s are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after
, and given in various categories.
are presented here.
According to Article 3.3.2 of the World Science Fiction Society, a novella is "A science fiction or fantasy story of between seventeen thousand five hundred (17,500) and forty thousand (40,000) words." Fiction works which are shorter are considered
, and separate awards are given for these various categories.
Awards given in one year are for works published during the previous calendar year.
| Year | Winner | Other nominees |
|---|
| 2007 | "A Billion Eves" by Robert Reed |
★ "Inclination" by William Shunn
★ '' by Robert Charles Wilson
★ "Lord Weary's Empire" by Michael Swanwick
★ "The Walls of the Universe" by Paul Melko |
|---|
| 2006 | "Inside Job" by Connie Willis |
★ ''Burn'' by James Patrick Kelly
★ "Magic for Beginners" by Kelly Link
★ "The Little Goddess" by Ian McDonald
★ "Identity Theft" by Robert J. Sawyer |
|---|
| 2005 | "The Concrete Jungle" by Charles Stross |
★ "Winterfair Gifts" by Lois McMaster Bujold
★ "Time Ablaze" by Michael A. Burstein
★ "Sergeant Chip" by Bradley Denton
★ "Elector" by Charles Stross |
|---|
| 2004 | "The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge |
★ "Walk in Silence" by Catherine Asaro
★ "Empress of Mars" by Kage Baker
★ "The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon Williams
★ "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" by Connie Willis |
|---|
| 2003 | "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman |
★ "Bronte's Egg" by Richard Chwedyk
★ "A Year in the Linear City" by Paul Di Filippo
★ "The Political Officer" by Charles Coleman Finlay
★ "In Spirit" by Pat Forde
★ "Breathmoss" by Ian R. MacLeod |
|---|
| 2002 | "Fast Times at Fairmont High" by Vernor Vinge |
★ "May Be Some Time" by Brenda W. Clough
★ "The Diamond Pit" by Jack Dann
★ "The Chief Designer" by Andy Duncan
★ "Stealing Alabama" by Allen Steele |
|---|
| 2001 | "The Ultimate Earth" by Jack Williamson |
★ "A Roll of the Dice" by Catherine Asaro
★ "Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang
★ "Oracle" by Greg Egan
★ "The Retrieval Artist" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
★ "Radiant Green Star" by Lucius Shepard |
|---|
| 2000 | "The Winds of Marble Arch" by Connie Willis |
★ "Son Observe the Time" by Kage Baker
★ "The Astronaut from Wyoming" by Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion
★ "Hunting the Snark" by Mike Resnick
★ "Forty, Counting Down" by Harry Turtledove |
|---|
| 1999 | "Oceanic" by Greg Egan |
★ "Aurora in Four Voices" by Catherine Asaro
★ "Get Me to the Church on Time" by Terry Bisson
★ "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
★ "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod |
|---|
| 1998 | "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" by Allen Steele |
★ "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" by Adam-Troy Castro
★ "Ecopoiesis" by Geoffrey A. Landis
★ "Loose Ends" by Paul Levinson
★ "Marrow" by Robert Reed |
|---|
| 1997 | "Blood of the Dragon" by George R. R. Martin |
★ "Immersion" by Gregory Benford
★ "Time Travelers Never Die" by Jack McDevitt
★ "The Cost to Be Wise" by Maureen F. McHugh
★ "Abandon in Place" by Jerry Oltion
★ "Gas Fish" by Mary Rosenblum |
|---|
| 1996 | "The Death of Captain Future" by Allen Steele |
★ "Fault Lines" by Nancy Kress
★ "A Man of the People" by Ursula K. Le Guin
★ "A Woman's Liberation" by Ursula K. Le Guin
★ "Bibi" by Mike Resnick and Susan M. Schwartz |
|---|
| 1995 | "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick |
★ "Cri de Coeur" by Michael Bishop
★ "Melodies of the Heart" by Michael F. Flynn
★ "Forgiveness Day" by Ursula K. Le Guin
★ "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Brian Stableford |
|---|
| 1994 | "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove |
★ "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady
★ "Mefisto In Onyx" by Harlan Ellison
★ "An American Childhood" by Pat Murphy
★ "Into the Miranda Rift" by G. David Nordley
★ "Wall, Stone, Craft" by Walter Jon Williams |
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| 1993 | "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard |
★ "Uh-Oh City" by Jonathan Carroll
★ "The Territory" by Bradley Denton
★ "Protection" by Maureen F. McHugh
★ "Stopping at Slowyear" by Frederik Pohl |
|---|
| 1992 | "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress |
★ "And Wild for to Hold" by Nancy Kress
★ "The Gallery of His Dreams" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
★ "Griffin's Egg" by Michael Swanwick
★ "Jack" by Connie Willis |
|---|
| 1991 | "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman |
★ "Fool to Believe" by Pat Cadigan
★ "Bones" by Pat Murphy
★ "Bully!" by Mike Resnick
★ "A Short, Sharp Shock" by Kim Stanley Robinson |
|---|
| 1990 | "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold |
★ "A Touch of Lavender" by Megan Lindholm
★ "Tiny Tango" by Judith Moffett
★ "The Father of Stones" by Lucius Shepard
★ "Time-Out" by Connie Willis |
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| 1989 | "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis |
★ "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" by Bradley Denton
★ "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" by Lucius Shepard
★ "Journals of the Plague Years" by Norman Spinrad
★ "Surfacing" by Walter Jon Williams |
|---|
| 1988 | "Eye for Eye" by Orson Scott Card |
★ "The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn
★ "The Blind Geometer" by Kim Stanley Robinson
★ "Mother Goddess of the World" by Kim Stanley Robinson
★ "The Secret Sharer" by Robert Silverberg |
|---|
| 1987 | "Gilgamesh in the Outback" by Robert Silverberg |
★ "Eifelheim" by Michael F. Flynn
★ "Escape from Kathmandu" by Kim Stanley Robinson
★ "R&R" by Lucius Shepard
★ "Spice Pogrom" by Connie Willis |
|---|
| 1986 | "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" by Roger Zelazny |
★ "The Scapegoat" by C. J. Cherryh
★ "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson
★ "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg
★ "The Only Neat Thing to Do" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
|---|
| 1985 | "PRESS ENTER■" by John Varley |
★ "Cyclops" by David Brin
★ "Valentina" by Joseph H. Delaney and Marc Steigler
★ "Summer Solstice" by Charles L. Harness
★ "Elemental" by Geoffrey A. Landis |
|---|
| 1984 | "Cascade Point" by Timothy Zahn |
★ "Hardfought" by Greg Bear
★ "In the Face of My Enemy" by Joseph H. Delaney
★ "Seeking" by David R. Palmer
★ "Hurricane Claude" by Hilbert Schenck |
|---|
| 1983 | "Souls" by Joanna Russ |
★ "The Postman" by David Brin
★ "Brainchild" by Joseph H. Delaney
★ "Another Orphan" by John Kessel
★ "Unsound Variations" by George R. R. Martin
★ "To Leave a Mark" by Kim Stanley Robinson |
|---|
| 1982 | "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson |
★ "In the Western Tradition" by Phyllis Eisenstein
★ "Emergence" by David R. Palmer
★ "Blue Champagne" by John Varley
★ "True Names" by Vernor Vinge
★ "With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope" by Kate Wilhelm |
|---|
| 1981 | "Lost Dorsai" by Gordon R. Dickson |
★ "The Brave Little Toaster" by Thomas M. Disch
★ "All the Lies that Are My Life" by Harlan Ellison
★ "Nightflyers" by George R. R. Martin
★ "One-Wing" by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle |
|---|
| 1980 | "Enemy Mine" by Barry B. Longyear |
★ "Songhouse" by Orson Scott Card
★ "The Moon Goddess and the Son" by Donald Kingsbury
★ "Ker-Plop" by Ted Reynolds
★ "The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" by Hilbert Schenck |
|---|
| 1979 | "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley |
★ "Enemies of the System" by Brian W. Aldiss
★ "The Watched" by Christopher Priest
★ "Fireship" by Joan D. Vinge
★ "Seven American Nights" by Gene Wolfe |
|---|
| 1978 | "Stardance" by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson |
★ "A Snark in the Night" by Gregory Benford
★ "The Wonderful Secret" by Keith Laumer
★ "Aztecs" by Vonda N. McIntyre
★ "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" by John Varley |
|---|
| 1977 | (tie)
★ "By Any Other Name" by Spider Robinson
★ "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
★ "The Samurai and the Willows" by Michael Bishop
★ "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Richard Cowper |
|---|
| 1976 | "Home Is the Hangman" by Roger Zelazny |
★ "The Silent Eyes of Time" by Algis Budrys
★ "The Custodians" by Richard Cowper
★ "The Storms of Windhaven" by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
★ "ARM" by Larry Niven |
|---|
| 1975 | "A Song for Lya" by George R. R. Martin |
★ "Strangers" by Gardner Dozois
★ "Born with the Dead" by Robert Silverberg
★ "Riding the Torch" by Norman Spinrad
★ "Assault on a City" by Jack Vance |
|---|
| 1974 | "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
★ "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" by Michael Bishop
★ "The White Otters of Childhood" by Michael Bishop
★ "Chains of the Sea" by Gardner Dozois
★ "The Death of Doctor Island" by Gene Wolfe |
|---|
| 1973 | "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin |
★ "Hero" by Joe Haldeman
★ "The Gold at the Starbow's End" by Frederik Pohl
★ "The Mercenary" by Jerry Pournelle
★ "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" by Gene Wolfe |
|---|
| 1972 | "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson |
★ "Dread Empire" by John Brunner
★ "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke
★ "A Special Kind of Morning" by Gardner Dozois
★ "The Fourth Profession" by Larry Niven |
|---|
| 1971 | "Ill Met in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber |
★ "The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison
★ "Beastchild" by Dean Koontz
★ "The World Outside" by Robert Silverberg
★ "The Thing in the Stone" by Clifford D. Simak |
|---|
| 1970 | "Ship of Shadows" by Fritz Leiber |
★ "We All Die Naked" by James Blish
★ "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison
★ "Dramatic Mission" by Anne McCaffrey
★ "To Jorslem" by Robert Silverberg |
|---|
| 1969 | "Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg |
★ "Lines of Power" by Samuel R. Delany
★ "Dragonrider" by Anne McCaffrey
★ "Hawk Among the Sparrows" by Dean McLaughlin |
|---|
| 1968 | (tie)
★ "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip José Farmer
★ "Weyr Search" by Anne McCaffrey |
★ "The Star Pit" by Samuel R. Delany
★ "Hawksbill Station" by Robert Silverberg
★ "Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny |
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