| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2013 |
|
Aliette de Bodard |
The Waiting Stars |
| 2012 |
|
Andy Duncan |
Close Encounters |
| 2011 |
|
Geoff Ryman |
What We Found |
| 2010 |
|
Eric James Stone |
That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made |
| 2009 |
|
Eugie Foster |
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast |
| 2008 |
|
John Kessel |
Pride and Prometheus |
| 2007 |
|
Ted Chiang |
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate |
| 2006 |
|
Peter S. Beagle |
Two Hearts |
| 2005 |
|
Kelly Link |
The Faery Handbag |
| 2004 |
|
Ellen Klages |
Basement Magic |
| 2003 |
|
Jeffrey Ford |
The Empire of Ice Cream |
| 2002 |
|
Ted Chiang |
Hell is the Absence of God |
| 2001 |
|
Kelly Link |
Louise's Ghost |
| 2000 |
|
Walter Jon Williams |
Daddy's World |
| 1999 |
|
Mary Turzillo |
Mars Is No Place for Children |
| 1998 |
|
Jane Yolen |
Lost Girls |
| 1997 |
|
Nancy Kress |
The Flowers of Aulit Prison |
| 1996 |
|
Bruce Holland Rogers |
Lifeboat on a Burning Sea |
| 1995 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Solitude |
| 1994 |
|
David Gerrold |
The Martian Child |
| 1993 |
|
Charles Sheffield |
Georgia On My Mind |
| 1992 |
|
Pamela Sargent |
Danny Goes to Mars |
| 1991 |
|
Michael Conner |
Guide Dog |
| 1990 |
|
Ted Chiang |
Tower of Babylon |
| 1989 |
|
Connie Willis |
At the Rialto |
| 1988 |
|
George Alec Effinger |
Schrödinger's Kitten |
| 1987 |
|
Pat Murphy |
Rachel in Love |
| 1986 |
|
Kate Wilhelm |
The Girl Who Fell into the Sky |
| 1985 |
|
George R. R. Martin |
Portraits of His Children |
| 1984 |
|
Octavia E. Butler |
Bloodchild |
| 1983 |
|
Greg Bear |
Blood Music |
| 1982 |
|
Connie Willis |
Fire Watch |
| 1981 |
|
Michael Bishop |
The Quickening |
| 1980 |
|
Howard Waldrop |
The Ugly Chickens |
| 1979 |
|
George R. R. Martin |
Sandkings |
| 1978 |
|
Charles L. Grant |
A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye |
| 1977 |
|
James Tiptree, Jr. |
The Screwfly Solution |
| 1976 |
|
Isaac Asimov |
The Bicentennial Man |
| 1975 |
|
Tom Reamy |
San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories |
| 1974 |
|
Gregory Benford |
If the Stars Are Gods |
|
Gordon Eklund |
If the Stars Are Gods |
| 1973 |
|
Vonda N. McIntyre |
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand |
| 1972 |
|
Poul Anderson |
Goat Song |
| 1971 |
|
Poul Anderson |
The Queen of Air and Darkness |
| 1970 |
|
Theodore Sturgeon |
Slow Sculpture |
| 1969 |
|
Samuel R. Delany |
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones |
| 1968 |
|
Richard Wilson |
Mother to the World |
| 1967 |
|
Fritz Leiber |
Gonna Roll the Bones |
| 1966 |
|
Gordon R. Dickson |
Call Him Lord |
| 1965 |
|
Roger Zelazny |
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth |
