| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2014 |
|
Charles Stross |
Equoid |
| 2013 |
|
Brandon Sanderson |
The Emperor's Soul |
| 2012 |
|
Kij Johnson |
The Man Who Bridged the Mist |
| 2011 |
|
Ted Chiang |
The Lifecycle of Software Objects |
| 2010 |
|
Charles Stross |
Palimpsest |
| 2009 |
|
Nancy Kress |
The Erdmann Nexus |
| 2008 |
|
Connie Willis |
All Seated on the Ground |
| 2007 |
|
Robert Reed |
A Billion Eves |
| 2006 |
|
Connie Willis |
Inside Job |
| 2005 |
|
Charles Stross |
The Concrete Jungle |
| 2004 |
|
Vernor Vinge |
The Cookie Monster |
| 2003 |
|
Neil Gaiman |
Coraline |
| 2002 |
|
Vernor Vinge |
Fast Times at Fairmont High |
| 2001 |
|
Jack Williamson |
The Ultimate Earth |
| 2000 |
|
Connie Willis |
The Winds of Marble Arch |
| 1999 |
|
Greg Egan |
Oceanic |
| 1998 |
|
Allen Steele |
\u2026Where Angels Fear to Tread |
| 1997 |
|
George R. R. Martin |
Blood of the Dragon |
| 1996 |
|
Allen Steele |
The Death of Captain Future |
| 1995 |
|
Mike Resnick |
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge |
| 1994 |
|
Harry Turtledove |
Down in the Bottomlands |
| 1993 |
|
Lucius Shepard |
Barnacle Bill the Spacer |
| 1992 |
|
Nancy Kress |
Beggars in Spain |
| 1991 |
|
Joe Haldeman |
The Hemingway Hoax |
| 1990 |
|
Lois McMaster Bujold |
The Mountains of Mourning |
| 1989 |
|
Connie Willis |
The Last of the Winnebagos |
| 1988 |
|
Orson Scott Card |
Eye for Eye |
| 1987 |
|
Robert Silverberg |
Gilgamesh in the Outback |
| 1986 |
|
Roger Zelazny |
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai |
| 1985 |
|
John Varley |
Press Enter |
| 1984 |
|
Timothy Zahn |
Cascade Point |
| 1983 |
|
Joanna Russ |
Souls |
| 1982 |
|
Poul Anderson |
The Saturn Game |
| 1981 |
|
Gordon R. Dickson |
Lost Dorsai |
| 1980 |
|
Barry B. Longyear |
Enemy Mine |
| 1979 |
|
John Varley |
The Persistence of Vision |
| 1978 |
|
Spider Robinson |
Stardance |
|
Jeanne Robinson |
Stardance |
| 1977 |
|
Spider Robinson |
By Any Other Name |
| 1977 |
|
James Tiptree, Jr. |
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? |
| 1976 |
|
Roger Zelazny |
Home Is the Hangman |
| 1975 |
|
George R. R. Martin |
A Song for Lya |
| 1974 |
|
James Tiptree, Jr. |
The Girl Who Was Plugged In |
| 1973 |
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Word for World is Forest |
| 1972 |
|
Poul Anderson |
The Queen of Air and Darkness |
| 1971 |
|
Fritz Leiber |
Ill Met in Lankhmar |
| 1970 |
|
Fritz Leiber |
Ship of Shadows |
| 1969 |
|
Robert Silverberg |
Nightwings |
| 1968 |
|
Anne McCaffrey |
Weyr Search |
| 1968 |
|
Philip José Farmer |
Riders of the Purple Wage |
