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Theodore Sturgeon Award

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Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
Awarded forThe best short science fiction stories published in English in the prior calendar year
Presented byCenter for the Study of Science Fiction
First award1987; 39 years ago (1987)
Most recent winnerAlex T. Singer ("We, the Fleet")
Websitesfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon-award

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction story published in English in the preceding calendar year. The award is named in honor of Theodore Sturgeon, one of the leading authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction from 1939 to 1950. The award was established in 1987 by his heirs—including his widow, Jayne Sturgeon—and James Gunn, at the time the Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction.[1]

Nominations are submitted by reviewers, fans, publishers, and editors, and are collated into a list of finalists to be voted on by the jury. The maximum eligible length that a work may be is not formally defined by the center. The award is given each year at the University of Kansas; it was previously presented at the Campbell Conference as the short fiction counterpart of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, but since 2022, with the closure of both the Campbell conference and award, it has been presented as part of the annual Sturgeon Symposium.[2] Winners are invited to attend and read at the ceremony. Since 2004 winners have received a personalized trophy, and since the inception of the award a permanent trophy has recorded all of the winners.[3]

During the 40 years the award has been active, 243 authors have had works nominated, 40 of whom have won, including one tie. No author has won more than once. John Kessel has won once out of eight nominations, Michael Swanwick one of seven, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, and Ted Chiang one of six, and Paolo Bacigalupi and Lucius Shepard have won once out of four times. Robert Reed has the most nominations without winning at eight, followed by James Patrick Kelly and Ian R. MacLeod at seven, Ken Liu at six, and Greg Egan, Yoon Ha Lee, and Bruce Sterling at five.

Judges

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From 1987 through 1994 the award was given out by a panel of science fiction experts led by Orson Scott Card. Beginning in 1995, the committee was replaced by a group of jurors, who vote on the nominations submitted for consideration. The initial jurors were James Gunn, Frederik Pohl, and Judith Merril. Merril was replaced on the jury by former winner Kij Johnson in 1997. One of Sturgeon's children—Noel Sturgeon in most years—was added to the panel in 1999. George Zebrowski served as a jury member from 2005 to 2014. Elizabeth Bear was added in 2013. Andy Duncan was a juror from 2013 to 2018. Sarah Pinsker was added in 2019, Taryne Taylor in 2020, and Kelly Link in 2024. As of 2024, the jury includes Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link, Sarah Pinsker, Noel Sturgeon, and Taryne Taylor. Awards administrators have included Christopher McKitterick, Kij Johnson, and Jason Baltazar.

Winners and nominees

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In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the work was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature".

* Winner † 2nd place § 3rd place  Special Citation / Honorable Mention # Withdrawn

Winners and nominees
Year Author Work Publisher or publication Ref.
1987 Judith Moffett* "Surviving" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [4]
Susan Palwick†[a] "Elephant" Asimov's Science Fiction [4]
Richard Kearns†[a] "Grave Angels" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [4]
Howard Waldrop "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" Omni [4]
Pat Cadigan "Pretty Boy Crossover" Asimov's Science Fiction [4]
1988 Pat Murphy* "Rachel in Love" Asimov's Science Fiction [5]
Ursula K. Le Guin†[a] "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [5]
Octavia E. Butler†[a] "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" Omni [5]
Walter Jon Williams "Dinosaurs" Asimov's Science Fiction [5]
Pat Forde "The Gift" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [5]
James Patrick Kelly "Heroics" Asimov's Science Fiction [5]
1989 George Alec Effinger* "Schrödinger's Kitten" Omni [6]
Howard Waldrop† "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" Asimov's Science Fiction [6]
Neal Barrett Jr.§ "Stairs" Asimov's Science Fiction [6]
Steven Popkes "The Color Winter" Asimov's Science Fiction [6]
John Kessel "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" Asimov's Science Fiction [6]
1990 Michael Swanwick* "The Edge of the World" Full Spectrum 2 (Doubleday) [7]
Megan Lindholm† "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" Asimov's Science Fiction [7]
Bruce Sterling§ "Dori Bangs" Asimov's Science Fiction [7]
James Patrick Kelly "Dancing with the Chairs" Asimov's Science Fiction [7]
James Patrick Kelly "Faith" Asimov's Science Fiction [7]
1991 Terry Bisson* "Bears Discover Fire" Asimov's Science Fiction [8]
R. A. Lafferty Episodes of the Argo United Mythologies Press [8]
John Barnes "My Advice to the Civilized" Asimov's Science Fiction [8]
1992 John Kessel* "Buffalo" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [9]
Alan Brennert† "Ma Qui" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [9]
Jonathan Lethem§ "The Happy Man" Asimov's Science Fiction [9]
1993 Dan Simmons* "This Year's Class Picture" Still Dead (Mark V. Ziesing) [10]
Judith Tarr† "Death and the Lady" After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien (Tor Books) [10]
Pamela Sargent§ "Danny Goes to Mars" Asimov's Science Fiction [10]
Connie Willis "Even the Queen" Asimov's Science Fiction [10]
David B. Silva "Slipping" Borderlands 2 (Avon Books) [10]
1994 Kij Johnson* "Fox Magic" Asimov's Science Fiction [11]
Howard V. Hendrix†[a] "At the Shadow of a Dream" Aboriginal SF [11]
Martha Soukup†[a] "The Story So Far" Full Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra) [11]
1995 Ursula K. Le Guin* "Forgiveness Day" Asimov's Science Fiction [12]
Maureen F. McHugh† "Nekropolis" Asimov's Science Fiction [12]
Michael Bishop§ "Cri de Coeur" Asimov's Science Fiction [12]
Albert Goldbarth[b] "The Two Domains" Beloit Poetry Journal [12]
Ursula K. Le Guin "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" Tomorrow Speculative Fiction [12]
Greg Egan "Cocoon" Asimov's Science Fiction [12]
Edward Bryant "The Fire that Scours" Omni [12]
David Gerrold "The Martian Child" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [12]
Michael F. Flynn "Melodies of the Heart" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [12]
Pat Cadigan "Paris In June" Omni [12]
Mike Resnick "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [12]
Rick Cook "Symphony for Skyfall" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [12]
Peter L. Manly
Barry N. Malzberg "Understanding Entropy" Science Fiction Age [12]
1996 John G. McDaid* "Jigoku no Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)" Asimov's Science Fiction [13]
Brian Stableford† "The Age of Innocence" Asimov's Science Fiction [13]
Ray Aldridge§ "The Spine Divers" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [13]
Paul Levinson "The Chronology Protection Case" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [13]
S. P. Somtow "Diamonds Aren't Forever" David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible (HarperPrism) [13]
Nancy Kress "Fault Lines" Asimov's Science Fiction [13]
Nina Kiriki Hoffman "Home for Christmas" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [13]
Michael Bishop "I, Iscariot" Crank! [13]
Brian Stableford "Mortimer Gray's History of Death" Asimov's Science Fiction [13]
David Marusek "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" Asimov's Science Fiction [13]
Robert R. Chase "The Wellness Plague" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [13]
1997 Nancy Kress* "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" Asimov's Science Fiction [14]
William Barton† "Age of Aquarius" Asimov's Science Fiction [14]
Gregory Feeley§ "The Weighing of Ayre" Starlight 1 [14]
Suzy McKee Charnas "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast" Asimov's Science Fiction [14]
Jeff VanderMeer Dradin, In Love Buzzcity Press [14]
Karen Joy Fowler "The Elizabeth Complex" Crank! [14]
John M. Ford "Erase/Record/Play" Starlight 1 (Tor Books) [14]
John Crowley "Gone" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [14]
Nancy Kress "Marigold Outlet" Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror (Dell Publishing) [14]
Michael Swanwick "Radio Waves" Omni [14]
James P. Blaylock "Thirteen Phantasms" Omni Online [14]
1998 Michael F. Flynn* "House of Dreams" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
Allen Steele† "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
Brian Stableford§ "Coming to Grips with the Great Plague" Omni Online [15]
Mike Resnick "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
Alan Brennert "Echoes" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [15]
Paul Park "Get a Grip" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [15]
James Patrick Kelly "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
Walter Jon Williams "Lethe" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
Paul Levinson "Loose Ends" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [15]
Mary Rosenblum "One Good Juror" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
James Sarafin
William Sanders "The Undiscovered" Asimov's Science Fiction [15]
Mary Soon Lee "Universal Grammar" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [15]
1999 Ted Chiang* "Story of Your Life" Starlight 2 (Tor Books) [16]
Michael Kandel† "Wading River Dogs and More" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Ian R. MacLeod§ "The Summer Isles" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Paul Levinson "Advantage, Bellarmine" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [16]
Gregory Feeley "Animae Celestes" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Raphael Carter "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" Starlight 2 (Tor Books) [16]
Eliot Fintushel "Crane Fly" Amazing Stories [16]
Cory Doctorow "Craphound" Science Fiction Age [16]
L. Timmel Duchamp "Dance at the Edge" Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press) [16]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Echea" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Gregory Frost "How Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His Toes" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Uncle River "Love of the True God" Talebones [16]
James Patrick Kelly "Lovestory" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Bruce Sterling "Maneki Neko" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [16]
Greg Egan "The Planck Dive" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
R. Garcia y Robertson "A Princess of Helium" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [16]
Michael Swanwick "Radiant Doors" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Tony Daniel "Radio Praha" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
Michael Swanwick "Wild Minds" Asimov's Science Fiction [16]
2000 David Marusek* "The Wedding Album" Asimov's Science Fiction [17]
Eleanor Arnason† "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance" Asimov's Science Fiction [17]
Judith Berman§ "The Window" Asimov's Science Fiction [17]
Ian R. MacLeod "The Chop Girl" Asimov's Science Fiction [17]
Walter Jon Williams "Daddy's World" Not of Woman Born (Roc Books) [17]
Geoff Ryman "Everywhere" Interzone [17]
Brian A. Hopkins "Five Days in April" Chiaroscuro [17]
James Gunn "The Giftie" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [17]
Richard Wadholm "Green Tea" Asimov's Science Fiction [17]
William Sanders "Jennifer, Just Before Midnight" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [17]
Terry Bisson "Macs" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [17]
Wil McCarthy "Once Upon a Matter Crushed" Science Fiction Age [17]
Michael A. Burstein "Reality Check" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [17]
M. John Harrison "Suicide Coast" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [17]
Robert Reed "Winemaster" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [17]
2001 Ian McDonald* Tendeléo's Story PS Publishing [18]
Stephen Baxter† "Sheena 5" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [18]
Lucius Shepard§ "Radiant Green Star" Asimov's Science Fiction [18]
Charles Stross "Antibodies" Interzone [18]
Ursula K. Le Guin "The Birthday of the World" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [18]
William Barton "Heart of Glass" Asimov's Science Fiction [18]
John Kessel "The Juniper Tree" Science Fiction Age [18]
Eliot Fintushel "Milo and Sylvie" Asimov's Science Fiction [18]
Stephen Baxter "On the Orion Line" Asimov's Science Fiction [18]
Paul J. McAuley "Reef" Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (Harcourt) [18]
Nancy Kress "Savior" Asimov's Science Fiction [18]
Ted Chiang "Seventy-Two Letters" Vanishing Acts (Tor Books) [18]
2002 Andy Duncan* "The Chief Designer" Asimov's Science Fiction [19]
Charles Stross† "Lobsters" Asimov's Science Fiction [19]
James Patrick Kelly§ "Undone" Asimov's Science Fiction [19]
James K. Morrow "The Cat's Pajamas" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [19]
Michael Swanwick "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" Asimov's Science Fiction [19]
Lucius Shepard "Eternity and Afterward" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [19]
Geoff Ryman "Have Not Have" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [19]
Ted Chiang "Hell Is the Absence of God" Starlight 3 (Tor Books) [19]
Maureen F. McHugh "Interview: On Any Given Day" Starlight 3 (Tor Books) [19]
Ian R. MacLeod "Isabel of the Fall" Interzone [19]
Richard Chwedyk "The Measure of All Things" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [19]
Ian R. MacLeod "New Light on the Drake Equation" Sci Fiction [19]
2003 Lucius Shepard* "Over Yonder" Sci Fiction [20]
Richard Chwedyk† "Bronte's Egg" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [20]
Greg Egan§ "Singleton" Interzone [20]
Ian R. MacLeod "Breathmoss" Asimov's Science Fiction [20]
Robert Reed "Coelacanths" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [20]
Charles Stross "Halo" Asimov's Science Fiction [20]
Bruce Sterling "In Paradise" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [20]
Ted Chiang "Liking What You See: A Documentary" Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor Books) [20]
Gregory Frost "Madonna of the Maquiladora" Asimov's Science Fiction [20]
Ursula K. Le Guin "The Seasons of the Ansarac" The Infinite Matrix 3 [20]
John Kessel "Stories for Men" Asimov's Science Fiction [20]
Ursula K. Le Guin "The Wild Girls" Asimov's Science Fiction [20]
Paul Di Filippo A Year in the Linear City PS Publishing [20]
2004 Kage Baker* "The Empress of Mars" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
James Patrick Kelly† "Bernardo's House" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
John Kessel§ "It's All True" Sci Fiction [21]
Jack Skillingstead "Dead Worlds" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
William Sanders "Dry Bones" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
Jeffrey Ford "The Empire of Ice Cream" Sci Fiction [21]
Paolo Bacigalupi "The Fluted Girl" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [21]
Ruth Nestvold "Looking Through Lace" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
William Barton "Off on a Starship" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
Lucius Shepard "Only Partly Here" Asimov's Science Fiction [21]
David D. Levine "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [21]
Adam-Troy Castro "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [21]
2005 Bradley Denton* "Sergeant Chip" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [22]
Christopher Rowe† "The Voluntary State" Sci Fiction [22]
Robert Reed§ "Mere" Golden Gryphon Press [22]
Ian Watson "An Appeal to Adolf" Conqueror Fantastic (DAW Books) [22]
Gregory Feeley "Arabian Wine" Asimov's Science Fiction [22]
John Kessel "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" Sci Fiction [22]
David Gerrold "Dancer in the Dark" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [22]
Judith Berman "The Fear Gun" Asimov's Science Fiction [22]
Lois Tilton "The Gladiator's War: A Dialog" Asimov's Science Fiction [22]
Steven Utley "Invisible Kingdoms" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [22]
Gene Wolfe "The Lost Pilgrim" The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age (Tor Books) [22]
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu "The Magical Negro" Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Warner Aspect) [22]
Steve Tomasula "The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects" Denver Quarterly [22]
Brenda Cooper "Savant Songs" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [22]
Terry Bisson "Scout's Honor" Sci Fiction [22]
Margo Lanagan "Singing My Sister Down" Black Juice (Allen & Unwin) [22]
Benjamin Rosenbaum "Start the Clock" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [22]
Kelly Link "Stone Animals" Conjunctions 43: Beyond Arcadia [22]
Mike Moscoe "The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [22]
Pamela Sargent "Venus Flowers at Night" Microcosms (DAW Books) [22]
2006 Paolo Bacigalupi* "The Calorie Man" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [23]
Ian McDonald† "The Little Goddess" Asimov's Science Fiction [23]
Kelly Link§ "Magic for Beginners" Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press) [23]
Bruce Sterling "The Blemmye's Stratagem" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [23]
James Van Pelt "The Inn at Mount Either" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [23]
Connie Willis"Inside Job" Asimov's Science Fiction [23]
John G. McDaid "Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [23]
Vonda N. McIntyre "Little Faces" Sci Fiction [23]
Jason Stoddard "Panacea" Sci Fiction [23]
Daryl Gregory "Second Person, Present Tense" Asimov's Science Fiction [23]
2007 Robert Charles Wilson* "The Cartesian Theater" FutureShocks (Roc Books) [24]
Robert Reed† "A Billion Eves" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
Michael Swanwick§ "Lord Weary's Empire" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
Christopher Rowe "Another Word for Map Is Faith" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [24]
Michael F. Flynn "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
Ian McDonald "The Djinn's Wife" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
Benjamin Rosenbaum "The House Beyond Your Sky" Strange Horizons [24]
William Shunn "Inclination" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
Robert Charles Wilson Julian: A Christmas Story PS Publishing [24]
Paul Melko "The Walls of the Universe" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
Paolo Bacigalupi "Yellow Card Man" Asimov's Science Fiction [24]
M. Rickert "You Have Never Been Here" Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Tachyon Publications) [24]
2008 David Moles*[c] "Finisterra" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [25]
Elizabeth Bear*[c] "Tideline" Asimov's Science Fiction [25]
Ian R. MacLeod†[c] "The Master Miller's Tale" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [25]
Gene Wolfe†[c] "Memorare" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [25]
Karen Joy Fowler "Always" Asimov's Science Fiction [25]
Johanna Sinisalo "Baby Doll" The SFWA European Hall of Fame (Tor Books) [25]
Jeffrey Ford "The Dreaming Wind" The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press) [25]
Kij Johnson "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press) [25]
Laird Barron "The Forest" Inferno (Tor Books) [25]
John Kessel "The Last American" Foundation [25]
Ted Chiang "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [25]
Gwyneth Jones "The Tomb Wife" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [25]
2009 James Alan Gardner* "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" Asimov's Science Fiction [26]
Kathleen Ann Goonan† "Memory Dog" Asimov's Science Fiction [26]
Ian McDonald§ "The Tear" Galactic Empires (Science Fiction Book Club) [26]
Michael Swanwick "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" Asimov's Science Fiction [26]
Paolo Bacigalupi "The Gambler" Fast Forward 2 (Pyr) [26]
Hannu Rajaniemi "His Master's Voice" Interzone [26]
Charles Coleman Finlay "The Political Prisoner" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [26]
Maureen F. McHugh "Special Economics" The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Del Rey Books) [26]
Cory Doctorow "True Names" Fast Forward 2 (Pyr) [26]
2010 James K. Morrow* Shambling Towards Hiroshima Tachyon Publications [27]
Sara Genge†[d] "As Women Fight" Asimov's Science Fiction [27]
John Barnes†[d] "Things Undone" Jim Baen's Universe [27]
Damien Broderick†[d] "This Wind Blowing, and this Tide" Asimov's Science Fiction [27]
Ted Kosmatka "Blood Dauber" Asimov's Science Fiction [27]
Michael Poore
Tanith Lee "Clockatrice" Fantasy Magazine [27]
Lewis Shiner "The Death of Che Guevara" Subterranean Press [27]
Rachel Swirsky "Eros, Philia, Agape" Tor.com [27]
Tim Pratt "Her Voice in a Bottle" Subterranean Press [27]
Peter Watts "The Island" The New Space Opera 2 (Eos) [27]
Robert Reed "True Fame" Asimov's Science Fiction [27]
Kij Johnson#[e] "Spar" Clarkesworld Magazine [27]
2011 Geoffrey A. Landis* "The Sultan of the Clouds" Asimov's Science Fiction [28]
Elizabeth Hand† "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" Stories (William Morrow and Company) [28]
Peter Watts§ "The Things" Clarkesworld Magazine [28]
Robert Reed "Dead Man's Run" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [28]
Yoon Ha Lee "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" Lightspeed [28]
Paul Park "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [28]
Steve Rasnic Tem "A Letter from the Emperor" Asimov's Science Fiction [28]
Eleanor Arnason "Mammoths of the Great Plains" Mammoths of the Great Plains (PM Press) [28]
Lavie Tidhar "The Night Train" Strange Horizons [28]
Alastair Reynolds "Troika" Godlike Machines (Science Fiction Book Club) [28]
Damien Broderick "Under the Moons of Venus" Subterranean Magazine [28]
2012 Paul J. McAuley* "The Choice" Asimov's Science Fiction [29]
Charlie Jane Anders† "Six Months, Three Days" Tor.com [29]
Ken Liu§ "The Paper Menagerie" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [29]
Paul Cornell "The Copenhagen Interpretation" Asimov's Science Fiction [29]
Yoon Ha Lee "Ghostweight" Clarkesworld Magazine [29]
Jake Kerr "The Old Equations" Lightspeed [29]
Ken Liu "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" Panverse 3 (Panverse Publishing) [29]
Catherynne M. Valente "Silently and Very Fast" Clarkesworld Magazine [29]
2013 Molly Gloss* "The Grinnell Method" Strange Horizons [30]
Linda Nagata† "Nahiku West" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [30]
Robert Reed§ Eater-of-Bone PS Publishing [30]
Kate Bachus "Things Greater Than Love" Strange Horizons [30]
Aliette de Bodard "Immersion" Clarkesworld Magazine [30]
Aliette de Bodard "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" Clarkesworld Magazine [30]
Jay Lake "The Weight of History, The Lightness of the Future" Subterranean Magazine [30]
Ken Liu "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" Lightspeed [30]
Ken Liu "Mono No Aware" The Future is Japanese (Haikasoru) [30]
Bruce Sterling "The Peak of Eternal Light" Edge of Infinity (Solaris Books) [30]
E. Catherine Tobler "(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky" Clarkesworld Magazine [30]
Nancy Kress After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Tachyon Publications [30]
2014 Sarah Pinsker* "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" Strange Horizons [31]
Robert Reed† "Mystic Falls" Clarkesworld Magazine [31]
Vylar Kaftan§ "The Weight of the Sunrise" Asimov's Science Fiction [31]
Gregory Norman Bossert "Bloom" Asimov's Science Fiction [31]
Alaya Dawn Johnson "They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" Asimov's Science Fiction [31]
Will McIntosh "Over There" Asimov's Science Fiction [31]
Alan DeNiro "The Wildfires of Antarctica" Asimov's Science Fiction [31]
Val Nolan "The Irish Astronaut" Electric Velocipede [31]
Kenneth Schneyer "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" Clockwork Phoenix 4 (Mythic Delirium Books) [31]
E. Lily Yu "The Urashima Effect" Clarkesworld Magazine [31]
2015 Cory Doctorow* "The Man Who Sold the Moon" Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow) [32]
Suzanne Palmer† "Shatterdown" Asimov's Science Fiction [32]
Sam J. Miller§ "We Are the Cloud" Lightspeed [32]
Gregory Benford "Lady With Fox" Carbide Tipped Pens (Tor Books) [32]
Octavia E. Butler "Childfinder" Unexpected Stories (Open Road Media) [32]
Seth Chambers "In Her Eyes" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [32]
Tananarive Due "Herd Immunity" The End is Now (CreateSpace) [32]
Eugie Foster "When It Ends, He Catches Her" Daily Science Fiction [32]
Daryl Gregory We Are All Completely Fine Tachyon Publications [32]
Nancy Kress Yesterday's Kin Tachyon Publications [32]
Geoffrey A. Landis "A Hotel in Antarctica" Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow) [32]
Ken Liu "The Regular" Upgraded (Wyrm Publishing) [32]
Pat MacEwen "The Lightness of the Movement" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [32]
Ian McDonald "The Fifth Dragon" Reach for Infinity (Solaris Books) [32]
Robert Reed "The Cryptic Age" Asimov's Science Fiction [32]
2016 Kelly Link* "The Game of Smash and Recovery" Strange Horizons [33]
Eugene Fischer† "The New Mother" Asimov's Science Fiction [33]
Carter Scholz§ "Gypsy" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [33]
Brooke Bolander "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" Lightspeed [33]
Jeff Somers "Avery Cates: The Walled City" self-published [33]
Ian McDonald "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" Old Venus (Bantam Books) [33]
David D. Levine "Damage" Tor.com [33]
Gwyneth Jones "Emergence" Meeting Infinity (Solaris Books) [33]
Hao Jingfang "Folding Beijing" Uncanny Magazine [33]
Greg Egan "The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred" Asimov's Science Fiction [33]
Sarah Pinsker "Our Lady of the Open Road" Asimov's Science Fiction [33]
Kelly Robson "The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" Clarkesworld Magazine [33]
2017 Catherynne M. Valente* "The Future is Blue" Drowned Worlds (Solaris Books) [34]
Carolyn Ives Gilman† "Touring With The Alien" Clarkesworld Magazine [34]
Sam J. Miller§ "Things With Beards" Clarkesworld Magazine [34]
Nina Allan "The Art of Space Travel" Tor.com [34]
Amal El-Mohtar "Seasons of Glass and Iron" The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga Press) [34]
Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom Tor.com Publishing [34]
Ian R. MacLeod "The Visitor From Taured" Asimov's Science Fiction [34]
Dominica Phetteplace "Project Empathy" Asimov's Science Fiction [34]
Kai Ashante Wilson A Taste of Honey Tor.com Publishing [34]
2018 Charlie Jane Anders* "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" Global Dystopias (The Boston Review) [35]
Sarah Pinsker† "And Then There Were (N-One)" Uncanny Magazine [35]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad§ "A Series of Steaks" Clarkesworld Magazine [35]
Tobias S. Buckell "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far Away Galaxies (Saga Press) [35]
Greg Egan "The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine" Asimov's Science Fiction [35]
Maureen F. McHugh "Sidewalks" Omni [35]
Linda Nagata "The Martian Obelisk" Tor.com [35]
Suzanne Palmer "The Secret Life of Bots" Clarkesworld Magazine [35]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad "Fandom for Robots" Uncanny Magazine [35]
Rebecca Roanhorse "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" Apex Magazine [35]
Kelly Robson "We Who Live in the Heart" Clarkesworld Magazine [35]
2019 Annalee Newitz* "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis" Slate.com [36]
Adam Shannon† "On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog" Apex Magazine [36]
Daryl Gregory§ "Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" Tor.com [36]
L. X. Beckett "Freezing Rain, A Chance of Falling" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [36]
Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing Tor.com Publishing [36]
P. Djèlí Clark "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" Fireside Magazine [36]
Carolyn Ives Gilman "Umbernight" Clarkesworld Magazine [36]
Simone Heller "When We Were Starless" Clarkesworld Magazine [36]
Yoon Ha Lee "The Starship and the Temple Cat" Beneath Ceaseless Skies [36]
Kelly Robson Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach Tor.com Publishing [36]
Tade Thompson "Yard Dog" Fiyah [36]
2020 Suzanne Palmer* "Waterlines" Asimov's Science Fiction [37]
Amal El-Mohtar† This Is How You Lose the Time War Saga Press [37]
Max Gladstone†
Karin Tidbeck§ "The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir" Tor.com [37]
Caroline M. Yoachim "The Archronology of Love" Lightspeed [37]
Karen Osborne "The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" Uncanny Magazine [37]
Tobias S. Buckell "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" New Suns (Solaris Books) [37]
A. T. Greenblatt "Give the Family My Love" Clarkesworld Magazine [37]
Lavie Tidhar "New Atlantis" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [37]
Ted Chiang "Omphalos" Exhalation: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf) [37]
Suzanne Palmer "The Painter of Trees" Clarkesworld Magazine [37]
Lina Rather Sisters of the Vast Black Tor.com Publishing [37]
2021 Rebecca Campbell* "An Important Failure" Clarkesworld Magazine [38]
Meg Elison† "The Pill" Big Girl (PM Press) [38]
Maureen F. McHugh§ "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" Tor.com [38]
Ken Liu "50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know" Uncanny Magazine [38]
Sameem Siddiqui "AirBody" Clarkesworld Magazine [38]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad "A Guide for Working Breeds" Tor.com [38]
Charlie Jane Anders "If You Take My Meaning" Tor.com [38]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" Dominion (Aurelia Leo) [38]
Marian Denise Moore "A Mastery of German" Dominion (Aurelia Leo) [38]
Yoon Ha Lee "The Mermaid Astronaut" Beneath Ceaseless Skies [38]
Vajra Chandrasekera "The Translator, at Low Tide" Clarkesworld Magazine [38]
2022 Nalo Hopkinson* "Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [39]
Suzanne Palmer† "Bots of the Lost Ark" Clarkesworld Magazine [39]
John Kessel§ "The Dark Ride" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [39]
Daryl Gregory The Album of Dr. Moreau Tor.com Publishing [39]
P. Djèlí Clark "If the Martians Have Magic" Uncanny Magazine [39]
David Moles "The Metric" Asimov's Science Fiction [39]
E. Catherine Tobler The Necessity of Stars Neon Hemlock Press [39]
R. S. A. Garcia "Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma" Clarkesworld Magazine [39]
José Pablo Iriarte "Proof by Induction" Uncanny Magazine [39]
Ray Nayler "Sarcophagus" Clarkesworld Magazine [39]
2023 Samantha Mills* "Rabbit Test" Uncanny Magazine [40]
Nicasio Andres Reed † "Babang Luksa" Reckoning [40]
Yoon Ha Lee § "Bonsai Starships" Beneath Ceaseless Skies [40]
Innocent Chizaram "The City and the Thing Beneath It" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [40]
Annalee Newitz "A Hole in the Light" Sunday Morning Transport [40]
A. T. Greenblatt "If We Make It Through This Alive" Slate [40]
Maria Dong "In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird" Lightspeed [40]
Dominique Dickey "Slow Communication" Fantasy [40]
Derrick Boden "Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal" Apex Magazine [40]
A. D. Sui "Toronto Isn't Real and Other Metropolitcan Anomalies" Augur Magazine [40]
2024 R. S. A. Garcia* "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" Uncanny Magazine [41]
Beston Barnett† "Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe" Strange Horizons [41]
Naomi Kritzer§ "The Year Without Sunshine" Uncanny Magazine [41]
Wendy N. Wagner "An Infestation of Blue" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [41]
Amal Singh "Notes From a Pyre" The Deadlands [41]
Violet Allen "The Rainbow Ghosts" Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention (Neon Hemlock Press) [41]
Claire Humphrey "The State Street Robot Factory" Apex Magazine [41]
Gregory Feeley "The Unpastured Sea" Asimov's Science Fiction [41]
James Patrick Kelly "What It Means to Be a Car" Tor.com [41]
2025 Conrad Loyer* "The Carcosa Pattern" Fiyah [42]
F. E. Choe † "Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, '6'" Clarkesworld Magazine [42]
TJ Klune § "Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!" Reactor [42]
Jordan Kurella "Evan: A Remainder" Reactor [42]
Fiona Jones "Hello! Hello! Hello!" Clarkesworld Magazine [42]
Daniel Abraham (as James S. A. Corey) "Judas Iscariot Didn't Kill Himself: A Story in Fragments" The Last Dangerous Visions (Blackstone Publishers) [42]
Ty Franck (as James S. A. Corey)
Esther Alter "Rachel Is At a Protest" The Deadlands [42]
Nkone Chaka "To Eat Your Own Head" Asimov's Science Fiction [42]
Caroline M. Yoachim "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" Lightspeed [42]
Isabel J. Kim "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" Clarkesworld Magazine [42]
2026 Alex T. Singer* "We, the Fleet" Clarkesworld Magazine [43]
Rich Larson† "The Sack of Burley Cottage" Reactor [43]
Alaya Dawn Johnson§ "The Shadow on the Nest" Uncanny Magazine [43]
Monte Lin "his love's ashes on his tongue" The Deadlands [43]
Effie Seiberg "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" Diabolical Plots [43]
Tia Tashiro "Missing Helen" Clarkesworld Magazine [43]
Louise Hughes "The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn" Kaleidotrope [43]
J. R. Dawson "Six People to Revise You" Uncanny Magazine [43]
Isabel J. Kim "Wire Mother" Clarkesworld Magazine [43]
Carrie Vaughn "Woolly" Asimov's Science Fiction [43]

Notes

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tie for second place
  2. ↑ In 1995, "The Two Domains" was awarded a "special citation". For all other years in which a similar award was given, it was entitled "honorable mention".
  3. 1 2 3 4 In 2008, two works were named co-winners and a further two works tied for second place.
  4. 1 2 3 Three-way tie for second place
  5. ↑ Withdrawn due to conflict of interest

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