22] |
| Harlan Ellison | "Delusions for a Dragon Slayer" | Knight | [22] |
| Raymond F. Jones | "Rat Race" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [22] |
| Richard McKenna | "The Secret Place" | Orbit #1 (Putnam Publishing Group) | [22] |
| Fred Saberhagen | "Mr. Jester" | If | [22] |
| Bob Shaw | "Light of Other Days" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [22] |
| Roger Zelazny | "Comes Now the Power" | Magazine of Horror | [22] |
| 1968 | Harlan Ellison* | "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" | If | [23] |
|---|
| Larry Niven | "The Jigsaw Man" | Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) | [23] |
| Samuel R. Delany | "Aye, and Gomorrah" | Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) | [23] |
| 1969 | Harlan Ellison* | "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [24] |
|---|
| Larry Niven | "All the Myriad Ways" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [24] |
| Terry Carr | "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" | The Farthest Reaches (Pocket Books) | [24] |
| Betsy Curtis | "The Steiger Effect" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [24] |
| Damon Knight | "Masks" | Playboy | [24] |
| 1970 | Samuel R. Delany* | "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" | New Worlds | [25] |
|---|
| Robert Silverberg | "Passengers" | Orbit #4 (Putnam Publishing Group) | [25] |
| Larry Niven | "Not Long Before the End" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [25] |
| Gregory Benford | "Deeper than the Darkness" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [25] |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "Winter's King" | Orbit #5 (Putnam Publishing Group) | [25] |
| 1971 | Theodore Sturgeon* | "Slow Sculpture" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [26] |
|---|
| R. A. Lafferty | "Continued on Next Rock" | Orbit #7 (Putnam Publishing Group) | [26] |
| Gordon R. Dickson | "Jean Duprès" | Nova #1 (Delacorte Press) | [26] |
| Keith Laumer | "In the Queue" | Orbit #7 (Putnam Publishing Group) | [26] |
| Ben Bova | "Brillo" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [26] |
| 1972 | Larry Niven* | "Inconstant Moon" | All the Myriad Ways (Ballantine Books) | [27] |
|---|
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" | New Dimensions #1 (Doubleday) | [27] |
| Clifford D. Simak | "The Autumn Land" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [27] |
| Stephen Tall | "The Bear with the Knot on His Tail" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [27] |
| R. A. Lafferty | "Sky" | New Dimensions #1 (Doubleday) | [27] |
| George Alec Effinger | "All the Last Wars at Once" | Universe #1 (Bantam Spectra) | [27] |
| 1973 | R. A. Lafferty* | "Eurema's Dam" | New Dimensions #2 (Doubleday) | [28] |
|---|
| Frederik Pohl* | "The Meeting" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [28] |
| C. M. Kornbluth* |
| Robert Silverberg | "When We Went to See the End of the World" | Universe #2 (Bantam Spectra) | [28] |
| James Tiptree, Jr. | "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [28] |
| Joanna Russ | "When It Changed" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) | [28] |
| 1974 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | New Dimensions #3 (Doubleday) | [29] |
|---|
| George R. R. Martin | "With Morning Comes Mistfall" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [29] |
| Clifford D. Simak | "Construction Shack" | If | [29] |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | "Wings" | The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books) | [29] |
| 1975 | Larry Niven* | "The Hole Man" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [30] |
|---|
| Alfred Bester | "The Four-Hour Fugue" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [30] |
| Michael Bishop | "Cathadonian Odyssey" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [30] |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Day Before the Revolution" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [30] |
| Robert Silverberg | "Schwartz Between the Galaxies" | Stellar #1 (Ballantine Books) | [30] |
| 1976 | Fritz Leiber* | "Catch That Zeppelin!" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [31] |
|---|
| Harlan Ellison | "Croatoan" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [31] |
| P. J. Plauger | "Child of All Ages" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [31] |
| Richard A. Lupoff | "Sail the Tide of Mourning" | New Dimensions #5 (Doubleday) | [31] |
| Michael Bishop | "Rogue Tomato" | New Dimensions #5 (Doubleday) | [31] |
| Gregory Benford | "Doing Lennon" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [31] |
| 1977 | Joe Haldeman* | "Tricentennial" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [32] |
|---|
| Charles L. Grant | "A Crowd of Shadows" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [32] |
| Damon Knight | "I See You" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [32] |
| James White | "Custom Fitting" | Stellar #2 (Ballantine Books) | [32] |
| 1978 | Harlan Ellison* | "Jeffty Is Five" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [33] |
|---|
| John Varley | "Air Raid" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [33] |
| Spider Robinson | "Dog Day Evening" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [33] |
| Randall Garrett | "Lauralyn" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [33] |
| James Tiptree, Jr. | "Time-Sharing Angel" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [33] |
| 1979 | C. J. Cherryh* | "Cassandra" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [34] |
|---|
| Harlan Ellison | "Count the Clock that Tells the Time" | Omni | [34] |
| Joan D. Vinge | "View From a Height" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [34] |
| Edward Bryant | "Stone" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [34] |
| Ian Watson | "The Very Slow Time Machine" | Anticipations (Faber and Faber) | [34] |
| 1980 | George R. R. Martin* | "The Way of Cross and Dragon" | Omni | [35] |
|---|
| Orson Scott Card | "Unaccompanied Sonata" | Omni | [35] |
| Ted Reynolds | "Can These Bones Live?" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [35] |
| Edward Bryant | "giANTS" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [35] |
| Connie Willis | "Daisy, In the Sun" | Galileo | [35] |
| 1981 | Clifford D. Simak* | "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [36] |
|---|
| Robert Silverberg | "Our Lady of the Sauropods" | Omni | [36] |
| Susan C. Petrey | "Spidersong" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [36] |
| Jeff Duntemann | "Cold Hands" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [36] |
| Jeff Duntemann | "Guardian" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [36] |
| 1982 | John Varley* | "The Pusher" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [37] |
|---|
| Gene Wolfe | "The Woman the Unicorn Loved" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [37] |
| Somtow Sucharitkul | "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [37] |
| George Guthridge | "The Quiet" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [37] |
| 1983 | Spider Robinson* | "Melancholy Elephants" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [38] |
|---|
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "Sur" | The New Yorker | [38] |
| James Tiptree, Jr. | "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
| Bruce Sterling | "Spider Rose" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
| Howard Waldrop | "Ike at the Mike" | Omni | [38] |
| 1984 | Octavia E. Butler* | "Speech Sounds" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [39] |
|---|
| Frederik Pohl | "Servant of the People" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [39] |
| Hilbert Schenck | "The Geometry of Narrative" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [39] |
| Gardner Dozois | "The Peacemaker" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [39] |
| William F. Wu | "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" | Amazing Stories | [39] |
| 1985 | David Brin* | "The Crystal Spheres" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [40] |
|---|
| George Alec Effinger | "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [40] |
| Lee Killough | "Symphony for a Lost Traveler" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [40] |
| Lucius Shepard | "Salvador" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [40] |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | "Ridge Running" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [40] |
| Steven Gould | "Rory" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [40] |
| 1986 | Frederik Pohl* | "Fermi and Frost" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [41] |
|---|
| Howard Waldrop | "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" | Omni | [41] |
| John Crowley | "Snow" | Omni | [41] |
| Bruce Sterling | "Dinner in Audoghast" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [41] |
| William F. Wu | "Hong's Bluff" | Omni | [41] |
| 1987 | Greg Bear* | "Tangents" | Omni | [42] |
|---|
| Isaac Asimov | "Robot Dreams" | Robot Dreams (Berkley Books) | [42] |
| Nancy Springer | "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [42] |
| David S. Garnett | "Still Life" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [42] |
| James Patrick Kelly | "Rat" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [42] |
| 1988 | Lawrence Watt-Evans* | "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [43] |
|---|
| Kate Wilhelm | "Forever Yours, Anna" | Omni | [43] |
| Pat Cadigan | "Angel" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [43] |
| Howard Waldrop | "Night of the Cooters" | Omni | [43] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "The Faithful Companion at Forty" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [43] |
| Lisa Goldstein | "Cassandra's Photographs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [43] |
| 1989 | Mike Resnick* | "Kirinyaga" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [44] |
|---|
| David Brin | "The Giving Plague" | Interzone | [44] |
| Geoffrey A. Landis | "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [44] |
| Bruce Sterling | "Our Neural Chernobyl" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [44] |
| Eileen Gunn | "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [44] |
| Jack McDevitt | "The Fort Moxie Branch" | Full Spectrum (Doubleday) | [44] |
| 1990 | Suzy McKee Charnas* | "Boobs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
|---|
| Orson Scott Card | "Lost Boys" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [45] |
| Eileen Gunn | "Computer Friendly" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| Larry Niven | "The Return of William Proxmire" | What Might Have Been? Vol. 1: Alternate Empires (Bantam Spectra) | [45] |
| Michael Swanwick | "The Edge of the World" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| Bruce Sterling | "Dori Bangs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| 1991 | Terry Bisson* | "Bears Discover Fire" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [46] |
|---|
| Connie Willis | "Cibola" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [46] |
| Charles Sheffield | "Godspeed" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [46] |
| Robert Reed | "The Utility Man" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [46] |
| W. R. Thompson | "VRM-547" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [46] |
| 1992 | Geoffrey A. Landis* | "A Walk in the Sun" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [47] |
|---|
| Mike Resnick | "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [47] |
| Connie Willis | "In the Late Cretaceous" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [47] |
| Mike Resnick | "Winter Solstice" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [47] |
| Terry Bisson | "Press Ann" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [47] |
| John Kessel | "Buffalo" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [47] |
| Martha Soukup | "Dog's Life" | Amazing Stories | [47] |
| 1993 | Connie Willis* | "Even the Queen" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [48] |
|---|
| Nancy Kress | "The Mountain to Mohammed" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [48] |
| Mike Resnick | "The Lotus and the Spear" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [48] |
| Martha Soukup | "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [48] |
| Nicholas A. DiChario | "The Winterberry" | Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books) | [48] |
| 1994 | Connie Willis* | "Death on the Nile" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [49] |
|---|
| Mike Resnick | "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [49] |
| Martha Soukup | "The Story So Far" | Full Spectrum 4 (Doubleday) | [49] |
| Bridget McKenna | "The Good Pup" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [49] |
| Terry Bisson | "England Underway" | Omni | [49] |
| 1995 | Joe Haldeman* | "None So Blind" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
|---|
| Kate Wilhelm | "I Know What You're Thinking" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
| Mike Resnick | "Barnaby in Exile" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
| Terry Bisson | "Dead Man's Curve" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
| Barry N. Malzberg | "Understanding Entropy" | SF Age | [50] |
| M. Shayne Bell | "Mrs. Lincoln's China" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
| 1996 | Maureen F. McHugh* | "The Lincoln Train" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [51] |
|---|
| Esther Friesner | "A Birthday" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [51] |
| Michael A. Burstein | "TeleAbsence" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [51] |
| Tony Daniel | "Life on the Moon" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [51] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Walking Out" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [51] |
| 1997 | Connie Willis* | "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [52] |
|---|
| James White | "Un-Birthday Boy" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [52] |
| Michael Swanwick | "The Dead" | Starlight #1 (Tor Books) | [52] |
| Robert Reed | "Decency" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [52] |
| John Crowley | "Gone" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [52] |
| 1998 | Mike Resnick* | "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [53] |
|---|
| James Patrick Kelly | "Itsy Bitsy Spider" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [53] |
| Gene Wolfe | "No Planets Strike" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [53] |
| Robert J. Sawyer | "The Hand You're Dealt" | Free Space (Tor Books) | [53] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "Standing Room Only" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [53] |
| Andy Duncan | "Beluthahatchie" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [53] |
| 1999 | Michael Swanwick* | "The Very Pulse of the Machine" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [54] |
|---|
| Bruce Sterling | "Maneki Neko" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [54] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Radiant Doors" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [54] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Wild Minds" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [54] |
| Michael A. Burstein | "Cosmic Corkscrew" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [54] |
| Robert Reed | "Whiptail" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [54] |
| 2000 | Michael Swanwick* | "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [55] |
|---|
| Michael Swanwick | "Ancient Engines" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [55] |
| Mike Resnick | "Hothouse Flowers" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [55] |
| Terry Bisson | "macs" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [55] |
| Nicholas A. DiChario | "Sarajevo" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [55] |
| 2001 | David Langford* | "Different Kinds of Darkness" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [56] |
|---|
| Michael A. Burstein | "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [56] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Moon Dogs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [56] |
| Mike Resnick | "The Elephants on Neptune" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [56] |
| Stephen Baxter | "The Gravity Mine" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [56] |
| 2002 | Michael Swanwick* | "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [57] |
|---|
| Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Bones of the Earth" | Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt) | [57] |
| Mike Resnick | "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [57] |
| Stephen Baxter | "The Ghost Pit" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [57] |
| Michael A. Burstein | "Spaceships" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [57] |
| 2003 | Geoffrey A. Landis* | "Falling onto Mars" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [58] |
|---|
| Michael Swanwick | "'Hello,' Said the Stick" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [58] |
| Michael Swanwick | "The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [58] |
| Jeffrey Ford | "Creation" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [58] |
| Molly Gloss | "Lambing Season" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [58] |
| 2004 | Neil Gaiman* | "A Study in Emerald" | Shadows Over Baker Street (Del Rey Books) | [59] |
|---|
| Michael A. Burstein | "Paying It Forward" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [59] |
| Mike Resnick | "Robots Don't Cry" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [59] |
| Joe Haldeman | "Four Short Novels" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [59] |
| David D. Levine | "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [59] |
| 2005 | Mike Resnick* | "Travels with My Cats" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [60] |
|---|
| James Patrick Kelly | "The Best Christmas Ever" | Scifi.com | [60] |
| Mike Resnick | "A Princess of Earth" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [60] |
| Robert J. Sawyer | "Shed Skin" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [60] |
| Michael A. Burstein | "Decisions" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [60] |
| 2006 | David D. Levine* | "Tk'tk'tk" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [61] |
|---|
| Michael A. Burstein | "Seventy-Five Years" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [61] |
| Dominic Green | "The Clockwork Atom Bomb" | Interzone | [61] |
| Margo Lanagan | "Singing My Sister Down" | Black Juice (Eos) | [61] |
| Mike Resnick | "Down Memory Lane" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [61] |
| 2007 | Tim Pratt* | "Impossible Dreams" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [62] |
|---|
| Neil Gaiman | "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" | Fragile Things (William Morrow and Company) | [62] |
| Robert Reed | "Eight Episodes" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [62] |
| Bruce McAllister | "Kin" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [62] |
| Benjamin Rosenbaum | "The House Beyond Your Sky" | Strange Horizons | [62] |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Bear* | "Tideline" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [63] |
|---|
| Michael Swanwick | "A Small Room in Koboldtown" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [63] |
| Stephen Baxter | "Last Contact" | The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #1 (Solaris Books) | [63] |
| Ken MacLeod | "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" | The New Space Opera (Eos) | [63] |
| Mike Resnick | "Distant Replay" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [63] |
| 2009 | Ted Chiang* | "Exhalation" | Eclipse #2 (Night Shade Books) | [64] |
|---|
| Kij Johnson | "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [64] |
| Michael Swanwick | "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [64] |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | "Evil Robot Monkey" | The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #2 (Solaris Books) | [64] |
| Mike Resnick | "Article of Faith" | Jim Baen's Universe | [64] |
| 2010 | Will McIntosh* | "Bridesicle" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [65] |
|---|
| Mike Resnick | "The Bride of Frankenstein" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [65] |
| Lawrence M. Schoen | "The Moment" | Footprints (Hadley Rille Books) | [65] |
| N. K. Jemisin | "Non-Zero Probabilities" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [65] |
| Kij Johnson | "Spar" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [65] |
| 2011 | Mary Robinette Kowal* | "For Want of a Nail" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [66] |
|---|
| Carrie Vaughn | "Amaryllis" | Lightspeed Magazine | [66] |
| Kij Johnson | "Ponies" | Tor.com | [66] |
| Peter Watts | "The Things" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [66] |
| 2012 | Ken Liu* | "The Paper Menagerie" | Fantasy & Science Fiction | [67] |
|---|
| E. Lily Yu | "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [67] |
| Mike Resnick | "The Homecoming" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [67] |
| Nancy Fulda | "Movement" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [67] |
| John Scalzi | "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue" | Tor.com | [67] |
| 2013 | Ken Liu* | "Mono no Aware" | The Future is Japanese (Viz Media) | [68] |
|---|
| Aliette de Bodard | "Immersion" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [68] |
| Kij Johnson | "Mantis Wives" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [68] |
| 2014 | John Chu* | "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" | Tor.com | [69] |
|---|
| Rachel Swirsky | "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" | Apex Magazine | [69] |
| Thomas Olde Heuvelt | "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" | Tor.com | [69] |
| Sofia Samatar | "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" | Strange Horizons | [69] |
| 2015 | (no award)+ | | | [10][b] |
|---|
| Lou Antonelli | "On a Spiritual Plain" | Sci Phi Journal | [10] |
| Steven Diamond | "A Single Samurai" | The Baen Big Book of Monsters (Baen Books) | [10] |
| Kary English | "Totaled" | Galaxy's Edge | [10] |
| Steve Rzasa | "Turncoat" | Riding the Red Horse (Castalia House) | [10] |
| John C. Wright | "The Parliament of Beasts and Birds" | The Book of Feasts & Seasons (Castalia House) | [10] |
| 2016 | Naomi Kritzer* | "Cat Pictures Please" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [72] |
|---|
| S. R. Algernon | "Asymmetrical Warfare" | Nature | [72] |
| Juan Tabo | "If You Were an Award, My Love" | voxday.blogspot.com | [72] |
| S. Harris |
| Charles Shao | "Seven Kill Tiger" | There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House) | [72] |
| Chuck Tingle | Space Raptor Butt Invasion | Amazon Digital Services | [72] |
| 2017 | Amal El-Mohtar* | "Seasons of Glass and Iron" | The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga Press) | [73] |
|---|
| N. K. Jemisin | "The City Born Great" | Tor.com | [73] |
| Alyssa Wong | "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" | Tor.com | [73] |
| Brooke Bolander | "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" | Uncanny Magazine | [73] |
| Carrie Vaughn | "That Game We Played During the War" | Tor.com | [73] |
| John C. Wright | "An Unimaginable Light" | God, Robot (Castalia House) | [73] |
| 2018 | Rebecca Roanhorse* | "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" | Apex Magazine | [74] |
|---|
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "Carnival Nine" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [74] |
| Fran Wilde | "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" | Uncanny Magazine | [74] |
| Vina Jie-Min Prasad | "Fandom for Robots" | Uncanny Magazine | [74] |
| Linda Nagata | "The Martian Obelisk" | Tor.com | [74] |
| Ursula Vernon | "Sun, Moon, Dust" | Uncanny Magazine | [74] |
| 2019 | Alix E. Harrow* | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" | Apex Magazine | [75] |
|---|
| Brooke Bolander | "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" | Uncanny Magazine | [75] |
| P. Djèlí Clark | "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" | Fireside Magazine | [75] |
| Sarah Gailey | "STET" | Fireside Magazine | [75] |
| Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher) | "The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society" | Uncanny Magazine | [75] |
| Sarah Pinsker | "The Court Magician" | Lightspeed | [75] |
| 2020 | S. L. Huang* | "As the Last I May Know" | Tor.com | [76] |
|---|
| Shiv Ramdas | "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" | Strange Horizons | [76] |
| Rivers Solomon | "Blood Is Another Word for Hunger" | Tor.com | [76] |
| Fran Wilde | "A Catalog of Storms" | Uncanny Magazine | [76] |
| Alix E. Harrow | "Do Not Look Back, My Lion" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [76] |
| Nibedita Sen | "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" | Nightmare Magazine | [76] |
| 2021 | Ursula Vernon* (as T. Kingfisher) | "Metal Like Blood in the Dark" | Uncanny Magazine | [77] |
|---|
| Rae Carson | "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse" | Uncanny Magazine | [77] |
| Vina Jie-Min Prasad | "A Guide for Working Breeds" | Made to Order: Robots and Revolution (Solaris Books) | [77] |
| Naomi Kritzer | "Little Free Library" | Tor.com | [77] |
| Yoon Ha Lee | "The Mermaid Astronaut" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [77] |
| John Wiswell | "Open House on Haunted Hill" | Diabolical Plots | [77] |
| 2022 | Sarah Pinsker* | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | Uncanny Magazine | [78] |
|---|
| Alix E. Harrow | "Mr. Death" | Apex Magazine | [78] |
| José Pablo Iriarte | "Proof by Induction" | Uncanny Magazine | [78] |
| Catherynne M. Valente | "The Sin of America" | Uncanny Magazine | [78] |
| Seanan McGuire | "Tangles" | Magic Story (Magicthegathering.com) | [78] |
| Blue Neustifter | "Unknown Number" | Self-published, viaTwitter | [78] |
| 2023 | Samantha Mills* | "Rabbit Test" | Uncanny Magazine | [79] |
|---|
| John Wiswell | "D.I.Y." | Tor.com | [79] |
| Jiang Bo | "On the Razor's Edge" | Science Fiction World | [79] |
| Ren Qing | "Resurrection" | Future Fiction/Science Fiction World | [79] |
| Lu Ban | "The White Cliff" | Science Fiction World | [79] |
| Regina Kanyu Wang | "Zhurong on Mars" | Frontiers | [79] |
| 2024 | Naomi Kritzer* | "Better Living Through Algorithms" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [80] |
|---|
| Han Song(Chinese) | "Answerless Journey" | Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers (Flame Tree Press) | [80] |
| Alex Woodend(translator) |
| P. Djèlí Clark | "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" | Uncanny Magazine | [80] |
| Aliette de Bodard | "The Mausoleum's Children" | Uncanny Magazine | [80] |
| Rachael K. Jones | "The Sound of Children Screaming" | Nightmare Magazine | [80] |
| Baoshu | "Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times" | Galaxy's Edge | [80] |
| 2025 | Nghi Vo* | "Stitched to Skin Like Family Is" | Uncanny Magazine | [81] |
|---|
| Rachael K. Jones | "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" | Lightspeed Magazine | [81] |
| Mary Robinette Kowal | "Marginalia" | Uncanny Magazine | [81] |
| Arkady Martine | "Three Faces of a Beheading" | Uncanny Magazine | [81] |
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" | Lightspeed Magazine | [81] |
| Isabel J. Kim | "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [81] |