Year |
Category |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Result |
Ref. |
1989 |
Gay M/SF |
Michael Nava |
Goldenboy |
Alyson |
Winner |
[A][13] |
Donald Ward |
Death Takes the Stage |
St. Martin's Press |
Finalist |
[13] |
Joseph Hansen |
Obedience |
Mysterious Press |
Michael Bishop |
Unicorn Mountain |
William Morrow and Co. |
George Baxt |
Who Next |
International Polygonics |
Lesb. M/SF |
Antoinette Azolakov |
Skiptrace |
Banned Books |
Winner |
[13] |
Dolores Klaich |
Heavy Gilt |
Naiad Press |
Finalist |
[13] |
Claire McNab |
Lessons in Murder |
Naiad Press |
Judy Grahn |
Mundane World |
Crossing Press |
Sandy Bayer |
The Crystal Curtain |
Alyson |
1990 |
Gay SF/F |
Jeffrey N. McMahan |
Somewhere in the Night |
Alyson |
Winner |
[B][14] |
Geoff Mains |
Gentle Warriors |
Knights Press |
Finalist |
[14] |
William K. Eakins |
Key West 2720 AD |
Knights Press |
Mercedes Lackey |
Magic's Pawn |
DAW Books |
Thom Nickels |
Walking Water / After All This |
Banned Books |
Lesb. SF/F |
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) |
What Did Miss Darrington See? |
Feminist Press |
Winner |
[14] |
Nancy Tyler Glenn |
Clicking Stones |
Naiad Press |
Finalist |
[14] |
Lauren Wright Douglas |
In the Blood |
Naiad Press |
Susanna J. Sturgis (ed.) |
Memories and Visions |
Crossing Press |
Lee Lynch |
Sue Slate: Private Eye |
Naiad Press |
1991 |
Gay SF/F |
Mercedes Lackey |
Magic's Price |
DAW Books |
Winner |
[15] |
Toby Johnson |
Secret Matter |
Lavender |
Marsh Cassady |
Alternate Casts |
Banned Books |
Finalist |
[15] |
Storm Constantine |
Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit |
Tor Books |
Scott Edelman |
The Gift |
Space and Time |
Lesb. SF/F |
Gael Baudino |
Gossamer Axe |
Roc |
Winner |
[15] |
Patrick Califia |
Doc and Fluff |
Alyson |
Finalist |
[15] |
Melissa Scott |
Mighty Good Road |
Baen Books |
Lynda Lyons |
Priorities |
Naiad Press |
Karen Marie Christa Minns |
Virago |
Naiad Press |
1992 |
Gay SF/F |
Frank M. Robinson |
The Dark Beyond the Stars |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[16] |
Eric Garber (ed.) |
Embracing the Dark |
Alyson |
Finalist |
[16] |
Perry Brass |
Mirage |
Belhue |
Jay B. Laws |
Steam |
Alyson |
Jeffrey N. McMahan |
Vampires Anonymous |
Alyson |
Lesb. SF/F |
Jewelle Gomez |
The Gilda Stories |
Firebrand Books |
Winner |
[C][16] |
B.L. Holmes |
Mega |
Mother Courage |
Finalist |
[16] |
Chris Anne Wolfe |
Shadows of Aggar |
New Victoria |
Camarin Grae |
Stranded |
Naiad Press |
Judith Alguire |
Zeta Base |
Naiad Press |
1993 |
Gay SF/F |
Maureen F. McHugh |
China Mountain Zhang |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[9] |
Thomas T. Thomas |
Cry Gender |
Baen Books |
Finalist |
[9] |
Poppy Z. Brite |
Lost Souls |
Abyss / Delacorte |
Lewis Gannett |
The Living One |
Random House |
Anne Rice |
The Tale of the Body Thief |
Knopf |
Lesb. SF/F |
Nicola Griffith |
Ammonite |
Del Rey Books |
Winner |
[9] |
Melissa Scott |
Dreamships |
Tor Books |
Finalist |
[9] |
Jean Stewart |
Return to Isis |
Rising Tide |
Judith Katz |
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound |
Firebrand Books |
[D][9] |
Severna Park |
Speaking Dreams |
Firebrand Books |
[9] |
1994 |
SF/F |
Starhawk |
The Fifth Sacred Thing |
Bantam Books |
Winner |
[17] |
Melissa Scott |
Burning Bright |
Tor Books |
Finalist |
[17] |
Poppy Brite |
Drawing Blood |
Delacorte Books |
Sybil Claiborne |
In the Garden of Dead Cars |
Cleis Press |
Jay B. Laws |
The Unfinished |
Alyson Books |
1995 |
SF/F |
Melissa Scott |
Trouble and Her Friends |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[5] |
Nancy Springer |
Metal Angel |
Roc |
Finalist |
[5] |
Mercedes Lackey |
Storm Warning |
DAW Books |
Suzy McKee Charnas |
The Furies |
Tor Books |
Jean Stewart |
Warriors of Isis |
DAW Books |
1996 |
SF/F |
Melissa Scott |
Shadow Man |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[6] |
Nicola Griffith |
Slow River |
Del Rey Books |
Finalist |
[6] |
Samuel R. Delany |
Atlantis: Three Tales |
Wesleyan |
Pam Keesey |
Dark Angels |
Cleis Press |
Felice Picano |
Dryland End |
Richard Kasak |
1997 |
SF/F |
Clive Barker |
Sacrament |
HarperCollins |
Winner |
[18] |
Rachel Pollack |
Godmother Night |
St. Martin's Press |
Finalist |
[18] |
Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche (eds.) |
Sons of Darkness |
Cleis Press |
Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez (eds.) |
Swords of the Rainbow |
Alyson |
Pam Keesey (eds.) |
Women Who Run With Werewolves |
Cleis Press |
1998 |
SF/F |
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (eds.) |
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy |
White Wolf |
Winner |
[10] |
William J. Mann |
Grave Passions: Tales of the Gay Supernatural |
Masquerade |
Finalist |
[10] |
Harry M. Benshoff (ed.) |
Monsters in the Closet |
Manchester University Press |
[E][10] |
Lawrence Schimel (ed.) |
The Drag Queen of Elfland |
Circlet Press |
[10] |
Perry Brass |
The Harvest |
Belhue |
1999 |
SF/F |
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (eds.) |
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction |
Overlook Press |
Winner |
[11] |
Ulysses G. Dietz |
Desmond |
Alyson |
Finalist |
[11] |
Elizabeth Brownrigg |
Falling to Earth |
Firebrand Books |
Clive Barker |
Galilee |
HarperCollins |
Lawrence Schimel (ed.) |
Things Invisible to See |
Ultra Violet |
2000 |
SF/F |
Richard Bowes |
Minions of the Moon |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[19] |
Victoria Brownworth and Judith Redding (eds.) |
Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women |
Seal Press |
Finalist |
[19] |
Severna Park |
The Annunciate |
Avon |
Keith Hartman |
The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse |
Meisha Merlin |
[F][19] |
Delia Sherman |
Through a Brazen Mirror |
Circlet Press / Ace |
[19] |
2001 |
SF/F/H |
Jim Grimsley |
Kirith Kirin |
Meisha Merlin |
Winner |
[20] |
Perry Brass |
Angel Lust |
Belhue |
Finalist |
[20] |
David Gerrold |
Jumping off the Planet |
Tor Books |
Anne Rice |
Merrick |
Knopf |
Michael Rowe (ed.) |
Queer Fear |
Arsenal Pulp Press |
[G][20] |
2002 |
SF/F/H |
Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett |
Point of Dreams |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[7] |
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (eds.) |
Bending the Landscape: Horror |
Overlook Press |
Finalist |
[7] |
David Thomas Lord |
Bound in Blood |
Kensington |
Keith Hartman |
Gumshoe Gorilla |
Meisha Merlin |
Michael Schiefelbein |
Vampire Vow |
Alyson |
2003 |
SF/F/H |
Michael Rowe (ed.) |
Queer Fear II |
Arsenal Pulp |
Winner |
[H][21] |
Katherine V. Forrest |
Daughters of an Amber Noon |
Overlook Press |
Finalist |
[21] |
Karin Kallmaker (as Laura Adams) |
Seeds of Fire |
Bella Books |
Randy Boyd |
The Devil Inside |
West Beach |
Cecilia Tan (ed.) |
Wired Hard 3 |
Circlet Press |
2004 |
SF/F/H |
Helen Sandler (ed.) |
Necrologue |
Diva |
Winner |
[22] |
David M. Pierce |
Elf Child |
Southern Tier |
Finalist |
[22] |
Diana Rivers |
The Red Line of Yarmald |
Bella Books |
Perry Brass |
The Substance of God |
Belhue |
Michael Schiefelbein |
Vampire Thrall |
Alyson |
2005 |
SF/F/H |
Jim Grimsley |
The Ordinary |
Tor Books |
Winner |
[23] |
Michael Jensen |
Firelands |
Alyson |
Finalist |
[23] |
Greg Herren (ed.) |
Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual |
Southern Tier |
Jean Stewart |
The Wizard of Isis |
Bella Books |
Nicola Griffith |
With Her Body |
Aqueduct Press |
2006 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Katherine V. Forrest |
Daughters of an Emerald Dusk |
Alyson |
Winner |
[24] |
Octavia Butler |
Fledgling |
Seven Stories Press |
Finalist |
[24] |
Jeanne Gӆellers |
No Sister of Mine |
Bella Books |
David B. Coe |
Shapers of Darkness |
Tor Books |
Jane Fletcher |
Temple Landfall |
Bold Strokes Books |
2007 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Neal Drinnan |
Izzy and Eve |
Green Candy Press |
Winner |
[I][25] |
R.W. Day |
A Strong and Sudden Thaw |
Iris Print |
Finalist |
[25] |
Elizabeth Bear |
Carnival |
Bantam Spectra |
Douglas Clegg |
Mordred, Bastard Son |
Alyson |
Chris Moriarty |
Spin Control |
Bantam Spectra |
2008 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Lee Thomas |
The Dust of Wonderland |
Alyson |
Winner |
[26][27] |
Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette |
A Companion to Wolves |
Tor Books |
Finalist |
[26] |
Jo Walton |
Ha'penny |
Tor Books |
Brian Francis Slattery |
Spaceman Blues |
Tor Books |
Ginn Hale |
Wicked Gentlemen |
Blind Eye Books |
2009 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Nicole Kimberling |
Turnskin |
Blind Eye Books |
Winner |
[28] |
Craig Laurance Gidney |
Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories |
Lethe Press |
Finalist |
[28] |
Astrid Amara |
The Archer's Heart |
Blind Eye Books |
Barth Anderson |
The Magician and the Fool |
Bantam / Del Ray |
Steve Berman |
Wilde Stories 2008 |
Lethe Press |
2010 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Catherynne M. Valente |
Palimpsest |
Bantam Books |
Winner |
[29] |
Rebecca Ore |
Centuries Ago and Very Fast |
Aqueduct Press |
Finalist |
[29] |
Amber Dawn |
Fist of the Spider Woman |
Arsenal Pulp Press |
Lee Thomas |
In the Closet, Under the Bed |
Dark Scribe Press |
Tom Cardamone |
Pumpkin Teeth |
Lethe Press |
2011 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Sandra McDonald |
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories |
Lethe Press |
Winner |
[30][31] |
Tanith Lee |
Disturbed by Her Song |
Lethe Press |
Finalist |
[32] |
Nene Adams |
Flowers of Edo |
Black Car Publishing |
Steve Berman (ed.) |
Wilde Stories 2010 |
Lethe Press |
Jane Fletcher |
Wolfsbane Winter |
Bold Strokes Books |
2012 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Lee Thomas |
The German |
Lethe Press |
Winner |
[33] |
Geoff Ryman |
Paradise Tales: and Other Stories |
Small Beer Press |
Finalist |
|
L.A. Witt |
Static |
Amber Allure / Amber Quill Press |
|
JoSelle Vanderhooft |
Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories |
Torquere Press |
|
J. M. Frey |
Triptych |
Dragon Moon Press |
|
2013 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Tom Cardamone |
Green Thumb |
Lethe Press |
Winner |
[34] |
Lee Mandelo |
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction |
Lethe Press |
Finalist |
[34] |
H.B. Kurtzwilde |
Chocolatiers of the High Winds: A Gay Steampunk Romance |
Circlet Press |
Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman |
Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction |
Lethe Press |
Kelly Sinclair |
In the Now |
Blue Feather Books |
Greg Herren and J. M. Redmann |
Night Shadows: Queer Horror |
Bold Strokes Books |
Sean Eads |
The Survivors |
Lethe Press |
2014 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold |
Death by Silver |
|
Winner |
[8][35][36] |
Deborah Wheeler |
Collaborators |
|
Finalist |
[37][35] |
Alex Jeffers |
Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy |
|
Isabella Carter |
Dragon Slayer |
|
Richard Bowes |
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street |
|
Marie Castle |
Hell's Belle |
|
Roberta Degnore |
Invisible Soft Return |
|
Nathan Burgoine |
Light |
|
Lee Thomas |
Like Light for Flies |
|
Mary Anne Mohanraj |
The Stars Change |
|
2015 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Chaz Brenchley |
Bitter Waters |
|
Winner |
[38][39] |
Daryl Gregory |
Afterparty |
|
Finalist |
[40] |
Lee Thomas |
Butcher's Road |
|
A. M. Dellamonica |
Child of a Hidden Sea |
|
Max Gladstone |
Full Fathom Five |
|
Lea Daley |
FutureDyke |
|
Craig Laurance Gidney |
Skin Deep Magic |
|
2016 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Kirsty Logan |
The Gracekeepers |
|
Winner |
[41][42] |
Ally Blue |
Down |
|
Finalist |
[43][44] |
J.A. Rock |
Minotaur |
|
Kate Sherwood |
Sacrati |
|
John Inman |
The Boys on the Mountain |
|
Fletcher DeLancey |
The Caphenon |
|
Robert Levy |
The Glittering World |
|
Jude McLaughlin |
Wonder City Stories |
|
2017 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Indra Das |
The Devourers |
|
Winner |
[45] |
Sassafras Lowrey |
A Little Queermas Carol |
|
Finalist |
[46] |
Dayna Ingram |
All Good Children |
|
David Lennon |
Irish Black |
|
A. C. Wise |
Kissing Booth Girl |
|
Michael Thomas Ford |
Lily |
|
Ras Mashramani, Rasheedah Phillips, Alex Smith, and M. Eighteen Téllez |
Style of Attack Report |
|
Andrea Hairston |
Will Do Magic for Small Change |
|
2018 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Annalee Newitz |
Autonomous |
|
Winner |
[47][48][49] |
Lara Elena Donnelly |
Amberlough |
|
Finalist |
[50] |
Maggie Shen King |
An Excess Male |
|
Rivers Solomon |
An Unkindness of Ghosts |
|
Kristen Ringman |
I Stole You |
|
Owen Keehnen |
Night Visitors |
|
Lindsey Drager |
The Lost Daughter Collective |
|
Nicky Drayden |
The Prey of Gods |
|
2019 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Isaac R. Fellman |
The Breath of the Sun |
Aqueduct Press |
Winner |
[51][52] |
Sonya Taaffe |
Forget the Sleepless Shores |
Lethe Press |
Finalist |
[53] |
Aliette de Bodard |
In the Vanishers’ Palace |
JABberwocky |
Clay AD |
Metabolize, If Able |
Monster House Press |
Fletcher DeLancey |
Resilience |
Heartsome Publishing |
Margaret Killjoy |
The Barrow Will Send What It May |
Tor Books |
Neon Yang |
The Descent of Monsters |
Tor Books |
C. L. Polk |
Witchmark |
Tor Books |
2020 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes |
The Deep |
Saga Press / Gallery |
Winner |
[54][55][56] |
Craig Laurance Gidney |
A Spectral Hue |
Word Horde |
Finalist |
[57][58] |
Marlon James |
Black Leopard, Red Wolf |
Riverhead Books |
Jac Jemc |
False Bingo |
Dzanc Books |
Matthew Bright |
Stories to Sing in the Dark |
Lethe Press |
Samantha Shannon |
The Priory of the Orange Tree |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
Julie C. Day |
The Rampant |
Aqueduct Press |
Nina MacLaughlin |
Wake, Siren |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2021 |
LGBT SF/F/H |
Julian K. Jarboe |
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel |
Lethe Press |
Winner |
[59][60][61] |
Rebecca Roanhorse |
Black Sun |
Saga Press / Gallery |
Finalist |
[62] |
Zen Cho |
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water |
Tor Books |
Tlotlo Tsamaase |
The Silence of the Wilting Skin |
Pink Narcissus Press |
Aaron A. Reed |
Subcutanean |
Self-published |
2022 |
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction |
Cadwell Turnbull |
No Gods, No Monsters |
Blackstone Publishing |
Winner |
[63] |
Arkady Martine |
A Desolation Called Peace |
Tor Books |
Finalist |
[64] |
Honni van Rijswijk |
Breeder |
Blackstone Publishing |
Olivia Tapiero with Kit Schluter (trans.) |
Phototaxis |
Nightboat Books |
Neon Yang |
The Tensorate Series |
Tor Books |
2023 |
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction |
Lianyu Tan |
The Wicked and the Willing |
Shattered Scepter Press |
Winner |
[65] |
Sunyi Dean |
The Book Eaters |
Tor Books |
Finalist |
[66] |
Nghi Vo |
Into the Riverlands |
Tor.com |
Khan Wong |
The Circus Infinite |
Angry Robot |
Rob Hart |
The Paradox Hotel |
Ballantine Books |
2024 |
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction |
Marisa Crane |
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself |
Catapult |
Winner |
[67] |
Aubrey Wood |
Bang Bang Bodhisattva |
Solaris |
Finalist |
[68] |
Emma Mieko Candon |
The Archive Undying |
Tor.com |
Vajra Chandrasekera |
The Saint of Bright Doors |
Tor.com |
Chana Porter |
The Thick and the Lean |
Saga Press |