. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed in the next column.
| Year | Winner | Other nominees |
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| 2006 | ''Seeker'', by Jack McDevitt | ★ ''The Privilege of the Sword'', by Ellen Kushner ★ ''The Girl in the Glass'', by Jeffrey Ford ★ ''Farthing'', by Jo Walton ★ ''From the Files of the Time Rangers'', by Richard Bowes ★ ''To Crush the Moon'', by Wil McCarthy |
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| 2005 | ''Camouflage'' by Joe Haldeman | ★ ''Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell'' by Susanna Clarke 1 ★ ''Polaris'' by Jack McDevitt ★ ''Going Postal'' by Terry Pratchett ★ ''Air'' by Geoff Ryman ★ ''Orphans of Chaos'' by John C. Wright |
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| 2004 | ''Paladin of Souls'' by Lois McMaster Bujold 1 | ★ ''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom'' by Cory Doctorow ★ ''Omega'' by Jack McDevitt ★ ''Cloud Atlas: A Novel'' by David Mitchell ★ ''Perfect Circle'' by Sean Stewart ★ ''The Knight'' by Gene Wolfe |
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| 2003 | ''The Speed of Dark'' by Elizabeth Moon | ★ ''Diplomatic Immunity'' by Lois McMaster Bujold ★ ''The Mount'' by Carol Emshwiller ★ ''Light Music'' by Kathleen Ann Goonan ★ ''The Salt Roads'' by Nalo Hopkinson ★ ''Chindi'' by Jack McDevitt |
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| 2002 | ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman1 | ★ ''Solitaire'' by Kelley Eskridge ★ ''The Other Wind'' by Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ''Picoverse'' by Robert A. Metzger ★ ''Perdido Street Station'' by China Miéville ★ ''Bones of the Earth'' by Michael Swanwick |
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| 2001 | ''The Quantum Rose'' by Catherine Asaro | ★ ''Eternity's End'' by Jeffrey A. Carver ★ ''Mars Crossing'' by Geoffrey A. Landis ★ ''A Storm of Swords'' by George R. R. Martin ★ ''The Collapsium'' by Wil McCarthy ★ ''The Tower at Stony Wood'' by Patricia A. McKillip ★ ''Declare'' by Tim Powers ★ ''Passage'' by Connie WillisAlthough ''Declare'' appeared on the final ballot, it was afterwards determined to be ineligible. The SFWA's account can be found here. |
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| 2000 | ''Darwin's Radio'' by Greg Bear | ★ ''A Civil Campaign'' by Lois McMaster Bujold ★ ''Crescent City Rhapsody'' by Kathleen Ann Goonan ★ ''Midnight Robber'' by Nalo Hopkinson ★ ''Infinity Beach'' by Jack McDevitt ★ ''Forests of the Heart'' by Charles de Lint |
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| 1999 | ''Parable of the Talents'' by Octavia E. Butler | ★ ''The Cassini Division'' by Ken MacLeod ★ ''A Clash of Kings'' by George R. R. Martin ★ ''Mission Child'' by Maureen F. McHugh ★ ''Mockingbird'' by Sean Stewart ★ ''A Deepness in the Sky'' by Vernor Vinge1 |
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| 1998 | ''Forever Peace'' by Joe Haldeman1 | ★ ''The Last Hawk'' by Catherine Asaro ★ ''Moonfall'' by Jack McDevitt ★ ''How Few Remain'' by Harry Turtledove ★ ''Death of the Necromancer'' by Martha Wells ★ ''To Say Nothing of the Dog'' by Connie Willis |
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| 1997 | ''The Moon and the Sun'' by Vonda McIntyre | ★ ''Memory'' by Lois McMaster Bujold ★ ''King's Dragon'' by Kate Elliott ★ ''A Game of Thrones'' by George R. R. Martin ★ ''Ancient Shores'' by Jack McDevitt ★ ''City on Fire'' by Walter Jon Williams ★ ''Bellwether'' by Connie Willis |
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| 1996 | ''Slow River'' by Nicola Griffith | ★ ''The Silent Strength of Stones'' by Nina Kiriki Hoffman ★ ''Winter Rose'' by Patricia A. McKillip ★ ''Expiration Date'' by Tim Powers ★ ''Starplex'' by Robert J. Sawyer ★ ''The Diamond Age'' by Neal Stephenson |
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| 1995 | ''The Terminal Experiment'' by Robert J. Sawyer | ★ ''Mother of Storms'' by John Barnes ★ ''Beggars and Choosers'' by Nancy Kress ★ ''Celestis'' by Paul Park ★ ''Metropolitan'' by Walter Jon Williams ★ ''Calde of the Long Sun'' by Gene Wolfe |
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| 1994 | ''Moving Mars'' by Greg Bear | ★ ''Parable of the Sower'' by Octavia E. Butler ★ ''Gun, with Occasional Music'' by Jonathan Lethem ★ ''Towing Jehovah'' by James Morrow ★ ''Temporary Agency'' by Rachel Pollack ★ ''Green Mars'' by Kim Stanley Robinson1 ★ ''A Night in the Lonesome October'' by Roger Zelazny |
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| 1993 | ''Red Mars'' by Kim Stanley Robinson | ★ ''Assemblers of Infinity'' by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason ★ ''Hard Landing'' by Algis Budrys ★ ''Beggars in Spain'' by Nancy Kress ★ ''Nightside the Long Sun'' by Gene Wolfe |
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| 1992 | ''Doomsday Book'' by Connie Willis1 | ★ ''A Million Open Doors'' by John Barnes ★ ''Sarah Canary'' by Karen Joy Fowler ★ ''China Mountain Zhang'' by Maureen F. McHugh ★ ''A Fire Upon the Deep'' by Vernor Vinge1 ★ ''Briar Rose'' by Jane Yolen |
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| 1991 | ''Stations of the Tide'' by Michael Swanwick | ★ ''Orbital Resonance'' by John Barnes ★ ''Barrayar'' by Lois McMaster Bujold ★ ''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull ★ ''Synners'' by Pat Cadigan ★ ''The Difference Engine'' by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson |
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| 1990 | ''Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea'' by Ursula K. Le Guin | ★ ''Mary Reilly'' by Valerie Martin ★ ''Only Begotten Daughter'' by James Morrow ★ ''The Fall of Hyperion'' by Dan Simmons ★ ''Redshift Rendezvous'' by John E. Stith ★ ''White Jenna'' by Jane Yolen |
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| 1989 | ''The Healer's War'' by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough | ★ ''The Boat of a Million Years'' by Poul Anderson ★ ''Prentice Alvin'' by Orson Scott Card ★ ''Good News From Outer Space'' by John Kessel ★ '' by Mike Resnick ★ ''Sister Light, Sister Dark'' by Jane Yolen |
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| 1988 | ''Falling Free'' by Lois McMaster Bujold | ★ ''Deserted Cities of the Heart'' by Lewis Shiner ★ ''Drowning Towers'' by George Turner ★ ''Great Sky River'' by Gregory Benford ★ ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' by William Gibson ★ ''Red Prophet'' by Orson Scott Card ★ ''The Urth of the New Sun'' by Gene Wolfe |
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| 1987 | ''The Falling Woman'' by Pat Murphy | ★ ''The Forge of God'' by Greg Bear ★ ''Soldier of the Mist'' by Gene Wolfe ★ ''The Uplift War'' by David Brin ★ ''Vergil in Averno'' by Avram Davidson ★ ''When Gravity Fails'' by George Alec Effinger |
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| 1986 | ''Speaker for the Dead'' by Orson Scott Card1 | ★ ''Count Zero'' by William Gibson ★ ''Free Live Free'' by Gene Wolfe ★ ''The Handmaid's Tale'' by Margaret Atwood ★ ''The Journal of Nicholas the American'' by Leigh Kennedy ★ ''This is the Way the World Ends'' by James Morrow |
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| 1985 | ''Ender's Game'' by Orson Scott Card1 | ★ ''Blood Music'' by Greg Bear ★ ''Dinner at Deviant's Palace'' by Tim Powers ★ ''Helliconia Winter'' by Brian Aldiss ★ ''The Postman'' by David Brin ★ ''The Remaking of Sigmund Freud'' by Barry N. Malzberg ★ ''Schismatrix'' by Bruce Sterling |
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| 1984 | ''Neuromancer'' by William Gibson1 | ★ ''Frontera'' by Lewis Shiner ★ ''The Integral Trees'' by Larry Niven ★ '' by Robert A. Heinlein ★ ''The Man Who Melted'' by Jack Dann ★ ''The Wild Shore'' by Kim Stanley Robinson |
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| 1983 | ''Startide Rising'' by David Brin1 | ★ ''Against Infinity'' by Gregory Benford ★ ''The Citadel of the Autarch'' by Gene Wolfe ★ ''Lyonesse'' by Jack Vance ★ ''Tea with the Black Dragon'' by R. A. MacAvoy ★ ''The Void Captain's Tale'' by Norman Spinrad |
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| 1982 | ''No Enemy But Time'' by Michael Bishop | ★ ''Foundation's Edge'' by Isaac Asimov1 ★ ''Friday'' by Robert A. Heinlein ★ ''Helliconia Spring'' by Brian Aldiss ★ ''The Sword of the Lictor'' by Gene Wolfe ★ ''The Transmigration of Timothy Archer'' by Philip K. Dick |
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| 1981 | ''The Claw of the Conciliator'' by Gene Wolfe | ★ ''Little, Big'' by John Crowley ★ ''The Many-Colored Land'' by Julian May ★ ''Radix'' by A. A. Attanasio ★ ''Riddley Walker'' by Russell Hoban ★ ''The Vampire Tapestry'' by Suzy McKee Charnas |
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| 1980 | ''Timescape'' by Gregory Benford | ★ ''Beyond the Blue Event Horizon'' by Frederik Pohl ★ ''Mockingbird'' by Walter Tevis ★ ''The Orphan'' by Robert Stallman ★ ''The Shadow of the Torturer'' by Gene Wolfe ★ ''The Snow Queen'' by Joan D. Vinge |
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| 1979 | ''The Fountains of Paradise'' by Arthur C. Clarke1 | ★ ''Jem'' by Frederik Pohl ★ ''Juniper Time'' by Kate Wilhelm ★ ''On Wings of Song'' by Thomas M. Disch ★ ''The Road to Corlay'' by Richard Cowper ★ ''Titan'' by John Varley |
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| 1978 | ''Dreamsnake'' by Vonda McIntyre1 | ★ ''Blind Voices'' by Tom Reamy ★ ''The Faded Sun: Kesrith'' by C. J. Cherryh ★ ''Kalki'' by Gore Vidal ★ ''Strangers'' by Gardner Dozois |
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| 1977 | ''Gateway'' by Frederik Pohl1 | ★ ''Cirque'' by Terry Carr ★ ''In the Ocean of Night'' by Gregory Benford ★ ''Moonstar Odyssey'' by David Gerrold ★ ''Sword of Demon'' by Richard A. Lupoff |
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| 1976 | ''Man Plus'' by Frederik Pohl | ★ ''Inferno'' by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle ★ ''Islands'' by Marta Randall ★ ''Shadrach in the Furnace'' by Robert Silverberg ★ ''Triton'' by Samuel R. Delany ★ ''Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang'' by Kate Wilhelm |
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| 1975 | ''The Forever War'' by Joe Haldeman1 | ★ ''Autumn Angels'' by Arthur Byron ★ ''The Birthgrave'' by Tanith Lee ★ ''The Computer Connection'' by Alfred Bester ★ ''Dhalgren'' by Samuel R. Delany ★ ''Doorways in the Sand'' by Roger Zelazny ★ ''The Embedding'' by Ian Watson ★ ''The Exile Waiting'' by Vonda N. McIntyre ★ ''The Female Man'' by Joanna Russ ★ ''A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire'' by Michael Bishop ★ ''Guernica Night'' by Barry N. Malzberg ★ ''The Heritage of Hastur'' by Marion Zimmer Bradley ★ ''Invisible Cities'' by Italo Calvino ★ ''A Midsummer Tempest'' by Poul Anderson ★ ''The Missing Man'' by Katherine Maclean ★ ''The Mote in God's Eye'' by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle ★ ''Ragtime'' by E. L. Doctorow ★ ''The Stochastic Man'' by Robert Silverberg |
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| 1974 | ''The Dispossessed'' by Ursula K. Le Guin1 | ★ ''334'' by Thomas M. Disch ★ ''Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said'' by Philip K. Dick ★ ''The Godwhale'' by T. J. Bass |
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| 1973 | ''Rendezvous with Rama'' by Arthur C. Clarke | ★ ''Gravity's Rainbow'' by Thomas Pynchon ★ ''The Man Who Folded Himself'' by David Gerrold ★ ''The People of the Wind'' by Poul Anderson ★ ''Time Enough for Love'' by Robert A. Heinlein |
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| 1972 | ''The Gods Themselves'' by Isaac Asimov1 | ★ ''The Book of Skulls'' by Robert Silverberg ★ ''Dying Inside'' by Robert Silverberg ★ ''The Iron Dream'' by Norman Spinrad ★ ''The Sheep Look Up'' by John Brunner ★ ''What Entropy Means to Me'' by George Alec Effinger ★ ''When Harlie Was One'' by David Gerrold |
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| 1971 | ''A Time of Changes'' by Robert Silverberg | ★ ''The Byworlder'' by Poul Anderson ★ ''The Devil is Dead'' by R. A. Lafferty ★ ''Half Past Human'' by T. J. Bass ★ ''The Lathe of Heaven'' by Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ''Margaret and I'' by Kate Wilhelm |
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| 1970 | ''Ringworld'' by Larry Niven1 | ★ ''And Chaos Died'' by Joanna Russ ★ ''Fourth Mansions'' by R. A. Lafferty ★ ''The Steel Crocodile'' by D. G. Compton ★ ''Tower of Glass'' by Robert Silverberg ★ ''The Year of the Quiet Sun'' by Wilson Tucker |
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| 1969 | ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' by Ursula K. Le Guin1 | ★ ''Bug Jack Barron'' by Norman Spinrad ★ ''Isle of the Dead'' by Roger Zelazny ★ ''The Jagged Orbit'' by John Brunner ★ ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' by Kurt Vonnegut ★ ''Up the Line'' by Robert Silverberg |
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| 1968 | ''Rite of Passage'' by Alexei Panshin | ★ ''Black Easter'' by James Blish ★ ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' by Philip K. Dick ★ ''The Masks of Time'' by Robert Silverberg ★ ''Past Master'' by R. A. Lafferty ★ ''Picnic on Paradise'' by Joanna Russ ★ ''Stand on Zanzibar'' by John Brunner1 |
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| 1967 | ''The Einstein Intersection'' by Samuel R. Delany | ★ ''Chthon'' by Piers Anthony ★ ''The Eskimo Invasion'' by Hayden Howard ★ ''Lord of Light'' by Roger Zelazny1 ★ ''Thorns'' by Robert Silverberg |
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| 1966 | (tie) ★ ''Babel-17'' by Samuel R. Delany ★ ''Flowers for Algernon'' by Daniel Keyes | ★ ''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'' by Robert A. Heinlein1 |
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| 1965 | ''Dune'' by Frank Herbert1 | ★ ''All Flesh is Grass'' by Clifford D. Simak ★ ''The Clone'' by Theodore Thomas & Kate Wilhelm ★ ''Dr. Bloodmoney'' by Philip K. Dick ★ ''The Escape Orbit'' by James White ★ ''The Genocides'' by Thomas M. Disch ★ ''Nova Express'' by William Burroughs ★ ''A Plague of Demons'' by Keith Laumer ★ ''Rogue Dragon'' by Avram Davidson ★ ''The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream'' by G. C. Edmondson ★ ''The Star Fox'' by Poul Anderson ★ ''The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch'' by Philip K. Dick |
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★ http://www.sfwa.org/awards/archive/pastwin.htm - list of award winners from official site