| Year
 | 
Author(s)
 | 
Novelette
 | 
Publisher or publication
 | 
Ref.
 | 
| 1965
 | 
Roger Zelazny* | 
"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| James Blish
 | 
"The Shipwrecked Hotel"
 | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Norman L. Knight
 | 
| Jonathan Brand | 
"Vanishing Point" | 
If
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Thomas M. Disch | 
"102 H-Bombs" | 
Fantastic
 | 
[5]
 | 
| R. C. Fitzpatrick | 
"Half a Loaf" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Joseph Green | 
"The Decision Makers" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Norman Kagan | 
"At the Institute" | 
Worlds of Tomorrow
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Norman Kagan | 
"The Earth Merchants" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Norman Kagan | 
"Laugh Along with Franz" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Michael Karageorge | 
"The Life of Your Time" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Fritz Leiber | 
"Four Ghosts In Hamlet" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| E. Clayton McCarty | 
"Small One" | 
If
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Mack Reynolds | 
"The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Fred Saberhagen | 
"Masque of the Red Shift" | 
If
 | 
[5]
 | 
| James H. Schmitz | 
"Goblin Night" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| James H. Schmitz | 
"Planet of Forgetting" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| J. W. Schutz | 
"Maiden Voyage" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| Robert Sheckley | 
"Shall We Have a Little Talk?" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| William Tenn | 
"The Masculinist Revolt" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[5]
 | 
| 1966
 | 
Gordon R. Dickson* | 
"Call Him Lord" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[6]
 | 
| Robert M. Green, Jr. | 
"Apology to Inky" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[6]
 | 
| Charles L. Harness | 
"An Ornament to His Profession" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[6]
 | 
| Hayden Howard | 
"The Eskimo Invasion" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[6]
 | 
| Roger Zelazny | 
"This Moment of the Storm" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[6]
 | 
| 1967
 | 
Fritz Leiber* | 
"Gonna Roll the Bones" | 
Dangerous Visions
 | 
[7]
 | 
| Harlan Ellison | 
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" | 
Knight
 | 
[7]
 | 
| Larry Niven | 
"Flatlander" | 
If
 | 
[7]
 | 
| Roger Zelazny | 
"The Keys to December" | 
New Worlds
 | 
[7]
 | 
| Roger Zelazny | 
"This Mortal Mountain" | 
If
 | 
[7]
 | 
| 1968
 | 
Richard Wilson* | 
"Mother to the World" | 
Orbit 3 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[8]
 | 
| Brian W. Aldiss | 
"Total Environment" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[8]
 | 
| Poul Anderson | 
"The Sharing of Flesh" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[8]
 | 
| James Gunn | 
"The Listeners" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[8]
 | 
| H. H. Hollis | 
"The Guerrilla Trees" | 
If
 | 
[8]
 | 
| Keith Laumer | 
"Once There Was a Giant" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[8]
 | 
| Barry N. Malzberg | 
"Final War" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[8]
 | 
| 1969
 | 
Samuel R. Delany* | 
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" | 
New Worlds
 | 
[9]
 | 
| Gregory Benford | 
"Deeper than the Darkness" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[9]
 | 
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 
"Nine Lives" | 
Playboy
 | 
[9]
 | 
| Norman Spinrad | 
"The Big Flash" | 
Orbit 5 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[9]
 | 
| 1970
 | 
Theodore Sturgeon* | 
"Slow Sculpture" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[10]
 | 
| Thomas M. Disch | 
"The Asian Shore" | 
Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[10]
 | 
| Gordon Eklund | 
"Dear Aunt Annie" | 
Fantastic
 | 
[10]
 | 
| Gerald Jonas | 
"The Shaker Revival" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[10]
 | 
| R. A. Lafferty | 
"Continued on Next Rock" | 
Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[10]
 | 
| Joanna Russ | 
"The Second Inquisition" | 
Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[10]
 | 
| 1971
 | 
Poul Anderson* | 
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[11]
 | 
| Gardner Dozois | 
"A Special Kind of Morning" | 
New Dimensions 1 (Doubleday)
 | 
[11]
 | 
| Edgar Pangborn | 
"Mount Charity" | 
Universe 1 (Ace Books)
 | 
[11]
 | 
| Joanna Russ | 
"Poor Man, Beggar Man" | 
Universe 1 (Ace Books)
 | 
[11]
 | 
| Kate Wilhelm | 
"The Encounter" | 
Orbit 8 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[11]
 | 
| 1972
 | 
Poul Anderson* | 
"Goat Song" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[12]
 | 
| Alfred Bester | 
"The Animal Fair" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[12]
 | 
| Gardner Dozois | 
"A Kingdom by the Sea" | 
Orbit 10 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | 
[12]
 | 
| Harlan Ellison | 
"Basilisk" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[12]
 | 
| David Gerrold | 
"In the Deadlands" | 
With a Finger In My I (Ballantine Books)
 | 
[12]
 | 
| William Rotsler | 
"Patron of the Arts" | 
Universe 2 (Ace Books)
 | 
[12]
 | 
| Kate Wilhelm | 
"The Funeral" | 
Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
 | 
[12]
 | 
| 1973
 | 
Vonda N. McIntyre* | 
"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[13]
 | 
| Harlan Ellison | 
"The Deathbird" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[13]
 | 
| Theodore Sturgeon | 
"Case and the Dreamer" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[13]
 | 
| James Tiptree, Jr. | 
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" | 
New Dimensions 3 (Doubleday)
 | 
[13]
 | 
| 1974
 | 
Gordon Eklund*
 | 
"If the Stars Are Gods"
 | 
Universe 4 (Random House)
 | 
[14]
 | 
| Gregory Benford*
 | 
| Charles L. Grant | 
"The Rest Is Silence" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[14]
 | 
| Tom Reamy | 
"Twilla" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[14]
 | 
| 1975
 | 
Tom Reamy* | 
"San Diego Lightfoot Sue" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Eleanor Arnason | 
"The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" | 
New Worlds 6 (Sphere Books)
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Michael Bishop | 
"Blooded on Arachne" | 
Epoch (Berkley Books)
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Richard Cowper | 
"The Custodians" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Jack Dann | 
"The Dybbuk Dolls" | 
New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row)
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Avram Davidson | 
"Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Randall Garrett | 
"The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhail" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 
"The New Atlantis" | 
The New Atlantis (Hawthorn Books)
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Barry N. Malzberg | 
"A Galaxy Called Rome" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| Craig Strete | 
"The Bleeding Man" | 
Galaxy Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| John Varley | 
"Retrograde Summer" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[15]
 | 
| 1976[a]
 | 
Isaac Asimov* | 
"The Bicentennial Man" | 
Stellar 2 (Ballantine Books)
 | 
[18]
 | 
| Grant Carrington | 
"His Hour Upon the Stage" | 
Amazing Stories
 | 
[18]
 | 
| Steven Utley
 | 
"Custer's Last Jump"
 | 
Universe 6 (Doubleday)
 | 
[18]
 | 
| Howard Waldrop
 | 
| John Varley | 
"In the Bowl" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[18]
 | 
| 1977
 | 
Alice Sheldon* | 
"The Screwfly Solution" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[19]
 | 
| Edward Bryant | 
"Particle Theory" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[19]
 | 
| Fritz Leiber | 
"A Rite of Spring" | 
Universe 7 (Doubleday)
 | 
[19]
 | 
| George R. R. Martin | 
"The Stone City" | 
New Voices in Science Fiction (Macmillan Publishers)
 | 
[19]
 | 
| Carter Scholz | 
"The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" | 
Universe 7 (Ace Books)
 | 
[19]
 | 
| 1978
 | 
Charles L. Grant* | 
"A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" | 
Graven Images (Thomas Nelson)
 | 
[20]
 | 
| Orson Scott Card | 
"Mikal's Songbird" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[20]
 | 
| Dean Ing | 
"Devil You Don't Know" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[20]
 | 
| 1979
 | 
George R. R. Martin* | 
"Sandkings" | 
Omni
 | 
[21]
 | 
| Poul Anderson | 
"The Ways of Love" | 
Destinies
 | 
[21]
 | 
| Jack Dann | 
"Camps" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[21]
 | 
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 
"The Pathways of Desire" | 
New Dimensions 9 (Harper & Row)
 | 
[21]
 | 
| Michael Shea | 
"The Angel of Death" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[21]
 | 
| John Varley | 
"Options" | 
Universe 9 (Doubleday)
 | 
[21]
 | 
| 1980
 | 
Howard Waldrop* | 
"The Ugly Chickens" | 
Universe 10 (Doubleday)
 | 
[22]
 | 
| Edward Bryant | 
"Strata" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[22]
 | 
| Stephen King | 
"The Way Station" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[22]
 | 
| Michael Swanwick | 
"The Feast of Saint Janis" | 
New Dimensions 11 (Pocket Books)
 | 
[22]
 | 
| Michael Swanwick | 
"Ginungagap" | 
TriQuarterly
 | 
[22]
 | 
| John Varley | 
"Beatnik Bayou" | 
New Voices 3 (Berkley Books)
 | 
[22]
 | 
| 1981
 | 
Michael Bishop* | 
"The Quickening" | 
Universe 11 (Doubleday)
 | 
[23]
 | 
| Mildred Downey Broxon | 
"Sea Changeling" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[23]
 | 
| Edward Bryant | 
"The Thermals of August" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[23]
 | 
| Parke Godwin | 
"The Fire When It Comes" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[23]
 | 
| Michael Swanwick | 
"Mummer Kiss" | 
Universe 11 (Doubleday)
 | 
[23]
 | 
| James Tiptree, Jr. | 
"Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[23]
 | 
| 1982
 | 
Connie Willis* | 
"Fire Watch" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[24]
 | 
| J. G. Ballard | 
"Myths of the Near Future" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[24]
 | 
| Thomas M. Disch | 
"Understanding Human Behavior" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[24]
 | 
| William Gibson | 
"Burning Chrome" | 
Omni
 | 
[24]
 | 
| Joanna Russ | 
"The Mystery of the Young Gentleman" | 
Speculations (Houghton Mifflin)
 | 
[24]
 | 
| Bruce Sterling | 
"Swarm" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[24]
 | 
| 1983
 | 
Greg Bear* | 
"Blood Music" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[25]
 | 
| Jack Dann | 
"Blind Shemmy" | 
Omni
 | 
[25]
 | 
| George R. R. Martin | 
"The Monkey Treatment" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[25]
 | 
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 
"Black Air" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[25]
 | 
| Bruce Sterling | 
"Cicada Queen" | 
Universe 13 (Doubleday)
 | 
[25]
 | 
| Ian Watson | 
"Slow Birds" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[25]
 | 
| Connie Willis | 
"The Sidon in the Mirror" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[25]
 | 
| 1984
 | 
Octavia E. Butler* | 
"Bloodchild" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[26]
 | 
| Jack Dann | 
"Bad Medicine" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[26]
 | 
| James Patrick Kelly | 
"Saint Theresa of the Aliens" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[26]
 | 
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 
"The Lucky Strike" | 
Universe 14 (Doubleday)
 | 
[26]
 | 
| Lucius Shepard | 
"The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[26]
 | 
| Michael Swanwick | 
"Trojan Horse" | 
Omni
 | 
[26]
 | 
| 1985
 | 
George R. R. Martin* | 
"Portraits of His Children" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[27]
 | 
| Michael Bishop | 
"A Gift from the GrayLanders" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[27]
 | 
| Orson Scott Card | 
"The Fringe" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[27]
 | 
| Harlan Ellison | 
"Paladin of the Lost Hour" | 
Universe 15 (Doubleday)
 | 
[27]
 | 
| Michael Swanwick
 | 
"Dogfight"
 | 
Omni
 | 
[27]
 | 
| William Gibson
 | 
| Lucius Shepard | 
"The Jaguar Hunter" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[27]
 | 
| S. C. Sykes | 
"Rockabye Baby" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[27]
 | 
| 1986
 | 
Kate Wilhelm* | 
"The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[28]
 | 
| Orson Scott Card | 
"Hatrack River" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[28]
 | 
| Suzy McKee Charnas | 
"Listening to Brahms" | 
Omni
 | 
[28]
 | 
| William Gibson | 
"The Winter Market" | 
Stardate
 | 
[28]
 | 
| Judith Moffett | 
"Surviving" | 
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[28]
 | 
| Lucius Shepard | 
"Aymara" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[28]
 | 
| Roger Zelazny | 
"Permafrost" | 
Omni
 | 
[28]
 | 
| 1987
 | 
Pat Murphy* | 
"Rachel in Love" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[29]
 | 
| Octavia E. Butler | 
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" | 
Omni
 | 
[29]
 | 
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[29]
 | 
| Bruce McAllister | 
"Dream Baby" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[29]
 | 
| Bruce Sterling | 
"Flowers of Edo" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[29]
 | 
| Connie Willis | 
"Schwarzschild Radius" | 
The Universe (Bantam Spectra)
 | 
[29]
 | 
| 1988
 | 
George Alec Effinger* | 
"Schrödinger's Kitten" | 
Omni
 | 
[30]
 | 
| Neal Barrett, Jr. | 
"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[30]
 | 
| Steven Gould | 
"Peaches for Mad Molly" | 
Analog Science Fact & Fiction
 | 
[30]
 | 
| Ian McDonald | 
"Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" | 
Empire Dreams (Bantam Spectra)
 | 
[30]
 | 
| Judith Moffett | 
"The Hob" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[30]
 | 
| Mike Resnick | 
"Kirinyaga" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[30]
 | 
| Howard Waldrop | 
"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[30]
 | 
| 1989
 | 
Connie Willis* | 
"At the Rialto" | 
Omni
 | 
[31]
 | 
| Greg Bear | 
"Sisters" | 
Tangents (Warner Books)
 | 
[31]
 | 
| Megan Lindholm | 
"Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[31]
 | 
| Mike Resnick | 
"For I Have Touched the Sky" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[31]
 | 
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | 
"Fast Cars" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[31]
 | 
| Robert Silverberg | 
"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[31]
 | 
| 1990
 | 
Ted Chiang* | 
"Tower of Babylon" | 
Omni
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Dafydd ab Hugh | 
"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 
"The Shobies' Story" | 
Universe 1 (Doubleday)
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Ian R. MacLeod | 
"1/72nd Scale" | 
Weird Tales
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Mike Resnick | 
"The Manamouki" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | 
"A Time for Every Purpose" | 
Amazing Stories
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Susan Shwartz | 
"Loose Cannon" | 
What Might Have Been? Vol. 2: Alternate Heroes (Bantam Spectra)
 | 
[32]
 | 
| Martha Soukup | 
"Over the Long Haul" | 
Amazing Stories
 | 
[32]
 | 
| 1991
 | 
Michael Conner* | 
"Guide Dog" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[33]
 | 
| Ray Aldridge | 
"Gate of Faces" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[33]
 | 
| Karen Joy Fowler | 
"Black Glass" | 
Full Spectrum 3 (Doubleday)
 | 
[33]
 | 
| Lucius Shepard
 | 
"The All-Consuming"
 | 
Playboy
 | 
[33]
 | 
| Robert Frazier
 | 
| James Patrick Kelly | 
"Standing In Line with Mister Jimmy" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[33]
 | 
| Jonathan Lethem | 
"The Happy Man" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[33]
 | 
| Susan Shwartz | 
"Getting Real" | 
Newer York (New American Library)
 | 
[33]
 | 
| 1992
 | 
Pamela Sargent* | 
"Danny Goes to Mars" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[34]
 | 
| Gregory Benford | 
"Matter's End" | 
Full Spectrum 3 (Doubleday)
 | 
[34]
 | 
| S. N. Dyer | 
"The July Ward" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[34]
 | 
| Carolyn Ives Gilman | 
"The Honeycrafters" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[34]
 | 
| Susan Shwartz | 
"Suppose They Gave a Peace..." | 
Alternate Presidents (Tor Books)
 | 
[34]
 | 
| Walter Jon Williams | 
"Prayers on the Wind" | 
When the Music's Over (Bantam Spectra)
 | 
[34]
 | 
| 1993
 | 
Charles Sheffield* | 
"Georgia on My Mind" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[35]
 | 
| Terry Bisson | 
"England Underway" | 
Omni
 | 
[35]
 | 
| Janet Kagan | 
"The Nutcracker Coup" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[35]
 | 
| John Kessel | 
"The Franchise" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[35]
 | 
| Martha Soukup | 
"Things Not Seen" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[35]
 | 
| Connie Willis | 
"Death on the Nile" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[35]
 | 
| 1994
 | 
David Gerrold* | 
"The Martian Child" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[36]
 | 
| Terry Bisson | 
"Necronauts" | 
Playboy
 | 
[36]
 | 
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | 
"The Skeleton Key" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[36]
 | 
| Geoffrey A. Landis | 
"The Singular Habits of Wasps" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[36]
 | 
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 
"The Matter of Seggri" | 
Crank!
 | 
[36]
 | 
| Maureen F. McHugh | 
"Nekropolis" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[36]
 | 
| 1995
 | 
Ursula K. Le Guin* | 
"Solitude" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| Dale Bailey | 
"The Resurrection Man's Legacy" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| Michael G. Coney | 
"Tea and Hamsters" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| Esther M. Friesner | 
"Jesus at the Bat" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | 
"Home for Christmas" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| James Patrick Kelly | 
"Think Like a Dinosaur" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| Mike Resnick | 
"When the Old Gods Die" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[37]
 | 
| 1996
 | 
Bruce Holland Rogers* | 
"Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[38]
 | 
| John M. Ford | 
"Erase/Record/Play" | 
Starlight 1 (Tor Books)
 | 
[38]
 | 
| George Guthridge | 
"Mirror of Lop Nor" | 
Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (HarperPrism)
 | 
[38]
 | 
| Paul Levinson | 
"The Chronology Protection Case" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[38]
 | 
| Harry Turtledove | 
"Must and Shall" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[38]
 | 
| Robert Charles Wilson | 
"The Perseids" | 
Realms of Fantasy
 | 
[38]
 | 
| Dave Wolverton | 
"After a Lean Winter" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[38]
 | 
| 1997
 | 
Nancy Kress* | 
"The Flowers of Aulit Prison" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[39]
 | 
| Eleanor Arnason | 
"The Dog's Story" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[39]
 | 
| James Alan Gardner | 
"Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[39]
 | 
| Bill Johnson | 
"We Will Drink a Fish Together..." | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[39]
 | 
| John Kessel | 
"The Miracle of Ivar Avenue" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[39]
 | 
| Paul Levinson | 
"The Copyright Notice Case" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[39]
 | 
| William Sanders | 
"The Undiscovered" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[39]
 | 
| 1998
 | 
Jane Yolen* | 
"Lost Girls" | 
Realms of Fantasy
 | 
[40]
 | 
| Gregory Feeley | 
"The Truest Chill" | 
Science Fiction Age
 | 
[40]
 | 
| Ellen Klages | 
"Time Gypsy" | 
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press)
 | 
[40]
 | 
| Mark J. McGarry | 
"The Mercy Gate" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[40]
 | 
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | 
"Echea" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[40]
 | 
| Walter Jon Williams | 
"Lethe" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[40]
 | 
| 1999
 | 
Mary A. Turzillo* | 
"Mars Is No Place for Children" | 
Science Fiction Age
 | 
[41]
 | 
| Phyllis Eisenstein | 
"The Island in the Lake" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[41]
 | 
| Esther M. Friesner | 
"How to Make Unicorn Pie" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[41]
 | 
| Brian A. Hopkins | 
"Five Days in April" | 
Chiaroscuro
 | 
[41]
 | 
| Stanley Schmidt
 | 
"Good Intentions"
 | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[41]
 | 
| Jack McDevitt
 | 
| Bruce Sterling | 
"Taklamakan" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[41]
 | 
| 2000
 | 
Walter Jon Williams* | 
"Daddy's World" | 
Not of Woman Born (New American Library)
 | 
[42]
 | 
| Eleanor Arnason | 
"Stellar Harvest" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[42]
 | 
| Gardner Dozois | 
"A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[42]
 | 
| Greer Ilene Gilman | 
"Jack Daw's Pack" | 
Century
 | 
[42]
 | 
| Mike Moscoe | 
"A Day's Work on the Moon" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[42]
 | 
| Bruce Holland Rogers | 
"How the Highland People Came to Be" | 
Realms of Fantasy
 | 
[42]
 | 
| Stanley Schmidt | 
"Generation Gap" | 
Artemis
 | 
[42]
 | 
| 2001
 | 
Kelly Link* | 
"Louise's Ghost" | 
Stranger Things Happen (Small Beer Press)
 | 
[43]
 | 
| Amy Sterling Casil | 
"To Kiss the Star" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[43]
 | 
| Andy Duncan | 
"The Pottawatomie Giant" | 
Sci Fiction
 | 
[43]
 | 
| James Patrick Kelly | 
"Undone" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[43]
 | 
| James Morrow | 
"Auspicious Eggs" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[43]
 | 
| William Shunn | 
"Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" | 
Vanishing Acts (Tor Books)
 | 
[43]
 | 
| 2002
 | 
Ted Chiang* | 
"Hell Is the Absence of God" | 
Starlight 3 (Tor Books)
 | 
[44]
 | 
| M. Shayne Bell | 
"The Pagodas of Ciboure" | 
The Green Man: Tales From the Mythic Forest (Viking Press)
 | 
[44]
 | 
| Richard Bowes | 
"The Ferryman's Wife" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[44]
 | 
| Gregory Frost | 
"Madonna of the Maquiladora" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[44]
 | 
| Allen Steele | 
"The Days Between" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[44]
 | 
| Charles Stross | 
"Lobsters" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[44]
 | 
| 2003
 | 
Jeffrey Ford* | 
"The Empire of Ice Cream" | 
Sci Fiction
 | 
[45]
 | 
| Richard Bowes | 
"The Mask of the Rex" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[45]
 | 
| Adam-Troy Castro | 
"Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" | 
Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction (Pocket Books)
 | 
[45]
 | 
| Cory Doctorow | 
"0wnz0red" | 
Salon
 | 
[45]
 | 
| Ray Vukcevich | 
"The Wages of Syntax" | 
Sci Fiction
 | 
[45]
 | 
| 2004
 | 
Ellen Klages* | 
"Basement Magic" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[46]
 | 
| Andy Duncan | 
"Zora and the Zombie" | 
Sci Fiction
 | 
[46]
 | 
| Christopher Rowe | 
"The Voluntary State" | 
Sci Fiction
 | 
[46]
 | 
| William Sanders | 
"Dry Bones" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[46]
 | 
| Lois Tilton | 
"The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[46]
 | 
| 2005
 | 
Kelly Link* | 
"The Faery Handbag" | 
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (Viking Press)
 | 
[47]
 | 
| Daniel Abraham | 
"Flat Diane" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[47]
 | 
| James Patrick Kelly | 
"Men Are Trouble" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[47]
 | 
| Eileen Gunn
 | 
"Nirvana High"
 | 
Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon Publications)
 | 
[47]
 | 
| Leslie What
 | 
| Paolo Bacigalupi | 
"The People of Sand and Slag" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[47]
 | 
| 2006
 | 
Peter S. Beagle* | 
"Two Hearts" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[48]
 | 
| Christopher Barzak | 
"The Language of Moths" | 
Realms of Fantasy
 | 
[48]
 | 
| Delia Sherman | 
"Walpurgis Afternoon" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[48]
 | 
| M. Rickert | 
"Journey into the Kingdom" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[48]
 | 
| Vonda N. McIntyre | 
"Little Faces" | 
Sci Fiction
 | 
[48]
 | 
| 2007
 | 
Ted Chiang* | 
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[49]
 | 
| Robin Wayne Bailey | 
"The Children's Crusade" | 
Heroes in Training (DAW Books)
 | 
[49]
 | 
| Terry Bramlett | 
"Child, Maiden, Woman, Crone" | 
Jim Baen's Universe
 | 
[49]
 | 
| Kij Johnson | 
"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" | 
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press)
 | 
[49]
 | 
| Nancy Kress | 
"Safeguard" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[49]
 | 
| Delia Sherman | 
"The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" | 
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press)
 | 
[49]
 | 
| Geoff Ryman | 
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[49]
 | 
| 2008
 | 
John Kessel* | 
"Pride and Prometheus" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[50]
 | 
| Richard Bowes | 
"If Angels Fight" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[50]
 | 
| James Alan Gardner | 
"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[50]
 | 
| Lisa Goldstein | 
"Dark Rooms" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[50]
 | 
| Mary Rosenblum | 
"Night Wind" | 
Lace and Blade (Leda)
 | 
[50]
 | 
| Johanna Sinisalo | 
"Baby Doll" | 
The SFWA European Hall of Fame (Tor Books)
 | 
[50]
 | 
| K. D. Wentworth | 
"Kaleidoscope" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[50]
 | 
| 2009
 | 
Eugie Foster* | 
"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" | 
Interzone
 | 
[51]
 | 
| Paolo Bacigalupi | 
"The Gambler" | 
Fast Forward 2 (Pyr)
 | 
[51]
 | 
| Michael Bishop | 
"Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[51]
 | 
| Richard Bowes | 
"I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[51]
 | 
| Ted Kosmatka | 
"Divining Light" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[51]
 | 
| Rachel Swirsky | 
"A Memory of Wind" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[51]
 | 
| 2010
 | 
Eric James Stone* | 
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[52]
 | 
| Christopher Barzak | 
"Map of Seventeen" | 
The Beastly Bride (Viking Press)
 | 
[52]
 | 
| Aliette de Bodard | 
"The Jaguar House, in Shadow" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[52]
 | 
| Christopher Kastensmidt | 
"The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara" | 
Realms of Fantasy
 | 
[52]
 | 
| James Patrick Kelly | 
"Plus or Minus" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[52]
 | 
| Shweta Narayan | 
"Pishaach" | 
The Beastly Bride (Viking Press)
 | 
[52]
 | 
| Caroline M. Yoachim | 
"Stone Wall Truth" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[52]
 | 
| 2011
 | 
Geoff Ryman* | 
"What We Found" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[53]
 | 
| Rachel Swirsky | 
"Fields of Gold" | 
Eclipse 4 (Night Shade Books)
 | 
[53]
 | 
| Brad R. Torgersen | 
"Ray of Light" | 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
 | 
[53]
 | 
| Ferrett Steinmetz | 
"Sauerkraut Station" | 
Giganotosaurus
 | 
[53]
 | 
| Charlie Jane Anders | 
"Six Months, Three Days" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[53]
 | 
| Katherine Sparrow | 
"The Migratory Pattern of Dancers" | 
Giganotosaurus
 | 
[53]
 | 
| Jake Kerr | 
"The Old Equations" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[53]
 | 
| 2012
 | 
Andy Duncan* | 
"Close Encounters" | 
The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories (PS Publishing)
 | 
[54]
 | 
| Catherine Asaro | 
"The Pyre of New Day" | 
The Mammoth Books of SF Wars (Robinson)
 | 
[54]
 | 
| Ken Liu | 
"The Waves" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[54]
 | 
| Lee Mandelo | 
"The Finite Canvas" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[54]
 | 
| Meghan McCarron | 
"Swift, Brutal Retaliation" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[54]
 | 
| Rachel Swirsky | 
"Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[54]
 | 
| Catherynne M. Valente | 
"Fade to White" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[54]
 | 
| 2013
 | 
Aliette de Bodard* | 
"The Waiting Stars" | 
The Other Half of the Sky (Candlemark & Gleam)
 | 
[55]
 | 
| Christopher Barzak | 
"Paranormal Romance" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[55]
 | 
| Alaya Dawn Johnson | 
"They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[55]
 | 
| Henry Lien | 
"Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[55]
 | 
| Ken Liu | 
"The Litigation Master and the Monkey King" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[55]
 | 
| Sarah Pinsker | 
"In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" | 
Strange Horizons
 | 
[55]
 | 
| 2014
 | 
Alaya Dawn Johnson* | 
"A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[56]
 | 
| Richard Bowes | 
"Sleep Walking Now and Then" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[56]
 | 
| Tom Crosshill | 
"The Magician and Laplace's Demon" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[56]
 | 
| Carmen Maria Machado | 
"The Husband Stitch" | 
Granta
 | 
[56]
 | 
| Sam J. Miller | 
"We Are the Cloud" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[56]
 | 
| Kai Ashante Wilson | 
"The Devil in America" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[56]
 | 
| 2015
 | 
Sarah Pinsker* | 
"Our Lady of the Open Road" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[57]
 | 
| Brooke Bolander | 
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[57]
 | 
| Tamsyn Muir | 
"The Deepwater Bride" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[57]
 | 
| Rose Lemberg | 
"Grandmother-nai-Laylit's Cloth of Winds" | 
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
 | 
[57]
 | 
| Henry Lien | 
"The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[57]
 | 
| Michael Bishop | 
"Rattlesnakes and Men" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[57]
 | 
| 2016
 | 
William Ledbetter* | 
"The Long Fall Up" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[58]
 | 
| Sarah Pinsker | 
"Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[58]
 | 
| Jason Sanford | 
"Blood Grains Speak Through Memories" | 
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
 | 
[58]
 | 
| Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | 
"The Orangery" | 
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
 | 
[58]
 | 
| Fran Wilde | 
The Jewel and Her Lapidary | 
Tor.com Publishing
 | 
[58]
 | 
| Alyssa Wong | 
"You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[58]
 | 
| 2017
 | 
Kelly Robson* | 
"A Human Stain" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[59]
 | 
| Richard Bowes | 
"Dirty Old Town" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[59]
 | 
| Jonathan P. Brazee | 
"Weaponized Math" | 
The Expanding Universe, Volume 3 (LMBPN Publishing)
 | 
[59]
 | 
| Sarah Pinsker | 
"Wind Will Rove" | 
Asimov's Science Fiction
 | 
[59]
 | 
| Vina Jie-Min Prasad | 
"A Series of Steaks" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[59]
 | 
| K. M. Szpara | 
"Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[59]
 | 
| 2018
 | 
Brooke Bolander* | 
The Only Harmless Great Thing | 
Tor.com Publishing
 | 
[60]
 | 
| Andy Duncan | 
"An Agent of Utopia" | 
An Agent of Utopia (Small Beer Press)
 | 
[60]
 | 
| Tina Connolly | 
"The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[60]
 | 
| Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
 | 
"Messenger"
 | 
The Expanding Universe, Volume 4 (LMBPN Publishing)
 | 
[60]
 | 
| R.R. Virdi
 | 
| Lawrence M. Schoen | 
"The Rule of Three" | 
Future Science Fiction Digest
 | 
[60]
 | 
| José Pablo Iriarte | 
"The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[60]
 | 
| 2019
 | 
Cat Rambo* | 
Carpe Glitter | 
Meerkat Press
 | 
[61]
 | 
| G. V. Anderson | 
"A Strange Uncertain Light" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[61]
 | 
| Siobhan Carroll | 
"For He Can Creep" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[61]
 | 
| Mimi Mondal | 
"His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[61]
 | 
| Sarah Pinsker | 
"The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[61]
 | 
| Caroline M. Yoachim | 
"The Archronology of Love" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[61]
 | 
| 2020
 | 
Sarah Pinsker* | 
"Two Truths and a Lie" | 
Tor.com
 | 
[62]
 | 
| Leah Cypess | 
"Stepsister" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[62]
 | 
| Meg Elison | 
"The Pill" | 
Big Girl (PM Press)
 | 
[62]
 | 
| A. T. Greenblatt | 
"Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[62]
 | 
| Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | 
"Where You Linger" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[62]
 | 
| Caroline M. Yoachim | 
"Shadow Prisons" | 
Broad Reach Publishing
 | 
[62]
 | 
| 2021
 | 
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki* | 
"O2 Arena" | 
Galaxy's Edge
 | 
[63]
 | 
| PH Lee | 
"Just Enough Rain" | 
GigaNotoSaurus
 | 
[63]
 | 
| Lauren Ring | 
"(emet)" | 
Fantasy & Science Fiction
 | 
[63]
 | 
| John Wiswell | 
"That Story Isn't the Story" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[63]
 | 
| Caroline M. Yoachim | 
"Colors of the Immortal Palette" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[63]
 | 
| 2022
 | 
John Chu* | 
"If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[64]
 | 
| Wole Talabi | 
"A Dream of Electric Mothers" | 
Africa Risen (Tor Books)
 | 
[64]
 | 
| S. L. Huang | 
"Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[64]
 | 
| Natalia Theodoridou | 
"The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[64]
 | 
| S. B. Divya | 
"Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[64]
 | 
| Marie Vibbert | 
"We Built This City" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[64]
 | 
| 2023
 | 
Naomi Kritzer* | 
"The Year Without Sunshine" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[65]
 | 
| Renan Bernardo | 
"A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" | 
Samovar
 | 
[65]
 | 
| Ai Jiang | 
I Am AI | 
Shortwave Publishing
 | 
[65]
 | 
| Angela Liu | 
"Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[65]
 | 
| Wole Talabi | 
"Saturday's Song" | 
Lightspeed
 | 
[65]
 | 
| Eugenia Triantafyllou | 
"Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[65]
 | 
| 2024
 | 
A. W. Prihandita* | 
"Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[66]
 | 
| Angela Liu | 
"Another Girl Under the Iron Bell" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[66]
 | 
| Thomas Ha | 
"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" | 
Clarkesworld Magazine
 | 
[66]
 | 
| Eugenia Triantafyllou | 
"Joanna's Bodies" | 
Psychopomp
 | 
[66]
 | 
| Christine Hanolsy | 
"Katya Vasilievna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka" | 
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
 | 
[66]
 | 
| Eugenia Triantafyllou | 
"Loneliness Universe" | 
Uncanny Magazine
 | 
[66]
 | 
| Aimee Ogden | 
"What Any Dead Thing Wants" | 
Psychopomp
 | 
[66]
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