| "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" |
Alyssa Wong
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Fire Watch" |
Connie Willis
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Last of the Winnebagos" |
Connie Willis
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Even the Queen" |
Connie Willis
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Death on the Nile" |
Connie Willis
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Wall, Stone, Craft" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Ultimate Earth" |
Jack Williamson
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "All Systems Red" |
Martha Wells
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Sky" |
Kaaron Warren
|
2012 |
|
|
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Ugly Chickens" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1988 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Cookie Monster" |
Vernor Vinge
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Press ENTER ■" |
John Varley
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Only Neat Thing to Do" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Death of Captain Future" |
Allen Steele
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "… Where Angels Fear to Tread" |
Allen Steele
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Les Fleurs Du Mal" |
Brian Stableford
|
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "This Year's Class Picture" |
Dan Simmons
|
1992 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Grotto of the Dancing Deer" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Secret Sharer" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "R & R" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Radiant Green Star" |
Lucius Shepard
|
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Danny Goes to Mars" |
Pamela Sargent
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Unconquered Country" |
Geoff Ryman
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "The Gallery of His Dreams" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Echea" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Black Air" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bully!" |
Mike Resnick
|
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Manamouki" |
Mike Resnick
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" |
Mike Resnick
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "When the Old Gods Die" |
Mike Resnick
|
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bibi" |
Mike Resnick,
Susan Shwartz
|
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" |
Mike Resnick
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Hunting the Snark" |
Mike Resnick
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Binti" |
Nnedi Okorafor
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Rachel in Love" |
Pat Murphy
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1988 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 edited by David S. Garnett |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Lincoln Train" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Every Heart a Doorway" |
Seanan McGuire
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Djinn's Wife" |
Ian McDonald
|
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Time Travelers Never Die" |
Jack McDevitt
|
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Nightflyers" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Blood of the Dragon" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Summer Isles" |
Ian R. MacLeod
|
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Paper Menagerie" |
Ken Liu
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Faery Handbag" |
Kelly Link
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Magic for Beginners" |
Kelly Link
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1987 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Forgiveness Day" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "The Ballad of Black Tom" |
Victor LaValle
|
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Singular Habits of Wasps" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Singing My Sister Down" |
Margo Lanagan
|
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Beggars in Spain" |
Nancy Kress
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Dancing on Air" |
Nancy Kress
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" |
Nancy Kress
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "Passing Strange" |
Ellen Klages
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Pride and Prometheus" |
John Kessel
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Think Like a Dinosaur" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Undone" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2001 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Weight of the Sunrise" |
Vylar Kaftan
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2014 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4 edited by Allen Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" |
Kij Johnson
|
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" |
Kij Johnson
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe" |
Kij Johnson
|
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "The Hemingway Hoax" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "None So Blind" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Wives" |
Paul Haines
|
2009 |
|
|
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Winter Market" |
William Gibson
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Martian Child" |
David Gerrold
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The New Mother" |
Eugene Fischer
|
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Jeffty Is Five" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1977 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Mefisto in Onyx" |
Harlan Ellison
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1993 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Seasons of Glass and Iron" |
Amal El-Mohtar
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Cocoon" |
Greg Egan
|
1994 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Luminous" |
Greg Egan
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1995 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Oceanic" |
Greg Egan
|
1998 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Schrödinger's Kitten" |
George Alec Effinger
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1988 |
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|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "The Brave Little Toaster" |
Thomas M. Disch
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1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "The Diamond Pit" |
Jack Dann
|
2001 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Great Work of Time" |
John Crowley
|
1989 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
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| "Story of Your Life" |
Ted Chiang
|
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1999 | Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
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| "Hell Is the Absence of God" |
Ted Chiang
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" |
Ted Chiang
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Exhalation" |
Ted Chiang
|
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2009 | Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" |
Ted Chiang
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast" |
Suzy McKee Charnas
|
1996 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Astronaut from Wyoming" |
Adam-Troy Castro,
Jerry Oltion
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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|
| "Hatrack River" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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|
| "The Night We Buried Road Dog" |
Jack Cady
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Angel" |
Pat Cadigan
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bloodchild" |
Octavia E. Butler
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Mountains of Mourning" |
Lois McMaster Bujold
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bears Discover Fire" |
Terry Bisson
|
1990 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "macs" |
Terry Bisson
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Tangents" |
Greg Bear
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Age of Aquarius" |
William Barton
|
1996 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Robot Dreams" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Aurora in Four Voices" |
Catherine Asaro
|
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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