| "Lobsters" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Charles Stross
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 | 
                                             | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams | 
                                             | 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 | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Swanwick
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Hugo Award - Story Winner | 
                                             | 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 | 
                                             | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "New Light on the Drake Equation" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ian R. MacLeod
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 | 
                                             | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Undone" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                James Patrick Kelly
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | 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 | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Chief Designer" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Andy Duncan
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Sturgeon winner | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Days Between" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Allen Steele
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Have Not Have" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Geoff Ryman
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "May Be Some Time" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Brenda W. Clough
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Hugo Award - Story Finalist | 
                                              | Nebula Award - Story Finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Computer Virus" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Nancy Kress
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 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 | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Glacial" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Alastair Reynolds
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 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 | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Interview: On Any Given Day" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Maureen F. McHugh
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Isabel of the Fall" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ian R. MacLeod
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                         | Sturgeon finalist | 
                                             | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Russian Vine" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Simon Ings
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 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 | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "When This World Is All on Fire" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                William Sanders
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Human Front" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ken MacLeod
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Into Greenwood" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Jim Grimsley
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Know How, Can Do" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Blumlein
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Marcher" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Chris Beckett
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Moby Quilt" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Eleanor Arnason
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "More Adventures On Other Planets" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Michael Cassutt
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Neutrino Drag" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul Di Filippo
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "On K2 With Kanakaredes" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Dan Simmons
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "One-Horse Town" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Howard Waldrop, 
                              
                            
                          
                        
                          
                            
                              Leigh Kennedy
                            
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "Raven Dream" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Reed
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Real Thing" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Carolyn Ives Gilman
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Two Dicks" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Paul J. McAuley
                              
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                        2001 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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