WINNER

• "The Chief Designer", Andy Duncan (Asimov's Jun 2001)

SECOND PLACE

• "Lobsters", Charles Stross (Asimov's Jun 2001)

THIRD PLACE

• "Undone", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 2001)

SHORTLIST

• "The Cat's Pajamas", James Morrow (F&SF Oct 2001)
• "The Dog Said Bow-Wow", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Oct 2001)
• "Eternity and Afterward", Lucius Shepard (F&SF Mar 2001)
• "Have Not Have", Geoff Ryman (F&SF Apr 2001)
• "Hell Is the Absence of God", Ted Chiang (Starlight 3)
• "Interview: On Any Given Day", Maureen F. McHugh (Starlight 3)
• "Isabel of the Fall", Ian R. MacLeod (Interzone #169 Jul 2001)
• "The Measure of All Things", Richard Chwedyk (F&SF Jan 2001)
• "New Light on the Drake Equation", Ian R. MacLeod (Sci Fiction 2 May 2001)