Analog Award
Presented by: Readers of Astounding/Analog magazine
For: Best work published in the magazine in the previous year
| Winner | Poison | Jay Werkheiser+Frank Wu |
| Runner-up | The Tinker and the Timestream | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| Finalist | Flying Carpet | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | To Fight the Colossus | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | The Elephant Maker | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| Winner | The Deviltree | Monalisa Foster |
| Runner-up | Apollo in Retrograde | Rosemary Claire Smith |
| Finalist | Didicosm | Greg Egan |
| Finalist | Recruit | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | The House on Infinity Street | Allen M. Steele |
| Winner | Blowout | Wole Talabi |
| Runner-up | Cornflower | Victoria Navarra |
| Finalist | The Echo of a Will | Marie Vibbert |
| Finalist | Second Sight | Gray Rinehart |
| Finalist | An Infestation of Blue | Wendy N. Wagner |
| Winner | Life, But Not Quite as We Know It? | Christina De La Rocha |
| Runner-up | Fish Kill on the Tanis: What an Ancient Piscine Boneyard Tells of the Day the Dinos Died | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Passenger Pigeon and the Great Filter | Howard V. Hendrix |
| Finalist | Astronautical Explanations for 'Oumuamua | Duncan Lunan |
| Finalist | Dune and Superdune | Kevin Walsh |
| Winner | How to Conquer Gravity | Mary A. Turzillo |
| Runner-up | What Xenologists Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Finalist | Object Permanence | Marissa Lingen |
| Finalist | The Observer | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | I Dreamt an Alien Was in Love with My Ex-Girlfriend | Don Raymond |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2023 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2023 | Eldar Zakirov |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction & Fact, September-October 2023 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Winner | Communion | Jay Werkheiser+Frank Wu |
| Runner-up | Burning the Ladder | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Kingsbury 1944 | Michael Cassutt |
| Winner | Shepherd Moons | Jerry Oltion |
| Runner-up | The Journeyman: At the Bluffs of Sinjin Trell | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Cloudchaser | Tom Jolly |
| Finalist | The Power of Apollo (16) | Marianne J. Dyson |
| Finalist | In Transit | J. T. Sharrah |
| Winner | Beneath the Surface, a Womb of Ice | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Winner | Sacred Cow | Steven Barnes+Larry Niven |
| Runner-up | Maximum Efficiency | Holly Schofield |
| Finalist | Aconie's Bees | Jessica Reisman |
| Finalist | Boy in the Key of Forsaken | Eric Del Carlo |
| Winner | The Science Behind "The Power of Apollo (16)" | Marianne J. Dyson |
| Runner-up | Black Holes and the Human Future | Howard V. Hendrix |
| Finalist | Evolving Brainy Brains Takes More Than Living on a Lucky Planet | Christina De La Rocha |
| Finalist | The Science Behind Kepler's Laws | Jay Werkheiser |
| Finalist | Another Way to the Stars | Christopher MacLeod |
| Winner | Belter Cats | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | Albert Einstein, Two Stills | Robert Frazier |
| Finalist | The Libraries of Mars | Mary Soon Lee |
| Finalist | Constellations | Alex Pickens |
| Finalist | In Perpetuity | Bruce Boston |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2022 | Eldar Zakirov |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2022 | Donato Giancola |
| Finalist | Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2022 | Maurizio Manzieri |
| Winner | Invasive Species | Catherine Wells |
| Runner-up | The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station | Marie Vibbert |
| Finalist | The Silence Before I Sleep | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Uploading Angela | Lettie Prell |
| Winner | A Shot in the Dark | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Runner-up | Sample Return | C. Stuart Hardwick |
| Finalist | No Stranger to Native Shores | Matt McHugh |
| Finalist | The Hunger | Marco Frassetto |
| Finalist | The Next Frontier | Rosemary Claire Smith |
| Winner | Heart of Stone | Tom Jolly |
| Runner-up | The Trashpusher of Planet 4 | Brenda Kalt |
| Finalist | The Last Science Fiction Story | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | My Hypothetical Friend | Harry Turtledove |
| Finalist | Room to Live | Marie Vibbert |
| Winner | Constructing a Habitable Planet | Julie Novakova |
| Runner-up | Possible Signs of Life on Venus | David L. Clements |
| Finalist | Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | If | Bruce McAllister |
| Runner-up | A Daguerreotype of the Moon | Jennifer Crow |
| Finalist | Hidden Things | Jennifer Crow |
| Finalist | Quantum Entanglement | Ken Poyner |
| Finalist | What We Forget | Bruce McAllister |
| Finalist | When I Think of My Father | Bruce McAllister |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2021 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March-April 2021 | Maurizio Manzieri |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September-October 2021 | Kurt Huggins |
| Winner | Draiken Dies | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Runner-up | Flyboys | Stanley Schmidt |
| Finalist | Moral Biology | Neal Asher |
| Winner | Minerva Girls | James Van Pelt |
| Runner-up | The Quest for the Great Gray Mossy | Harry Turtledove |
| Finalist | The Offending Eye | Robert R. Chase |
| Finalist | Sticks and Stones | Tom Jolly |
| Finalist | I, Bigfoot | Sarina Dorie |
| Winner | Wheel of Echoes | Sean McMullen |
| Runner-up | The Writhing Tentacles of History | Jay Werkheiser |
| Finalist | Rover | A. T. Sayre |
| Finalist | The Chrysalis Pool | Sean McMullen |
| Finalist | Hive | Jay Werkheiser |
| Finalist | The Greatest Day | Eric Choi |
| Winner | Space Dust: How an Asteroid Altered Life on Earth...Millions of Years Before the Dinosaurs | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Veiling the Earth | Gregory Benford |
| Finalist | Big Smart Objects | Gregory Benford+Larry Niven |
| Winner | How to Go Twelfth | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | Miles to Go Before We Rest | G. O. Clark |
| Finalist | Ghost Transmission | Robert Frazier |
| Finalist | In Theory | Rebecca Siegel |
| Finalist | Plank | Josh Pearce |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2020 | Dominic Harman |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2020 | Eldar Zakirov |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2020 | Donato Giancola |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2020 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Winner | The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl's | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Runner-up | The Savannah Problem | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | You Must Remember This | Jay O'Connell |
| Winner | Bonehunters | Harry Turtledove |
| Runner-up | The Slipway | Greg Egan |
| Finalist | Ring Wave | Tom Jolly |
| Finalist | At the Fall | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| Finalist | A Mate Not a Meal | Sarina Dorie |
| Winner | All Tomorrow's Parties | Phoebe North |
| Runner-up | Portle | Robert Scherrer |
| Finalist | The Methuselah Generation | Stanley Schmidt |
| Finalist | A Place to Stand On | Marie Vibbert |
| Finalist | Sojourner | Craig DeLancey |
| Winner | The Venus Sweet Spot: Floating Home | John J. Vester |
| Runner-up | Do We Still Need NASA? The Agency and Its Future in the Era of Commercial Space | C. Stuart Hardwick |
| Finalist | Building a Gravitational Wave Transmitter | Gregory Benford+Albert Jackson |
| Winner | Sequoias and Other Myths | Stanley Schmidt |
| Runner-up | Continuum | G. O. Clark |
| Finalist | At the Natural History Museum | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | We Carry | Marie Vibbert |
| Finalist | Hertha Ayrton 1854-1923 | Jessy Randall |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2019 | Donato Giancola |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2019 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September-October 2019 | Kurt Huggins |
| Winner | The Last Biker Gang | Wil McCarthy |
| Runner-up | Harry and the Lewises | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | A Stab of the Knife | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Blurred Lives | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Winner | Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust | Christopher McKitterick |
| Runner-up | Empress of Starlight | G. David Nordley |
| Finalist | Left to Take the Lead | Marissa Lingen |
| Finalist | Lab B-15 | Nick Wolven |
| Finalist | Endless City | David Gerrold |
| Winner | The Unnecessary Parts of the Story | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Runner-up | The Willing Body, the Reluctant Heart | Marie Vibbert |
| Finalist | Home on the Free Range | Holly Schofield |
| Finalist | Razzibot | Rich Larson |
| Finalist | Finding Their Footing | Marissa Lingen |
| Finalist | A Measure of Love | C. Stuart Hardwick |
| Winner | In Defense of the Planet | Marianne Dyson |
| Runner-up | Hell is Other Planets | Julie Novakova |
| Finalist | Alien Biochemistry: Embracing the Carbon Chauvinist | Jay Werkeiser |
| Nominee | The Science Behind The Quantum Magician | Derek Künsken |
| Nominee | Taming the Genie: How Fear of the Atom Threatens Our Future | C. Stuart Hardwick |
| Winner | Venus, As It Might Have Been | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | Atomic Numbers | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Finalist | Wife of a Particle Physicist | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | Past Pluto | Eric Pinder |
| Finalist | Collisions | Kathryn Fritz |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2018 | Donato Giancola |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2018 | Fred Gambino |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November/December 2018 | Eldar Zakirov |
| Nominee | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September-October 2018 | Joel Iskowitz |
| Nominee | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2018 | NASA |
| Nominee | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2018 | Josh Meehan |
| Winner | Nexus | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes | Howard V. Hendrix |
| Finalist | The Proving Ground | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| Finalist | Native Seeds | Catherine Wells |
| Finalist | Not Far Enough | Martin L. Shoemaker |
| Winner | For All Mankind | C. Stuart Hardwick |
| Runner-up | Europa's Survivors | Marianne J. Dyson |
| Finalist | My Fifth and Most Exotic Voyage | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Galleon | Brian Trent |
| Finalist | The Old Man | Rich Larson |
| Winner | Paradise Regained | Edward M. Lerner |
| Runner-up | Long Haul | Marie DesJardin |
| Runner-up | Two Hours at Frontier | Sean McMullen |
| Finalist | Time Travel Is Only for the Poor | S. L. Huang |
| Finalist | Focus | Gord Sellar |
| Finalist | The Chatter of Monkeys | Bond Elam |
| Winner | The Quest for the 2:00 Marathon | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Alien Archaeology: Searching for the Fingerprint of Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations | Michael Carroll |
| Finalist | Sustainability Lab 101: Cuba as a Simulation of Possible Futures | Stanley Schmidt |
| Finalist | Fatal Starlight | Paul Fisher |
| Finalist | Rendezvous with a Comet: How ESA's Rosetta Mission is Decoding Ancient Planetary Mysteries | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Barriers | J. Northcutt, Jr. |
| Winner | Hypothesis/Assertion | Daniel D. Villani |
| Runner-up | Space Junk | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | Quantum Entanglement | Fred D. White |
| Finalist | A Theory of Gravity | Josh Pearce |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2017 | Rado Javor |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2017 | NASA |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November-December 2017 | Marianne Plumridge Eggleton |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2017 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2017 | Kurt Huggins |
| Winner | The Coward's Option | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Runner-up | Wyatt Earp 2.0 | Wil McCarthy |
| Finalist | The Soul Behind the Face | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Progress Report | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | The Journeyman: In the Great North Wood | Michael F. Flynn |
| Winner | Detroit Hammersmith, Zero-Gravity Toilet Repairman (Retired) | Suzanne Palmer |
| Runner-up | Dreams of the Rocket Men | C. Stuart Hardwick |
| Finalist | Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs | Rosemary Claire Smith |
| Finalist | Playthings | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Prodigal | Gord Sellar |
| Winner | In the Absence of Instructions to the Contrary | Frank Wu |
| Runner-up | The Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | Death of a Starship Poet | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | The Battle of Ceres | Karl Bunker |
| Finalist | Jewels from the Sky | Brendan DuBois |
| Nominee | Rocket Surgery | Effie Seiberg |
| Winner | Energy for the Future: Solar-Derived Fuels, Artificial Leaves, and Electricity-Eating Microbes that Poop Out Gasoline | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Dawn Comes to the Asteroid Belt: What NASA's 9-Year Mission Is Learning About One of Science Fiction's Favorite Realms | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | A Mind of Its Own: Part I: Artificial Intelligence | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | A Mind of Its Own: Part II: Superintelligence | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Human 2.0: Being All We Can Be Part 1 | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Human 2.0: Being All We Can Be Part II | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Here We Go Loopedy Loop: A Brief History of Time Travel (Part I) | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Here We Go Loopedy Loop: A Brief History of Time Travel (Part II) | Edward M. Lerner |
| Winner | Somebody I Used to Love Asks Me Who Marie Curie Is | Carly Rubin |
| Runner-up | Black Hole Blues | G. O. Clark |
| Finalist | Paint It Black | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | Final Dispatch | Robert Frazier |
| Finalist | Soft Collision | Scott E. Green+Herb Kauderer |
| Winner | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2016 | Vincent DiFate |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2016 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2016 | Eldar Zakirov |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2016 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2016 | Maurizio Manzieri |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2016 | Sandeep Karunakaran |
| Winner | Builders of Leaf Houses | Catherine Wells |
| Runner-up | Defender of Worms | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Sleeping Dogs | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Zen Angel | Rajnar Vajra |
| Winner | Racing to Mars | Martin L. Shoemaker |
| Runner-up | Karma Among the Cloud Kings | Brian Trent |
| Finalist | The Audience | Sean McMullen |
| Finalist | A Case of Identity | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | The Wormhole War | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | The Museum of Modern Warfare | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Runner-up | Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Three Bodies at Mitanni | Seth Dickinson |
| Finalist | An Immense Darkness | Eric James Stone |
| Finalist | Endless Forms Most Beautiful | Alvaro Zinos-Amaro |
| Winner | Challenges of Manned Interstellar Travel: An Overview | Nick Kanas, M. D. |
| Runner-up | Five Wagers on What Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe Will Be Like | Steven L. Peck |
| Finalist | New Horizons at Pluto: The Grand Tour Finally Completed | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Brain Hacking: The Legal, Social, and Scientific Ramifications of the Latest (Very Real) Mind-Reading Technologies | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Orbits to Order | Stanley Schmidt |
| Winner | The Impending Apocalypse Helps Me Maintain Perspective | Steven Dondlinger |
| Runner-up | How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Runner-up | Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015) | Joe Haldeman |
| Finalist | The Secret of Cold Fusion | Bruce Boston |
| Finalist | Voting Rights | Ken Poyner |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2015 | Donato Giancola |
| Runner-up | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2015 | Daniel Romanovsky |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2015 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2015 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2015 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Winner | Music to Me | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Flow | Arlan Andrews |
| Finalist | The Journeyman: Against the Green | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | The Jenregar and the Light | Dave Creek |
| Winner | Life Flight | Brad R. Torgersen |
| Runner-up | Persephone Descending | Derek Künsken |
| Finalist | The Journeyman: In the Stone House | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Mind Locker | Juliette Wade |
| Finalist | Plastic Thingy | Mark Niemann-Ross |
| Winner | Another Man's Treasure | Tom Greene |
| Winner | Snapshots | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Runner-up | Cryptids | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| Finalist | A Star to Steer By | Jennifer R. Povey |
| Finalist | Mousunderstanding | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | Opportunity Knocks | Joyce Schmidt+Stanley Schmidt |
| Finalist | The Region of Jennifer | Tony Ballantyne |
| Winner | Lockstep: A Possible Galactic Empire | Karl Schroeder |
| Runner-up | Saturn's "Jet-Propelled" Moon and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Spanking Bad Data Won't Make Them Behave | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Alien AWOLs: The Great Silence | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | The Probability and Nature of an Interstellar Information-Trading Community | Mark H. Shellans |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2014 | David A. Hardy |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2014 | Patrick Jones |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2014 | Vincent DiFate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2014 | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2014 | Alan Gutierrez |
| Winner | The Chaplain's Legacy | Brad R. Torgersen |
| Runner-up | Murder on the Aldrin Express | Martin L. Shoemaker |
| Finalist | The Matthews Conundrum | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Time Out | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Lune Bleue | Janet Catherine Johnston |
| Winner | Buddha Nature | Amy Thomson |
| Runner-up | Not Close Enough | Martin L. Shoemaker |
| Finalist | Sixteen Million Leagues from Versailles | Allen M. Steele |
| Finalist | The Exchange Officers | Brad R. Torgersen |
| Finalist | Following Jules | Ron Collins |
| Winner | The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 18: The Sergeant-Major | John G. Hemry |
| Runner-up | Bugs | Ron Collins |
| Finalist | Sentinel Chickens | David W. Goldman |
| Finalist | Out in the Dark | Linda Nagata |
| Finalist | Hydroponics 101 | Maggie Clark |
| Winner | The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down-and-Dirty Mud-Wrassle | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | The Golden Age Comes to Seattle: Is Asteroid Mining Really Part of Our Near Future? | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Alien Worlds: Not in Kansas Any More | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Galactic Cannibalism: Who's on the Menu | H. G. Stratmann |
| Finalist | Alien Aliens: Beyond Rubber Suits | Edward M. Lerner |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2013 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2013 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2013 | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2013 | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2013 | David A. Hardy |
| Winner | Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light | Richard A. Lovett+William Gleason |
| Runner-up | Doctor Alien and the Spindles of Infinity | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | The Moon Belongs to Everyone | K. C. Ball+Michael Alexander |
| Finalist | The Conquest of the Air | Rob Chilson |
| Finalist | Project Herakles | Stephen Baxter |
| Winner | Ninety Thousand Horses | Sean McMullen |
| Runner-up | Elmira, 1895 | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | The Journeyman: On the Short-Grass Prairie | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | The Liars | Juliette Wade |
| Finalist | Nahiku West | Linda Nagata |
| Winner | Titanium Soul | Catherine Shaffer |
| Runner-up | A Delicate Balance | Kevin J. Anderson |
| Finalist | A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy | N. M. Cedeño |
| Finalist | Tech Support | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Cats Know | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Faster Than a Speeding Photon: The Why, Where, and (Perhaps) How of Faster-Than-Light Technology | Edward M. Lerner |
| Runner-up | Is the Moon a Babel Fish? | John Gribbin |
| Finalist | The Day the Sun Exploded | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Planets (Oops, Planetoids) X, Y, Z, and W: What the Kuiper Belt Teaches About the Dawn of the Solar System | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Earth Dies Screaming: Radiation Threats From Beyond | Adrian L. Melott |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2012 | Michael Whelan |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2012 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012 | Tomislav Tikulin |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2012 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2012 | Donato Giancola |
| Winner | With Unclean Hands | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Runner-up | Tower of Worlds | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Coordinated Attacks | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Finalist | Hiding Place | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | The First Day of Eternity | Domingo Santos |
| Winner | Jak and the Beanstalk | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms | John G. Hemry |
| Finalist | At Cross Purposes | Juliette Wade |
| Finalist | Stay | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Ray of Light | Brad R. Torgersen |
| Winner | Julie is Three | Craig DeLancey |
| Runner-up | Boumee and the Apes | Ian McHugh |
| Finalist | The Lycanthropic Principle | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | Turning It Off | Susan Forest |
| Finalist | A Witness to All That Was | Scott William Carter |
| Winner | Smart SETI | Gregory Benford+James Benford |
| Runner-up | Lost In Space? Follow The Money | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Say What? Ruminations About Language, Communications, and Science Fiction | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Before You Get to String Theory | C. W. Johnson |
| Finalist | Poisons, Temperature, and Climate Change: Will Global Warming Make Everything Else Worse? | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011 | Bob Eggleton |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2011 | Mark Garlick |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2011 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2011 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Winner | Phantom Sense | Richard A. Lovett+Mark Niemann-Ross |
| Runner-up | Doctor Alien's Five Empty Boxes | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | The Rift | John G. Hemry |
| Finalist | The Possession of Paavo Deshin | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Finalist | Swords And Saddles | John G. Hemry |
| Winner | Outbound | Brad R. Torgersen |
| Runner-up | Pupa | David D. Levine |
| Finalist | Fly Me to the Moon | Marianne J. Dyson |
| Finalist | The Robots' Girl | Brenda Cooper |
| Finalist | The Man From Downstream | Shane Tourtellotte |
| Winner | Red Letter Day | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Runner-up | Happy Are The Bunyips | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | Rejiggering the Thingamajig | Eric James Stone |
| Finalist | Shame | Lezli Robyn+Mike Resnick |
| Finalist | Cargo | Michael F. Flynn |
| Winner | Tips For The Budget Time-Traveler | Shane Tourtellotte |
| Runner-up | Visit to the Forgotten Planet: What Scientists are Learning as Messenger Prepares to Orbit Mercury | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Phantom Science: The Facts Behind "Phantom Sense" | Richard A. Lovett+Mark Niemann-Ross |
| Finalist | What's In A Kiss? The Wild, Wonderful World Of Philematology | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Take Off Your Hat: You're In the Presence of Culture | Stephen R. Balzac |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2010 | Bob Eggleton |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2010 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2010 | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2010 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2010 | Jean-Pierre Normand |
| Winner | Where the Winds Are All Asleep | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | Doctor Alien | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Gunfight on Farside | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | The Recovery Man's Bargain | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Finalist | Failure to Obey | John G. Hemry |
| Winner | Chain | Stephen L. Burns |
| Runner-up | But It Does Move | Harry Turtledove |
| Runner-up | Cold Words | Juliette Wade |
| Finalist | Zheng He and the Dragon | Dave Creek |
| Finalist | The Last Resort | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| Winner | The Universe Beneath Our Feet | Carl Frederick |
| Runner-up | Solace | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | Foreign Exchange | Jerry Oltion |
| Finalist | Attack of the Grub-Eaters | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Invasion | H. G. Stratmann |
| Winner | From Atlantis to Canoe-Eating Trees: Geomythology Comes of Age | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Geology, Geohistory, and "Psychohistory": The (Continuing) Debate Between Uniformitarians and Catastrophists | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Plate Tectonics, Goldilocks, and the Late Heavy Bombardment: | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Psychology of Space Travel | Nick Kanas, M.D. |
| Finalist | Futuropolis: How NASA Plans to Create a Permanent Presence on the Moon | Michael Carroll |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2009 | John Allemand |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2009 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2009 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2009 | Michael Carroll |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2009 | John Allemand |
| Winner | Tenbrook of Mars | Dean McLaughlin |
| Runner-up | The Spacetime Pool | Catherine Asaro |
| Finalist | Brittney's Labyrinth | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Test Signals | David Bartell |
| Winner | The Man in the Mirror | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Runner-up | The Night of the RFIDs | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | The Purloined Labradoodle | Barry B. Longyear |
| Finalist | Moby Digital | Joe Schembrie |
| Finalist | The Late Sam Boone | Bud Sparhawk |
| Winner | Starship Down | Tracy Canfield |
| Runner-up | Invasion of the Pattern Snatchers | David W. Goldman |
| Finalist | Let the Word Take Me | Juliette Wade |
| Finalist | Forever Mommy | David M. Alexander |
| Finalist | A New Generation | Jerry Oltion |
| Winner | The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisted | Tom Ligon |
| Runner-up | The 3D Trainwreck | Thomas A. Easton |
| Finalist | The Challenge of the Anthropic Universe | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | Nuclear Autumn: The Consequences of a "Small" Nuclear War | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Here Be There Dragons: The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and Other Mysteries of an Explored Planet | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2008 | Scott Grimando |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2008 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2008 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2008 | David B. Mattingly |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2008 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2008 | George Krauter |
| Winner | Murder in Parliament Street | Barry B. Longyear |
| Runner-up | Numerous Citations | E. Mark Mitchell |
| Finalist | The Sands of Titan | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Emerald River, Pearl Sky | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Reunion | David W. Goldman |
| Winner | Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | The Hangingstone Rat | Barry B. Longyear |
| Finalist | El Dorado | Tom Ligon |
| Finalist | A Time for Lawsuits | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | Kukulkan | Sarah K. Castle |
| Winner | The Astronaut | Brian Plante |
| Runner-up | Trucks | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | The Face of Hate | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Yearning For the White Avenger | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | Salvation | Jerry Oltion |
| Finalist | The Suit | Bud Sparhawk |
| Winner | The Ice Age That Wasn't | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | De Revolutione Scientarium In "Media Tempestas" | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | After Gas, Are We Ready for the End of Oil? | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Search for the World's First Equestrians | Robert A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Beyond This Point Be RFIDs | Edward M. Lerner |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2007 | David A. Hardy |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2007 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2007 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2007 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2007 | Jean-Pierre Normand |
| Winner | The Good Kill | Barry B. Longyear |
| Runner-up | Puncher's Chance | James Grayson+Kathy Ferguson |
| Finalist | A Pound of Flesh | Robert A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Little White Nerves Went Last | John Barnes |
| Finalist | Kremer's Limit | C. Sanford Lowe+G. David Nordley |
| Winner | Lady be Good | John G. Hemry |
| Runner-up | Dinosaur Blood | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Takes Two to Tangle | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | From the Wayfield, From Malagasy | Robert J. Howe |
| Finalist | Original Sin | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | String of Pearls | Shane Tourtellotte |
| Winner | Kyrie Eleison | John G. Hemry |
| Runner-up | Nigerian Scam | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Door That Does Not Close | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | Mop-Up | Grey Rollins |
| Finalist | Total Loss | James Hosek |
| Winner | The Great Sumerian Earthquakes of 2004-5 | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | From Fimbulwinter to Dante's Hell: The Strange Saga of Snowball Earth | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Solar System Commuter Trains: Magbeam Plasma Propulsion | James Grayson+Kathy Ferguson |
| Finalist | Pollution, Solutions, Elution, and Nanotechnology | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Floatworlds | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2006 | Jean-Pierre Normand |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2006 | Jean-Pierre Normand |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2006 | Mark A. Garlick |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2006 | Jean-Pierre Normand |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2006 | Jean-Pierre Normand |
| Winner | Sanctuary | Michael A. Burstein |
| Runner-up | The Diversification of Its Fancy | John Barnes |
| Finalist | A Few Good Men | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Chandra’s Pup | Bud Sparhawk |
| Finalist | Audubon in Atlantis | Harry Turtledove |
| Winner | NetPuppets | Richard A. Lovett+Mark Niemann-Ross |
| Runner-up | Mars Opposition | David Brin |
| Finalist | In the Loop | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | Of Kings, Queens, and Angels | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Do Neanderthals Know? | Robert J. Howe |
| Winner | Alphabet Angels | Ekaterina Sedia+David Bartell |
| Runner-up | The Inn at Mount Either | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | Letters of Transit | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | Prayer for a Dead Paramecium | Carl Frederick |
| Finalist | A Christmas In Amber | Scott William Carter |
| Winner | Mission to Utah: A Science Fiction Writer’s Adventures at the Mars Society Desert Research Station | Wil McCarthy |
| Runner-up | The Prehistory of Global Climate Change | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Big Brother Inc: Surveillance, Security and the US Citizen | Laura M. Kelley |
| Finalist | Gene Doping and Other Olympic Scandals of the (Not-So-Distant) Future | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Where Are They? | Thomas Donaldson |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2005 | George H. Krauter |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2005 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2005 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2005 | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2005 | Bob Eggleton |
| Winner | Layna’s Mirror | Rajnar Vajra |
| Runner-up | Time Ablaze | Michael A. Burstein |
| Finalist | Clay’s Pride | Bud Sparhawk |
| Finalist | Baby on Board | Kenneth Brady |
| Finalist | To Emily on the Ecliptic | Thomas R. Dulski |
| Winner | Short Line Loco | Stephen L. Burns |
| Runner-up | The Clapping Hands of God | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Viewschool | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | PeriAndry’s Quest | Stephen Baxter |
| Finalist | Moreau² | Allen Steele |
| Winner | Shed Skin | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Runner-up | The Slow Train | Don Sakers |
| Finalist | Dibs | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | The Bambi Project | Grey Rollins |
| Finalist | Gun Control | Edward Muller |
| Winner | Open Minds, Open Source | Eric S. Raymond |
| Runner-up | Fat Mice, Eating Machines, and Biochemical Treason | Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | The Fifth Biorevolution | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | The Transience of Memory: We Really Can Remember It for You Wholesale | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | Forensic Seismology: The Big Science of Minor Shake-Ups | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2004 | David A. Hardy |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2004 | Michael Carroll |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2004 | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact. September 2004 | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2004 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Winner | Walk in Silence | Catherine Asaro |
| Runner-up | Lucky Luke | P. J. Plauger |
| Finalist | The Cookie Monster | Vernor Vinge |
| Finalist | Seed of Destiny | Daniel Hatch |
| Winner | Tiny Berries | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | Paying It Forward | Michael A. Burstein |
| Finalist | The Immortality Plague | Steven Bratman |
| Finalist | Afterburn | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Still Coming Ashore | Michael F. Flynn |
| Winner | Lavender in Love | Brian Plante |
| Runner-up | 3rd Corinthians | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | A Professor at Harvard | David Brin |
| Finalist | A Deadly Medley of Smedley | F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre |
| Finalist | The Spacemice Incident | Carl Frederick |
| Nominee | The Study of Ants | Carl Frederick |
| Winner | If a Tree Falls... or, The Secret History of Global Environmental Catastrophe | Catherine H. Shaffer |
| Runner-up | Isaac Was Right: N Equals One | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | The Power of Rotting Plants, or How SF Solved Global Warming | Martin I. Hoffert+Gregory Benford+Robert A. Metzger |
| Finalist | Moving Beyond "Life As We Know It": Astrobiology Takes On "Earthist-Centricity" | Richard A. Lovett |
| Finalist | The Search for Extraterrestrial Oceans | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2003 | David A. Hardy |
| Runner-up | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 2003 | Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2003 | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2003 | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | Cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2003 | Michael Carroll |
| Winner | untitled | David Hardy^David A. Hardy |
| Runner-up | untitled | Dominic Harman |
| Finalist | untitled | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | untitled | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | untitled | Randy Asplund |
| Winner | In Spirit | Pat Forde |
| Runner-up | Sidehunter | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Unseen Demons | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Finalist | Presence of Mind | Edward M. Lerner |
| Finalist | Tiptoe, On a Fence Post | B. W. Clough^Brenda W. Clough |
| Winner | Look Away | Stephen L. Burns |
| Runner-up | Mammoth Dawn | Kevin J. Anderson+Gregory Benford |
| Finalist | Truck Stop | Walter F. Cuirle |
| Finalist | The Great Prayer Wheel | Rajnar Vajra |
| Finalist | Slow Life | Michael Swanwick |
| Winner | The Hunters of Pangaea | Stephen Baxter |
| Runner-up | Forget Me Not | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | It's Only Human | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | For Love of Amanda | Timothy Zahn |
| Finalist | The History of Chan's Journey to the Celestial Regions | Richard Foss |
| Winner | Galactic Society | Robert M. Zubrin |
| Runner-up | A Question of Immortality | William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Beyond the Periodic Table: Artificial Atoms and Programmable Matter | Wil McCarthy |
| Finalist | The Tell-Tale Brain: The State of Neuroforensics | Kyle Kirkland |
| Finalist | Are We Afraid of a Little Fire? Exploring Space May Require Nuclear Rockets | Dr. Steven D. Howe |
| Winner | Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's | Adam-Troy Castro |
| Runner-up | The King Who Wasn't | Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
| Finalist | Bug Out! | Michael A. Burstein+Shane Tourtellotte |
| Finalist | Pele | Poul Anderson |
| Finalist | May Be Some Time | B. W. Clough^Brenda W. Clough |
| Winner | Tower of Wings | Sean McMullen |
| Runner-up | The Upgrade | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | First Contact National Monument | Rick Shelley |
| Finalist | The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars | Ernest Hogan |
| Finalist | The Return of Spring | Shane Tourtellotte |
| Winner | Jake, Me, and the Zipper | Rajnar Vajra |
| Runner-up | What Weena Knew | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | Fresh Air | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | Resurrection | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | Going, Going, Gone | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Christmas at Ground Zero | Linda J. Dunn |
| Winner | Up in Smoke: How Mt. St. Helens Blasted Conventional Scientific Wisdom | Richard A. Lovett |
| Runner-up | He Who Carried the Moon | Dean McLaughlin |
| Finalist | When Light Speed Isn't Enough: Creating Superluminal Computers | Dr. Casimer DeCusatis |
| Finalist | Stemming the Tide of Aging and Disease | Kyle Kirkland |
| Finalist | Water, Pink Salt, and Cold Dry Gullies: Halobacteria and the Case for Life on Mars | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jul/Aug 2001) [Bug Out! by Michael A. Burstein & Shane Tourtellotte] | Bob Eggleton |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Dec 2001) | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 2001) [Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's by Adam-Troy Castro] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Sep 2001) | David A. Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Apr 2001) | David Egge |
| Winner | A Roll of the Dice | Catherine Asaro |
| Runner-up | The Retrieval Artist | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Finalist | Death on Venus | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | The Ultimate Earth | Jack Williamson |
| Finalist | Identity Crisis | Kevin J. Anderson |
| Winner | Stones of Significance | David Brin |
| Runner-up | The Taranth Stone | Ron Collins |
| Finalist | The Quantum Teleporter | Michael A. Burstein |
| Finalist | Debunking the Faith Healer | Michael A. Burstein+Lawrence D. Weinberg |
| Finalist | His Hands Passed Like Clouds | Rajnar Vajra |
| Winner | Sheena 5 | Stephen Baxter |
| Runner-up | Kaddish for the Last Survivor | Michael A. Burstein |
| Finalist | Night Voices | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | I Wish You Dead | Brian Plante |
| Finalist | Any Mother's Son | Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff |
| Winner | Slowboat to the Stars! | Ben Bova |
| Runner-up | Limits to Evolution | Ashley J. R. Carter |
| Finalist | Interstellar Navigation | John G. Hemry |
| Finalist | Summer's Lease | J. R. Dunn |
| Finalist | The Patent Wars | John D. Trudel |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Oct 2000) [The Taranth Stone by Ron Collins] | Frank Kelly Freas^Kelly Freas |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jan 2000) [Under by Hal Clement] | Frank Kelly Freas^Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog May 2000) [The Debt by Bud Sparhawk] | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 2000) [Escape Horizon by Michael A. Burstein] | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 2000) [The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson] | Alan Gutierrez |
| Winner | The Astronaut from Wyoming | Adam-Troy Castro+Jerry Oltion |
| Runner-up | Twenty-One, Counting Up | Harry Turtledove |
| Finalist | Reality Check | Michael A. Burstein |
| Finalist | Elephants' Graveyard | David Alexander+Hayford Peirce |
| Finalist | The Trees of Verità | Wolf Read |
| Winner | The Giftie | James E. Gunn^James Gunn |
| Runner-up | As Time Goes By | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | Emperor Penguins | Joseph Manzione |
| Finalist | Vultures | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | McAndrew and the Fifth Commandment | Charles Sheffield |
| Winner | Democritus' Violin | G. David Nordley |
| Runner-up | Nor a Lender Be | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | Ark Ascension | James Van Pelt |
| Finalist | You May Already Be a Winner | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | The Dashing About Flying Box People | Uncle River |
| Winner | Planets X | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Winner | Beamriders | G. David Nordley |
| Runner-up | Unresources | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Diamond Ether, Nanotechnology - And Venus | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Tricorders, Yactograms, and the Future of Analytical Chemistry | Richard A. Lovett |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Dec 1999) [Heat by Robert R. Chase] | Ron Miller |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jul/Aug 1999) [The Astronaut from Wyoming by Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Mar 1999) | George H. Krauter |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Nov 1999) | Kim Poor |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Sep 1999) | Kim Poor |
| Winner | Aurora in Four Voices | Catherine Asaro |
| Runner-up | The Ice Dragon's Song | Bud Sparhawk |
| Finalist | Wrench and Claw | S. D. Howe |
| Finalist | Tourist Sam | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | Ashes to Ashes | Grey Rollins |
| Winner | Zwarte Piet's Tale | Allen Steele |
| Runner-up | Olympus Mons! | Bud Sparhawk |
| Finalist | Trade Warriors | F. Alexander Brejcha |
| Finalist | The Question | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | A Life on Mars | G. David Nordley |
| Winner | Moon-Calf | Stephen Baxter |
| Runner-up | In Space, No One Can Hear | Michael A. Burstein |
| Runner-up | Spindown | Wolf Read |
| Finalist | Nor Through Inaction | Charles Ardai+Michael A. Burstein |
| Finalist | Artifacts | Jerry Oltion |
| Finalist | Sam Boone and the Teacup Conundrum | Bud Sparhawk |
| Winner | The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor | Tom Ligon |
| Runner-up | Pathfinder Journal: Adventures in the Mars Business | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Finalist | Near-Term Nanotechnology | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Sex in Space: The Fantasy and the Reality | H. G. Stratmann |
| Finalist | Biological Hazards and Medical Care in Space | H. G. Stratmann+G. David Nordley |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jul/Aug 1998) [The Ice Dragon's Song by Bud Sparhawk] | Bob Eggleton |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Oct 1998) | Michael Carroll^Mike Carroll |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog May 1998) | Ron Walotsky |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 1998) [Aurora in Four Voices by Catherine Asaro) | George H. Krauter |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1998) [Spindown by Wolf Read] | Wolf Read |
| Winner | Starsong | Timothy Zahn |
| Runner-up | Loose Ends | Paul Levinson |
| Finalist | Billy's Bunter | Walter F. Cuirle |
| Finalist | The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring | Wolf Read |
| Winner | Trial by Ordeal | Grey Rollins |
| Runner-up | Ask Arlen | Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff |
| Finalist | Easter Egg Hunt: A Christmas Story | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | Gideon | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Variations in Dreampaint | Marc Stiegler |
| Winner | Already in Heaven | Brian Plante |
| Runner-up | On the Application of Quantum Probability Tunneling to Improve Manufacturability of Printed Circuit Board Designs: A Case Study | Rick Cook+Peter L. Manly |
| Runner-up | Waiting for the Riddlers | Charles Sheffield |
| Finalist | Last Exit Before the Final Frontier | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | The Big One | James Van Pelt |
| Winner | Cosmological Darwinism | Richard D. Meisner |
| Runner-up | Science Fact: Paradigm Shifty Things | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | Just How "Average" is the Solar System? | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Biology at the Extremes | Mark S. Lesney |
| Finalist | Cold Fusion: The "Miracle" is no Mistake | Dr. Eugene F. Mallove |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jan 1997) Hubble Space Telescope photo | J. Hester+P. Scowen |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Oct 1997) [O Pioneer! by Frederik Pohl] | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 1997) [Crossing Chao Meng Fu by G. David Nordley] | George H. Krauter |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog May 1997) | John Berkey |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Nov 1997) | Ron Walotsky |
| Winner | Primrose and Thorn | Bud Sparhawk |
| Runner-up | Symphony in a Minor Key | H. G. Stratmann |
| Finalist | Fugue on a Sunken Continent | G. David Nordley |
| Finalist | A Pillar of Stars By Night | Alexis Glynn Latner |
| Winner | The Three Labors of Bubba | Bud Webster |
| Runner-up | Amateurs | Tom Ligon |
| Finalist | Gerry Boomers | A. J. Austin+Daniel Hatch |
| Finalist | Martian Valkyrie | G. David Nordley |
| Finalist | Alexandrian Librarians | Stephen L. Burns |
| Winner | Living It Is the Best Revenge | Ian Randal Strock |
| Runner-up | The Content of Their Character | Doug Larsen |
| Finalist | Fluffy | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | When There's a Will, There's a Way | Grey Rollins |
| Finalist | Appointment in Sinai | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | A Replant Day Carol | John Vester |
| Winner | The Coming of the Money Card: Boon or Bane? | Ian Randal Strock |
| Runner-up | Prospectus | Tom Ligon |
| Finalist | Population and the Future | Thomas A. Easton+Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Population, the Demographic Transition, and "Biological Imperatives" | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Will They Let the Spaceships Fly? | G. Harry Stine |
| Finalist | The Future of Computers | Robert A. Freitas, Jr. |
| Winner | Cover (Analog May 1996) [Primrose and Thorn by Bud Sparhawk] | George H. Krauter |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Nov 1996) [Fugue on a Sunken Continent by G. David Nordley] | Wolf Read |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Aug 1996) | Keith Scaife |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1996) [The Three Labors of Bubba by Bud Webster] | Todd Lockwood |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Oct 1996) [Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer] | Jim Burns |
| Winner | Fish Tank | Gregory Bennett |
| Runner-up | In Forests Afloat Upon the Sea | Daniel Hatch |
| Finalist | The Human Animal | Julia Ecklar |
| Finalist | Touchdown, Touchdown, Rah, Rah, Rah! | W. R. Thompson |
| Finalist | The Secret Life of Gods | Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff |
| Winner | A Portrait of My Grandfather | Doug Larsen |
| Runner-up | Capra's Keyhole | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Unfinished Symphony | Rick Cook+Peter L. Manly |
| Finalist | Down Under Crater Billy | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | The Good Rat | Allen Steele |
| Winner | TeleAbsence | Michael A. Burstein |
| Runner-up | Kath in Winter | Marc Stiegler |
| Finalist | Walking the Virtch | J. Steven York |
| Finalist | The Dream of Houses | Wil McCarthy |
| Finalist | The Void | Michael A. McCollum^Michael McCollum |
| Winner | A Handful of Heresies | Charles Sheffield |
| Runner-up | Fact-Free Science | James P. Hogan |
| Finalist | The Martian Frontier | Robert M. Zubrin |
| Finalist | Faster-Than-Light | Robert L. Forward |
| Finalist | The Artemis Project: Selling the Moon | Gregory Bennett |
| Finalist | Black Horse: One Stop To Orbit | Robert M. Zubrin+Mitchell Burnside Clapp |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Mid-Dec 1995) [Unfinished Symphony by Rick Cook & Peter L. Manly] | Bruce Jensen |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jan 1995) [Tide of Stars by Julia Ecklar] | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 1995) [Renascence by Poul Anderson] | George H. Krauter |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1995) [Final Review by G. David Nordley] | Jim Burns |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1995) [Black Horse: One Stop To Orbit by Robert M. Zubrin & Mitchell Burnside-Clapp] | Ron Fleming |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Apr 1995) [The Human Animal by Julia Ecklar] | Peter Peebles |
| Winner | Melodies of the Heart | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | Symphony for Skyfall | Rick Cook+Peter L. Manly |
| Finalist | Song from a Broken Instrument | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Karl's Marine and Spacecraft Repair | G. David Nordley |
| Finalist | Evolution | Grey Rollins |
| Winner | Bubba Pritchert and the Space Aliens | Bud Webster |
| Runner-up | His Father's Voice | G. David Nordley |
| Finalist | Negative Feedback | Christopher Anvil |
| Finalist | Persistence | Bud Sparhawk |
| Finalist | The Pandora Probe | Jerry Oltion |
| Winner | The Rooster Crows at White Sands | G. Harry Stine |
| Runner-up | The Bug, the Moose, and Chapter 24 | Charles L. Harness |
| Finalist | Return to the Moon | Buzz Aldrin+Aleta Jackson |
| Finalist | How to Find a Starship | Robert M. Zubrin |
| Finalist | Multiple Comet Strikes on Jupiter | Peter L. Manly |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Mar 1994) [Waterworld by Lee Goodloe & Jerry Oltion] | Bob Eggleton |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog May 1994) | George H. Krauter |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Sep 1994) [Hurricane!] | John Maggard |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Oct 1994) [Starmind Part 3 by Spider & Jeanne Robinson] | Chris Moore |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 1994) | Wojtek Siudmak |
| Winner | Into the Miranda Rift | G. David Nordley |
| Runner-up | Young Again | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | The Carhart Shale | Grant Callin |
| Finalist | With Time Comes Concord | Duncan Lunan |
| Finalist | Down in the Bottomlands | Harry Turtledove |
| Winner | White Room | Stephen L. Burns |
| Runner-up | Puff | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | Spcpt. Vu | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Finalist | Defend with the Utmost Endeavor | Kent Patterson |
| Finalist | From the Corner of the Eye | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Jake's Gift | Bud Sparhawk |
| Winner | Single Stage to Infinity! | Arlan Andrews, Sr. |
| Runner-up | FAT-Eating Logic Bombs and the Vampire Worm | Edward Rietman+Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Comes the Revolution... | G. Harry Stine |
| Finalist | Goat Island | L. Sprague de Camp |
| Finalist | Is AIDS an Autoimmune Disease? | Dr. Kevin J. Steele |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Oct 1993) [The Carhart Shale by Grant Callin] | John Maggard |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jul 1993) [The Man Who Stayed Behind] | Stephen Youll |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1993) | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Aug 1993) | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 1993) [Young Again by Jeffery D. Kooistra] | Jim Burns |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog May 1993) | Jim Burns |
| Winner | Poles Apart | G. David Nordley |
| Runner-up | Captive Dreams | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | Blood Relations | Julia Ecklar |
| Finalist | The Walking Hills | William E. Cochrane |
| Finalist | Because It's There | Rick Shelley+Lee Goodloe |
| Nominee | Tranquillity Rose | Stephen L. Burns |
| Winner | Love, Dad | Jeffery D. Kooistra |
| Runner-up | Stranger Things | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | Bushido | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | Steelcollar Worker | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| Finalist | Change of Life | L. A. Taylor |
| Winner | The Demon Under Hawaii | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Runner-up | Manufacturing Magic | Arlan Andrews |
| Finalist | Chicxulub: The Smoking K-T Gun? | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | The Magnetic Sail | Robert M. Zubrin |
| Finalist | A Visit to Suprajupiter | Paul Birch |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jul 1992) [Because It's There by Rick Shelley & Lee Goodloe] | Bob Eggleton |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Mid-Dec 1992) [Poles Apart by G. David Nordley] | Jim Burns |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Oct 1992) [Ice Nights] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Nov 1992) [Embracing the Alien by Geoffrey A. Landis] | Bob Eggleton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 1992) [Landfall by Alexis Glynn Latner] | David Hardy |
| Winner | Ode to Joy | Dean McLaughlin |
| Runner-up | Home Is Where... | Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff |
| Finalist | Contact | Jerry Oltion+Lee Goodloe |
| Finalist | Rescue Run | Anne McCaffrey |
| Finalist | Gold | Isaac Asimov |
| Winner | The Cold Solution | Don Sakers |
| Runner-up | A Roll of Round Dice | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Enemy of the State | Jack C. Haldeman II |
| Finalist | Business As Usual | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | Driven By Moonlight | Sarah Zettel |
| Winner | The Mote in NASA's Eye | Charles Sheffield |
| Runner-up | Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet | Robert M. Zubrin+David A. Baker |
| Finalist | Global Catastrophes and Mass Extinctions | Jeff Hecht |
| Finalist | Hydrogen Time | Marc Davenport |
| Finalist | Whatever Happened to the Little Ice Age? | John Gribbin |
| Nominee | Once and Future Mars | Martyn J. Fogg |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Mid-Dec 1991) [Try a Light Touch by Robert R. Chase] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Dec 1991) [Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jul 1991) [Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold] | Val Lakey Lindahn+Sean Lakey |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 1991) [Den of Sorrow] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jan 1991) [Gloriously Bright] | Broeck Steadman |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Apr 1991) [The Great Unknown] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Winner | Weatherman | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Runner-up | Shaman | Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff |
| Finalist | Naught for Hire | John E. Stith |
| Finalist | Funnel Hawk | Tom Ligon |
| Finalist | The Hornless Ones | Pauline Ashwell^Paul Ash |
| Winner | VRM-547 | W. R. Thompson |
| Runner-up | To Victor Go the Spoils | Grey Rollins |
| Runner-up | Godspeed | Charles Sheffield |
| Finalist | To Tame a Tiger | Mary Caraker |
| Finalist | Look Closer | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | The Double Spiral Staircase | Charles Sheffield |
| Nominee | The Feeders | Michael F. Flynn |
| Winner | Sixty Astounding Years | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | Where Buffalo Roam... | John Gribbin+Mary Gribbin |
| Runner-up | New Hopes for a Very Old Disease: Cancer Therapies for the 1990s | Dr. Kevin J. Steele |
| Finalist | Scientific Diversions | Margaret L. Silbar |
| Finalist | Nuclear Rocketry Using Indigenous Propellants: The key to the Solar System | Robert M. Zubrin |
| Nominee | Taking the Shuttle to the Moon | Chris Vuille, Ph.D. |
| Nominee | Fire, Brimstone -- And Maybe Life? | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Dec 1990) [Glorystar by Alexis Glynn Latner] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jan 1990) [Sixtieth Anniversary Issue] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mid-Dec 1990) [Shaman by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Aug 1990) [The Hornless Ones by Paul Ash] | Todd Cameron Hamilton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1990) [Funnel Hawk by Tom Ligon] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Winner | Labyrinth | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Runner-up | Humanity Test | Charles Sheffield |
| Finalist | The Mountains of Mourning | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Finalist | The Gentle Seduction | Marc Stiegler |
| Finalist | The Nearly Infinite Possibilities of Junk | Stephen L. Burns |
| Winner | The Happy Dead | Amy Bechtel |
| Runner-up | Soul of the City | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | The Best Is Yet to Be | Lyn Murray |
| Finalist | Little Monsters | Amy Bechtel |
| Finalist | Gridlock | Michael A. McCollum |
| Winner | The Ape-Man Within Us | L. Sprague de Camp |
| Runner-up | Zero Gravity and the Immune System: A Challenge to Man's Survival in Space | Dr. Kevin J. Steele |
| Finalist | On Building an Earth-Like Planet | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Hypermedia and the Singularity | Marc Stiegler |
| Finalist | The Economics of Interstellar Commerce | Warren Salomon |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Apr 1989) [The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler] | Todd Cameron Hamilton |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Mar 1989) [Nothing in the Night-Time] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1989) [Cold War by Joseph Manzione] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Oct 1989) [Sparrowhawk] | Nicholas Jainschigg |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Aug 1989) [Labyrinth by Lois McMaster Bujold] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Winner | Sanctuary | James White |
| Runner-up | Peaches for Mad Molly | Steven Gould |
| Finalist | Guz's Place | Timothy Perper+Martha Cornog |
| Finalist | Remember'd Kisses | Michael F. Flynn |
| Finalist | The Reading Lesson | Stephen L. Burns |
| Winner | The Circus Horse | Amy Bechtel |
| Runner-up | Frame of Reference | Stephen Kraus |
| Finalist | Siren | A. J. Austin |
| Finalist | If You Wish Upon a Star... | Jerry Oltion |
| Finalist | User Friendly | Alice Laurance |
| Winner | An Introduction to Psychohistory | Michael F. Flynn |
| Winner | An Introduction to Psychohistory (Part 2 of 2) | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Interdict Hypothesis | Martyn J. Fogg |
| Finalist | 24th Century Medicine | Thomas Donaldson |
| Finalist | Building a Better Biosphere | Greg Stec |
| Finalist | Laughing All the Way to Orbit | G. Harry Stine+Wilfred C. Smith |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Feb 1988) [Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Dec 1988) [Sanctuary by James White] | Ron Lindahn+Val Lakey Lindahn |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mid-Dec 1988) [Guz's Place by Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog] | Alan Gutierrez |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog May 1988) [Hunting Rights by Peter M. Fergusson & G. L. Robson] | Janet Aulisio |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Aug 1988) [Proteus Unbound by Charles Sheffield] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Winner | The Gift | Pat Forde |
| Runner-up | The Forest of Time | Michael F. Flynn^Michael Flynn |
| Finalist | Candle in a Cosmic Wind | Joseph Manzione |
| Finalist | In the Kingdom at Morning | Stephen L. Burns |
| Finalist | Banshee | Timothy Zahn |
| Nominee | Cobwebs | Ray Brown |
| Winner | The Love Song of Laura Morrison | Jerry Oltion |
| Runner-up | The Grand Tour | Charles Sheffield |
| Finalist | Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Weirdness | Jerry Oltion |
| Finalist | Mortality | Rick Cook |
| Finalist | Independents | Eric Vinicoff |
| Winner | Nanotechnology | Chris Peterson+K. Eric Drexler |
| Runner-up | Memetics and the Modular Mind | H. Keith Henson |
| Finalist | Moonbase Orientation Manual | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | Moonbase Orientation Manual II: Research and Recreation | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | Universe - The Ultimate Artifact? | Richard D. Meisner |
| Finalist | Cheap but not Dirty: Proposal for a Spaceplane | Tom Pace+Dan DeLong |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jan 1987) [The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Nov 1987) [Nanny by Michael P. Kube-McDowell] | Todd Cameron Hamilton |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Feb 1987) [In the Kingdom at Morning by Stephen L. Burns] | Alan Gutierrez |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Apr 1987) [A Hole in the Sun by Roger MacBride Allen] | David Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1987) [The Changeling Hunt by Robert R. Chase] | Dell Harris |
| Winner | Eifelheim | Michael F. Flynn |
| Runner-up | The Mick of Time | Spider Robinson |
| Finalist | The Evidence of Things Not Seen | Timothy Zahn |
| Finalist | The Picture by Dora Gray | Charles L. Harness |
| Finalist | The Big Dish | John Berryman |
| Winner | Phreak Encounter | Roger MacBride Allen |
| Runner-up | Brain in a Pocket | Rob Chilson |
| Finalist | Godkiller | P. M. Fergusson |
| Finalist | Relics | Janet Asimov^J. O. Jeppson |
| Finalist | To Fit the Crime | Joseph H. Delaney |
| Winner | The Long Stern Chase: A Speculative Exercise | Rick Cook |
| Runner-up | The Curious Case of the Humanoid Face--On Mars | Richard C. Hoagland |
| Finalist | A Little More Pollution, Please! | George W. Harper |
| Finalist | Making Star Trek Real | James R. Powell+Charles Pellegrino |
| Finalist | Fermi Paradox--The Final Solution? | Duncan Lunan |
| Winner | Cover (Analog May 1986) [Marooned in Real Time] | Tom Kidd |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Nov 1986) [The Big Dish by John Berryman] | Pat Rawlings |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1986) [Red Wolf by Bob Buckley] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Feb 1986) [Survivor Guilt by Susan M. Schwartz] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1986) [The Evidence of Things Not Seen by Timothy Zahn] | Doug Beekman |
| Winner | Spinneret | Timothy Zahn |
| Runner-up | Between the Strokes of Night | Charles Sheffield |
| Finalist | The Plague Star | George R. R. Martin |
| Winner | Loaves and Fishes | George R. R. Martin |
| Runner-up | Manna from Heaven | George R. R. Martin |
| Finalist | World of Crystal, Sky of Fire | Bob Buckley |
| Finalist | The Road Not Taken | Harry Turtledove |
| Finalist | Rockabye Baby | S. C. Sykes |
| Winner | A Touch Beyond | Stephen L. Burns |
| Runner-up | Gertrude | P. M. Fergusson |
| Finalist | Cycles | Don Sakers |
| Finalist | The R Strain | Harry Turtledove^Eric G. Iverson |
| Finalist | The Man of Peace | Stephen L. Burns |
| Winner | Just How Dangerous Is the Galaxy? | David Brin |
| Runner-up | The Postdiluvian World | Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. |
| Finalist | Russians to Mars | James E. Oberg |
| Finalist | The Lost Dimensions of Reality | John Gribbin |
| Finalist | Hot Rocks and Water | Richard Patrick Terra |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Nov 1985) [The Postdiluvian World by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.] | David Hardy |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Oct 1985) [World of Crystal, Sky of Fire by Bob Buckley] | David Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 1985) [Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jun 1985) [Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1985) [Spinneret by Timothy Zahn] | Doug Beekman |
| Winner | Valentina | Joseph H. Delaney+Marc Stiegler |
| Runner-up | The Weigher | Eric Vinicoff+Marcia Martin |
| Finalist | Summer Solstice | Charles L. Harness |
| Finalist | Floodtide | Ben Bova |
| Finalist | Return to the Fold | Timothy Zahn |
| Winner | The Crystal Spheres | David Brin |
| Runner-up | A Thrrup for Teacher | Mary Caraker |
| Runner-up | Symphony for a Lost Traveler | Lee Killough |
| Finalist | Winter Snow | Eric Vinicoff+Marcia Martin |
| Finalist | Teamwork | Timothy Zahn |
| Nominee | Low Midnight | Alison Tellure |
| Nominee | Slan Libh | Michael F. Flynn |
| Nominee | Rory | Steven Gould |
| Winner | The Deadly Thing at 2.4 Kiloparsecs | David Brin |
| Runner-up | Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt | Christopher P. Dunn |
| Finalist | Axes, Saws, and Alphabets | Margaret R. Bishop |
| Finalist | Xenopsychology | Robert A. Freitas, Jr. |
| Finalist | The Galaxy Before Man | Thomas Donaldson |
| Winner | Cover (Analog May 1984) [The Peace War by Vernor Vinge] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Mar 1984) [Floodtide] | Tom Kidd |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1984) [Saturn Alia by Grant D. Callin] | David Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Oct 1984) [The Weigher by Eric Vinicoff & Marcia Martin] | Doug Beekman |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 1984) [Elemental by Geoffrey A. Landis] | Jack Gaughan |
| Winner | Rocheworld | Robert L. Forward |
| Runner-up | Manna | G. Harry Stine^Lee Correy |
| Finalist | The New Untouchables | Joseph H. Delaney |
| Winner | Seeking | David R. Palmer |
| Runner-up | Cascade Point | Timothy Zahn |
| Finalist | The Leaves of October | Don Sakers |
| Finalist | The Final Report on the Lifeline Experiment | Timothy Zahn |
| Finalist | Warlord | Timothy Zahn |
| Winner | Deborah's Children | Grant Callin^Grant D. Callin |
| Runner-up | The Reluctant Torturer | Hayford Peirce |
| Finalist | We, the People | Jack C. Haldeman II |
| Finalist | The Geometry of Narrative | Hilbert Schenck |
| Finalist | Sandcastles | Mary Caraker |
| Winner | The Blivit in the B-Ring | Richard C. Hoagland |
| Runner-up | Xenology: The New Science of Asking, "Who's Out There?" | David Brin |
| Finalist | To the Stars! | Gordon R. Woodcock |
| Finalist | Science and Creation | Poul Anderson |
| Finalist | Flattening Spacetime | Robert L. Forward |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jun 1983) [To the Stars! by Gordon R. Woodcock] | David Hardy |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Feb 1983) [Seeking by David R. Palmer] | Val Lakey Lindahn+John Lakey |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Oct 1983) [The Integral Trees by Larry Niven] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Nov 1983) [Deathwomb] | Tom Kidd |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Dec 1983) [Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn] | Doug Beekman |
| Winner | Pawn's Gambit | Timothy Zahn |
| Runner-up | Collaboration | Mark C. Jarvis |
| Finalist | Green-Eyed Lady, Laughing Lady | Alison Tellure |
| Finalist | Brainchild | Joseph H. Delaney |
| Finalist | The Scourge | James White |
| Nominee | My Brother's Keeper | Joseph H. Delaney |
| Winner | Melancholy Elephants | Spider Robinson |
| Runner-up | The Garden of the Cognoscenti | Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
| Finalist | Walk with Me | Rob Chilson |
| Finalist | Schrödinger's Plague | Greg Bear |
| Finalist | Who Will Guard the Guardians? | Catherine McCollum+Michael A. McCollum |
| Winner | New Communications Technologies and the Developing World | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Runner-up | Exploring the Asteroids | Joel A. Davis |
| Finalist | Alien Sex | Robert A. Freitas, Jr. |
| Finalist | Space Transportation: You Can Get There From Here! | Gordon R. Woodcock |
| Finalist | The Inner Five | George W. Harper |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jul 1982) [Rings of Glory] | Rick Sternbach |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Feb 1982) [Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury] | Val Lakey Lindahn |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Aug 1982) [Rails Across the Galaxy by Andrew J. Offutt & Richard Lyon] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mid-Sep 1982) [He Who Fights and Runs Away] | Paul Lehr |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Sep 1982) [The Manna Hunt by Charles Sheffield] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Winner | Dawn | Dean McLaughlin |
| Runner-up | Shuttle Down | G. Harry Stine^Lee Correy |
| Finalist | Dragonstar | David Bischoff+Thomas F. Monteleone |
| Winner | Emergence | David R. Palmer |
| Runner-up | Petals of Rose | Marc Stiegler |
| Finalist | The Saturn Game | Poul Anderson |
| Finalist | Guardians | George R. R. Martin |
| Finalist | The Tides of Kithrup | David Brin |
| Winner | Green Winter | F. Paul Wilson |
| Runner-up | Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile... | S. P. Somtow^Somtow Sucharitkul |
| Finalist | Collector's Item | Barry B. Longyear |
| Finalist | The Pacifists | Jayge Carr |
| Finalist | Misfits | Edward A. Byers |
| Winner | Extraterrestrial Zoology | Robert A. Freitas, Jr. |
| Runner-up | Base Eight Arithmetic, Meteors, and Man | John Gribbin |
| Finalist | Mars in 1995! | Bob Parkinson+David Hardy |
| Finalist | Mercury's Missing Divot | J. E. Enever |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Feb 1981) [The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Jun 1981) [Mars in 1995! by Bob Parkinson & David Hardy] | David Hardy |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 1981) [Paradise Misplaced] | Paul Lehr |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jan 1981) [Mercury's Missing Divot by J. E. Enever] | Rick Sternbach |
| Winner | One-Wing | George R. R. Martin+Lisa Tuttle |
| Runner-up | Anasazi | Dean Ing |
| Finalist | World in the Clouds | Bob Buckley |
| Winner | Nightflyers | George R. R. Martin |
| Runner-up | The Cloak and the Staff | Gordon R. Dickson |
| Finalist | Savage Planet | Barry B. Longyear |
| Finalist | Scholar's Cluster | George O. Smith |
| Finalist | Have You Heard the One...? | Spider Robinson |
| Winner | Grotto of the Dancing Deer | Clifford D. Simak |
| Runner-up | The Touch of Their Eyes | Steven Gould |
| Finalist | The Bully and the Crazy Boy | Marc Stiegler |
| Finalist | Meeting of Minds | Ted Reynolds |
| Finalist | Scrooge in Space | Sam Nicholson |
| Winner | Demythologizing the Black Hole | Richard Matzner+Tsvi Piran+Tony Rothman |
| Runner-up | A Taste of Dragon's Egg | Robert L. Forward |
| Runner-up | Death Risk | Milton A. Rothman |
| Finalist | Man's Biological Future | L. Sprague de Camp |
| Finalist | Steamer Time (Again?) | Wallace West |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jan 1980) [One-Wing by Lisa Tuttle & George R. R. Martin] | Paul Lehr |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Feb 1980) [Savage Planet by Barry B. Longyear] | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Mar 1980) [World in the Clouds by Bob Buckley] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Apr 1980) [Nightflyers by George R. R. Marting] | Paul Lehr |
| Winner | Titan | John Varley |
| Runner-up | Class Six Climb | William E. Cochrane |
| Finalist | The Visitors | Clifford D. Simak |
| Winner | Songhouse | Orson Scott Card |
| Runner-up | The Locusts | Larry Niven+Steven Barnes |
| Finalist | The Moon Goddess and the Son | Donald Kingsbury |
| Finalist | Beer Run | Michael A. McCollum |
| Finalist | Duty, Honor, Planet | Michael A. McCollum |
| Winner | Can These Bones Live? | Ted Reynolds |
| Runner-up | Breaking the Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Finalist | In Adam's Fall | Jayge Carr |
| Finalist | Old Friends | Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. |
| Finalist | ...And Master of One | Ian Stewart |
| Winner | Build Your Own A-Bomb and Wake Up the Neighborhood | George W. Harper |
| Runner-up | The Spaceport | Roger Arnold+Donald Kingsbury |
| Finalist | Funding the Future | M. David Stone |
| Finalist | Future Food | David Ritchie |
| Finalist | American Enthusiasm for Spaceflight | William Sims Bainbridge+Richard Wyckoff |
| Winner | Cover (Analog Jan 1979) [Titan by John Varley] | Paul Lehr |
| Runner-up | Cover (Analog Dec 1979) [The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury] | Vincent Di Fate |
| Finalist | Cover (Analog Jul 1979) [Apollo 11 Anniversary] | Robert McCall |
| Winner | Stardance II | Spider Robinson+Jeanne Robinson |
| Runner-up | The Outcasts of Heaven Belt | Joan D. Vinge |
| Winner | Fireship | Joan D. Vinge |
| Runner-up | Mikal's Songbird | Orson Scott Card |
| Finalist | Starships In Whose Future? | Sam Nicholson |
| Finalist | Hunter's Moon | Poul Anderson |
| Finalist | To Bring in the Steel | Donald Kingsbury |
| Winner | Lifeloop | Orson Scott Card |
| Runner-up | The Great Gray Dolphin | Ben Schumacher |
| Finalist | Fixed Price War | Charles Sheffield |
| Finalist | View from a Height | Joan D. Vinge |
| Finalist | The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge | Harlan Ellison |
| Winner | This Space for Rent | Joe Haldeman |
| Runner-up | Salute to Salyut | James Oberg |
| Finalist | The Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Space: Will It Ever Be Feasible? | Michael McCollum |
| Winner | Adventures in Time and Space | Raymond J. Healy+J. Francis McComas |
| Nominee | The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury |
| Runner-up | Slan | A. E. van Vogt |
| Finalist | Seven Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells | H. G. Wells |
| Finalist | The Man Who Sold the Moon | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Finalist | Who Goes There? | John W. Campbell, Jr. |
| Nominee | The Best of Science Fiction | Groff Conklin |
| Nominee | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| Nominee | The Green Hills of Earth | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Nominee | Science Fiction Omnibus | Everett F. Bleiler+T. E. Dikty |