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foreign novel | |
| 2025 | System Collapse, Martha Wells |
| 2024 | The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi |
| 2023 | Foundation series, Isaac Asimov |
| 2022 | Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir |
| 2021 | The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu |
| 2020 | The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu |
| 2019 | Mecha Samurai Empire, Peter Tieryas |
| 2018 | Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel |
| 2017 | United States of Japan, Peter Tieryas |
| 2016 | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie |
| 2015 | The Martian, Andy Weir |
| 2014 | Blindsight, Peter Watts |
| 2013 | The Android's Dream, John Scalzi |
| 2012 | The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2011 | Eifelheim, Michael F. Flynn |
| 2010 | The Last Colony, John Scalzi |
| 2009 | Spin, Robert Charles Wilson |
| 2008 | Brightness Falls from the Air, James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 2007 | Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve |
| 2006 | Diaspora, Greg Egan |
| 2005 | Distress, Greg Egan |
| 2004 | Heaven's Reach, David Brin |
| 2003 | Illegal Alien, Robert J. Sawyer |
| 2002 | There and Back Again, by Max Merriwell, Pat Murphy |
| 2001 | Frameshift, Robert J. Sawyer |
| 2000 | Kirinyaga, Mike Resnick |
| 1999 | (tie) The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter |
| 1999 | (tie) Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 1998 | Fallen Angels, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Michael Flynn |
| 1997 | End of an Era, Robert J. Sawyer |
| 1996 | (tie) Timelike Infinity, Stephen Baxter |
| 1996 | (tie) The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons |
| 1995 | Hyperion, Dan Simmons |
| 1994 | Entoverse, James P. Hogan |
| 1993 | Tau Zero, Poul Anderson |
| 1992 | The McAndrew Chronicles, Charles Sheffield |
| 1991 | The Uplift War, David Brin |
| 1990 | Collision with Chronos, Barrington J. Bayley |
| 1989 | Footfall, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle |
| 1988 | Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith |
| 1987 | Neuromancer, William Gibson |
| 1986 | The Elric Saga, Michael Moorcock |
| 1985 | The Zen Gun, Barrington J. Bayley |
| 1984 | The Garments of Caean, Barrington J. Bayley |
| 1983 | Dragon's Egg, Robert L. Forward |
| 1982 | The Genesis Machine, James P. Hogan |
| 1981 | Inherit the Stars, James P. Hogan |
| 1980 | Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1979 | Ringworld, Larry Niven |
| 1978 | I Will Fear No Evil, Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1977 | The Dragon Masters, Jack Vance |
| 1976 | This Immortal, Roger Zelazny |
| 1975 | Up the Line, Robert Silverberg |
| 1974 | Dune, Frank Herbert |
| 1973 | The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| 1972 | Nightwings, Robert Silverberg |
| 1971 | The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton |
| 1970 | The Crystal World, J. G. Ballard |
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foreign short fiction | |
| 2025 | “The Portrait of a Survivor, Observed from the Water”, Yukimi Ogawa |
| 2024 | “Solidity”, Greg Egan |
| 2023 | (tie) “Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea”, Sarah Pinsker |
| 2023 | (tie) “The Wandering Earth”, Cixin Liu |
| 2022 | “The One With the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses”, James Alan Gardner |
| 2021 | “Zima Blue”, Alastair Reynolds |
| 2020 | “Uncanny Valley”, Greg Egan |
| 2019 | “The Circle”, Liu Cixin |
| 2018 | “Folding Beijing”, Hao Jingfang |
| 2017 | (tie) “Backward, Turn Backward”, James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 2017 | (tie) “Simulacrum”, Ken Liu |
| 2016 | “Good Hunting”, Ken Liu |
| 2015 | “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”, Pat Cadigan |
| 2014 | “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu |
| 2013 | “Pocketful of Dharma”, Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2012 | “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, Ted Chiang |
| 2011 | “Carry the Moon in My Pocket”, James Lovegrove |
| 2010 | “Dark Integeres”, Greg Egan |
| 2009 | “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Ted Chiang |
| 2008 | “Weather”, Alastair Reynolds |
| 2007 | “The Astronaut from Wyoming”, Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion |
| 2006 | “The Human Front”, Ken MacLeod |
| 2005 | “And Now the News...”, Theodore Sturgeon |
| 2004 | “Hell Is the Absence of God”, Ted Chiang |
| 2003 | “Luminous”, Greg Egan |
| 2002 | (tie) “Reasons to be Cheerful”, Greg Egan |
| 2002 | (tie) “Story of Your Life”, Ted Chiang |
| 2001 | “Oceanic”, Greg Egan |
| 2000 | “Out of the Everywhere”, James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1999 | “This Year's Class Picture”, Dan Simmons |
| 1998 | “The Death of Captain Future”, Allen Steele |
| 1997 | “Heads”, Greg Bear |
| 1996 | “Robot Dreams”, Isaac Asimov |
| 1995 | “A Planet Named Shayol”, Cordwainer Smith |
| 1994 | “Tangents”, Greg Bear |
| 1993 | “Groaning Hinges of the World”, R. A. Lafferty |
| 1992 | “Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo”, John Varley |
| 1991 | “Schrödinger's Kitten”, George Alec Effinger |
| 1990 | “Think Blue, Count Two”, Cordwainer Smith |
| 1989 | “Eye for Eye”, Orson Scott Card |
| 1988 | “The Only Neat Thing to Do”, James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 1987 | “PRESS ENTER[]”, John Varley |
| 1986 | no award |
| 1985 | no award |
| 1984 | “Unicorn Variation”, Roger Zelazny |
| 1983 | “Nightflyers”, George R. R. Martin |
| 1982 | “The Brave Little Toaster”, Thomas M. Disch |
| 1981 | “A Relic of Empire”, Larry Niven |
| 1980 | no award |
| 1979 | “Inconstant Moon”, Larry Niven |
| 1978 | no award |
| 1977 | “Rozprawa”, Stanislaw Lem |
| 1976 | “Wet Paint”, A. Bertram Chandler |
| 1975 | “Eurema's Dam”, R. A. Lafferty |
| 1974 | “A Meeting with Medusa”, Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1973 | “The Black Ferris”, Ray Bradbury |
| 1972 | “The Blue Bottle”, Ray Bradbury |
| 1971 | “The Poems”, Ray Bradbury |
| 1970 | “The Squirrel Cage”, Thomas M. Disch |
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foreign nonfiction | |
| 1993 | The Minds of Billy Milligan, Daniel Keyes |
| 1990 | Future Magic, Robert L. Forward |
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foreign media | |
| 1994 | Jurassic Park |
| 1991 | Ginga-Ulchu Odyssey |
| 1987 | Brazil |
| 1986 | Back to the Future |
| 1984 | Dark Crystal |
| 1983 | Blade Runner |