| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2009 |
|
Neal Stephenson |
Anathem |
| 2008 |
|
Michael Chabon |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
| 2007 |
|
Vernor Vinge |
Rainbows End |
| 2006 |
|
Charles Stross |
Accelerando |
| 2005 |
|
Neal Stephenson |
The System of the World, The Confusion |
| 2004 |
|
Dan Simmons |
Ilium |
| 2003 |
|
Kim Stanley Robinson |
The Years of Rice and Salt |
| 2002 |
|
Connie Willis |
Passage |
| 2001 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Telling |
| 2000 |
|
Neal Stephenson |
Cryptonomicon |
| 1999 |
|
Connie Willis |
To Say Nothing of the Dog |
| 1998 |
|
Dan Simmons |
The Rise of Endymion |
| 1997 |
|
Kim Stanley Robinson |
Blue Mars |
| 1996 |
|
Neal Stephenson |
The Diamond Age |
| 1995 |
|
Lois McMaster Bujold |
Mirror Dance |
| 1994 |
|
Kim Stanley Robinson |
Green Mars |
| 1993 |
|
Connie Willis |
Doomsday Book |
| 1992 |
|
Lois McMaster Bujold |
Barrayar |
| 1991 |
|
Dan Simmons |
The Fall of Hyperion |
| 1990 |
|
Dan Simmons |
Hyperion |
| 1989 |
|
C. J. Cherryh |
Cyteen |
| 1988 |
|
David Brin |
The Uplift War |
| 1987 |
|
Orson Scott Card |
Speaker for the Dead |
| 1986 |
|
David Brin |
The Postman |
| 1985 |
|
Larry Niven |
The Integral Trees |
| 1984 |
|
David Brin |
Startide Rising |
| 1983 |
|
Isaac Asimov |
Foundation's Edge |
| 1982 |
|
Julian May |
The Many-Colored Land |
| 1981 |
|
Joan D. Vinge |
The Snow Queen |
| 1980 |
|
John Varley |
Titan |
