| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2009 |
|
Ted Chiang |
Exhalation |
| 2008 |
|
Michael Swanwick |
A Small Room in Koboldtown |
| 2007 |
|
Neil Gaiman |
How to Talk to Girls at Parties |
| 2006 |
|
Neil Gaiman |
Sunbird |
| 2005 |
|
Neil Gaiman |
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire |
| 2004 |
|
Neil Gaiman |
Closing Time |
| 2003 |
|
Neil Gaiman |
October in the Chair |
| 2002 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Bones of the Earth |
| 2001 |
|
Larry Niven |
The Missing Mass |
| 2000 |
|
Terry Bisson |
macs |
| 1999 |
|
Bruce Sterling |
Maneki Neko |
| 1998 |
|
James Patrick Kelly |
Itsy Bitsy Spider |
| 1997 |
|
John Crowley |
Gone |
| 1996 |
|
Maureen F. McHugh |
The Lincoln Train |
| 1995 |
|
Joe Haldeman |
None So Blind |
| 1994 |
|
Connie Willis |
Close Encounter |
| 1993 |
|
Connie Willis |
Even the Queen |
| 1992 |
|
John Kessel |
Buffalo |
| 1991 |
|
Terry Bisson |
Bears Discover Fire |
| 1990 |
|
Orson Scott Card |
Lost Boys |
| 1989 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
Eidolons |
| 1988 |
|
Pat Cadigan |
Angel |
| 1987 |
|
Isaac Asimov |
Robot Dreams |
| 1986 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole |
| 1985 |
|
Lucius Shepard |
Salvador |
| 1984 |
|
James Tiptree, Jr. |
Beyond the Dead Reef |
| 1983 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Sur |
| 1982 |
|
John Varley |
The Pusher |
| 1981 |
|
Clifford D. Simak |
Grotto of the Dancing Deer |
| 1980 |
|
George R. R. Martin |
The Way of Cross and Dragon |
| 1979 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
Count the Clock that Tells the Time |
| 1978 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
Jeffty Is Five |
| 1977 |
|
Joe Haldeman |
Tricentennial |
| 1976 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
Croatoan |
| 1975 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Day Before the Revolution |
| 1974 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
The Deathbird |
| 1973 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
Basilisk |
| 1972 |
|
Poul Anderson |
The Queen of Air and Darkness |
| 1971 |
|
Harlan Ellison |
The Region Between |
