# Nebula Award for Best Novelette

The Nebula Award for Best Novelette is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a science fiction or fantasy novelette. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novelette if it is between 7,500 and 17,500 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the Novel and Novella categories, and for shorter lengths in the Short Story category. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a novelette must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition. The Nebula Award for Best Novelette has been awarded annually since 1966. The Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.
Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year by members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Soon after, members are given a month to vote on the ballot, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. The rules were changed to their current format in 2009. Previously, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.
During the 60 nomination years, 240 authors have had works nominated; 51 of these have won, including co-authors and ties. Ted Chiang has won three times out of three nominations, and Poul Anderson, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Sarah Pinsker, and Connie Willis have each won twice out of five, two, four, six, and five nominations, respectively. One of Anderson's nominations was under the pseudonym Michael Karageorge. Ursula K. Le Guin has the most nominations of any author with seven, including one win and not including one withdrawn nomination. James Patrick Kelly and Richard Bowes are tied for the most nominations without winning at six.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners and joint winners
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author(s) | Novelette | Publisher or publication |
| 1966 | Roger Zelazny* | "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1966 | James Blish | "The Shipwrecked Hotel" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1966 | Norman L. Knight | "The Shipwrecked Hotel" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1966 | Jonathan Brand | "Vanishing Point" | If |
| 1966 | Thomas M. Disch | "102 H-Bombs" | Fantastic |
| 1966 | R. C. Fitzpatrick | "Half a Loaf" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1966 | Joseph Green | "The Decision Makers" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1966 | Norman Kagan | "At the Institute" | Worlds of Tomorrow |
| 1966 | Norman Kagan | "The Earth Merchants" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1966 | Norman Kagan | "Laugh Along with Franz" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1966 | Michael Karageorge | "The Life of Your Time" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1966 | Fritz Leiber | "Four Ghosts In Hamlet" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1966 | E. Clayton McCarty | "Small One" | If |
| 1966 | Mack Reynolds | "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1966 | Fred Saberhagen | "Masque of the Red Shift" | If |
| 1966 | James H. Schmitz | "Goblin Night" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1966 | James H. Schmitz | "Planet of Forgetting" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1966 | J. W. Schutz | "Maiden Voyage" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1966 | Robert Sheckley | "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1966 | William Tenn | "The Masculinist Revolt" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1967 | Gordon R. Dickson* | "Call Him Lord" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1967 | Robert M. Green, Jr. | "Apology to Inky" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1967 | Charles L. Harness | "An Ornament to His Profession" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1967 | Hayden Howard | "The Eskimo Invasion" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1967 | Roger Zelazny | "This Moment of the Storm" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1968 | Fritz Leiber* | "Gonna Roll the Bones" | Dangerous Visions |
| 1968 | Harlan Ellison | "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" | Knight |
| 1968 | Larry Niven | "Flatlander" | If |
| 1968 | Roger Zelazny | "The Keys to December" | New Worlds |
| 1968 | Roger Zelazny | "This Mortal Mountain" | If |
| 1969 | Richard Wilson* | "Mother to the World" | Orbit 3 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1969 | Brian W. Aldiss | "Total Environment" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1969 | Poul Anderson | "The Sharing of Flesh" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1969 | James Gunn | "The Listeners" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1969 | H. H. Hollis | "The Guerrilla Trees" | If |
| 1969 | Keith Laumer | "Once There Was a Giant" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1969 | Barry N. Malzberg | "Final War" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1970 | Samuel R. Delany* | "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" | New Worlds |
| 1970 | Gregory Benford | "Deeper than the Darkness" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1970 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "Nine Lives" | Playboy |
| 1970 | Norman Spinrad | "The Big Flash" | Orbit 5 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1971 | Theodore Sturgeon* | "Slow Sculpture" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1971 | Thomas M. Disch | "The Asian Shore" | Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1971 | Gordon Eklund | "Dear Aunt Annie" | Fantastic |
| 1971 | Gerald Jonas | "The Shaker Revival" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1971 | R. A. Lafferty | "Continued on Next Rock" | Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1971 | Joanna Russ | "The Second Inquisition" | Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1972 | Poul Anderson* | "The Queen of Air and Darkness" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1972 | Gardner Dozois | "A Special Kind of Morning" | New Dimensions 1 (Doubleday) |
| 1972 | Edgar Pangborn | "Mount Charity" | Universe 1 (Ace Books) |
| 1972 | Joanna Russ | "Poor Man, Beggar Man" | Universe 1 (Ace Books) |
| 1972 | Kate Wilhelm | "The Encounter" | Orbit 8 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1973 | Poul Anderson* | "Goat Song" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1973 | Alfred Bester | "The Animal Fair" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1973 | Gardner Dozois | "A Kingdom by the Sea" | Orbit 10 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
| 1973 | Harlan Ellison | "Basilisk" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1973 | David Gerrold | "In the Deadlands" | With a Finger In My I (Ballantine Books) |
| 1973 | William Rotsler | "Patron of the Arts" | Universe 2 (Ace Books) |
| 1973 | Kate Wilhelm | "The Funeral" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
| 1974 | Vonda N. McIntyre* | "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1974 | Harlan Ellison | "The Deathbird" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1974 | Theodore Sturgeon | "Case and the Dreamer" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1974 | James Tiptree, Jr. | "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" | New Dimensions 3 (Doubleday) |
| 1975 | Gordon Eklund* | "If the Stars Are Gods" | Universe 4 (Random House) |
| 1975 | Gregory Benford* | "If the Stars Are Gods" | Universe 4 (Random House) |
| 1975 | Charles L. Grant | "The Rest Is Silence" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1975 | Tom Reamy | "Twilla" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Tom Reamy* | "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Eleanor Arnason | "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" | New Worlds 6 (Sphere Books) |
| 1976 | Michael Bishop | "Blooded on Arachne" | Epoch (Berkley Books) |
| 1976 | Richard Cowper | "The Custodians" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Jack Dann | "The Dybbuk Dolls" | New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row) |
| 1976 | Avram Davidson | "Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Randall Garrett | "The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhail" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "The New Atlantis" | The New Atlantis (Hawthorn Books) |
| 1976 | Barry N. Malzberg | "A Galaxy Called Rome" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1976 | Craig Strete | "The Bleeding Man" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
| 1976 | John Varley | "Retrograde Summer" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1977 | Isaac Asimov* | "The Bicentennial Man" | Stellar 2 (Ballantine Books) |
| 1977 | Grant Carrington | "His Hour Upon the Stage" | Amazing Stories |
| 1977 | Steven Utley | "Custer's Last Jump" | Universe 6 (Doubleday) |
| 1977 | Howard Waldrop | "Custer's Last Jump" | Universe 6 (Doubleday) |
| 1977 | John Varley | "In the Bowl" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1978 | Alice Sheldon* | "The Screwfly Solution" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1978 | Edward Bryant | "Particle Theory" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1978 | Fritz Leiber | "A Rite of Spring" | Universe 7 (Doubleday) |
| 1978 | George R. R. Martin | "The Stone City" | New Voices in Science Fiction (Macmillan Publishers) |
| 1978 | Carter Scholz | "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" | Universe 7 (Ace Books) |
| 1979 | Charles L. Grant* | "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" | Graven Images (Thomas Nelson) |
| 1979 | Orson Scott Card | "Mikal's Songbird" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1979 | Dean Ing | "Devil You Don't Know" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1980 | George R. R. Martin* | "Sandkings" | Omni |
| 1980 | Poul Anderson | "The Ways of Love" | Destinies |
| 1980 | Jack Dann | "Camps" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1980 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Pathways of Desire" | New Dimensions 9 (Harper & Row) |
| 1980 | Michael Shea | "The Angel of Death" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1980 | John Varley | "Options" | Universe 9 (Doubleday) |
| 1981 | Howard Waldrop* | "The Ugly Chickens" | Universe 10 (Doubleday) |
| 1981 | Edward Bryant | "Strata" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1981 | Stephen King | "The Way Station" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1981 | Michael Swanwick | "The Feast of Saint Janis" | New Dimensions 11 (Pocket Books) |
| 1981 | Michael Swanwick | "Ginungagap" | TriQuarterly |
| 1981 | John Varley | "Beatnik Bayou" | New Voices 3 (Berkley Books) |
| 1982 | Michael Bishop* | "The Quickening" | Universe 11 (Doubleday) |
| 1982 | Mildred Downey Broxon | "Sea Changeling" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1982 | Edward Bryant | "The Thermals of August" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1982 | Parke Godwin | "The Fire When It Comes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1982 | Michael Swanwick | "Mummer Kiss" | Universe 11 (Doubleday) |
| 1982 | James Tiptree, Jr. | "Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1983 | Connie Willis* | "Fire Watch" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1983 | J. G. Ballard | "Myths of the Near Future" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1983 | Thomas M. Disch | "Understanding Human Behavior" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1983 | William Gibson | "Burning Chrome" | Omni |
| 1983 | Joanna Russ | "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman" | Speculations (Houghton Mifflin) |
| 1983 | Bruce Sterling | "Swarm" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1984 | Greg Bear* | "Blood Music" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1984 | Jack Dann | "Blind Shemmy" | Omni |
| 1984 | George R. R. Martin | "The Monkey Treatment" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1984 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "Black Air" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1984 | Bruce Sterling | "Cicada Queen" | Universe 13 (Doubleday) |
| 1984 | Ian Watson | "Slow Birds" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1984 | Connie Willis | "The Sidon in the Mirror" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Octavia E. Butler* | "Bloodchild" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Jack Dann | "Bad Medicine" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | James Patrick Kelly | "Saint Theresa of the Aliens" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Kim Stanley Robinson | "The Lucky Strike" | Universe 14 (Doubleday) |
| 1985 | Lucius Shepard | "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1985 | Michael Swanwick | "Trojan Horse" | Omni |
| 1986 | George R. R. Martin* | "Portraits of His Children" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1986 | Michael Bishop | "A Gift from the GrayLanders" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1986 | Orson Scott Card | "The Fringe" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1986 | Harlan Ellison | "Paladin of the Lost Hour" | Universe 15 (Doubleday) |
| 1986 | Michael Swanwick | "Dogfight" | Omni |
| 1986 | William Gibson | "Dogfight" | Omni |
| 1986 | Lucius Shepard | "The Jaguar Hunter" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1986 | S. C. Sykes | "Rockabye Baby" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1987 | Kate Wilhelm* | "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card | "Hatrack River" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Suzy McKee Charnas | "Listening to Brahms" | Omni |
| 1987 | William Gibson | "The Winter Market" | Stardate |
| 1987 | Judith Moffett | "Surviving" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Lucius Shepard | "Aymara" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1987 | Roger Zelazny | "Permafrost" | Omni |
| 1988 | Pat Murphy* | "Rachel in Love" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Octavia E. Butler | "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" | Omni |
| 1988 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Bruce McAllister | "Dream Baby" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Bruce Sterling | "Flowers of Edo" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1988 | Connie Willis | "Schwarzschild Radius" | The Universe (Bantam Spectra) |
| 1989 | George Alec Effinger* | "Schrödinger's Kitten" | Omni |
| 1989 | Neal Barrett, Jr. | "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1989 | Steven Gould | "Peaches for Mad Molly" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
| 1989 | Ian McDonald | "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" | Empire Dreams (Bantam Spectra) |
| 1989 | Judith Moffett | "The Hob" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1989 | Mike Resnick | "Kirinyaga" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1989 | Howard Waldrop | "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Connie Willis* | "At the Rialto" | Omni |
| 1990 | Greg Bear | "Sisters" | Tangents (Warner Books) |
| 1990 | Megan Lindholm | "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Mike Resnick | "For I Have Touched the Sky" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "Fast Cars" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1990 | Robert Silverberg | "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Ted Chiang* | "Tower of Babylon" | Omni |
| 1991 | Dafydd ab Hugh | "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Shobies' Story" | Universe 1 (Doubleday) |
| 1991 | Ian R. MacLeod | "1/72nd Scale" | Weird Tales |
| 1991 | Mike Resnick | "The Manamouki" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1991 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "A Time for Every Purpose" | Amazing Stories |
| 1991 | Susan Shwartz | "Loose Cannon" | What Might Have Been? Vol. 2: Alternate Heroes (Bantam Spectra) |
| 1991 | Martha Soukup | "Over the Long Haul" | Amazing Stories |
| 1992 | Michael Conner* | "Guide Dog" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Ray Aldridge | "Gate of Faces" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Karen Joy Fowler | "Black Glass" | Full Spectrum 3 (Doubleday) |
| 1992 | Lucius Shepard | "The All-Consuming" | Playboy |
| 1992 | Robert Frazier | "The All-Consuming" | Playboy |
| 1992 | James Patrick Kelly | "Standing In Line with Mister Jimmy" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Jonathan Lethem | "The Happy Man" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1992 | Susan Shwartz | "Getting Real" | Newer York (New American Library) |
| 1993 | Pamela Sargent* | "Danny Goes to Mars" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Gregory Benford | "Matter's End" | Full Spectrum 3 (Doubleday) |
| 1993 | S. N. Dyer | "The July Ward" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Carolyn Ives Gilman | "The Honeycrafters" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1993 | Susan Shwartz | "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." | Alternate Presidents (Tor Books) |
| 1993 | Walter Jon Williams | "Prayers on the Wind" | When the Music's Over (Bantam Spectra) |
| 1994 | Charles Sheffield* | "Georgia on My Mind" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1994 | Terry Bisson | "England Underway" | Omni |
| 1994 | Janet Kagan | "The Nutcracker Coup" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1994 | John Kessel | "The Franchise" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1994 | Martha Soukup | "Things Not Seen" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1994 | Connie Willis | "Death on the Nile" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1995 | David Gerrold* | "The Martian Child" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Terry Bisson | "Necronauts" | Playboy |
| 1995 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | "The Skeleton Key" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1995 | Geoffrey A. Landis | "The Singular Habits of Wasps" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1995 | Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Matter of Seggri" | Crank! |
| 1995 | Maureen F. McHugh | "Nekropolis" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Ursula K. Le Guin* | "Solitude" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Dale Bailey | "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Michael G. Coney | "Tea and Hamsters" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Esther M. Friesner | "Jesus at the Bat" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | "Home for Christmas" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1996 | James Patrick Kelly | "Think Like a Dinosaur" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1996 | Mike Resnick | "When the Old Gods Die" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1997 | Bruce Holland Rogers* | "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1997 | John M. Ford | "Erase/Record/Play" | Starlight 1 (Tor Books) |
| 1997 | George Guthridge | "Mirror of Lop Nor" | Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (HarperPrism) |
| 1997 | Paul Levinson | "The Chronology Protection Case" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1997 | Harry Turtledove | "Must and Shall" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1997 | Robert Charles Wilson | "The Perseids" | Realms of Fantasy |
| 1997 | Dave Wolverton | "After a Lean Winter" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Nancy Kress* | "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Eleanor Arnason | "The Dog's Story" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | James Alan Gardner | "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Bill Johnson | "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | John Kessel | "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1998 | Paul Levinson | "The Copyright Notice Case" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 1998 | William Sanders | "The Undiscovered" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1999 | Jane Yolen* | "Lost Girls" | Realms of Fantasy |
| 1999 | Gregory Feeley | "The Truest Chill" | Science Fiction Age |
| 1999 | Ellen Klages | "Time Gypsy" | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press) |
| 1999 | Mark J. McGarry | "The Mercy Gate" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1999 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | "Echea" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 1999 | Walter Jon Williams | "Lethe" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Mary A. Turzillo* | "Mars Is No Place for Children" | Science Fiction Age |
| 2000 | Phyllis Eisenstein | "The Island in the Lake" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Esther M. Friesner | "How to Make Unicorn Pie" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Brian A. Hopkins | "Five Days in April" | Chiaroscuro |
| 2000 | Stanley Schmidt | "Good Intentions" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Jack McDevitt | "Good Intentions" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Bruce Sterling | "Taklamakan" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2001 | Walter Jon Williams* | "Daddy's World" | Not of Woman Born (New American Library) |
| 2001 | Eleanor Arnason | "Stellar Harvest" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2001 | Gardner Dozois | "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2001 | Greer Ilene Gilman | "Jack Daw's Pack" | Century |
| 2001 | Mike Moscoe | "A Day's Work on the Moon" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2001 | Bruce Holland Rogers | "How the Highland People Came to Be" | Realms of Fantasy |
| 2001 | Stanley Schmidt | "Generation Gap" | Artemis |
| 2002 | Kelly Link* | "Louise's Ghost" | Stranger Things Happen (Small Beer Press) |
| 2002 | Amy Sterling Casil | "To Kiss the Star" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2002 | Andy Duncan | "The Pottawatomie Giant" | Sci Fiction |
| 2002 | James Patrick Kelly | "Undone" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2002 | James Morrow | "Auspicious Eggs" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2002 | William Shunn | "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" | Vanishing Acts (Tor Books) |
| 2003 | Ted Chiang* | "Hell Is the Absence of God" | Starlight 3 (Tor Books) |
| 2003 | M. Shayne Bell | "The Pagodas of Ciboure" | The Green Man: Tales From the Mythic Forest (Viking Press) |
| 2003 | Richard Bowes | "The Ferryman's Wife" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Gregory Frost | "Madonna of the Maquiladora" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Allen Steele | "The Days Between" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2003 | Charles Stross | "Lobsters" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2004 | Jeffrey Ford* | "The Empire of Ice Cream" | Sci Fiction |
| 2004 | Richard Bowes | "The Mask of the Rex" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2004 | Adam-Troy Castro | "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" | Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction (Pocket Books) |
| 2004 | Cory Doctorow | "0wnz0red" | Salon |
| 2004 | Ray Vukcevich | "The Wages of Syntax" | Sci Fiction |
| 2005 | Ellen Klages* | "Basement Magic" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2005 | Andy Duncan | "Zora and the Zombie" | Sci Fiction |
| 2005 | Christopher Rowe | "The Voluntary State" | Sci Fiction |
| 2005 | William Sanders | "Dry Bones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2005 | Lois Tilton | "The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2006 | Kelly Link* | "The Faery Handbag" | The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (Viking Press) |
| 2006 | Daniel Abraham | "Flat Diane" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2006 | James Patrick Kelly | "Men Are Trouble" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2006 | Eileen Gunn | "Nirvana High" | Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon Publications) |
| 2006 | Leslie What | "Nirvana High" | Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon Publications) |
| 2006 | Paolo Bacigalupi | "The People of Sand and Slag" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Peter S. Beagle* | "Two Hearts" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Christopher Barzak | "The Language of Moths" | Realms of Fantasy |
| 2007 | Delia Sherman | "Walpurgis Afternoon" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | M. Rickert | "Journey into the Kingdom" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2007 | Vonda N. McIntyre | "Little Faces" | Sci Fiction |
| 2008 | Ted Chiang* | "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Robin Wayne Bailey | "The Children's Crusade" | Heroes in Training (DAW Books) |
| 2008 | Terry Bramlett | "Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone" | Jim Baen's Universe |
| 2008 | Kij Johnson | "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" | The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press) |
| 2008 | Nancy Kress | "Safeguard" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2008 | Delia Sherman | "The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" | The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press) |
| 2008 | Geoff Ryman | "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2009 | John Kessel* | "Pride and Prometheus" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Richard Bowes | "If Angels Fight" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2009 | James Alan Gardner | "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Lisa Goldstein | "Dark Rooms" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2009 | Mary Rosenblum | "Night Wind" | Lace and Blade (Leda) |
| 2009 | Johanna Sinisalo | "Baby Doll" | The SFWA European Hall of Fame (Tor Books) |
| 2009 | K. D. Wentworth | "Kaleidoscope" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2010 | Eugie Foster* | "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" | Interzone |
| 2010 | Paolo Bacigalupi | "The Gambler" | Fast Forward 2 (Pyr) |
| 2010 | Michael Bishop | "Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2010 | Richard Bowes | "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2010 | Ted Kosmatka | "Divining Light" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2010 | Rachel Swirsky | "A Memory of Wind" | Tor.com |
| 2011 | Eric James Stone* | "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2011 | Christopher Barzak | "Map of Seventeen" | The Beastly Bride (Viking Press) |
| 2011 | Aliette de Bodard | "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2011 | Christopher Kastensmidt | "The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara" | Realms of Fantasy |
| 2011 | James Patrick Kelly | "Plus or Minus" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2011 | Shweta Narayan | "Pishaach" | The Beastly Bride (Viking Press) |
| 2011 | Caroline M. Yoachim | "Stone Wall Truth" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2012 | Geoff Ryman* | "What We Found" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2012 | Rachel Swirsky | "Fields of Gold" | Eclipse 4 (Night Shade Books) |
| 2012 | Brad R. Torgersen | "Ray of Light" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
| 2012 | Ferrett Steinmetz | "Sauerkraut Station" | Giganotosaurus |
| 2012 | Charlie Jane Anders | "Six Months, Three Days" | Tor.com |
| 2012 | Katherine Sparrow | "The Migratory Pattern of Dancers" | Giganotosaurus |
| 2012 | Jake Kerr | "The Old Equations" | Lightspeed |
| 2013 | Andy Duncan* | "Close Encounters" | The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories (PS Publishing) |
| 2013 | Catherine Asaro | "The Pyre of New Day" | The Mammoth Books of SF Wars (Robinson) |
| 2013 | Ken Liu | "The Waves" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2013 | Lee Mandelo | "The Finite Canvas" | Tor.com |
| 2013 | Meghan McCarron | "Swift, Brutal Retaliation" | Tor.com |
| 2013 | Rachel Swirsky | "Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia" | Tor.com |
| 2013 | Catherynne M. Valente | "Fade to White" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2014 | Aliette de Bodard* | "The Waiting Stars" | The Other Half of the Sky (Candlemark & Gleam) |
| 2014 | Christopher Barzak | "Paranormal Romance" | Lightspeed |
| 2014 | Alaya Dawn Johnson | "They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2014 | Henry Lien | "Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2014 | Ken Liu | "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King" | Lightspeed |
| 2014 | Sarah Pinsker | "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" | Strange Horizons |
| 2015 | Alaya Dawn Johnson* | "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2015 | Richard Bowes | "Sleep Walking Now and Then" | Tor.com |
| 2015 | Tom Crosshill | "The Magician and Laplace's Demon" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2015 | Carmen Maria Machado | "The Husband Stitch" | Granta |
| 2015 | Sam J. Miller | "We Are the Cloud" | Lightspeed |
| 2015 | Kai Ashante Wilson | "The Devil in America" | Tor.com |
| 2016 | Sarah Pinsker* | "Our Lady of the Open Road" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2016 | Brooke Bolander | "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" | Lightspeed |
| 2016 | Tamsyn Muir | "The Deepwater Bride" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2016 | Rose Lemberg | "Grandmother-nai-Laylit's Cloth of Winds" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2016 | Henry Lien | "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2016 | Michael Bishop | "Rattlesnakes and Men" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2017 | William Ledbetter* | "The Long Fall Up" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2017 | Sarah Pinsker | "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" | Lightspeed |
| 2017 | Jason Sanford | "Blood Grains Speak Through Memories" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2017 | Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | "The Orangery" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2017 | Fran Wilde | The Jewel and Her Lapidary | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2017 | Alyssa Wong | "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2018 | Kelly Robson* | "A Human Stain" | Tor.com |
| 2018 | Richard Bowes | "Dirty Old Town" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2018 | Jonathan P. Brazee | "Weaponized Math" | The Expanding Universe, Volume 3 (LMBPN Publishing) |
| 2018 | Sarah Pinsker | "Wind Will Rove" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2018 | Vina Jie-Min Prasad | "A Series of Steaks" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2018 | K. M. Szpara | "Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2019 | Brooke Bolander* | The Only Harmless Great Thing | Tor.com Publishing |
| 2019 | Andy Duncan | "An Agent of Utopia" | An Agent of Utopia (Small Beer Press) |
| 2019 | Tina Connolly | "The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" | Tor.com |
| 2019 | Yudhanjaya Wijeratne | "Messenger" | The Expanding Universe, Volume 4 (LMBPN Publishing) |
| 2019 | R.R. Virdi | "Messenger" | The Expanding Universe, Volume 4 (LMBPN Publishing) |
| 2019 | Lawrence M. Schoen | "The Rule of Three" | Future Science Fiction Digest |
| 2019 | José Pablo Iriarte | "The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births" | Lightspeed |
| 2020 | Cat Rambo* | Carpe Glitter | Meerkat Press |
| 2020 | G. V. Anderson | "A Strange Uncertain Light" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2020 | Siobhan Carroll | "For He Can Creep" | Tor.com |
| 2020 | Mimi Mondal | "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" | Tor.com |
| 2020 | Sarah Pinsker | "The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2020 | Caroline M. Yoachim | "The Archronology of Love" | Lightspeed |
| 2021 | Sarah Pinsker* | "Two Truths and a Lie" | Tor.com |
| 2021 | Leah Cypess | "Stepsister" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2021 | Meg Elison | "The Pill" | Big Girl (PM Press) |
| 2021 | A. T. Greenblatt | "Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2021 | Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | "Where You Linger" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2021 | Caroline M. Yoachim | "Shadow Prisons" | Broad Reach Publishing |
| 2022 | Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki* | "O2 Arena" | Galaxy's Edge |
| 2022 | PH Lee | "Just Enough Rain" | GigaNotoSaurus |
| 2022 | Lauren Ring | "(emet)" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 2022 | John Wiswell | "That Story Isn't the Story" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2022 | Caroline M. Yoachim | "Colors of the Immortal Palette" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | John Chu* | "If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | Wole Talabi | "A Dream of Electric Mothers" | Africa Risen (Tor Books) |
| 2023 | S. L. Huang | "Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2023 | Natalia Theodoridou | "The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | S. B. Divya | "Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | Marie Vibbert | "We Built This City" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2024 | Naomi Kritzer* | "The Year Without Sunshine" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2024 | Renan Bernardo | "A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" | Samovar |
| 2024 | Ai Jiang | I Am AI | Shortwave Publishing |
| 2024 | Angela Liu | "Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2024 | Wole Talabi | "Saturday's Song" | Lightspeed |
| 2024 | Eugenia Triantafyllou | "Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2025 | Angela Liu | "Another Girl Under the Iron Bell" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2025 | Thomas Ha | "The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2025 | Eugenia Triantafyllou | "Joanna's Bodies" | Psychopomp |
| 2025 | Christine Hanolsy | "Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
| 2025 | Eugenia Triantafyllou | "Loneliness Universe" | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2025 | A. W. Prihandita | "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 2025 | Aimee Ogden | "What Any Dead Thing Wants" | Psychopomp |