- 1965: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny
- 1966: "Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson
- 1967: "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber
- 1968: "Mother to the World" by Richar Wilson
- 1969: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany
- 1970: "Slow Scultpure" by Theodore Sturgeon
- 1971: "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson
- 1972: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson
- 1973: "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre
- 1974: "If the Stars Are Gods" by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
- 1975: "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy
- 1976: "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov
- 1977: "The Screwfly Solution" by Recoona Sheldon
- 1978: "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L. Grant
- 1979: "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin
- 1980: "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop
- 1981: "The Quickening" by Michael Bishop
- 1982: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
- 1983: "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
- 1984: "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler
- 1985: "Portraits of His Children" by George R.R. Martin
- 1986: "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm
- 1987: "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy
- 1988: "Schrodinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
- 1989: "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis
- 1990: "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang
- 1991: "Guide Dog" by Mike Conner
- 1992: "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent
- 1993: "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield
- 1994: "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold
- 1995: "Solitude" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1996: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers
- 1997: "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" by Nancy Kress
- 1998: "Lost Girls" by Jane Yolen
- 1999: "Mars is No Place for Children" by Leslie What
- 2000: "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams
- 2001: "Louise's Ghost" by Kelly Link
- 2002: "Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang
See also