| | Author | Title | Ref |
| 1982 | Rudy Rucker | Software | |
| Ray Nelson | The Prometheus Man | |
| J. M. Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians | |
| R. A. Lafferty | Aurelia | |
| John Sladek | Roderick | |
| Steve Rasnic Tem | The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry | |
| 1983 | Tim Powers | The Anubis Gates | |
| R. A. MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon | |
| Barrington J. Bayley | The Zen Gun | |
| Zoe Fairbairns | Benefits | |
| M. John Harrison | The Floating Gods | |
| John Varley | Millennium | |
| 1984 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore | |
| C. J. Cherryh | Voyager in Night | |
| Geary Gravel | The Alchemists | |
| David R. Palmer | Emergence | |
| Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes | |
| Lewis Shiner | Frontera | |
| Howard Waldrop | Them Bones | |
| 1985 | Tim Powers | Dinner at Deviant's Palace | |
| Richard Grant | Saraband of Lost Time | |
| Russell Griffin | The Timeservers | |
| Michael P. Kube-McDowell | Emprise | |
| Barry N. Malzberg | The Remaking of Sigmund Freud | |
| Scott Russell Sanders | Terrarium | |
| Walter Jon Williams | Knight Moves | |
| 1986 | James P. Blaylock | Homunculus | |
| Jack McDevitt | The Hercules Text | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Artificial Things | |
| Robert Charles Wilson | A Hidden Place | |
| 1987 | Patricia Geary | Strange Toys | |
| Mike McQuay | Memories | |
| Richard Bowker | Dover Beach | |
| Pat Cadigan | Mindplayers | |
| K. W. Jeter | Dark Seeker | |
| Rebecca Ore | Becoming Alien | |
| Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime | |
| 1988 | Paul J. McAuley (tie) | Four Hundred Billion Stars | |
| Rudy Rucker (tie) | Wetware | |
| Roger MacBride Allen | Orphan of Creation | |
| Marc Laidlaw | Neon Lotus | |
| David Alexander Smith | Rendezvous | |
| 1989 | Richard Paul Russo | Subterranean Gallery | |
| Dave Wolverton | On My Way to Paradise | |
| Barry B. Longyear | Infinity Hold | |
| James Luceno | A Fearful Symmetry | |
| Rebecca Ore | Being Alien | |
| Susan Shwartz | Heritage of Flight | |
| 1990 | Pat Murphy | Points of Departure | |
| Raymond Harris | The Schizogenic Man | |
| Gregory Feeley | The Oxygen Barons | |
| Elizabeth Hand | Winterlong | |
| Allen Steele | Clarke County, Space | |
| 1991 | Ian McDonald | King of Morning, Queen of Day | |
| Emma Bull | Bone Dance | |
| Douglas Bell | Mojo and the Pickle Jar | |
| Kathe Koja | The Cipher | |
| Robert Charles Wilson | Bridge of Years | |
| 1992 | Richard Grant | Through the Heart | |
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | In the Mothers' Land | |
| Colin Greenland | Take Back Plenty | |
| Elizabeth Hand | Aestival Tide | |
| R. A. Lafferty | Iron Tears | |
| 1993 | John M. Ford (tie) | Growing Up Weightless | |
| Jack Womack (tie) | Elvissey | |
| Wilhelmina Baird | Crash Course | |
| David R. Bunch | Bunch! | |
| Elizabeth Hand | Icarus Descending | |
| 1994 | Robert Charles Wilson | Mysterium | |
| Jack Cady | Inagehi | |
| Alexander Besher | Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality | |
| Lisa Mason | Summer of Love | |
| Ian McDonald | Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone | |
| Lance Olsen | Tonguing the Zeitgeist | |
| 1995 | Bruce Bethke | Headcrash | |
| Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Edge | |
| Shale Aaron | Virtual Death | |
| Greg Egan | Permutation City | |
| Amy Thomson | The Color of Distance | |
| Élisabeth Vonarburg | Reluctant Voyagers | |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | |
| Michael Bishop | At the City Limits of Fate | |
| William Barton | The Transmigration of Souls | |
| George Foy | The Shift | |
| Sarah Zettel | Reclamation | |
| 1997 | Stepan Chapman | The Troika | |
| William Barton | Acts of Conscience | |
| Susan R. Matthews | An Exchange of Hostages | |
| Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Heart | |
| Denise Vitola | Opalite Moon | |
| Catherine Wells | Mother Grimm | |
| 1998 | Geoff Ryman | 253: The Print Remix | |
| Paul Di Filippo | Lost Pages | |
| Steve Aylett | Slaughtermatic | |
| Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring | |
| Paul J. McAuley | The Invisible Country | |
| 1999 | Stephen Baxter | Vacuum Diagrams | |
| Jamil Nasir | Tower of Dreams | |
| Toni Anzetti | Typhon's Children | |
| Constance Ash, ed. | Not of Woman Born | |
| William Barton | When We Were Real | |
| Kristine Smith | Code of Conduct | |
| 2000 | Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward | |
| Scott Westerfeld | Evolution's Darling | |
| Stephen L. Burns | Call from a Distant Shore | |
| Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber | |
| Maggy Thomas | Broken Time | |
| Janine Ellen Young | The Bridge | |
| 2001 | Richard Paul Russo | Ship of Fools | |
| Ken Wharton | Divine Intervention | |
| Julie E. Czerneda | In the Company of Others | |
| Mark W. Tiedemann | Compass Reach | |
| Ray Vukcevich | Meet Me in the Moon Room | |
| Liz Williams | The Ghost Sister | |
| 2002 | Carol Emshwiller | The Mount | |
| China Miéville | The Scar | |
| Carol Emshwiller | Report to the Men’s Club | |
| Kay Kenyon | Maximum Ice | |
| Karin Lowachee | Warchild | |
| Liz Williams | Empire of Bones | |
| Forrest Aguirre, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.) | Leviathan Three | |
| 2003 | Richard K. Morgan | Altered Carbon | |
| Jane Jensen | Dante's Equation | |
| M. M. Buckner | Hyperthought | |
| Mark Budz | Clade | |
| Chris Moriarty | Spin State | |
| Ann Tonsor Zeddies | Steel Helix | |
| 2004 | Gwyneth Jones | Life | |
| Lyda Morehouse | Apocalypse Array | |
| Geoff Ryman | Air | |
| Liz Williams | Banner of Souls | |
| Karen Traviss | City of Pearl | |
| Minister Faust | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad | |
| Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others | |
| 2005 | M. M. Buckner | War Surf | |
| Justina Robson | Natural History | |
| Neal Asher | Cowl | |
| Karin Lowachee | Cagebird | |
| Justina Robson | Silver Screen | |
| Wil McCarthy | To Crush the Moon | |
| 2006 | Chris Moriarty | Spin Control | |
| Elizabeth Bear | Carnival | |
| Tony Ballantyne | Recursion | |
| Mark Budz | Idolon | |
| Andrea Hairston | Mindscape | |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact | |
| Justina Robson | Living Next Door to the God of Love | |
| 2007 | M. John Harrison | Nova Swing | |
| Minister Faust | From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain | |
| Jon Armstrong | Grey | |
| Elizabeth Bear | Undertow | |
| Adam Roberts | Gradisil | |
| Karen Traviss | Ally | |
| Sean Williams | Saturn Returns | |
| 2008 | Adam-Troy Castro (tie) | Emissaries from The Dead[2] | |
| David Walton (tie) | Terminal Mind[2] | |
| Lou Anders | Fast Forward 2[2] | |
| K. A. Bedford | Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait[2] | |
| Jeff Carlson | Plague War[2] | |
| Karen Traviss | Judge[2] | |
| 2009 | C. L. Anderson | Bitter Angels | |
| Ian McDonald | Cyberabad Days | |
| Carlos J. Cortes | The Prisoner | |
| Eric Garcia | The Repossession Mambo | |
| Daryl Gregory | The Devil's Alphabet | |
| Rebecca Ore | Centuries Ago and Very Fast | |
| S. Andrew Swann | Prophets | |
| 2010 | Mark Hodder | The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack | |
| Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith) | Harmony | |
| Jon Armstrong | Yarn | |
| Elizabeth Bear | Chill | |
| Alden Bell | The Reapers are the Angels | |
| Sara Creasy | Song of Scarabaeus | |
| James Knapp | State of Decay | |
| 2011 | Simon Morden | The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy | |
| Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man | |
| Mira Grant | Deadline | |
| Matthew Hughes | The Other | |
| Jean Johnson | A Soldier's Duty | |
| Drew Magary | The Postmortal | |
| Maureen F. McHugh | After the Apocalypse | |
| 2012 | Brian Francis Slattery | Lost Everything[3] | |
| Andri Snær Magnason | LoveStar | |
| Ryan Boudinot | Blueprints of the Afterlife | |
| Keith Brooke | Harmony | |
| Eric Brown | Helix Wars | |
| Moira Crone | The Not Yet | |
| Nancy Kress | Fountain of Age: Stories | |
| 2013 | Ben H. Winters | Countdown City | [4] |
| Toh EnJoe | Self-Reference Engine | [4] |
| Anne Charnock | A Calculated Life | [5] |
| Cassandra Rose Clarke | The Mad Scientist’s Daughter |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice |
| Jack Skillingstead | Life on the Preservation |
| Ian Whates (ed.) | Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction |
| 2014 | Meg Elison | The Book of the Unnamed Midwife | [6] |
| Jennifer Marie Brissett | Elysium | [6] |
| Rod Duncan | The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter | [7] |
| Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water |
| Cherie Priest | Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches |
| Jonathan Strahan (ed.) | Reach for Infinity |
| 2015 | Ramez Naam | Apex | [8] |
| Marguerite Reed | Archangel | [8] |
| Brenda Cooper | Edge of Dark | [9] |
| Douglas Lain | After the Saucers Landed |
| PJ Manney | (R)evolution |
| Adam Rakunas | Windswept |
| 2016 | Claudia Casper | The Mercy Journals | [10] |
| Susan diRende | Unpronounceable | [10] |
| Kristy Acevedo | Consider | [11] |
| Eleanor Arnason | Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens |
| Matt Hill | Graft |
| Yoss | Super Extra Grande |
| 2017 | Carrie Vaughn | Bannerless | |
| Deji Bryce Olukotun | After the Flare | |
| Meg Elison | The Book of Etta | [12] |
| Mur Lafferty | Six Wakes |
| Tim Pratt | The Wrong Stars |
| Alastair Reynolds | Revenger |
| Martha Wells | All Systems Red |
| 2018 | Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards | |
| Claire North | 84K | |
| Ian McDonald | Time Was | [13] |
| Jeff Noon | The Body Library |
| Abbey Mei Otis | Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories |
| Vandana Singh | Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories |
| 2019 | Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea | [14] |
| Sarah Tolmie | The Little Animals | [14] |
| Ada Hoffmann | The Outside | [15] |
| Megan E. O'Keefe | Velocity Weapon |
| Susan Palwick | All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions |
| Tade Thompson | The Rosewater Redemption |
| 2020 | Alison Stine | Road Out of Winter | [16] |
| M. R. Carey | The Book of Koli | [16] |
| Christopher Brown | Failed State | [17] |
| Elwin Cotman | Dance on Saturday |
| Alastair Reynolds | Bone Silence |
| Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Doors of Eden |
| 2021 | Kali Wallace | Dead Space | [18] |
| Lavie Tidhar | The Escapement | [18] |
| Nino Cipri | Defekt | [19] |
| Jason Sanford | Plague Birds |
| Giacomo Sartori | Bug |
| Tade Thompson | Far from the Light of Heaven |
| 2022 | Kimberly Unger | The Extractionist | [20] |
| Tade Thompson | The Legacy of Molly Southbourne | [20] |
| Rebecca Campbell | Arboreality | [21] |
| C.J. Carey | Widowland |
| Rich Larson | Ymir |
| Rachel Swirsky | January Fifteenth |
| 2023 | Bethany Jacobs | These Burning Stars | [22] |
| Rebekah Bergman | The Museum Of Human History | [22] |
| Eugen Bacon | Danged Black Thing | [23] |
| M. R. Carey | Infinity Gate |
| S. L. Coney | Wild Spaces |
| Dilman Dila | Where Rivers Go To Die |
