- 1965: "He Who Shapes" by Roger Zelazny (tie)
- 1965: "The Saliva Tree" by Brian Aldiss (tie)
- 1966: "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance
- 1967: "Behold the Man'' by Michael Moorcock
- 1968: "Dragonrider" by Anne McCaffrey
- 1969: "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison
- 1970: "Ill Met in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber
- 1971: "The Missing Man" by Katherine MacLean
- 1972: "A Meeting With Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke
- 1973: "The Death of Doctor Island" by Gene Wolfe
- 1974: "Born With the Dead" by Robert Silverberg
- 1975: "Home is the Hangman" by Roger Zelazny
- 1976: "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr
- 1977: "Stardance" by Spider and Jeanne Robinson
- 1978: "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley
- 1979: "Enemy Mine" by Barry B. Longyear
- 1980: "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas
- 1981: "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson
- 1982: "Another Orphan" by John Kessel
- 1983: "Hardfought" by Greg Bear
- 1984: "Press Enter []" by John Varley
- 1985: "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg
- 1986: "R&R" by Lucius Shepard
- 1987: "The Blind Geometer" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1988: "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis
- 1989: "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 1990: "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman
- 1991: "Beggard in Spain" by Nancy Kress
- 1992: "City of Truth" by James Morrow
- 1993: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady
- 1994: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick
- 1995: "Last Summer at Mars Hill" by Elizabeth Hand
- 1996: "Da Vinci Rising" by Jack Dann
- 1997: "Abandon in Place" by Jerry Oltion
- 1998: "Reading the Bones" by Sheila Finch
- 1999: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
- 2000: "Goddesses" by Linda Nagata
- 2001: "The Ultimate Earth" by Jack Williamson
- 2002: "Bronte's Egg" by Richard Chwedyk
See also