The Nebula Award for Best Novelette is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a science fiction or fantasy novelette. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novelette if it is between 7,500 and 17,500 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the Novel and Novella categories, and for shorter lengths in the Short Story category. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a novelette must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition. The Nebula Award for Best Novelette has been awarded annually since 1966. The Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.

Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year by members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Soon after, members are given a month to vote on the ballot, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. The rules were changed to their current format in 2009. Previously, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.

During the 59 nomination years, 236 authors have had works nominated; 51 of these have won, including co-authors and ties. Ted Chiang has won three times out of three nominations, and Poul Anderson, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Sarah Pinsker, and Connie Willis have each won twice out of five, two, four, six, and five nominations, respectively. One of Anderson's nominations was under the pseudonym Michael Karageorge. Ursula K. Le Guin has the most nominations of any author with seven, including one win and not including one withdrawn nomination. James Patrick Kelly and Richard Bowes are tied for the most nominations without winning at six.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

  *   Winners and joint winners

Winners and nominees

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

See also

• Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Explanatory notes