| Year |
Author | Title |
Ref |
| 1983 |
Rudy Rucker | Software |
|
| Ray Nelson | The Prometheus Man |
|
| J. M. Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians |
|
| R. A. Lafferty | Aurelia |
|
| John Sladek | Roderick |
|
| Steve Rasnic Tem | The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry |
|
| 1984 |
Tim Powers | The Anubis Gates |
|
| R. A. MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon |
|
| Barrington J. Bayley | The Zen Gun |
|
| Zoe Fairbairns | Benefits |
|
| M. John Harrison | The Floating Gods |
|
| John Varley | Millennium |
|
| 1985 |
William Gibson | Neuromancer |
|
| Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore |
|
| C. J. Cherryh | Voyager in Night |
|
| Geary Gravel | The Alchemists |
|
| David R. Palmer | Emergence |
|
| Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes |
|
| Lewis Shiner | Frontera |
|
| Howard Waldrop | Them Bones |
|
| 1986 |
Tim Powers | Dinner at Deviant's Palace |
|
| Richard Grant | Saraband of Lost Time |
|
| Russell Griffin | The Timeservers |
|
| Michael P. Kube-McDowell | Emprise |
|
| Barry N. Malzberg | The Remaking of Sigmund Freud |
|
| Scott Russell Sanders | Terrarium |
|
| Walter Jon Williams | Knight Moves |
|
| 1987 |
James P. Blaylock | Homunculus |
|
| Jack McDevitt | The Hercules Text |
|
| Karen Joy Fowler | Artificial Things |
|
| Robert Charles Wilson | A Hidden Place |
|
| 1988 |
Patricia Geary | Strange Toys |
|
| Mike McQuay | Memories |
|
| Richard Bowker | Dover Beach |
|
| Pat Cadigan | Mindplayers |
|
| K. W. Jeter | Dark Seeker |
|
| Rebecca Ore | Becoming Alien |
|
| Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime |
|
| 1989 |
Paul J. McAuley (tie) | Four Hundred Billion Stars |
|
| Rudy Rucker (tie) | Wetware |
|
| Roger MacBride Allen | Orphan of Creation |
|
| Marc Laidlaw | Neon Lotus |
|
| David Alexander Smith | Rendezvous |
|
| 1990 |
Richard Paul Russo | Subterranean Gallery |
|
| Dave Wolverton | On My Way to Paradise |
|
| Barry B. Longyear | Infinity Hold |
|
| James Luceno | A Fearful Symmetry |
|
| Rebecca Ore | Being Alien |
|
| Susan Shwartz | Heritage of Flight |
|
| 1991 |
Pat Murphy | Points of Departure |
|
| Raymond Harris | The Schizogenic Man |
|
| Gregory Feeley | The Oxygen Barons |
|
| Elizabeth Hand | Winterlong |
|
| Allen Steele | Clarke County, Space |
|
| 1992 |
Ian McDonald | King of Morning, Queen of Day |
|
| Emma Bull | Bone Dance |
|
| Douglas Bell | Mojo and the Pickle Jar |
|
| Kathe Koja | The Cipher |
|
| Robert Charles Wilson | Bridge of Years |
|
| 1993 |
Richard Grant | Through the Heart |
|
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | In the Mothers' Land |
|
| Colin Greenland | Take Back Plenty |
|
| Elizabeth Hand | Aestival Tide |
|
| R. A. Lafferty | Iron Tears |
|
| 1994 |
John M. Ford (tie) | Growing Up Weightless |
|
| Jack Womack (tie) | Elvissey |
|
| Wilhelmina Baird | Crash Course |
|
| David R. Bunch | Bunch! |
|
| Elizabeth Hand | Icarus Descending |
|
| 1995 |
Robert Charles Wilson | Mysterium |
|
| Jack Cady | Inagehi |
|
| Alexander Besher | Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality |
|
| Lisa Mason | Summer of Love |
|
| Ian McDonald | Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone |
|
| Lance Olsen | Tonguing the Zeitgeist |
|
| 1996 |
Bruce Bethke | Headcrash |
|
| Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Edge |
|
| Shale Aaron | Virtual Death |
|
| Greg Egan | Permutation City |
|
| Amy Thomson | The Color of Distance |
|
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | Reluctant Voyagers |
|
| 1997 |
Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships |
|
| Michael Bishop | At the City Limits of Fate |
|
| William Barton | The Transmigration of Souls |
|
| George Foy | The Shift |
|
| Sarah Zettel | Reclamation |
|
| 1998 |
Stepan Chapman | The Troika |
|
| William Barton | Acts of Conscience |
|
| Susan R. Matthews | An Exchange of Hostages |
|
| Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Heart |
|
| Denise Vitola | Opalite Moon |
|
| Catherine Wells | Mother Grimm |
|
| 1999 |
Geoff Ryman | 253: The Print Remix |
|
| Paul Di Filippo | Lost Pages |
|
| Steve Aylett | Slaughtermatic |
|
| Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring |
|
| Paul J. McAuley | The Invisible Country |
|
| 2000 |
Stephen Baxter | Vacuum Diagrams |
|
| Jamil Nasir | Tower of Dreams |
|
| Toni Anzetti | Typhon's Children |
|
| Constance Ash, ed. | Not of Woman Born |
|
| William Barton | When We Were Real |
|
| Kristine Smith | Code of Conduct |
|
| 2001 |
Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward |
|
| Scott Westerfeld | Evolution's Darling |
|
| Stephen L. Burns | Call from a Distant Shore |
|
| Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber |
|
| Maggy Thomas | Broken Time |
|
| Janine Ellen Young | The Bridge |
|
| 2002 |
Richard Paul Russo | Ship of Fools |
|
| Ken Wharton | Divine Intervention |
|
| Julie E. Czerneda | In the Company of Others |
|
| Mark W. Tiedemann | Compass Reach |
|
| Ray Vukcevich | Meet Me in the Moon Room |
|
| Liz Williams | The Ghost Sister |
|
| 2003 |
Carol Emshwiller | The Mount |
|
| China Miéville | The Scar |
|
| Carol Emshwiller | Report to the Men’s Club |
|
| Kay Kenyon | Maximum Ice |
|
| Karin Lowachee | Warchild |
|
| Liz Williams | Empire of Bones |
|
| Forrest Aguirre, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.) | Leviathan Three |
|
| 2004 |
Richard K. Morgan | Altered Carbon |
|
| Jane Jensen | Dante's Equation |
|
| M. M. Buckner | Hyperthought |
|
| Mark Budz | Clade |
|
| Chris Moriarty | Spin State |
|
| Ann Tonsor Zeddies | Steel Helix |
|
| 2005 |
Gwyneth Jones | Life |
|
| Lyda Morehouse | Apocalypse Array |
|
| Geoff Ryman | Air |
|
| Liz Williams | Banner of Souls |
|
| Karen Traviss | City of Pearl |
|
| Minister Faust | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad |
|
| Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others |
|
| 2006 |
M. M. Buckner | War Surf |
|
| Justina Robson | Natural History |
|
| Neal Asher | Cowl |
|
| Karin Lowachee | Cagebird |
|
| Justina Robson | Silver Screen |
|
| Wil McCarthy | To Crush the Moon |
|
| 2007 |
Chris Moriarty | Spin Control |
|
| Elizabeth Bear | Carnival |
|
| Tony Ballantyne | Recursion |
|
| Mark Budz | Idolon |
|
| Andrea Hairston | Mindscape |
|
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact |
|
| Justina Robson | Living Next Door to the God of Love |
|
| 2008 |
M. John Harrison | Nova Swing |
|
| Minister Faust | From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain |
|
| Jon Armstrong | Grey |
|
| Elizabeth Bear | Undertow |
|
| Adam Roberts | Gradisil |
|
| Karen Traviss | Ally |
|
| Sean Williams | Saturn Returns |
|
| 2009 |
Adam-Troy Castro (tie) | Emissaries from The Dead[4] |
|
| David Walton (tie) | Terminal Mind[4] |
|
| Lou Anders | Fast Forward 2[4] |
|
| K. A. Bedford | Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait[4] |
|
| Jeff Carlson | Plague War[4] |
|
| Karen Traviss | Judge[4] |
|
| 2010 |
C. L. Anderson | Bitter Angels |
|
| Ian McDonald | Cyberabad Days |
|
| Carlos J. Cortes | The Prisoner |
|
| Eric Garcia | The Repossession Mambo |
|
| Daryl Gregory | The Devil's Alphabet |
|
| Rebecca Ore | Centuries Ago and Very Fast |
|
| S. Andrew Swann | Prophets |
|
| 2011 |
Mark Hodder | The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack |
|
| Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith) | Harmony |
|
| Jon Armstrong | Yarn |
|
| Elizabeth Bear | Chill |
|
| Alden Bell | The Reapers are the Angels |
|
| Sara Creasy | Song of Scarabaeus |
|
| James Knapp | State of Decay |
|
| 2012 |
Simon Morden | The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy |
|
| Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man |
|
| Mira Grant | Deadline |
|
| Matthew Hughes | The Other |
|
| Jean Johnson | A Soldier's Duty |
|
| Drew Magary | The Postmortal |
|
| Maureen F. McHugh | After the Apocalypse |
|
| 2013 |
Brian Francis Slattery | Lost Everything[5] |
|
| Andri Snær Magnason | LoveStar |
|
| Ryan Boudinot | Blueprints of the Afterlife |
|
| Keith Brooke | Harmony |
|
| Eric Brown | Helix Wars |
|
| Moira Crone | The Not Yet |
|
| Nancy Kress | Fountain of Age: Stories |
|
| 2014 |
Ben H. Winters | Countdown City |
[6] |
| Toh EnJoe | Self-Reference Engine |
| Anne Charnock | A Calculated Life |
[7] |
| Cassandra Rose Clarke | The Mad Scientist’s Daughter |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice |
| Jack Skillingstead | Life on the Preservation |
| Ian Whates (ed.) | Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction |
| 2015 |
Meg Elison | The Book of the Unnamed Midwife |
[8] |
| Jennifer Marie Brissett | Elysium |
[8] |
| Rod Duncan | The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter |
[9] |
| Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water |
| Cherie Priest | Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches |
| Jonathan Strahan (ed.) | Reach for Infinity |
| 2016 |
Ramez Naam | Apex |
[10] |
| Marguerite Reed | Archangel |
[10] |
| Brenda Cooper | Edge of Dark |
[11] |
| Douglas Lain | After the Saucers Landed |
| PJ Manney | (R)evolution |
| Adam Rakunas | Windswept |
| 2017 |
Claudia Casper | The Mercy Journals |
[12] |
| Susan diRende | Unpronounceable |
[12] |
| Kristy Acevedo | Consider |
[13] |
| Eleanor Arnason | Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens |
| Matt Hill | Graft |
| Yoss | Super Extra Grande |
| 2018 |
Carrie Vaughn | Bannerless |
|
| Deji Bryce Olukotun | After the Flare |
| Meg Elison | The Book of Etta |
[14] |
| Mur Lafferty | Six Wakes |
| Tim Pratt | The Wrong Stars |
| Alastair Reynolds | Revenger |
| Martha Wells | All Systems Red |
| 2019 |
Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards |
|
| Claire North | 84K |
| Ian McDonald | Time Was |
[15] |
| Jeff Noon | The Body Library |
| Abbey Mei Otis | Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories |
| Vandana Singh | Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories |
| 2020 |
Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea |
[16] |
| Sarah Tolmie | The Little Animals |
| Ada Hoffmann | The Outside |
[17] |
| Megan E. O'Keefe | Velocity Weapon |
| Susan Palwick | All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions |
| Tade Thompson | The Rosewater Redemption |
| 2021 |
Alison Stine | Road Out of Winter |
[18] |
| M. R. Carey | The Book of Koli |
| Christopher Brown | Failed State |
[19] |
| Elwin Cotman | Dance on Saturday |
| Alastair Reynolds | Bone Silence |
| Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Doors of Eden |
| 2022 |
Kali Wallace | Dead Space |
[20] |
| Lavie Tidhar | The Escapement |
| Nino Cipri | Defekt |
[21] |
| Jason Sanford | Plague Birds |
| Giacomo Sartori | Bug |
| Tade Thompson | Far from the Light of Heaven |
| 2023 |
Kimberly Unger | The Extractionist |
[22] |
| Tade Thompson |
The Legacy of Molly Southbourne |
[22] |
| Rebecca Campbell |
Arboreality |
[23] |
| C. J. Carey |
Widowland |
| Rich Larson |
Ymir |
| Rachel Swirsky |
January Fifteenth |
| 2024 |
Bethany Jacobs | These Burning Stars |
[24] |
| Rebekah Bergman |
The Museum of Human History |
| Eugen Bacon |
Danged Black Thing |
[25] |
| M. R. Carey |
Infinity Gate |
| S. L. Coney |
Wild Spaces |
| Dilman Dila |
Where Rivers Go to Die |
| 2025 |
Brenda Peynado |
Time's Agent |
[26] |
| Adrian Tchaikovsky |
Alien Clay |
| Tara Campbell |
City of Dancing Gargoyles |
[27] |
| Bora Chung |
Your Utopia: Stories |
| Sofia Samatar |
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain |
| Subodhana Wijeyeratne |
Triangulum |
| 2026 |
M. R. Carey |
Outlaw Planet |
[28][29] |
| Thomas Ha |
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories |
| William Alexander |
Sunward: A Novel |
[28] |
| Koji A. Dae |
Casual |
| Caspar Geon |
The Immeasurable Heaven |
| Christopher Hinz |
Scales |
| Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley |
City of All Seasons |
