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Best Short Story

This award is given to works under 7500 words. The year indicated is the year of publication/eligibility; the award is actually presented the following year.

Date	Author	Title
2009	Kij Johnson	"Spar"
2008	Nina Kriki Hoffman	"Trophy Wives"
2007	Karen Joy Fowler	"Always"
2006	Elizabeth Hand	"Echo"
2005	Carol Emshwiller	"I Live With You"
2004	Eileen Gunn	"Coming to Tears"
2003	Karen Joy Fowler	"What I Didn't See"
2002	Carol Emshwiller	"Creature"
2001	Severna Park	"The Cure for Everything"
2000	Terry Bisson	"macs"
1999	Leslie What	"The Cost of Doing Business"
1998	Bruce Holland Rogers	"Thirteen Ways to Water a Cat"
1997	Jane Yolen	"Sister Emily's Lightship"
1996	Esther M. Friesner	"A Birthday
1995	Esther M. Friesner	"Death and the Librarian"
1994	Martha Soukup	"A Defense of the Social Contract"
1993	Joe Haldeman	"Graves"
1992	Connie Wilis	"Even the Queen"
1991	Alan Brennert	"Ma Qui"
1990	Terry Bisson	"Bears Discover Fire"
1989	Geoffrey A. Landis	"Ripples in the Dirac Sea"
1988	James Morrow	"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge"
1987	Kate Wilhelm	"Forever Yours, Anna"
1986`	Greg Bear	"Tangents"
1985	Nancy Kress	"Out of All Them Bright Stars"
1984	Gardner Dozois	"Morning Child"
1983	Gardner Dozois	"The Peacemaker"
1982	Connie Willis	"A Letter from the Clearys"
1981	Lisa Tuttle	"The Bone Flute" (award declined by author)
1980	Clifford D. Simak	"Grotto of the Dancing Deer "
1979	Edward Bryant	"giANTS"
1978	Edward Bryant	"Stone"
1977	Harlan Ellison	"Jeffty is Five"
1976	Charles L. Grant	"A Crowd of Shadows"
1975	Fritz Leiber	"Catch That Zeppelin"
1974	Ursula K. Le Guin	"The Day Before the Revolution"
1973	James Tiptree, Jr.	"Love is the Plan the Plan is Death"
1972	Joanna Russ	"When It Changed"
1971	Robert Silverberg	"Good News from the Vatican"
1970	-----NO AWARD-----
1969	Robert Silverberg	"Passengers"
1968	Kate Wilhelm	"The Planners"
1967	Samuel R. Delany	"Aye, and Gomorrah"
1966	Richard McKenna	"The Secret Place"
1965	Harlan Ellison	"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"

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