Year |
Author |
Novella |
Publisher or publication |
Ref. |
1966 |
Brian W. Aldiss* | "The Saliva Tree" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[5] |
Roger Zelazny* | "He Who Shapes" | Amazing Stories |
[5] |
Avram Davidson | "Rogue Dragon" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[5] |
Samuel R. Delany | The Ballad of Beta-2 | Ace Books |
[5] |
C. C. MacApp | "The Mercurymen" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[5] |
Frederik Pohl | "Under Two Moons" | If |
[5] |
A. E. van Vogt |
"Research Alpha" |
If |
[5] |
James H. Schmitz |
Cordwainer Smith | "On the Storm Planet" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[5] |
1967 |
Jack Vance* | "The Last Castle" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[6] |
Avram Davidson | Clash of Star-Kings | Ace Books |
[6] |
Charles L. Harness | "The Alchemist" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[6] |
1968 |
Michael Moorcock* | "Behold the Man" | New Worlds |
[7] |
Philip José Farmer | "Riders of the Purple Wage" | Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
[7] |
Anne McCaffrey | "Weyr Search" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[7] |
Robert Silverberg | "Hawksbill Station" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[7] |
Theodore Sturgeon | "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" | Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
[7] |
1969 |
Anne McCaffrey* | "Dragonrider" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[8] |
Samuel R. Delany | "Lines of Power" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[8] |
Keith Laumer | "The Day Before Forever" | The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Doubleday) |
[8] |
Dean McLaughlin | "Hawk Among the Sparrows" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[8] |
Robert Silverberg | "Nightwings" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[8] |
1970 |
Harlan Ellison* | "A Boy and His Dog" | The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Avon Books) |
[9] |
Charles L. Harness | "Probable Cause" | Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
[9] |
Fritz Leiber | "Ship of Shadows" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[9] |
Anne McCaffrey | "Dramatic Mission" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[9] |
Robert Silverberg | "To Jorslem" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[9] |
1971 |
Fritz Leiber* | "Ill Met in Lankhmar" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[10] |
Poul Anderson | "The Fatal Fulfillment" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[10] |
James Blish | "A Style in Treason" | Anywhen (Doubleday) |
[10] |
Harlan Ellison | "The Region Between" | Galaxy Science Fiction |
[10] |
Clifford D. Simak | "The Thing in the Stone" | If |
[10] |
Kate Wilhelm | "April Fool's Day Forever" | Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
[10] |
1972 |
Katherine MacLean* | "The Missing Man" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[11] |
Jerzy Kosinski | Being There | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
[11] |
Keith Roberts | "The God House" | New Worlds Quarterly #1 |
[11] |
Kate Wilhelm | "The Infinity Box" | Orbit 9 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
[11] |
Kate Wilhelm | "The Plastic Abyss" | Abyss (Doubleday) |
[11] |
1973 |
Arthur C. Clarke* | "A Meeting with Medusa" | Playboy |
[12] |
Phyllis Gotlieb | "Son of the Morning" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[12] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Word for World Is Forest" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
[12] |
Richard A. Lupoff | "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" | Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday) |
[12] |
Frederik Pohl | "The Gold at the Starbow's End" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[12] |
Gene Wolfe | "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" | Orbit 10 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) |
[12] |
1974 |
Gene Wolfe* | "The Death of Doctor Island" | Universe 3 (Random House) |
[13] |
Michael Bishop | "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" | If |
[13] |
Michael Bishop | "The White Otters of Childhood" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[13] |
Jack Dann | "Junction" | Fantastic |
[13] |
Gardner Dozois | "Chains of the Sea" | Chains of the Sea (Thomas Nelson) |
[13] |
1975 |
Robert Silverberg* | "Born with the Dead" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[14] |
Michael Bishop | "On the Street of the Serpents" | Science Fiction Emphasis 1 (Ballantine Books) |
[14] |
George R. R. Martin | "A Song for Lya" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[14] |
1976 |
Roger Zelazny* | "Home Is the Hangman" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[15] |
William K. Carlson | "Sunrise West" | Vertex |
[15] |
Lisa Tuttle |
"The Storms of Windhaven" |
Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[15] |
George R. R. Martin |
James Tiptree, Jr. | "A Momentary Taste of Being" | The New Atlantis (Hawthorn Books) |
[15] |
1977 |
James Tiptree, Jr.* | "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" | Aurora: Beyond Equality (Gold Medal Books) |
[16] |
Michael Bishop | "The Samurai and the Willows" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[16] |
Richard Cowper | "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[16] |
Gene Wolfe | "The Eyeflash Miracles" | Future Power (Random House) |
[16] |
1978 |
Spider Robinson* |
"Stardance" |
Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[17] |
Jeanne Robinson* |
Vonda N. McIntyre | "Aztecs" | 2076: The American Tricentennial (Pyramid Books) |
[17] |
1979 |
John Varley* | "The Persistence of Vision" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[18] |
Gene Wolfe | "Seven American Nights" | Orbit 20 (Harper & Row) |
[18] |
1980 |
Barry B. Longyear* | "Enemy Mine" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[19] |
Samuel R. Delany | "The Tale of Gorgik" | Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine |
[19] |
Frederik Pohl | "Mars Masked" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[19] |
Hilbert Schenck | "The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[19] |
Joan D. Vinge | "Fireship" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[19] |
Richard Wilson | "The Story Writer" | Destinies |
[19] |
1981 |
Suzy McKee Charnas* | "Unicorn Tapestry" | New Dimensions 11 (Pocket Books) |
[20] |
Avram Davidson | "There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me" | Other Worlds 2 (Zebra Books) |
[20] |
Gordon R. Dickson | "Lost Dorsai" | Destinies |
[20] |
Thomas M. Disch | "The Brave Little Toaster" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[20] |
Marta Randall | "Dangerous Games" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[20] |
Michael Shea | "The Autopsy" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[20] |
1982 |
Poul Anderson* | "The Saturn Game" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[21] |
Gregory Benford | "Swarmer, Skimmer" | SF Digest |
[21] |
Jack Dann | "Amnesia" | The Berkley Showcase, Vol 3 (Berkley Books) |
[21] |
Phyllis Eisenstein | "In the Western Tradition" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[21] |
Vernor Vinge | "True Names" | Binary Star 5 (Dell Publishing) |
[21] |
Kate Wilhelm | "The Winter Beach" | Redbook |
[21] |
1983 |
John Kessel* | "Another Orphan" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[22] |
Fritz Leiber | "Horrible Imaginings" | Death (Playboy) |
[22] |
Brad Linaweaver | "Moon of Ice" | Amazing Stories |
[22] |
George R. R. Martin | "Unsound Variations" | Amazing Stories |
[22] |
Joanna Russ | "Souls" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[22] |
1984 |
Greg Bear* | "Hardfought" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[23] |
Michael Bishop | "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[23] |
Michael Bishop | "Her Habiline Husband" | Universe 13 (Doubleday) |
[23] |
Avram Davidson | "Eszterhazy and the Autogóndola-Invention" | Amazing Stories |
[23] |
Vonda N. McIntyre | "Transit" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[23] |
Robert Silverberg | "Homefaring" | Amazing Stories |
[23] |
1985 |
John Varley* | "Press Enter ■" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[24] |
Avram Davidson | "Young Doctor Eszterhazy" | Amazing Stories |
[24] |
Nancy Kress | "Trinity" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[24] |
Frederik Pohl | "The Greening of Bed-Stuy" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[24] |
Lucius Shepard | "A Traveler's Tale" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[24] |
Michael Swanwick | "Marrow Death" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[24] |
1986 |
Robert Silverberg* | "Sailing to Byzantium" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[25] |
Kim Stanley Robinson | "Green Mars" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[25] |
Bruce Sterling | "Green Days in Brunei" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[25] |
James Tiptree, Jr. | "The Only Neat Thing to Do" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[25] |
Kate Wilhelm | "The Gorgon Field" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[25] |
Roger Zelazny | "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[25] |
1987 |
Lucius Shepard* | "R&R" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[26] |
Gregory Benford | "Newton Sleep" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[26] |
Kim Stanley Robinson | "Escape from Kathmandu" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[26] |
Robert Silverberg | "Gilgamesh in the Outback" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[26] |
F. Paul Wilson | "Dydeetown Girl" | Far Frontiers 4 (Baen Books) |
[26] |
1988 |
Kim Stanley Robinson* | "The Blind Geometer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[27] |
John M. Ford | "Fugue State" | Under the Wheel (Baen Books) |
[27] |
Keith Roberts | "The Tiger Sweater" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[27] |
Geoff Ryman | The Unconquered Country | Bantam Spectra |
[27] |
Robert Silverberg | "The Secret Sharer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[27] |
Walter Jon Williams | "Witness" | Wild Cards (Bantam Spectra) |
[27] |
1989 |
Connie Willis* | "The Last of the Winnebagos" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[28] |
Bradley Denton | "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[28] |
Lucius Shepard | The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[28] |
Norman Spinrad | "Journals of the Plague Years" | Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra) |
[28] |
Walter Jon Williams | "Surfacing" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[28] |
Jane Yolen | The Devil's Arithmetic | Viking Kestrel |
[28] |
1990 |
Lois McMaster Bujold* | "The Mountains of Mourning" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[29] |
John Crowley | "Great Work of Time" | Novelty (Doubleday) |
[29] |
George Alec Effinger | "Marîd Changes His Mind" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[29] |
Megan Lindholm | "A Touch of Lavender" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[29] |
Judith Moffett | "Tiny Tango" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[29] |
Howard Waldrop | A Dozen Tough Jobs | Mark V. Ziesing |
[29] |
1991 |
Joe Haldeman* | "The Hemingway Hoax" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[30] |
Lois McMaster Bujold | "Weatherman" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[30] |
Pat Cadigan | "Fool to Believe" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[30] |
James Patrick Kelly | "Mr. Boy" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[30] |
Pat Murphy | "Bones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[30] |
1992 |
Nancy Kress* | "Beggars in Spain" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[31] |
Paul Ash | "Man Opening a Door" | Analog Science Fact & Fiction |
[31] |
Michael Bishop | Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana | Axolotl Press |
[31] |
Mike Resnick | Bully! | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[31] |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | The Gallery of His Dreams | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[31] |
Connie Willis | "Jack" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[31] |
1993 |
James Morrow* | City of Truth | St. Martin's Press |
[32] |
Emma Bull | "Silver or Gold" | After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (Tor Books) |
[32] |
Bradley Denton | "The Territory" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[32] |
Jerry Oltion |
"Contact" |
Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[32] |
Lee Goodloe |
Maureen F. McHugh | "Protection" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[32] |
Lucius Shepard | "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[32] |
Michael Swanwick | Griffin's Egg | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[32] |
1994 |
Jack Cady* | "The Night We Buried Road Dog" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[33] |
Ray Aldridge | "The Beauty Addict" | Full Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra) |
[33] |
Nancy Kress | "Dancing on Air" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[33] |
G. David Nordley | "Into the Miranda Rift" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[33] |
Kate Wilhelm | Naming the Flowers | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[33] |
Walter Jon Williams | Wall, Stone, Craft | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[33] |
1995 |
Mike Resnick* | "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[34] |
Harlan Ellison | Mefisto In Onyx | Omni |
[34] |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman | "Haunted Humans" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[34] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "Forgiveness Day" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[34] |
Geoff Ryman | "Fan" | Unconquered Countries (St. Martin's Press) |
[34] |
Michael Swanwick | "Cold Iron" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[34] |
1996 |
Elizabeth Hand* | "Last Summer at Mars Hill" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[35] |
Gregory Benford | "Soon Comes Night" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[35] |
Nicola Griffith | "Yaguara" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[35] |
Mike Resnick |
"Bibi" |
Asimov's Science Fiction |
[35] |
Susan Shwartz |
Brian Stableford | "Mortimer Gray's History of Death" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[35] |
1997 |
Jack Dann* | "Da Vinci Rising" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[36] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "A Woman's Liberation" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[36] |
George R. R. Martin | "Blood of the Dragon" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[36] |
Jack McDevitt | "Time Travelers Never Die" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[36] |
Maureen F. McHugh | "The Cost to Be Wise" | Starlight 1 (Tor Books) |
[36] |
Allen Steele | "The Death of Captain Future" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[36] |
1998 |
Jerry Oltion* | "Abandon in Place" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[37] |
Adam-Troy Castro | "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[37] |
Paul Levinson | "Loose Ends" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[37] |
Robert Reed | "Chrysalis" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[37] |
Bud Sparhawk | "Primrose and Thorn" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[37] |
Allen Steele | "…Where Angels Fear to Tread" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[37] |
1999 |
Sheila Finch* | "Reading the Bones" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[38] |
Catherine Asaro | "Aurora in Four Voices" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[38] |
Avram Davidson |
The Boss in the Wall, A Treatise on the House Devil |
Tachyon Publications |
[38] |
Grania Davis |
Eliot Fintushel | "Izzy and the Father of Terror" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[38] |
David Gerrold | "Jumping Off the Planet" | Science Fiction Age |
[38] |
Geoffrey A. Landis | "Ecopoiesis" | Science Fiction Age |
[38] |
2000 |
Ted Chiang* | "Story of Your Life" | Starlight 2 (Tor Books) |
[39] |
Michael A. Burstein | "Reality Check" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[39] |
Adam-Troy Castro |
"The Astronaut from Wyoming" |
Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[39] |
Jerry Oltion |
L. Timmel Duchamp | "Living Trust" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[39] |
Andy Duncan | "The Executioners' Guild" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[39] |
David Marusek | "The Wedding Album" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[39] |
2001 |
Linda Nagata* | "Goddesses" | Sci Fiction |
[40] |
Andy Duncan | "Fortitude" | Realms of Fantasy |
[40] |
Jonathan Lethem |
"Ninety Percent of Everything" |
Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[40] |
James Patrick Kelly |
John Kessel |
Mike Resnick | "Hunting the Snark" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[40] |
Lucius Shepard | "Crocodile Rock" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[40] |
Walter Jon Williams | "Argonautica" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[40] |
2002 |
Jack Williamson* | "The Ultimate Earth" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[41] |
Catherine Asaro | "A Roll of the Dice" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[41] |
Brenda W. Clough | "May Be Some Time" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[41] |
Jack Dann | "The Diamond Pit" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[41] |
Lucius Shepard | "Radiant Green Star" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[41] |
2003 |
Richard Chwedyk* | "Bronte's Egg" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[42] |
Adam-Troy Castro | "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[42] |
Andy Duncan | "The Chief Designer" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[42] |
Charles Coleman Finlay | "The Political Officer" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[42] |
Bud Sparhawk | "Magic's Price" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[42] |
2004 |
Neil Gaiman* | Coraline | HarperCollins |
[43] |
Eleanor Arnason | "The Potter of Bones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[43] |
Kage Baker | "The Empress of Mars" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[43] |
John Kessel | "Stories for Men" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[43] |
Ian R. MacLeod | "Breathmoss" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[43] |
2005 |
Walter Jon Williams* | "The Green Leopard Plague" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[44] |
Catherine Asaro | "Walk in Silence" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[44] |
Adam-Troy Castro | "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[44] |
Vernor Vinge | "The Cookie Monster" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[44] |
Connie Willis | "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[44] |
2006 |
Kelly Link* | "Magic for Beginners" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[45] |
Bud Sparhawk | "Clay's Pride" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[45] |
Robert J. Sawyer | "Identity Theft" | Down These Dark Spaceways (Science Fiction Book Club) |
[45] |
Paul Witcover | "Left of the Dial" | Sci Fiction |
[45] |
Albert E. Cowdrey | "The Tribes of Bela" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[45] |
2007 |
James Patrick Kelly* | Burn | Tachyon Publications |
[46] |
Michael A. Burstein | "Sanctuary" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[46] |
Paul Melko | "The Walls of the Universe" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[46] |
William Shunn | "Inclination" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[46] |
2008 |
Nancy Kress* | "Fountain of Age" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[47] |
Judith Berman | "Awakening" | Black Gate |
[47] |
Matt Hughes | "The Helper and His Hero" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[47] |
Lucius Shepard | "Stars Seen Through Stone" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[47] |
Bruce Sterling | "Kiosk" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[47] |
Gene Wolfe | "Memorare" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[47] |
2009 |
Catherine Asaro* | "The Spacetime Pool" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[48] |
Gregory Benford | "Dark Heaven" | Alien Crimes (Science Fiction Book Club) |
[48] |
Kelley Eskridge | "Dangerous Space" | Dangerous Space (Aqueduct Press) |
[48] |
Charles Coleman Finlay | "The Political Prisoner" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[48] |
Vera Nazarian | The Duke in His Castle | Norilana Books |
[48] |
2010 |
Kage Baker* | The Women of Nell Gwynne's | Subterranean Press |
[49] |
Carolyn Ives Gilman | "Arkfall" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[49] |
Nancy Kress | "Act One" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[49] |
James Morrow | Shambling Towards Hiroshima | Tachyon Publications |
[49] |
Jason Sanford | "Sublimation Angels" | Interzone |
[49] |
John Scalzi | The God Engines | Subterranean Press |
[49] |
2011 |
Rachel Swirsky* | "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" | Subterranean Magazine |
[50] |
Paolo Bacigalupi | The Alchemist | Subterranean Press |
[50] |
J. Kathleen Cheney | "Iron Shoes" | Alembical 2 (Paper Golem) |
[50] |
Ted Chiang | The Lifecycle of Software Objects | Subterranean Press |
[50] |
Geoffrey A. Landis | "The Sultan of the Clouds" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[50] |
Paul Park | "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[50] |
2012 |
Kij Johnson* | "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[51] |
Mary Robinette Kowal | "Kiss Me Twice" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[51] |
Catherynne M. Valente | Silently and Very Fast | Clarkesworld Magazine |
[51] |
Carolyn Ives Gilman | "The Ice Owl" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[51] |
Ken Liu | "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" | Panverse 3 (Panverse Publishing) |
[51] |
Adam-Troy Castro | "With Unclean Hands" | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
[51] |
2013 |
Nancy Kress* | After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall | Tachyon Publications |
[52] |
Aliette de Bodard | On a Red Station, Drifting | Immersion Press |
[52] |
Jay Lake | "The Stars Do Not Lie" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[52] |
Ken Liu | "All the Flavors" | GigaNotoSaurus |
[52] |
Robert Reed | "Katabasis" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[52] |
Lawrence M. Schoen | "Barry's Tale" | Buffalito Buffet (Hadley Rille Books) |
[52] |
2014 |
Vylar Kaftan* | "The Weight of the Sunrise" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[53] |
Andy Duncan |
"Wakulla Springs" |
Tor.com |
[53] |
Ellen Klages |
Nancy Kress | "Annabel Lee" | New Under the Sun (Phoenix Pick) |
[53] |
Veronica Schanoes | "Burning Girls" | Tor.com |
[53] |
Lawrence M. Schoen | "Trial of the Century" | Lawrencemschoen.com |
[53] |
Catherynne M. Valente | Six-Gun Snow White | Subterranean Press |
[53] |
2015 |
Nancy Kress* | Yesterday's Kin | Tachyon Publications |
[54] |
Daryl Gregory | We Are All Completely Fine | Tachyon Publications |
[54] |
Ken Liu | "The Regular" | Upgraded (Wyrm Publishing) |
[54] |
Mary Rickert | "The Mothers of Voorhisville" | Tor.com |
[54] |
Lawrence M. Schoen | Calendrical Regression | NobleFusion Press |
[54] |
Rachel Swirsky | "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" | Subterranean Magazine |
[54] |
2016 |
Nnedi Okorafor* | Binti | Tor.com |
[55] |
C. S. E. Cooney | The Bone Swans of Amandale | Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium) |
[55] |
Eugene Fischer | "The New Mother" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[55] |
Usman T. Malik | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | Tor.com |
[55] |
Kelly Robson | "Waters of Versailles" | Tor.com |
[55] |
Beth Cato | Wings of Sorrow and Bone | Harper Voyager Impulse |
[55] |
2017 |
Seanan McGuire* | Every Heart a Doorway | Tor.com Publishing |
[56] |
S. B. Divya | Runtime | Tor.com Publishing |
[56] |
Kij Johnson | The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Tor.com Publishing |
[56] |
Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | Tor.com Publishing |
[56] |
John P. Murphy | "The Liar" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[56] |
Kai Ashante Wilson | A Taste of Honey | Tor.com Publishing |
[56] |
2018 |
Martha Wells* | All Systems Red | Tor.com |
[57] |
Sarah Gailey | River of Teeth | Tor.com Publishing |
[57] |
Ellen Klages | Passing Strange | Tor.com Publishing |
[57] |
Sarah Pinsker | "And Then There Were (N-One)" | Uncanny Magazine |
[57] |
Lawrence M. Schoen | Barry's Deal | NobleFusion Press |
[57] |
JY Yang | The Black Tides of Heaven | Tor.com Publishing |
[57] |
2019 |
Aliette de Bodard* | The Tea Master and the Detective | Subterranean Press |
[58] |
Kate Heartfield | Alice Payne Arrives | Tor.com Publishing |
[58] |
Martha Wells | Artificial Condition | Tor.com Publishing |
[58] |
P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God's Drums | Tor.com Publishing |
[58] |
Jonathan P. Brazee | Fire Ant | Semper Fi Press |
[58] |
Kelly Robson | Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach | Tor.com Publishing |
[58] |
2020 |
Amal El-Mohtar* |
This Is How You Lose the Time War |
Saga Press |
[59] |
Max Gladstone* |
Ted Chiang | "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" | Exhalation: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf) |
[59] |
P. Djèlí Clark | The Haunting of Tram Car 015 | Tor.com Publishing |
[59] |
Vylar Kaftan | Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water | Tor.com Publishing |
[59] |
Rivers Solomon |
The Deep |
Saga Press |
[59] |
Daveed Diggs |
William Hutson |
Jonathan Snipes |
A. C. Wise | Catfish Lullaby | Broken Eye Books |
[59] |
2021 |
P. Djèlí Clark* | Ring Shout | Tor.com Publishing |
[60] |
Yaroslav Barsukov | Tower of Mud and Straw | Metaphorosis Magazine |
[60] |
Nino Cipri | Finna | Tor.com Publishing |
[60] |
Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald | "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" | Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora (Aurelia Leo) |
[60] |
R. B. Lemberg | The Four Profound Weaves | Tachyon Publications |
[60] |
Tochi Onyebuchi | Riot Baby | Tor.com Publishing |
[60] |
2022 |
Premee Mohamed* | And What Can We Offer You Tonight | Neon Hemlock Press |
[61] |
Becky Chambers | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Tordotcom |
[61] |
Aliette de Bodard | Fireheart Tiger | Tordotcom |
[61] |
Aimee Ogden | Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters | Tordotcom |
[61] |
Zin E. Rocklyn | Flowers for the Sea | Tordotcom |
[61] |
E. Catherine Tobler | The Necessity of Stars | Neon Hemlock Press |
[61] |
Eugenia Triantafyllou | "The Giants of the Violet Sea" | Uncanny Magazine |
[61] |
2023 |
C. L. Polk* | Even Though I Knew the End | Tordotcom |
[62] |
Becky Chambers | A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Tordotcom |
[62] |
R. S. A. Garcia | "Bishop's Opening" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
[62] |
Jordan Kurella | I Never Liked You Anyway | Vernacular Books |
[62] |
Kelly Robson | High Times in the Low Parliament | Tordotcom |
[62] |
2024 |
Ai Jiang* | "Linghun" | Dark Matter Ink |
[63] |
Kelly Barnhill | The Crane Husband | Tordotcom |
[63] |
Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher) | Thornhedge | Tor; Titan UK |
[63] |
Fonda Lee | Untethered Sky | Tordotcom |
[63] |
Malka Older | The Mimicking of Known Successes | Tordotcom |
[63] |
Nghi Vo | Mammoths at the Gates | Tordotcom |
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