The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is less than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for longer works in the categories of novel, novella, and novelette. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a short story 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 Short Story has been awarded annually since 1966. The award has 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 a member. 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. Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, 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 reach the final ballot in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary ballot 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, 239 authors have had works nominated; 46 of these have won, including co-authors. One of these authors, Lisa Tuttle, refused her award, and in 1971 no winner was chosen as "no award" received the highest number of votes. Harlan Ellison won three times out of eight nominations, both the highest number of wins and the highest number of nominations of any author. Ten authors have won twice, with Karen Joy Fowler at seven and Gardner Dozois at six having the next highest nomination count after Ellison. Michael Swanwick has the most nominations for short story without winning at six, and Howard Waldrop and Gene Wolfe are next with five each. No other author has been nominated more than four times.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the short story 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. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) mark a year when "no award" was selected as the winner.

  *   Winners and joint winners   +   No winner selected

Winners and nominees

Year	Author(s)	Short story	Publisher or publication	Ref.
1966	Harlan Ellison*	"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Isaac Asimov	"Eyes Do More Than See"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Isaac Asimov	"Founding Father"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	J. G. Ballard	"Souvenir"	Playboy
	Donald Barthelme	"Game"	The New Yorker
	Jane Beauclerk	"Lord Moon"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Lin Carter	"Uncollected Works"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	John Christopher	"A Few Kindred Spirits"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Avram Davidson	"The House the Blakeneys Built"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Gordon R. Dickson	"Computers Don't Argue"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Thomas M. Disch	"Come to Venus Melancholy"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James A. Durham	"Of One Mind"	If
	H. L. Gold	"Inside Man"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Ron Goulart	"Calling Dr. Clockwork"	Amazing Stories
	Alex Kirs	"Better Than Ever"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	R. A. Lafferty	"In Our Block"	If
	R. A. Lafferty	"Slow Tuesday Night"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Fritz Leiber	"Cyclops"	Worlds of Tomorrow
	Fritz Leiber	"The Good New Days"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Larry McCombs	"The Peacock King"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Ted White
	Scott Nichols	"Though a Sparrow Fall"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Larry Niven	"Becalmed in Hell"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Larry Niven	"Wrong-Way Street"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Richard Olin	"The Mischief Maker"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Edgar Pangborn	"A Better Mousehole"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Mack Reynolds	"A Leader for Yesteryear"	If
	Robert Rohrer	"Keep Them Happy"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James H. Schmitz	"Balanced Ecology"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Clifford D. Simak	"Over the River and Through the Woods"	Amazing Stories
	Richard Wilson	"The Eight Billion"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Roger Zelazny	"Devil Car"	Galaxy Science Fiction
1967	Richard McKenna*	"The Secret Place"	Orbit 1 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Brian Aldiss	"Man In His Time"	Who Can Replace a Man? (Harcourt, Brace & World)
	Bob Shaw	"Light of Other Days"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1968	Samuel R. Delany*	""Aye, and Gomorrah…""	Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
	Reginald Bretnor	"Earthwoman"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Samuel R. Delany	"Driftglass"	If
	Fritz Leiber	"Answering Service"	If
	Theodore L. Thomas	"The Doctor"	Orbit 2 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Kate Wilhelm	"Baby, You Were Great"	Orbit 2 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
1969	Kate Wilhelm*	"The Planners"	Orbit 3 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Poul Anderson	"Kyrie"	The Farthest Reaches (Trident Press)
	Terry Carr	"The Dance of the Changer and the Three"	The Farthest Reaches (Trident Press)
	H. H. Hollis	"Sword Game"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Damon Knight	"Masks"	Playboy
	Robert Taylor	"Idiot's Mate"	Amazing Stories
1970	Robert Silverberg*	"Passengers"	Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Harlan Ellison	"Shattered Like a Glass Goblin"	Orbit 4 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Larry Niven	"Not Long Before the End"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Theodore Sturgeon	"The Man Who Learned Loving"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain"	Galaxy Science Fiction
1971	(no award)+
	Gardner Dozois	"A Dream at Noonday"	Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Harry Harrison	"By the Falls"	If
	R. A. Lafferty	"Entire and Perfect Chrysolite"	Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Keith Laumer	"In the Queue"	Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	James Sallis	"The Creation of Bennie Good"	Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Kate Wilhelm	"A Cold Dark Night with Snow"	Orbit 6 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Gene Wolfe	"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories"	Orbit 7 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
1972	Robert Silverberg*	"Good News from the Vatican"	Universe 1 (Doubleday)
	Gardner Dozois	"Horse of Air"	Orbit 8 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	Stephen Goldin	"The Last Ghost"	Protostars (Ballantine Books)
	George Zebrowski	"Heathen God"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1973	Joanna Russ*	"When It Changed"	Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
	Harlan Ellison	"On the Downhill Side"	Universe 2 (Doubleday)
	Frederik Pohl	"Shaffery Among the Immortals"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Robert Silverberg	"When We Went to See the End of the World"	Universe 2 (Doubleday)
	James Tiptree, Jr.	"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Gene Wolfe	"Against the Lafayette Escadrille"	Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday)
1974	James Tiptree, Jr.*	"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death"	The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books)
	Edward Bryant	"Shark"	Orbit 12 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
	George R. R. Martin	"With Morning Comes Mistfall"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Vonda N. McIntyre	"Wings"	The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books)
	Norman Spinrad	"A Thing of Beauty"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Gene Wolfe	"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1975	Ursula K. Le Guin*	"The Day Before the Revolution"	Galaxy Science Fiction
	Philip José Farmer	"After King Kong Fell"	Omega (Walker & Co.)
	Roger Zelazny	"The Engine at Heartspring's Center"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
1976	Fritz Leiber*	"Catch That Zeppelin!"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Gregory Benford	"Doing Lennon"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Gregory Benford	"White Creatures"	New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row)
	Jorge Luis Borges	"Utopia of a Tired Man"	The New Yorker
	Algis Budrys	"A Scraping at the Bones"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Phyllis Eisenstein	"Attachment"	Amazing Stories
	Harlan Ellison	"Shatterday"	Gallery
	Nicholas Fisk	"Find the Lady"	New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row)
	Charles L. Grant	"White Wolf Calling"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Richard A. Lupoff	"Sail the Tide of Mourning"	New Dimensions 5 (Harper & Row)
	P. J. Plauger	"Child of All Ages"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Frederik Pohl	"Growing Up in Edge City"	Epoch (Berkley Books)
	Craig Strete	"Time Deer"	If
1977	Charles L. Grant*	"A Crowd of Shadows"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Joe Haldeman	"Tricentennial"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Thomas F. Monteleone	"Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep"	Dystopian Visions (Prentice Hall)
	Jake Saunders	"Back to the Stone Age"	Lone Star Universe (Heidelberg Publishers)
	Lisa Tuttle	"Stone Circle"	Amazing Stories
	Howard Waldrop	"Mary Margaret Road-Grader"	Orbit 18 (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
1978	Harlan Ellison*	"Jeffty Is Five"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Dennis R. Bailey	"Tin Woodman"	Amazing Stories
	David Bischoff
	Edward Bryant	"The Hibakusha Gallery"	Penthouse
	Thomas F. Monteleone	"Camera Obscura"	Cosmos
	John Varley	"Air Raid"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1979	Edward Bryant*	"Stone"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	C. J. Cherryh	"Cassandra"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jack Dann	"A Quiet Revolution for Death"	New Dimensions 8 (Harper & Row)
1980	Edward Bryant*	"giANTS"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Michael Bishop	"Vernalfest Morning"	Chrysalis 3 (Zebra Books)
	Orson Scott Card	"Unaccompanied Sonata"	Omni
	Tanith Lee	"Red as Blood"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	George R. R. Martin	"The Way of Cross and Dragon"	Omni
	Joanna Russ	"The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1981	Clifford D. Simak*	"Grotto of the Dancing Deer"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Charles L. Grant	"Secrets of the Heart"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Bob Leman	"Window"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Gene Wolfe	"War Beneath the Tree"	Omni
	Craig Strete (withdrawn)	"A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather"	New Dimensions 11 (Harper & Row)
1982	Lisa Tuttle* (refused)	"The Bone Flute"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jack Dann	"Going Under"	Omni
	Gardner Dozois	"Disciples"	Penthouse
	William Gibson	"Johnny Mnemonic"	Omni
	George Guthridge	"The Quiet"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Kim Stanley Robinson	"Venice Drowned"	Universe 11 (Doubleday)
	Timothy R. Sullivan	"Zeke"	Twilight Zone
	John Varley	"The Pusher"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1983	Connie Willis*	"A Letter from the Clearys"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Greg Bear	"Petra"	Omni
	Jack C. Haldeman II	"High Steel"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jack Dann
	Barry N. Malzberg	"Corridors"	The Engines of the Night (Doubleday)
	Robert Silverberg	"The Pope of the Chimps"	Perpetual Light (Warner Books)
	Howard Waldrop	"God's Hooks!"	Universe 12 (Doubleday)
1984	Gardner Dozois*	"The Peacemaker"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Leigh Kennedy	"Her Furry Face"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Jack McDevitt	"Cryptic"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Chad Oliver	"Ghost Town"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	Hilbert Schenck	"The Geometry of Narrative"	Analog Science Fact & Fiction
	William F. Wu	"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"	Amazing Stories
1985	Gardner Dozois*	"Morning Child"	Omni
	George Alec Effinger	"The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Lucius Shepard	"Salvador"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Bruce Sterling	"Sunken Gardens"	Omni
	Gene Wolfe	"A Cabin on the Coast"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	George Zebrowski	"The Eichmann Variations"	Light Years and Dark (Berkley Books)
1986	Nancy Kress*	"Out of All Them Bright Stars"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James Blaylock	"Paper Dragons"	Imaginary Lands (Ace Books)
	John Crowley	"Snow"	Omni
	Gardner Dozois	"The Gods of Mars"	Omni
	Jack Dann
	Michael Swanwick
	Joe Haldeman	"More Than the Sum of His Parts"	Playboy
	Howard Waldrop	"Flying Saucer Rock & Roll"	Omni
	Howard Waldrop	"Heirs of the Perisphere"	Playboy
	William F. Wu	"Hong's Bluff"	Omni
1987	Greg Bear*	"Tangents"	Omni
	Isaac Asimov	"Robot Dreams"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Pat Cadigan	"Pretty Boy Crossover"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	James Patrick Kelly	"Rat"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Nancy Springer	"The Boy Who Plaited Manes"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Howard Waldrop	"The Lions Are Asleep This Night"	Omni
1988	Kate Wilhelm*	"Forever Yours, Anna"	Omni
	Pat Cadigan	"Angel"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Paul Di Filippo	"Kid Charlemagne"	Amazing Stories
	Karen Joy Fowler	"The Faithful Companion at Forty"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Lisa Goldstein	"Cassandra's Photographs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Susan Shwartz	"Temple to a Minor Goddess"	Amazing Stories
	Lawrence Watt-Evans	"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1989	James K. Morrow*	"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge"	Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra)
	Thomas M. Disch	"Voices of the Kill"	Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra)
	John Kessel	"Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Jack McDevitt	"The Fort Moxie Branch"	Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra)
	Pat Murphy	"Dead Men on TV"	Full Spectrum (Bantam Spectra)
	Steven Popkes	"The Color Winter"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1990	Geoffrey A. Landis*	"Ripples in the Dirac Sea"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Mary C. Aldridge	"The Adinkra Cloth"	Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
	Michael Bishop	"The Ommatidium Miniatures"	The Microverse (Bantam Spectra)
	Orson Scott Card	"Lost Boys"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Suzy McKee Charnas	"Boobs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Bruce Sterling	"Dori Bangs"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1991	Terry Bisson*	"Bears Discover Fire"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Pat Cadigan	"The Power and the Passion"	Omni
	Karen Joy Fowler	"Lieserl"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Pat Murphy	"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates"	Alien Sex (Dutton Penguin)
	Kim Stanley Robinson	"Before I Wake"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	"Story Child"	Aboriginal SF
1992	Alan Brennert*	"Ma Qui"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Terry Bisson	"They're Made Out of Meat"	Omni
	Karen Joy Fowler	"The Dark"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	John Kessel	"Buffalo"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Martha Soukup	"Dog's Life"	Amazing Stories
	W. Gregory Stewart	"The Button, and What You Know"	Amazing Stories
1993	Connie Willis*	"Even the Queen"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Bishop	"Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats"	Omni
	Paul Di Filippo	"Lennon Spex"	Amazing Stories
	Nancy Kress	"The Mountain to Mohammed"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Kim Stanley Robinson	"Vinland the Dream"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Martha Soukup	"The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1994	Joe Haldeman*	"Graves"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Harlan Ellison	"The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore"	Omni
	Esther Friesner	"All Vows"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Lisa Goldstein	"Alfred"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Bridget McKenna	"The Good Pup"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	William John Watkins	"The Beggar in the Living Room"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1995	Martha Soukup*	"A Defense of the Social Contracts"	Science Fiction Age
	Ben Bova	"Inspiration"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Joe Haldeman	"None So Blind"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Barry N. Malzberg	"Understanding Entropy"	Science Fiction Age
	Maureen F. McHugh	"Virtual Love"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Kate Wilhelm	"I Know What You're Thinking"	Asimov's Science Fiction
1996	Esther Friesner*	"Death and the Librarian"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Kelley Eskridge	"Alien Jane"	Century
	Owl Goingback	"Grass Dancer"	Excalibur (Warner Aspect)
	Lisa Goldstein	"The Narcissus Plague"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Geoffrey A. Landis	"The Kingdom of Cats and Birds"	Science Fiction Age
	Maureen F. McHugh	"The Lincoln Train"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Dave Smeds	"Short Timer"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1997	Esther Friesner*	"A Birthday"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Kent Brewster	"In the Pound, Near Breaktime"	Tomorrow Speculative Fiction
	Kathleen Ann Goonan	"The String"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jonathan Lethem	"Five Fucks"	The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye (Harcourt Brace)
	Bruce Holland Rogers	"These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of"	Enchanted Forests (DAW Books)
	Dean Wesley Smith	"In the Shade of the Slowboat Man"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1998	Jane Yolen*	"Sister Emily's Lightship"	Starlight 1 (Tor Books)
	Gregory Feeley	"The Crab Lice"	Alternate Tyrants (Tor Books)
	Karen Joy Fowler	"The Elizabeth Complex"	Crank!
	James Patrick Kelly	"Itsy Bitsy Spider"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"The Dead"	Starlight 1 (Tor Books)
	K. D. Wentworth	"Burning Bright"	Aboriginal SF
1999	Bruce Holland Rogers*	"Thirteen Ways to Water"	Black Cats and Broken Mirrors (DAW Books)
	Steven Brust	"When the Bow Breaks"	The Essential Bordertown (Tor Books)
	Karen Joy Fowler	"Standing Room Only"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Lisa Goldstein	"Fortune and Misfortune"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Geoffrey A. Landis	"Winter Fire"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	K. D. Wentworth	"Tall One"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
2000	Leslie What*	"The Cost of Doing Business"	Amazing Stories
	Constance Ash	"Flower Kiss"	Realms of Fantasy
	Bruce Holland Rogers	"The Dead Boy at Your Window"	North American Review
	Frances Sherwood	"Basil the Dog"	Atlantic Monthly
	Michael Swanwick	"Radiant Doors"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Michael Swanwick	"Ancient Engines"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2001	Terry Bisson*	"Macs"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jeffrey Ford	"The Fantasy Writer's Assistant"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Ellen Klages	"Flying Over Water"	Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
	Severna Park	"The Golem"	Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Avon Books)
	Michael Swanwick	"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Pat York	"You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine"	Silver Birch, Blood Moon (Avon Books)
2002	Severna Park*	"The Cure for Everything"	Sci Fiction
	Michael A. Burstein	"Kaddish for the Last Survivor"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Mike Resnick	"The Elephants on Neptune"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Sherwood Smith	"Mom and Dad at the Home Front"	Realms of Fantasy
	George Zebrowski	"Wound the Wind"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
2003	Carol Emshwiller*	"Creature"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jeffrey Ford	"Creation"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Megan Lindholm	"Cut"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Jack McDevitt	"Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City"	Artemis
	Tim Pratt	"Little Gods"	Strange Horizons
	Michael Swanwick	"The Dog Said Bow-Wow"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2004	Karen Joy Fowler*	"What I Didn't See"	Sci Fiction
	Eleanor Arnason	"Knapsack Poems"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Kevin Brockmeier	"The Brief History of the Dead"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Harlan Ellison	"Good-Bye to All That"	McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Hamish Hamilton)
	Carol Emshwiller	"Grandma"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Molly Gloss	"Lambing Season"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	James Van Pelt	"The Last of the O-Forms"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2005	Eileen Gunn*	"Coming to Terms"	Stable Strategies and Others (Tachyon Publications)
	Mike Moscoe	"The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
	Mike Resnick	"Travels with My Cats"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Benjamin Rosenbaum	"Embracing-The-New"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Greg van Eekhout	"In the Late December"	Strange Horizons
	Ken Wharton	"Aloha"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
2006	Carol Emshwiller*	"I Live With You"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	K. D. Wentworth	"Born Again"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Dale Bailey	"The End of the World as We Know It"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Nancy Kress	"My Mother, Dancing"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Margo Lanagan	"Singing My Sister Down"	Black Juice (Allen & Unwin)
	Anne Harris	"Still Life with Boobs"	Talebones
	Richard Bowes	"There's a Hole in the City"	Sci Fiction
2007	Elizabeth Hand*	"Echo"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Esther Friesner	"Helen Remembers the Stork Club"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Eugene Mirabelli	"The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Jack McDevitt	"Henry James, This One's for You"	Subterranean Magazine
	Karina Sumner-Smith	"An End to All Things"	Children of Magic (DAW Books)
	Theodora Goss	"Pip and the Fairies"	Strange Horizons
2008	Karen Joy Fowler*	"Always"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Andy Duncan	"Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse"	Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books)
	David D. Levine	"Titanium Mike Saves the Day"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Vera Nazarian	"The Story of Love"	Salt of the Air (Prime Books)
	Jennifer Pelland	"Captive Girl"	Helix SF
	Mary Turzillo	"Pride"	Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (Pyr)
2009	Nina Kiriki Hoffman*	"Trophy Wives"	Fellowship Fantastic (DAW Books)
	Mike Allen	"The Button Bin"	Helix SF
	Jeffrey Ford	"The Dreaming Wind"	The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Viking Press)
	Kij Johnson	"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Gwyneth Jones	"The Tomb Wife"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	James Patrick Kelly	"Don't Stop"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Ruth Nestvold	"Mars: A Traveler's Guide"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
2010	Kij Johnson*	"Spar"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Saladin Ahmed	"Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela"	Clockwork Phoenix 2 (Norilana Books)
	Michael A. Burstein	"I Remember the Future"	I Remember the Future (Apex Publications)
	N. K. Jemisin	"Non-Zero Probabilities"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	James Patrick Kelly	"Going Deep"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Will McIntosh	"Bridesicle"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2011	Harlan Ellison*	"How Interesting: A Tiny Man"	Realms of Fantasy
	Kij Johnson*	"Ponies"	Tor.com
	Adam-Troy Castro	"Arvies"	Lightspeed
	Vylar Kaftan	"I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno"	Lightspeed
	Amal El-Mohtar	"The Green Book"	Apex Magazine
	Jennifer Pelland	"Ghosts of New York"	Dark Faith (Apex Publications)
	Felicity Shoulders	"Conditional Love"	Asimov's Science Fiction
2012	Ken Liu*	"The Paper Menagerie"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Adam-Troy Castro	"Her Husband's Hands"	Lightspeed
	Tom Crosshill	"Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son"	Lightspeed
	Nancy Fulda	"Movement"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Aliette de Bodard	"Shipbirth"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	David W. Goldman	"The Axiom of Choice"	New Haven Review
	E. Lily Yu	"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees"	Clarkesworld Magazine
2013	Aliette de Bodard*	"Immersion"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Helena Bell	"Robot"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Tom Crosshill	"Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Leah Cypess	"Nanny's Day"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Maria Dahvana Headley	"Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream"	Lightspeed
	Ken Liu	"The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species"	Lightspeed
	Cat Rambo	"Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain"	Near + Far (Hydra House)
2014	Rachel Swirsky*	"If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love"	Apex Magazine
	Matthew Kressel	"The Sounds of Old Earth"	Lightspeed
	Sofia Samatar	"Selkie Stories Are for Losers"	Strange Horizons
	Kenneth Schneyer	"Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer"	Clockwork Phoenix 4 (Mythic Delirium Books)
	Sylvia Spruck Wrigley	"Alive, Alive Oh"	Lightspeed
2015	Ursula Vernon*	"Jackalope Wives"	Apex Magazine
	Aliette de Bodard	"The Breath of War"	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
	Eugie Foster	"When It Ends, He Catches Her"	Daily Science Fiction
	Matthew Kressel	"The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Usman T. Malik	"The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family"	Qualia Nous (Written Backwards)
	Sarah Pinsker	"A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
	Alyssa Wong	"The Fisher Queen"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
2016	Alyssa Wong*	"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"	Nightmare Magazine
	Naomi Kritzer	"Cat Pictures Please"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	David D. Levine	"Damage"	Tor.com
	Amal El-Mohtar	"Madeleine"	Lightspeed
	Martin L. Shoemaker	"Today I Am Paul"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Sam J. Miller	"When Your Child Strays from God"	Clarkesworld Magazine
2017	Amal El-Mohtar*	"Seasons of Glass and Iron"	The Starlit Wood (Saga Press)
	Brooke Bolander	"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"	Uncanny Magazine
	Barbara Krasnoff	"Sabbath Wine"	Clockwork Phoenix 5 (Mythic Delirium Books)
	Sam J. Miller	"Things With Beards"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	A. Merc Rustad	"This Is Not a Wardrobe Door"	Fireside Magazine
	Alyssa Wong	"A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers"	Tor.com
	Caroline M. Yoachim	"Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station │ Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0"	Lightspeed
2018	Rebecca Roanhorse*	"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™"	Apex Magazine
	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	"Fandom for Robots"	Uncanny Magazine
	Jamie Wahls	"Utopia, LOL?"	Strange Horizons
	Fran Wilde	"Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand"	Uncanny Magazine
	Matthew Kressel	"The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)"	Tor.com
	Caroline M. Yoachim	"Carnival Nine"	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
2019	Phenderson Djèlí Clark*	"The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington"	Fireside Magazine
	A. T. Greenblatt	"And Yet"	Uncanny Magazine
	Sarah Pinsker	"The Court Magician"	Lightspeed
	Richard Fox	"Going Dark"	Backblast Area Clear (Ellen Campbell)
	Rhett C. Bruno	"Interview for the End of the World"	Bridge Across the Stars (Sci-Fi Bridge)
	Alix E. Harrow	"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies"	Apex Magazine
2020	A. T. Greenblatt*	"Give the Family My Love"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Karen Osborne	"The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power"	Uncanny Magazine
	Shiv Ramdas	"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing"	Strange Horizons
	Nibedita Sen	"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island"	Nightmare Magazine
	Fran Wilde	"A Catalog of Storms"	Uncanny Magazine
	A. C. Wise	"How the Trick Is Done"	Uncanny Magazine
2021	John Wiswell*	"Open House on Haunted Hill"	Diabolical Plots
	Rae Carson	"Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse"	Uncanny Magazine
	Aimee Picchi	"Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math"	Daily Science Fiction
	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	"A Guide for Working Breeds"	Made to Order: Robots and Revolution (Solaris Books)
	Jason Sanford	"The Eight-Thousanders"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Eugenia Triantafyllou	"My Country Is a Ghost"	Uncanny Magazine
2022	Sarah Pinsker*	"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather"	Uncanny Magazine
	Alix E. Harrow	"Mr. Death"	Apex Magazine
	José Pablo Iriarte	"Proof by Induction"	Uncanny Magazine
	Sam J. Miller	"Let All the Children Boogie"	Tor.com
	Suzan Palumbo	"Laughter Among the Trees"	The Dark
	John Wiswell	"For Lack of a Bed"	Diabolical Plots
2023	Samantha Mills*	"Rabbit Test"	Uncanny Magazine
	John Wiswell	"D.I.Y."	Tor.com
	Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki	"Destiny Delayed"	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Ian Muneshwar	"Dick Pig"	Nightmare Magazine
	Suzan Palumbo	"Douen"	The Dark
	Ai Jiang	"Give Me English"	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
2024	R. S. A. Garcia*	"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200"	Uncanny Magazine
	P. A. Cornell	"Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont"	Fantasy
	Thomas Ha	"Window Boy"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	Rachael K. Jones	"The Sound of Children Screaming"	Nightmare Magazine
	Naomi Kritzer	"Better Living Through Algorithms"	Clarkesworld Magazine
	John Wiswell	"Bad Doors"	Uncanny Magazine

See also

• Hugo Award for Best Short Story