| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2009 |
|
Paul Melko |
Singularity's Ring |
| 2008 |
|
Joe Hill |
Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel |
| 2007 |
|
Naomi Novik |
His Majesty's Dragon |
| 2006 |
|
Elizabeth Bear |
Hammered |
| 2005 |
|
Susanna Clarke |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
| 2004 |
|
Cory Doctorow |
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |
| 2003 |
|
Alexander C. Irvine |
A Scattering of Jades |
| 2002 |
|
Jacqueline Carey |
Kushiel's Dart |
| 2001 |
|
Geoffrey A. Landis |
Mars Crossing |
| 2000 |
|
Paul Levinson |
The Silk Code |
| 1999 |
|
Nalo Hopkinson |
Brown Girl in the Ring |
| 1998 |
|
Ian R. MacLeod |
The Great Wheel |
| 1997 |
|
Sarah Zettel |
Reclamation |
| 1997 |
|
Sage Walker |
Whiteout |
| 1996 |
|
Linda Nagata |
The Bohr Maker |
| 1995 |
|
Jonathan Lethem |
Gun, with Occasional Music |
| 1994 |
|
Patricia Anthony |
Cold Allies |
| 1993 |
|
Maureen F. McHugh |
China Mountain Zhang |
| 1992 |
|
Kathe Koja |
The Cipher |
| 1991 |
|
Michael F. Flynn |
In the Country of the Blind |
| 1990 |
|
Allen Steele |
Orbital Decay |
| 1989 |
|
Ian McDonald |
Desolation Road |
| 1988 |
|
Emma Bull |
War for the Oaks |
| 1987 |
|
Jack McDevitt |
The Hercules Text |
| 1986 |
|
Carl Sagan |
Contact |
| 1985 |
|
Kim Stanley Robinson |
The Wild Shore |
| 1984 |
|
R. A. MacAvoy |
Tea with the Black Dragon |
| 1983 |
|
Donald Kingsbury |
Courtship Rite |
| 1982 |
|
S. P. Somtow |
Starship & Haiku |
| 1981 |
|
Robert L. Forward |
Dragon's Egg |
