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is the annual award given by the Polish science fiction & fantasy fandom for the best stories published during the previous year. The winners are chosen in a vote by fans present at the Polcon convention from up to five nominations in each of two categories:

• Novel: works longer than 100 standard pages (of 1800 characters),
• Short story: shorter works.

Vote counts are not announced.

1 History

The award was created in 1985 under the name Sfinks (English: Sphinx). After the fist winner Janusz A. Zajdel's death in the same year the name was changed in his memory.

Until 1989 the award was given by Polish science fiction fan associations voting as units, since 1990 all fans present at Polcon can vote. Until 1991 there was a single award given for the best story, since 1992 there are two categories.

2 Winners

The year given is the year of publication. Since 1992 the first row is a novel, the second one - a short story.

• 1984 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Paradyzja (novel)
• 1985 - Marek Baraniecki , Glowa Kasandry (novel)
• 1986 - no winner
• 1987 - no winner
• 1988 - Edmund Wnuk-LipinskiEdmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born in 1944 in Sucha, Poland), professor of Sociology, is the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Political Studies. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, the Unversity of No, Rozpad polowiczny (novel)
• 1989 - no winner
• 1990 - Andrzej SapkowskiAndrzej Sapkowski (born June 21, 1948 in Lodz) is a Polish fantasy writer. His first short story, Hexer or Witcher ( Polish "Wiedzmin"), was published in Fantastyka in 1986 and was an enormous success. The Hexer cycle consists of three short story collect, Mniejsze zlo (short story)
• 1991 - Marek S. Huberath , Kara wieksza (short story)
• 1992
  • Feliks W. Kres, Król bezmiarów
  • Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia
• 1993
  • no winner
  • Andrzej Sapkowski, W leju po bombie
• 1994
  • Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
  • Ewa Bialolecka , Tkacz Iluzji
• 1995
  • Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz, Pieprzony los kataryniarza
  • Konrad T. Lewandowski , Noteka 2015
• 1996
  • Tomasz Kolodziejczak , Kolory sztandarów
  • Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz, Spiaca królewna
• 1997
  • Marek S. Huberath , Druga podobizna w alabastrze
  • Ewa Bialolecka , Blekit Maga
• 1998
  • Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz, Walc stulecia
  • Anna Brzezinska , A kochal ja, ze strach
• 1999
  • Marek S. Huberath , Gniazdo swiatów
  • Antonina Liedtke , CyberJoly Drim
• 2000
  • Anna Brzezinska , Zmijowa harfa
  • Jacek Dukaj, Katedra
• 2001
  • Jacek Dukaj, Czarne oceany
  • Andrzej Ziemianski, Autobahn nach Poznan
• 2002
  • Andrzej Sapkowski, Narrenturm
  • Andrzej Pilipiuk, Kuzynki
• 2003
  • Jacek Dukaj, Inne piesni
  • Andrzej Ziemianski, Zapach szkla