Year Author(s) Short story Publisher or publication Ref. 1966 Harlan Ellison *" 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] Isaac Asimov "Eyes Do More Than See " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Isaac Asimov "Founding Father " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] J. G. Ballard "Souvenir" Playboy [ 6] Donald Barthelme "Game" The New Yorker [ 6] Jane Beauclerk "Lord Moon" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Lin Carter "Uncollected Works" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] John Christopher "A Few Kindred Spirits " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Avram Davidson "The House the Blakeneys Built " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Gordon R. Dickson "Computers Don't Argue " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 6] Thomas M. Disch "Come to Venus Melancholy" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] James A. Durham "Of One Mind" If [ 6] H. L. Gold "Inside Man" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] Ron Goulart "Calling Dr. Clockwork" Amazing Stories [ 6] Alex Kirs "Better Than Ever" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] R. A. Lafferty "In Our Block" If [ 6] R. A. Lafferty "Slow Tuesday Night" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] Fritz Leiber "Cyclops" Worlds of Tomorrow [ 6] Fritz Leiber "The Good New Days " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] Larry McCombs "The Peacock King " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Ted White Scott Nichols "Though a Sparrow Fall" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 6] Larry Niven "Becalmed in Hell " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Larry Niven "Wrong-Way Street" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] Richard Olin "The Mischief Maker " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 6] Edgar Pangborn "A Better Mousehole " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] Mack Reynolds "A Leader for Yesteryear " If [ 6] Robert Rohrer "Keep Them Happy" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] James H. Schmitz "Balanced Ecology" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 6] Clifford D. Simak "Over the River and Through the Woods" Amazing Stories [ 6] Richard Wilson "The Eight Billion " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 6] Roger Zelazny "Devil Car" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 6] 1967 Richard McKenna *" The Secret Place " Orbit 1 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 7] Brian Aldiss "Man In His Time" Who Can Replace a Man? (Harcourt, Brace & World ) [ 7] Bob Shaw "Light of Other Days " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 7] 1968 Samuel R. Delany *" "Aye, and Gomorrah…" " Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 8] Reginald Bretnor "Earthwoman" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 8] Samuel R. Delany "Driftglass " If [ 8] Fritz Leiber "Answering Service" If [ 8] Theodore L. Thomas "The Doctor " Orbit 2 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 8] Kate Wilhelm "Baby, You Were Great " Orbit 2 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 8] 1969 Kate Wilhelm *" The Planners " Orbit 3 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 9] Poul Anderson "Kyrie" The Farthest Reaches (Trident Press) [ 9] Terry Carr "The Dance of the Changer and the Three " The Farthest Reaches (Trident Press) [ 9] H. H. Hollis "Sword Game" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 9] Damon Knight "Masks " Playboy [ 9] Robert Taylor "Idiot's Mate " Amazing Stories [ 9] 1970 Robert Silverberg *"Passengers " Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 10] Harlan Ellison "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 10] Larry Niven "Not Long Before the End" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 10] Theodore Sturgeon "The Man Who Learned Loving " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 10] James Tiptree, Jr. "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 10] 1971 (no award)+ [ 11] Gardner Dozois "A Dream at Noonday " Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 11] Harry Harrison "By the Falls" If [ 11] R. A. Lafferty "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite" Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 11] Keith Laumer "In the Queue" Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 11] James Sallis "The Creation of Bennie Good " Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 11] Kate Wilhelm "A Cold Dark Night with Snow " Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 11] Gene Wolfe "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories " Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 11] 1972 Robert Silverberg *"Good News from the Vatican " Universe 1 (Doubleday ) [ 12] Gardner Dozois "Horse of Air" Orbit 8 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 12] Stephen Goldin "The Last Ghost " Protostars (Ballantine Books ) [ 12] George Zebrowski "Heathen God" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 12] 1973 Joanna Russ *"When It Changed " Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 13] Harlan Ellison "On the Downhill Side" Universe 2 (Doubleday ) [ 13] Frederik Pohl "Shaffery Among the Immortals" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 13] Robert Silverberg "When We Went to See the End of the World" Universe 2 (Doubleday ) [ 13] James Tiptree, Jr. "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 13] Gene Wolfe "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 13] 1974 James Tiptree, Jr. *"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death " The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books ) [ 14] Edward Bryant "Shark" Orbit 12 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 14] George R. R. Martin "With Morning Comes Mistfall " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 14] Vonda N. McIntyre "Wings" The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books ) [ 14] Norman Spinrad "A Thing of Beauty " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 14] Gene Wolfe "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 14] 1975 Ursula K. Le Guin *" The Day Before the Revolution " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 15] Philip José Farmer "After King Kong Fell" Omega (Walker & Co. ) [ 15] Roger Zelazny "The Engine at Heartspring's Center " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 15] 1976 Fritz Leiber *"Catch That Zeppelin! " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 16] Gregory Benford "Doing Lennon" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] Gregory Benford "White Creatures" New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row ) [ 16] Jorge Luis Borges "Utopia of a Tired Man" The New Yorker [ 16] Algis Budrys "A Scraping at the Bones " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] Phyllis Eisenstein "Attachment" Amazing Stories [ 16] Harlan Ellison "Shatterday" Gallery [ 16] Nicholas Fisk "Find the Lady" New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row ) [ 16] Charles L. Grant "White Wolf Calling" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 16] Richard A. Lupoff "Sail the Tide of Mourning" New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row ) [ 16] P. J. Plauger "Child of All Ages" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] Frederik Pohl "Growing Up in Edge City" Epoch (Berkley Books ) [ 16] Craig Strete "Time Deer " If [ 16] 1977 Charles L. Grant *" A Crowd of Shadows " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Joe Haldeman "Tricentennial" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 17] Thomas F. Monteleone "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" Dystopian Visions (Prentice Hall ) [ 17] Jake Saunders "Back to the Stone Age" Lone Star Universe (Heidelberg Publishers) [ 17] Lisa Tuttle "Stone Circle" Amazing Stories [ 17] Howard Waldrop "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" Orbit 18 (G. P. Putnam's Sons ) [ 17] 1978 Harlan Ellison *"Jeffty Is Five " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 18] Dennis R. Bailey "Tin Woodman" Amazing Stories [ 18] David Bischoff Edward Bryant "The Hibakusha Gallery " Penthouse [ 18] Thomas F. Monteleone "Camera Obscura" Cosmos [ 18] John Varley "Air Raid " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 18] 1979 Edward Bryant *"Stone " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 19] C. J. Cherryh "Cassandra " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 19] Jack Dann "A Quiet Revolution for Death " New Dimensions 8 (Harper & Row ) [ 19] 1980 Edward Bryant *"giANTS " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 20] Michael Bishop "Vernalfest Morning" Chrysalis 3 (Zebra Books ) [ 20] Orson Scott Card "Unaccompanied Sonata " Omni [ 20] Tanith Lee "Red as Blood" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 20] George R. R. Martin " The Way of Cross and Dragon " Omni [ 20] Joanna Russ "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 20] 1981 Clifford D. Simak *"Grotto of the Dancing Deer " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 21] Charles L. Grant "Secrets of the Heart" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 21] Bob Leman "Window " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 21] Gene Wolfe "War Beneath the Tree" Omni [ 21] Craig Strete (withdrawn)"A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather " New Dimensions 11 (Harper & Row ) [ 21] 1982 Lisa Tuttle * (refused) [ a] " The Bone Flute " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] Jack Dann "Going Under" Omni [ 23] Gardner Dozois "Disciples" Penthouse [ 23] William Gibson "Johnny Mnemonic " Omni [ 23] George Guthridge "The Quiet " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] Kim Stanley Robinson "Venice Drowned" Universe 11 (Doubleday ) [ 23] Timothy R. Sullivan "Zeke" Twilight Zone [ 23] John Varley "The Pusher " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] 1983 Connie Willis *" A Letter from the Clearys " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] Greg Bear "Petra" Omni [ 24] Jack C. Haldeman II "High Steel" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 24] Jack Dann Barry N. Malzberg "Corridors" The Engines of the Night (Doubleday ) [ 24] Robert Silverberg "The Pope of the Chimps " Perpetual Light (Warner Books ) [ 24] Howard Waldrop "God's Hooks!" Universe 12 (Doubleday ) [ 24] 1984 Gardner Dozois *" The Peacemaker " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Leigh Kennedy "Her Furry Face " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Jack McDevitt "Cryptic" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Chad Oliver "Ghost Town" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 25] Hilbert Schenck " The Geometry of Narrative " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 25] William F. Wu "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium " Amazing Stories [ 25] 1985 Gardner Dozois *"Morning Child " Omni [ 26] George Alec Effinger "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] Lucius Shepard "Salvador " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] Bruce Sterling "Sunken Gardens" Omni [ 26] Gene Wolfe " A Cabin on the Coast " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] George Zebrowski "The Eichmann Variations " Light Years and Dark (Berkley Books ) [ 26] 1986 Nancy Kress *"Out of All Them Bright Stars " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 27] James Blaylock "Paper Dragons" Imaginary Lands (Ace Books ) [ 27] John Crowley "Snow" Omni [ 27] Gardner Dozois "The Gods of Mars " Omni [ 27] Jack Dann Michael Swanwick Joe Haldeman "More Than the Sum of His Parts" Playboy [ 27] Howard Waldrop "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" Omni [ 27] Howard Waldrop "Heirs of the Perisphere" Playboy [ 27] William F. Wu "Hong's Bluff" Omni [ 27] 1987 Greg Bear *"Tangents " Omni [ 28] Isaac Asimov "Robot Dreams " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 28] Pat Cadigan "Pretty Boy Crossover" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 28] James Patrick Kelly "Rat " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] Nancy Springer "The Boy Who Plaited Manes " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] Howard Waldrop "The Lions Are Asleep This Night " Omni [ 28] 1988 Kate Wilhelm *"Forever Yours, Anna " Omni [ 29] Pat Cadigan "Angel" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] Paul Di Filippo "Kid Charlemagne" Amazing Stories [ 29] Karen Joy Fowler "The Faithful Companion at Forty " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] Lisa Goldstein "Cassandra's Photographs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] Susan Shwartz "Temple to a Minor Goddess" Amazing Stories [ 29] Lawrence Watt-Evans "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] 1989 James K. Morrow *" Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge " Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra ) [ 30] Thomas M. Disch "Voices of the Kill" Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra ) [ 30] John Kessel "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 30] Jack McDevitt " The Fort Moxie Branch " Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra ) [ 30] Pat Murphy "Dead Men on TV" Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra ) [ 30] Steven Popkes "The Color Winter " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 30] 1990 Geoffrey A. Landis *"Ripples in the Dirac Sea " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Mary C. Aldridge "The Adinkra Cloth " Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine [ 31] Michael Bishop "The Ommatidium Miniatures " The Microverse (Bantam Spectra ) [ 31] Orson Scott Card "Lost Boys " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 31] Suzy McKee Charnas "Boobs " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Bruce Sterling "Dori Bangs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] 1991 Terry Bisson *"Bears Discover Fire " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Pat Cadigan "The Power and the Passion " Omni [ 32] Karen Joy Fowler "Lieserl" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Pat Murphy "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" Alien Sex (Dutton Penguin ) [ 32] Kim Stanley Robinson "Before I Wake" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Story Child" Aboriginal SF [ 32] 1992 Alan Brennert *"Ma Qui " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 33] Terry Bisson "They're Made Out of Meat " Omni [ 33] Karen Joy Fowler "The Dark " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 33] John Kessel "Buffalo" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 33] Martha Soukup "Dog's Life" Amazing Stories [ 33] W. Gregory Stewart "The Button, and What You Know" Amazing Stories [ 33] 1993 Connie Willis *"Even the Queen " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Michael Bishop "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats " Omni [ 34] Paul Di Filippo "Lennon Spex" Amazing Stories [ 34] Nancy Kress "The Mountain to Mohammed " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Kim Stanley Robinson "Vinland the Dream" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Martha Soukup "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] 1994 Joe Haldeman *"Graves " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 35] Harlan Ellison "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore " Omni [ 35] Esther Friesner "All Vows" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 35] Lisa Goldstein "Alfred" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 35] Bridget McKenna "The Good Pup " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 35] William John Watkins "The Beggar in the Living Room " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 35] 1995 Martha Soukup *" A Defense of the Social Contracts " Science Fiction Age [ 36] Ben Bova "Inspiration" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 36] Joe Haldeman "None So Blind " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] Barry N. Malzberg "Understanding Entropy" Science Fiction Age [ 36] Maureen F. McHugh "Virtual Love" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 36] Kate Wilhelm "I Know What You're Thinking" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] 1996 Esther Friesner *"Death and the Librarian " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 37] Kelley Eskridge "Alien Jane" Century [ 37] Owl Goingback "Grass Dancer" Excalibur (Warner Aspect ) [ 37] Lisa Goldstein "The Narcissus Plague " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 37] Geoffrey A. Landis "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds " Science Fiction Age [ 37] Maureen F. McHugh " The Lincoln Train " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 37] Dave Smeds "Short Timer" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 37] 1997 Esther Friesner *" A Birthday " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 38] Kent Brewster "In the Pound, Near Breaktime " Tomorrow Speculative Fiction [ 38] Kathleen Ann Goonan "The String " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 38] Jonathan Lethem "Five Fucks" The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye (Harcourt Brace ) [ 38] Bruce Holland Rogers "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of" Enchanted Forests (DAW Books ) [ 38] Dean Wesley Smith "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 38] 1998 Jane Yolen *"Sister Emily's Lightship " Starlight 1 (Tor Books ) [ 39] Gregory Feeley "The Crab Lice " Alternate Tyrants (Tor Books ) [ 39] Karen Joy Fowler "The Elizabeth Complex " Crank! [ 39] James Patrick Kelly "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] Michael Swanwick " The Dead " Starlight 1 (Tor Books ) [ 39] K. D. Wentworth "Burning Bright" Aboriginal SF [ 39] 1999 Bruce Holland Rogers *"Thirteen Ways to Water " Black Cats and Broken Mirrors (DAW Books ) [ 40] Steven Brust "When the Bow Breaks" The Essential Bordertown (Tor Books ) [ 40] Karen Joy Fowler "Standing Room Only" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 40] Lisa Goldstein "Fortune and Misfortune" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 40] Geoffrey A. Landis "Winter Fire" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 40] K. D. Wentworth "Tall One" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 40] 2000 Leslie What *" The Cost of Doing Business " Amazing Stories [ 41] Constance Ash "Flower Kiss" Realms of Fantasy [ 41] Bruce Holland Rogers "The Dead Boy at Your Window " North American Review [ 41] Frances Sherwood "Basil the Dog" Atlantic Monthly [ 41] Michael Swanwick "Radiant Doors " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] Michael Swanwick "Ancient Engines " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] 2001 Terry Bisson *"Macs " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 42] Jeffrey Ford "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 42] Ellen Klages "Flying Over Water" Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet [ 42] Severna Park "The Golem " Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Avon Books ) [ 42] Michael Swanwick "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 42] Pat York "You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine" Silver Birch, Blood Moon (Avon Books ) [ 42] 2002 Severna Park *" The Cure for Everything " Sci Fiction [ 43] Michael A. Burstein "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 43] Mike Resnick "The Elephants on Neptune " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] Sherwood Smith "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" Realms of Fantasy [ 43] George Zebrowski "Wound the Wind" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 43] 2003 Carol Emshwiller *"Creature " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 44] Jeffrey Ford "Creation" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 44] Megan Lindholm "Cut" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] Jack McDevitt "Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City" Artemis [ 44] Tim Pratt "Little Gods" Strange Horizons [ 44] Michael Swanwick " The Dog Said Bow-Wow " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] 2004 Karen Joy Fowler *"What I Didn't See " Sci Fiction [ 45] Eleanor Arnason "Knapsack Poems " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Kevin Brockmeier " The Brief History of the Dead " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Harlan Ellison "Good-Bye to All That" McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Hamish Hamilton ) [ 45] Carol Emshwiller "Grandma" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 45] Molly Gloss "Lambing Season " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] James Van Pelt "The Last of the O-Forms " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] 2005 Eileen Gunn *"Coming to Terms " Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon Publications ) [ 46] Mike Moscoe "The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 46] Mike Resnick "Travels with My Cats " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Benjamin Rosenbaum "Embracing-The-New" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Greg van Eekhout "In the Late December" Strange Horizons [ 46] Ken Wharton "Aloha" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 46] 2006 Carol Emshwiller *"I Live With You " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 47] K. D. Wentworth "Born Again" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 47] Dale Bailey "The End of the World as We Know It " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 47] Nancy Kress "My Mother, Dancing" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 47] Margo Lanagan "Singing My Sister Down " Black Juice (Allen & Unwin ) [ 47] Anne Harris "Still Life with Boobs " Talebones [ 47] Richard Bowes "There's a Hole in the City" Sci Fiction [ 47] 2007 Elizabeth Hand *"Echo " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 48] Esther Friesner "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 48] Eugene Mirabelli "The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 48] Jack McDevitt "Henry James, This One's for You " Subterranean Magazine [ 48] Karina Sumner-Smith "An End to All Things " Children of Magic (DAW Books ) [ 48] Theodora Goss "Pip and the Fairies" Strange Horizons [ 48] 2008 Karen Joy Fowler *"Always " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 49] Andy Duncan "Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse" Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books ) [ 49] David D. Levine "Titanium Mike Saves the Day " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 49] Vera Nazarian "The Story of Love " Salt of the Air (Prime Books ) [ 49] Jennifer Pelland "Captive Girl" Helix SF [ 49] Mary Turzillo "Pride" Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (Pyr ) [ 49] 2009 Nina Kiriki Hoffman *"Trophy Wives " Fellowship Fantastic (DAW Books ) [ 50] Mike Allen "The Button Bin " Helix SF [ 50] Jeffrey Ford "The Dreaming Wind " The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press ) [ 50] Kij Johnson "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Gwyneth Jones "The Tomb Wife " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 50] James Patrick Kelly "Don't Stop" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Ruth Nestvold "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 50] 2010 Kij Johnson *"Spar " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 51] Saladin Ahmed "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" Clockwork Phoenix 2 (Norilana Books ) [ 51] Michael A. Burstein "I Remember the Future" I Remember the Future (Apex Publications ) [ 51] N. K. Jemisin "Non-Zero Probabilities" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 51] James Patrick Kelly "Going Deep" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] Will McIntosh "Bridesicle " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] 2011 Harlan Ellison *"How Interesting: A Tiny Man " Realms of Fantasy [ 52] Kij Johnson *"Ponies " Tor.com [ 52] Adam-Troy Castro "Arvies " Lightspeed [ 52] Vylar Kaftan "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno " Lightspeed [ 52] Amal El-Mohtar "The Green Book " Apex Magazine [ 52] Jennifer Pelland "Ghosts of New York" Dark Faith (Apex Publications ) [ 52] Felicity Shoulders "Conditional Love" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 52] 2012 Ken Liu *" The Paper Menagerie " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 53] Adam-Troy Castro "Her Husband's Hands " Lightspeed [ 53] Tom Crosshill "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" Lightspeed [ 53] Nancy Fulda "Movement " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] Aliette de Bodard "Shipbirth" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] David W. Goldman "The Axiom of Choice " New Haven Review [ 53] E. Lily Yu "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 53] 2013 Aliette de Bodard *"Immersion " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 54] Helena Bell "Robot" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 54] Tom Crosshill "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 54] Leah Cypess "Nanny's Day" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 54] Maria Dahvana Headley "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream" Lightspeed [ 54] Ken Liu " The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species " Lightspeed [ 54] Cat Rambo "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" Near + Far (Hydra House) [ 54] 2014 Rachel Swirsky *"If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love " Apex Magazine [ 55] Matthew Kressel " The Sounds of Old Earth " Lightspeed [ 55] Sofia Samatar "Selkie Stories Are for Losers " Strange Horizons [ 55] Kenneth Schneyer "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer " Clockwork Phoenix 4 (Mythic Delirium Books ) [ 55] Sylvia Spruck Wrigley "Alive, Alive Oh" Lightspeed [ 55] 2015 Ursula Vernon *"Jackalope Wives " Apex Magazine [ 56] Aliette de Bodard "The Breath of War " Beneath Ceaseless Skies [ 56] Eugie Foster "When It Ends, He Catches Her " Daily Science Fiction [ 56] Matthew Kressel "The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 56] Usman T. Malik " The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family " Qualia Nous (Written Backwards) [ 56] Sarah Pinsker "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 56] Alyssa Wong "The Fisher Queen " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 56] 2016 Alyssa Wong *"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers " Nightmare Magazine [ 57] Naomi Kritzer "Cat Pictures Please " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 57] David D. Levine "Damage" Tor.com [ 57] Amal El-Mohtar "Madeleine" Lightspeed [ 57] Martin L. Shoemaker "Today I Am Paul" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 57] Sam J. Miller "When Your Child Strays from God" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 57] 2017 Amal El-Mohtar *"Seasons of Glass and Iron " The Starlit Wood (Saga Press ) [ 58] Brooke Bolander "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" Uncanny Magazine [ 58] Barbara Krasnoff "Sabbath Wine" Clockwork Phoenix 5 (Mythic Delirium Books ) [ 58] Sam J. Miller "Things With Beards" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 58] A. 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Greenblatt "And Yet" Uncanny Magazine [ 60] Sarah Pinsker "The Court Magician" Lightspeed [ 60] Richard Fox "Going Dark" Backblast Area Clear (Ellen Campbell) [ 60] Rhett C. Bruno "Interview for the End of the World" Bridge Across the Stars (Sci-Fi Bridge) [ 60] Alix E. Harrow "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" Apex Magazine [ 60] 2020 A. T. Greenblatt *"Give the Family My Love " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 61] Karen Osborne "The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" Uncanny Magazine [ 61] Shiv Ramdas "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" Strange Horizons [ 61] Nibedita Sen "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island " Nightmare Magazine [ 61] Fran Wilde "A Catalog of Storms" Uncanny Magazine [ 61] A. C. Wise "How the Trick Is Done " Uncanny Magazine [ 61] 2021 John Wiswell *"Open House on Haunted Hill" Diabolical Plots [ 62] Rae Carson "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse " Uncanny Magazine [ 62] Aimee Picchi "Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math" Daily Science Fiction [ 62] Vina Jie-Min Prasad "A Guide for Working Breeds " Made to Order: Robots and Revolution (Solaris Books ) [ 62] Jason Sanford "The Eight-Thousanders" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 62] Eugenia Triantafyllou "My Country Is a Ghost" Uncanny Magazine [ 62] 2022 Sarah Pinsker *"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather " Uncanny Magazine [ 63] Alix E. Harrow "Mr. Death" Apex Magazine [ 63] José Pablo Iriarte "Proof by Induction " Uncanny Magazine [ 63] Sam J. Miller "Let All the Children Boogie" Tor.com [ 63] Suzan Palumbo "Laughter Among the Trees" The Dark [ 63] John Wiswell "For Lack of a Bed" Diabolical Plots [ 63] 2023 Samantha Mills *"Rabbit Test " Uncanny Magazine [ 64] John Wiswell "D.I.Y." Tor.com [ 64] Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki "Destiny Delayed" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 64] Ian Muneshwar "Dick Pig" Nightmare Magazine [ 64] Suzan Palumbo "Douen" The Dark [ 64] Ai Jiang "Give Me English" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 64] 2024 R. S. A. Garcia *"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 " Uncanny Magazine [ 65] P. A. Cornell "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont" Fantasy [ 65] Thomas Ha "Window Boy" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 65] Rachael K. Jones "The Sound of Children Screaming " Nightmare Magazine [ 65] Naomi Kritzer "Better Living Through Algorithms" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 65] John Wiswell "Bad Doors" Uncanny Magazine [ 65] 2025 Jordan Kurella "Evan: A Remainder" Reactor [ 66] Rachael K. Jones "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" Lightspeed [ 66] PH Lee "The V*mpire" Reactor [ 66] Caroline M. Yoachim We Will Teach You How to Read" Lightspeed [ 66] Isabel J. Kim "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 66] Jennifer Hudak "The Witch Trap" Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet [ 66]