| Year |
Author |
Title |
| 2021 |
Martha Wells |
Network Effect |
| 2020 |
Sarah Pinsker |
A Song for a New Day |
| 2019 |
Mary Robinette Kowal |
The Calculating Stars |
| 2018 |
N.K. Jemisin |
The Stone Sky |
| 2017 |
Charlie Jane Anders |
All the Birds in the Sky |
| 2016 |
Naomi Novik |
Uprooted |
| 2015 |
Jeff VanderMeer |
Annihilation (GR review) |
| 2014 |
Ann Leckie |
Ancillary Justice |
| 2013 |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
2312 (GR review) |
| 2012 |
Jo Walton |
Among Others |
| 2011 |
Connie Willis |
Blackout/All Clear |
| 2010 |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
The Windup Girl |
| 2009 |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Powers |
| 2008 |
Michael Chabon |
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (GR review) |
| 2007 |
Jack McDevitt |
Seeker |
| 2006 |
Joe Haldeman |
Camouflage |
| 2005 |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
Paladin of Souls |
| 2004 |
Elizabeth Moon |
The Speed of Dark |
| 2003 |
Neil Gaiman |
American Gods |
| 2002 |
Catherine Asaro |
The Quantum Rose |
| 2001 |
Greg Bear |
Darwin’s Radio |
| 2000 |
Octavia E. Butler |
Parable of the Talents |
| 1999 |
Joe Haldeman |
Forever Peace (GR review) |
| 1997 |
Vonda N. McIntyre |
The Moon and the Sun |
| 1997 |
Nicola Griffith |
Slow River |
| 1996 |
Robert J. Sawyer |
The Terminal Experiment |
| 1995 |
Greg Bear |
Moving Mars |
| 1994 |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
Red Mars (GR review) |
| 1993 |
Connie Willis |
Doomsday Book (GR review) |
| 1992 |
Michael Swanwick |
Stations of the Tide |
| 1991 |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea |
| 1990 |
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
The Healer’s War |
| 1989 |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
Falling Free |
| 1988 |
Pat Murphy |
The Falling Woman |
| 1987 |
Orson Scott Card |
Speaker for the Dead |
| 1986 |
Orson Scott Card |
Ender’s Game |
| 1985 |
William Gibson |
Neuromancer |
| 1984 |
David Brin |
Startide Rising (GR review) |
| 1983 |
Michael Bishop |
No Enemy But Time |
| 1982 |
Gene Wolfe |
The Claw of the Conciliator |
| 1981 |
Gregory Benford |
Timescape |
| 1980 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
The Fountains of Paradise |
| 1979 |
Vonda N. McIntyre |
Dreamsnake |
| 1978 |
Frederik Pohl |
Gateway |
| 1977 |
Frederik Pohl |
Man Plus |
| 1976 |
Joe Haldeman |
The Forever War |
| 1975 |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Dispossessed |
| 1974 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
Rendezvous with Rama |
| 1973 |
Isaac Asimov |
The Gods Themselves |
| 1972 |
Robert Silverberg |
A Time of Changes |
| 1971 |
Larry Niven |
Ringworld |
| 1970 |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
| 1969 |
Alexei Panshin |
Rite of Passage |
| 1968 |
Samuel R. Delany |
The Einstein Intersection |
| 1967 |
Samuel R. Delany |
Babel-17 |
| |
Daniel Keyes |
Flowers for Algernon |
| 1966 |
Frank Herbert |
Dune |
Reißwolf 