| Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref. |
|---|
| 1965 | Harlan Ellison* | "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
|---|
| Isaac Asimov | "Eyes Do More Than See" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Isaac Asimov | "Founding Father" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| J. G. Ballard | "Souvenir" | Playboy | [6] |
| Donald Barthelme | "Game" | The New Yorker | [6] |
| Jane Beauclerk | "Lord Moon" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Lin Carter | "Uncollected Works" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| John Christopher | "A Few Kindred Spirits" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Avram Davidson | "The House the Blakeneys Built" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Gordon R. Dickson | "Computers Don't Argue" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [6] |
| Thomas M. Disch | "Come to Venus Melancholy" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| James A. Durham | "Of One Mind" | If | [6] |
| H. L. Gold | "Inside Man" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| Ron Goulart | "Calling Dr. Clockwork" | Amazing Stories | [6] |
| Alex Kirs | "Better Than Ever" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| R. A. Lafferty | "In Our Block" | If | [6] |
| R. A. Lafferty | "Slow Tuesday Night" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| Fritz Leiber | "Cyclops" | Worlds of Tomorrow | [6] |
| Fritz Leiber | "The Good New Days" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| Larry McCombs | "The Peacock King" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Ted White |
| Scott Nichols | "Though a Sparrow Fall" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [6] |
| Larry Niven | "Becalmed in Hell" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Larry Niven | "Wrong-Way Street" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| Richard Olin | "The Mischief Maker" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [6] |
| Edgar Pangborn | "A Better Mousehole" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| Mack Reynolds | "A Leader for Yesteryear" | If | [6] |
| Robert Rohrer | "Keep Them Happy" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| James H. Schmitz | "Balanced Ecology" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [6] |
| Clifford D. Simak | "Over the River and Through the Woods" | Amazing Stories | [6] |
| Richard Wilson | "The Eight Billion" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [6] |
| Roger Zelazny | "Devil Car" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [6] |
| 1966 | Richard McKenna* | "The Secret Place" | Orbit 1 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [7] |
|---|
| Brian Aldiss | "Man In His Time" | Who Can Replace a Man? (Harcourt, Brace & World) | [7] |
| Bob Shaw | "Light of Other Days" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [7] |
| 1967 | Samuel R. Delany* | ""Aye, and Gomorrah…"" | Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) | [8] |
|---|
| Reginald Bretnor | "Earthwoman" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [8] |
| Samuel R. Delany | "Driftglass" | If | [8] |
| Fritz Leiber | "Answering Service" | If | [8] |
| Theodore L. Thomas | "The Doctor" | Orbit 2 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [8] |
| Kate Wilhelm | "Baby, You Were Great" | Orbit 2 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [8] |
| 1968 | Kate Wilhelm* | "The Planners" | Orbit 3 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [9] |
|---|
| Poul Anderson | "Kyrie" | The Farthest Reaches (Trident Press) | [9] |
| Terry Carr | "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" | The Farthest Reaches (Trident Press) | [9] |
| H. H. Hollis | "Sword Game" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [9] |
| Damon Knight | "Masks" | Playboy | [9] |
| Robert Taylor | "Idiot's Mate" | Amazing Stories | [9] |
| 1969 | Robert Silverberg* | "Passengers" | Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [10] |
|---|
| Harlan Ellison | "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" | Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [10] |
| Larry Niven | "Not Long Before the End" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [10] |
| Theodore Sturgeon | "The Man Who Learned Loving" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [10] |
| James Tiptree, Jr. | "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [10] |
| 1970 | (no award)+ | | | [11] |
|---|
| Gardner Dozois | "A Dream at Noonday" | Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [11] |
| Harry Harrison | "By the Falls" | If | [11] |
| R. A. Lafferty | "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite" | Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [11] |
| Keith Laumer | "In the Queue" | Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [11] |
| James Sallis | "The Creation of Bennie Good" | Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [11] |
| Kate Wilhelm | "A Cold Dark Night with Snow" | Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [11] |
| Gene Wolfe | "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" | Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [11] |
| 1971 | Robert Silverberg* | "Good News from the Vatican" | Universe 1 (Doubleday) | [12] |
|---|
| Gardner Dozois | "Horse of Air" | Orbit 8 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [12] |
| Stephen Goldin | "The Last Ghost" | Protostars (Ballantine Books) | [12] |
| George Zebrowski | "Heathen God" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [12] |
| 1972 | Joanna Russ* | "When It Changed" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) | [13] |
|---|
| Harlan Ellison | "On the Downhill Side" | Universe 2 (Doubleday) | [13] |
| Frederik Pohl | "Shaffery Among the Immortals" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [13] |
| Robert Silverberg | "When We Went to See the End of the World" | Universe 2 (Doubleday) | [13] |
| James Tiptree, Jr. | "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [13] |
| Gene Wolfe | "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) | [13] |
| 1973 | James Tiptree, Jr.* | "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" | The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books) | [14] |
|---|
| Edward Bryant | "Shark" | Orbit 12 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [14] |
| George R. R. Martin | "With Morning Comes Mistfall" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [14] |
| Vonda N. McIntyre | "Wings" | The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books) | [14] |
| Norman Spinrad | "A Thing of Beauty" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [14] |
| Gene Wolfe | "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [14] |
| 1974 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | "The Day Before the Revolution" | Galaxy Science Fiction | [15] |
|---|
| Philip José Farmer | "After King Kong Fell" | Omega (Walker & Co.) | [15] |
| Roger Zelazny | "The Engine at Heartspring's Center" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [15] |
| 1975 | Fritz Leiber* | "Catch That Zeppelin!" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [16] |
|---|
| Gregory Benford | "Doing Lennon" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [16] |
| Gregory Benford | "White Creatures" | New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row) | [16] |
| Jorge Luis Borges | "Utopia of a Tired Man" | The New Yorker | [16] |
| Algis Budrys | "A Scraping at the Bones" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [16] |
| Phyllis Eisenstein | "Attachment" | Amazing Stories | [16] |
| Harlan Ellison | "Shatterday" | Gallery | [16] |
| Nicholas Fisk | "Find the Lady" | New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row) | [16] |
| Charles L. Grant | "White Wolf Calling" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [16] |
| Richard A. Lupoff | "Sail the Tide of Mourning" | New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row) | [16] |
| P. J. Plauger | "Child of All Ages" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [16] |
| Frederik Pohl | "Growing Up in Edge City" | Epoch (Berkley Books) | [16] |
| Craig Strete | "Time Deer" | If | [16] |
| 1976 | Charles L. Grant* | "A Crowd of Shadows" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [17] |
|---|
| Joe Haldeman | "Tricentennial" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [17] |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" | Dystopian Visions (Prentice Hall) | [17] |
| Jake Saunders | "Back to the Stone Age" | Lone Star Universe (Heidelberg Publishers) | [17] |
| Lisa Tuttle | "Stone Circle" | Amazing Stories | [17] |
| Howard Waldrop | "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" | Orbit 18 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) | [17] |
| 1977 | Harlan Ellison* | "Jeffty Is Five" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [18] |
|---|
| Dennis R. Bailey | "Tin Woodman" | Amazing Stories | [18] |
| David Bischoff |
| Edward Bryant | "The Hibakusha Gallery" | Penthouse | [18] |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | "Camera Obscura" | Cosmos | [18] |
| John Varley | "Air Raid" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [18] |
| 1978 | Edward Bryant* | "Stone" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [19] |
|---|
| C. J. Cherryh | "Cassandra" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [19] |
| Jack Dann | "A Quiet Revolution for Death" | New Dimensions 8 (Harper & Row) | [19] |
| 1979 | Edward Bryant* | "giANTS" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [20] |
|---|
| Michael Bishop | "Vernalfest Morning" | Chrysalis 3 (Zebra Books) | [20] |
| Orson Scott Card | "Unaccompanied Sonata" | Omni | [20] |
| Tanith Lee | "Red as Blood" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [20] |
| George R. R. Martin | "The Way of Cross and Dragon" | Omni | [20] |
| Joanna Russ | "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [20] |
| 1980 | Clifford D. Simak* | "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [21] |
|---|
| Charles L. Grant | "Secrets of the Heart" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [21] |
| Bob Leman | "Window" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [21] |
| Gene Wolfe | "War Beneath the Tree" | Omni | [21] |
| Craig Strete (withdrawn) | "A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather" | New Dimensions 11 (Harper & Row) | [21] |
| 1981 | Lisa Tuttle* (refused)[a] | "The Bone Flute" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [23] |
|---|
| Jack Dann | "Going Under" | Omni | [23] |
| Gardner Dozois | "Disciples" | Penthouse | [23] |
| William Gibson | "Johnny Mnemonic" | Omni | [23] |
| George Guthridge | "The Quiet" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [23] |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | "Venice Drowned" | Universe 11 (Doubleday) | [23] |
| Timothy R. Sullivan | "Zeke" | Twilight Zone | [23] |
| John Varley | "The Pusher" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [23] |
| 1982 | Connie Willis* | "A Letter from the Clearys" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [24] |
|---|
| Greg Bear | "Petra" | Omni | [24] |
| Jack C. Haldeman II | "High Steel" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [24] |
| Jack Dann |
| Barry N. Malzberg | "Corridors" | The Engines of the Night (Doubleday) | [24] |
| Robert Silverberg | "The Pope of the Chimps" | Perpetual Light (Warner Books) | [24] |
| Howard Waldrop | "God's Hooks!" | Universe 12 (Doubleday) | [24] |
| 1983 | Gardner Dozois* | "The Peacemaker" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [25] |
|---|
| Leigh Kennedy | "Her Furry Face" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [25] |
| Jack McDevitt | "Cryptic" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [25] |
| Chad Oliver | "Ghost Town" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [25] |
| Hilbert Schenck | "The Geometry of Narrative" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction | [25] |
| William F. Wu | "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" | Amazing Stories | [25] |
| 1984 | Gardner Dozois* | "Morning Child" | Omni | [26] |
|---|
| George Alec Effinger | "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [26] |
| Lucius Shepard | "Salvador" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [26] |
| Bruce Sterling | "Sunken Gardens" | Omni | [26] |
| Gene Wolfe | "A Cabin on the Coast" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [26] |
| George Zebrowski | "The Eichmann Variations" | Light Years and Dark (Berkley Books) | [26] |
| 1985 | Nancy Kress* | "Out of All Them Bright Stars" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [27] |
|---|
| James Blaylock | "Paper Dragons" | Imaginary Lands (Ace Books) | [27] |
| John Crowley | "Snow" | Omni | [27] |
| Gardner Dozois | "The Gods of Mars" | Omni | [27] |
| Jack Dann |
| Michael Swanwick |
| Joe Haldeman | "More Than the Sum of His Parts" | Playboy | [27] |
| Howard Waldrop | "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" | Omni | [27] |
| Howard Waldrop | "Heirs of the Perisphere" | Playboy | [27] |
| William F. Wu | "Hong's Bluff" | Omni | [27] |
| 1986 | Greg Bear* | "Tangents" | Omni | [28] |
|---|
| Isaac Asimov | "Robot Dreams" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [28] |
| Pat Cadigan | "Pretty Boy Crossover" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [28] |
| James Patrick Kelly | "Rat" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [28] |
| Nancy Springer | "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [28] |
| Howard Waldrop | "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" | Omni | [28] |
| 1987 | Kate Wilhelm* | "Forever Yours, Anna" | Omni | [29] |
|---|
| Pat Cadigan | "Angel" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [29] |
| Paul Di Filippo | "Kid Charlemagne" | Amazing Stories | [29] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "The Faithful Companion at Forty" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [29] |
| Lisa Goldstein | "Cassandra's Photographs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [29] |
| Susan Shwartz | "Temple to a Minor Goddess" | Amazing Stories | [29] |
| Lawrence Watt-Evans | "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [29] |
| 1988 | James K. Morrow* | "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" | Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra) | [30] |
|---|
| Thomas M. Disch | "Voices of the Kill" | Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra) | [30] |
| John Kessel | "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [30] |
| Jack McDevitt | "The Fort Moxie Branch" | Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra) | [30] |
| Pat Murphy | "Dead Men on TV" | Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra) | [30] |
| Steven Popkes | "The Color Winter" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [30] |
| 1989 | Geoffrey A. Landis* | "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [31] |
|---|
| Mary C. Aldridge | "The Adinkra Cloth" | Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine | [31] |
| Michael Bishop | "The Ommatidium Miniatures" | The Microverse (Bantam Spectra) | [31] |
| Orson Scott Card | "Lost Boys" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [31] |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | "Boobs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [31] |
| Bruce Sterling | "Dori Bangs" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [31] |
| 1990 | Terry Bisson* | "Bears Discover Fire" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [32] |
|---|
| Pat Cadigan | "The Power and the Passion" | Omni | [32] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "Lieserl" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [32] |
| Pat Murphy | "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" | Alien Sex (Dutton Penguin) | [32] |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | "Before I Wake" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [32] |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "Story Child" | Aboriginal SF | [32] |
| 1991 | Alan Brennert* | "Ma Qui" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [33] |
|---|
| Terry Bisson | "They're Made Out of Meat" | Omni | [33] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "The Dark" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [33] |
| John Kessel | "Buffalo" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [33] |
| Martha Soukup | "Dog's Life" | Amazing Stories | [33] |
| W. Gregory Stewart | "The Button, and What You Know" | Amazing Stories | [33] |
| 1992 | Connie Willis* | "Even the Queen" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [34] |
|---|
| Michael Bishop | "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" | Omni | [34] |
| Paul Di Filippo | "Lennon Spex" | Amazing Stories | [34] |
| Nancy Kress | "The Mountain to Mohammed" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [34] |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | "Vinland the Dream" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [34] |
| Martha Soukup | "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [34] |
| 1993 | Joe Haldeman* | "Graves" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [35] |
|---|
| Harlan Ellison | "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" | Omni | [35] |
| Esther Friesner | "All Vows" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [35] |
| Lisa Goldstein | "Alfred" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [35] |
| Bridget McKenna | "The Good Pup" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [35] |
| William John Watkins | "The Beggar in the Living Room" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [35] |
| 1994 | Martha Soukup* | "A Defense of the Social Contracts" | Science Fiction Age | [36] |
|---|
| Ben Bova | "Inspiration" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [36] |
| Joe Haldeman | "None So Blind" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [36] |
| Barry N. Malzberg | "Understanding Entropy" | Science Fiction Age | [36] |
| Maureen F. McHugh | "Virtual Love" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [36] |
| Kate Wilhelm | "I Know What You're Thinking" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [36] |
| 1995 | Esther Friesner* | "Death and the Librarian" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [37] |
|---|
| Kelley Eskridge | "Alien Jane" | Century | [37] |
| Owl Goingback | "Grass Dancer" | Excalibur (Warner Aspect) | [37] |
| Lisa Goldstein | "The Narcissus Plague" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [37] |
| Geoffrey A. Landis | "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" | Science Fiction Age | [37] |
| Maureen F. McHugh | "The Lincoln Train" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [37] |
| Dave Smeds | "Short Timer" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [37] |
| 1996 | Esther Friesner* | "A Birthday" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
|---|
| Kent Brewster | "In the Pound, Near Breaktime" | Tomorrow Speculative Fiction | [38] |
| Kathleen Ann Goonan | "The String" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
| Jonathan Lethem | "Five Fucks" | The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye (Harcourt Brace) | [38] |
| Bruce Holland Rogers | "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of" | Enchanted Forests (DAW Books) | [38] |
| Dean Wesley Smith | "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [38] |
| 1997 | Jane Yolen* | "Sister Emily's Lightship" | Starlight 1 (Tor Books) | [39] |
|---|
| Gregory Feeley | "The Crab Lice" | Alternate Tyrants (Tor Books) | [39] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "The Elizabeth Complex" | Crank! | [39] |
| James Patrick Kelly | "Itsy Bitsy Spider" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [39] |
| Michael Swanwick | "The Dead" | Starlight 1 (Tor Books) | [39] |
| K. D. Wentworth | "Burning Bright" | Aboriginal SF | [39] |
| 1998 | Bruce Holland Rogers* | "Thirteen Ways to Water" | Black Cats and Broken Mirrors (DAW Books) | [40] |
|---|
| Steven Brust | "When the Bow Breaks" | The Essential Bordertown (Tor Books) | [40] |
| Karen Joy Fowler | "Standing Room Only" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [40] |
| Lisa Goldstein | "Fortune and Misfortune" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [40] |
| Geoffrey A. Landis | "Winter Fire" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [40] |
| K. D. Wentworth | "Tall One" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [40] |
| 1999 | Leslie What* | "The Cost of Doing Business" | Amazing Stories | [41] |
|---|
| Constance Ash | "Flower Kiss" | Realms of Fantasy | [41] |
| Bruce Holland Rogers | "The Dead Boy at Your Window" | North American Review | [41] |
| Frances Sherwood | "Basil the Dog" | Atlantic Monthly | [41] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Radiant Doors" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [41] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Ancient Engines" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [41] |
| 2000 | Terry Bisson* | "Macs" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [42] |
|---|
| Jeffrey Ford | "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [42] |
| Ellen Klages | "Flying Over Water" | Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet | [42] |
| Severna Park | "The Golem" | Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Avon Books) | [42] |
| Michael Swanwick | "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [42] |
| Pat York | "You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine" | Silver Birch, Blood Moon (Avon Books) | [42] |
| 2001 | Severna Park* | "The Cure for Everything" | Sci Fiction | [43] |
|---|
| Michael A. Burstein | "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [43] |
| Mike Resnick | "The Elephants on Neptune" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [43] |
| Sherwood Smith | "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" | Realms of Fantasy | [43] |
| George Zebrowski | "Wound the Wind" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [43] |
| 2002 | Carol Emshwiller* | "Creature" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [44] |
|---|
| Jeffrey Ford | "Creation" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [44] |
| Megan Lindholm | "Cut" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [44] |
| Jack McDevitt | "Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City" | Artemis | [44] |
| Tim Pratt | "Little Gods" | Strange Horizons | [44] |
| Michael Swanwick | "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [44] |
| 2003 | Karen Joy Fowler* | "What I Didn't See" | Sci Fiction | [45] |
|---|
| Eleanor Arnason | "Knapsack Poems" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| Kevin Brockmeier | "The Brief History of the Dead" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| Harlan Ellison | "Good-Bye to All That" | McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Hamish Hamilton) | [45] |
| Carol Emshwiller | "Grandma" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [45] |
| Molly Gloss | "Lambing Season" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| James Van Pelt | "The Last of the O-Forms" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [45] |
| 2004 | Eileen Gunn* | "Coming to Terms" | Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon Publications) | [46] |
|---|
| Mike Moscoe | "The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [46] |
| Mike Resnick | "Travels with My Cats" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [46] |
| Benjamin Rosenbaum | "Embracing-The-New" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [46] |
| Greg van Eekhout | "In the Late December" | Strange Horizons | [46] |
| Ken Wharton | "Aloha" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | [46] |
| 2005 | Carol Emshwiller* | "I Live With You" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [47] |
|---|
| K. D. Wentworth | "Born Again" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [47] |
| Dale Bailey | "The End of the World as We Know It" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [47] |
| Nancy Kress | "My Mother, Dancing" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [47] |
| Margo Lanagan | "Singing My Sister Down" | Black Juice (Allen & Unwin) | [47] |
| Anne Harris | "Still Life with Boobs" | Talebones | [47] |
| Richard Bowes | "There's a Hole in the City" | Sci Fiction | [47] |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Hand* | "Echo" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [48] |
|---|
| Esther Friesner | "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [48] |
| Eugene Mirabelli | "The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [48] |
| Jack McDevitt | "Henry James, This One's for You" | Subterranean Magazine | [48] |
| Karina Sumner-Smith | "An End to All Things" | Children of Magic (DAW Books) | [48] |
| Theodora Goss | "Pip and the Fairies" | Strange Horizons | [48] |
| 2007 | Karen Joy Fowler* | "Always" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [49] |
|---|
| Andy Duncan | "Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse" | Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books) | [49] |
| David D. Levine | "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [49] |
| Vera Nazarian | "The Story of Love" | Salt of the Air (Prime Books) | [49] |
| Jennifer Pelland | "Captive Girl" | Helix SF | [49] |
| Mary Turzillo | "Pride" | Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (Pyr) | [49] |
| 2008 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman* | "Trophy Wives" | Fellowship Fantastic (DAW Books) | [50] |
|---|
| Mike Allen | "The Button Bin" | Helix SF | [50] |
| Jeffrey Ford | "The Dreaming Wind" | The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press) | [50] |
| Kij Johnson | "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
| Gwyneth Jones | "The Tomb Wife" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [50] |
| James Patrick Kelly | "Don't Stop" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [50] |
| Ruth Nestvold | "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [50] |
| 2009 | Kij Johnson* | "Spar" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [51] |
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| Saladin Ahmed | "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" | Clockwork Phoenix 2 (Norilana Books) | [51] |
| Michael A. Burstein | "I Remember the Future" | I Remember the Future (Apex Publications) | [51] |
| N. K. Jemisin | "Non-Zero Probabilities" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [51] |
| James Patrick Kelly | "Going Deep" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [51] |
| Will McIntosh | "Bridesicle" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [51] |
| 2010 | Harlan Ellison* | "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" | Realms of Fantasy | [52] |
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| Kij Johnson* | "Ponies" | Tor.com | [52] |
| Adam-Troy Castro | "Arvies" | Lightspeed | [52] |
| Vylar Kaftan | "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" | Lightspeed | [52] |
| Amal El-Mohtar | "The Green Book" | Apex Magazine | [52] |
| Jennifer Pelland | "Ghosts of New York" | Dark Faith (Apex Publications) | [52] |
| Felicity Shoulders | "Conditional Love" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [52] |
| 2011 | Ken Liu* | "The Paper Menagerie" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [53] |
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| Adam-Troy Castro | "Her Husband's Hands" | Lightspeed | [53] |
| Tom Crosshill | "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" | Lightspeed | [53] |
| Nancy Fulda | "Movement" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [53] |
| Aliette de Bodard | "Shipbirth" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [53] |
| David W. Goldman | "The Axiom of Choice" | New Haven Review | [53] |
| E. Lily Yu | "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [53] |
| 2012 | Aliette de Bodard* | "Immersion" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [54] |
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| Helena Bell | "Robot" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [54] |
| Tom Crosshill | "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [54] |
| Leah Cypess | "Nanny's Day" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [54] |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream" | Lightspeed | [54] |
| Ken Liu | "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" | Lightspeed | [54] |
| Cat Rambo | "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" | Near + Far (Hydra House) | [54] |
| 2013 | Rachel Swirsky* | "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" | Apex Magazine | [55] |
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| Matthew Kressel | "The Sounds of Old Earth" | Lightspeed | [55] |
| Sofia Samatar | "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" | Strange Horizons | [55] |
| Kenneth Schneyer | "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" | Clockwork Phoenix 4 (Mythic Delirium Books) | [55] |
| Sylvia Spruck Wrigley | "Alive, Alive Oh" | Lightspeed | [55] |
| 2014 | Ursula Vernon* | "Jackalope Wives" | Apex Magazine | [56] |
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| Aliette de Bodard | "The Breath of War" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [56] |
| Eugie Foster | "When It Ends, He Catches Her" | Daily Science Fiction | [56] |
| Matthew Kressel | "The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [56] |
| Usman T. Malik | "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" | Qualia Nous (Written Backwards) | [56] |
| Sarah Pinsker | "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [56] |
| Alyssa Wong | "The Fisher Queen" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [56] |
| 2015 | Alyssa Wong* | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" | Nightmare Magazine | [57] |
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| Naomi Kritzer | "Cat Pictures Please" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [57] |
| David D. Levine | "Damage" | Tor.com | [57] |
| Amal El-Mohtar | "Madeleine" | Lightspeed | [57] |
| Martin L. Shoemaker | "Today I Am Paul" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [57] |
| Sam J. Miller | "When Your Child Strays from God" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [57] |
| 2016 | Amal El-Mohtar* | "Seasons of Glass and Iron" | The Starlit Wood (Saga Press) | [58] |
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| Brooke Bolander | "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" | Uncanny Magazine | [58] |
| Barbara Krasnoff | "Sabbath Wine" | Clockwork Phoenix 5 (Mythic Delirium Books) | [58] |
| Sam J. Miller | "Things With Beards" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [58] |
| A. Merc Rustad | "This Is Not a Wardrobe Door" | Fireside Magazine | [58] |
| Alyssa Wong | "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" | Tor.com | [58] |
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station │ Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0" | Lightspeed | [58] |
| 2017 | Rebecca Roanhorse* | "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" | Apex Magazine | [59] |
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| Vina Jie-Min Prasad | "Fandom for Robots" | Uncanny Magazine | [59] |
| Jamie Wahls | "Utopia, LOL?" | Strange Horizons | [59] |
| Fran Wilde | "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" | Uncanny Magazine | [59] |
| Matthew Kressel | "The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)" | Tor.com | [59] |
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "Carnival Nine" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [60] |
| 2018 | Phenderson Djèlí Clark* | "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" | Fireside Magazine | [60] |
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| A. T. Greenblatt | "And Yet" | Uncanny Magazine | [60] |
| Sarah Pinsker | "The Court Magician" | Lightspeed | [60] |
| Richard Fox | "Going Dark" | Backblast Area Clear (Ellen Campbell) | [60] |
| Rhett C. Bruno | "Interview for the End of the World" | Bridge Across the Stars (Sci-Fi Bridge) | [60] |
| Alix E. Harrow | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" | Apex Magazine | [60] |
| 2019 | A. T. Greenblatt* | "Give the Family My Love" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [61] |
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| Karen Osborne | "The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" | Uncanny Magazine | [61] |
| Shiv Ramdas | "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" | Strange Horizons | [61] |
| Nibedita Sen | "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" | Nightmare Magazine | [61] |
| Fran Wilde | "A Catalog of Storms" | Uncanny Magazine | [61] |
| A. C. Wise | "How the Trick Is Done" | Uncanny Magazine | [61] |
| 2020 | John Wiswell* | "Open House on Haunted Hill" | Diabolical Plots | [62] |
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| Rae Carson | "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse" | Uncanny Magazine | [62] |
| Aimee Picchi | "Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math" | Daily Science Fiction | [62] |
| Vina Jie-Min Prasad | "A Guide for Working Breeds" | Made to Order: Robots and Revolution (Solaris Books) | [62] |
| Jason Sanford | "The Eight-Thousanders" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [62] |
| Eugenia Triantafyllou | "My Country Is a Ghost" | Uncanny Magazine | [62] |
| 2021 | Sarah Pinsker* | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | Uncanny Magazine | [63] |
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| Alix E. Harrow | "Mr. Death" | Apex Magazine | [63] |
| José Pablo Iriarte | "Proof by Induction" | Uncanny Magazine | [63] |
| Sam J. Miller | "Let All the Children Boogie" | Tor.com | [63] |
| Suzan Palumbo | "Laughter Among the Trees" | The Dark | [63] |
| John Wiswell | "For Lack of a Bed" | Diabolical Plots | [63] |
| 2022 | Samantha Mills* | "Rabbit Test" | Uncanny Magazine | [64] |
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| John Wiswell | "D.I.Y." | Tor.com | [64] |
| Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | "Destiny Delayed" | Asimov's Science Fiction | [64] |
| Ian Muneshwar | "Dick Pig" | Nightmare Magazine | [64] |
| Suzan Palumbo | "Douen" | The Dark | [64] |
| Ai Jiang | "Give Me English" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | [64] |
| 2023 | R. S. A. Garcia* | "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" | Uncanny Magazine | [65] |
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| P. A. Cornell | "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" | Fantasy | [65] |
| Thomas Ha | "Window Boy" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [65] |
| Rachael K. Jones | "The Sound of Children Screaming" | Nightmare Magazine | [65] |
| Naomi Kritzer | "Better Living Through Algorithms" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [65] |
| John Wiswell | "Bad Doors" | Uncanny Magazine | [65] |
| 2024 | Isabel J. Kim | "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" | Clarkesworld Magazine | [66] |
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| Jordan Kurella | "Evan: A Remainder" | Reactor | [66] |
| Rachael K. Jones | "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" | Lightspeed | [66] |
| PH Lee | "The V*mpire" | Reactor | [66] |
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" | Lightspeed | [66] |
| Jennifer Hudak | "The Witch Trap" | Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet | [66] |