Novelette:
- 1955: "The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr
- 1956: "Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster
- 1959: "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak
- 1967: "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance
- 1968: "Gonna Roll Them Bones" by Fritz Leiber
- 1969: "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson
- 1973: "The Word for World Is Forest" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1974: "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison
- 1975: "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans" by Harlan Ellison
- 1976: "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven
- 1977: "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov
- 1978: "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge
- 1979: "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson
- 1980: "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin
- 1981: "The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson
- 1982: "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny
- 1983: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
- 1984: "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
- 1985: "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler
- 1986: "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison
- 1987: "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny
- 1988: "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1989: "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
- 1990: "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg
- 1991: "The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick
- 1992: "Gold" by Isaac Asimov
- 1993: "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan
- 1994: "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield
- 1995: "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold
- 1996: "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly
- 1997: "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling
- 1998: "We Will Drink A Fish Together" by Bill Johnson
- 1999: "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling
- 2000: "1016 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly
- 2001: "Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- 2002: "Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiant
- 2003: "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick
See also