- 1955: "Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell
- 1956: "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke
- 1958: "Or All the Seas With Oysters" by Avram Davidson
- 1959: "That Hell-Bound Trail" by [[Robert Bloch
- 1965: "Soldier, Ask Not" by Gordon R. Dickson
- 1967: "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven
- 1968: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
- 1969: "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" by Harlan Ellison
- 1970: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany
- 1971: "Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon
- 1972: "Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven
- 1973: "Euremea's Dam" by R. A. Lafferty
- 1973: "The Meeting" by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
- 1974: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1975: "The Hole Man" by Larry Niven
- 1976: "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber
- 1977: "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman
- 1978: "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison
- 1979: "Cassandra" by C.J. Cherryh
- 1980: "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George R.R. Martin
- 1981: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak
- 1982: "The Pusher" by John Varley
- 1983: "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson
- 1984: "Speech Sounds" by Octavia Butler
- 1985: "The Crystal Spheres" by David Brin
- 1986: "Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl
- 1987: "Tangents" by Greg Bear
- 1988: "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
- 1989: "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick
- 1990: "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas
- 1991: "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson
- 1992: "A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey A. Landis
- 1993: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
- 1994: "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis
- 1995: "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman
- 1996: "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh
- 1997: "The Soul Selects Her Own Society..." by Connie Willis
- 1998: "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick
- 1999: "The Very Pulse of the Machine" by Michael Swanwick
- 2000: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick
- 2001: "Different Kinds of Darkness" by David Langford
- 2002: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" by Michael Swanwick
- 2003: "Falling Onto Mars" by Geoffrey A. Landis
See also