Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories

Titles in bold are on the Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories v2 list.

Title Author/Editor Year Citations Reviews↧
"Sailing to Byzantium" Robert Silverberg 1985
11
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1986The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1986Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" Kij Johnson 2011
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Man Who Lost the Sea" Theodore Sturgeon 1959
9
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"And the Rock Cried Out" Ray Bradbury 1953
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Battle of Long Island" Nancy Kress 1993
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Chance" Connie Willis 1986
3
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Common Time" James Blish 1953
6
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Crucifixus Etiam" Walter M. Miller, Jr. 1953
4
1954The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Day at the Beach" Carol Emshwiller 1959
3
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Dori Bangs" Bruce Sterling 1989
7
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Echo" Elizabeth Hand 2005
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Ether, OR" Ursula K. Le Guin 1995
2
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Faith of Our Fathers" Philip K. Dick 1967
6
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Forlesen" Gene Wolfe 1974
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Longtooth" Edgar Pangborn 1970
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Man Who Never Grew Young" Fritz Leiber 1947
2
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Meathouse Man" George R. R. Martin 1976
2
1977The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Morning Child" Gardner Dozois 1984
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"On Sequoia Time" Daniel Keys Moran 1996
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Rainbird" R. A. Lafferty 1961
2
1991The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" Geoffrey A. Landis 1988
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1989The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Roxie" Robert Reed 2007
2
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Sail On! Sail On!" Philip José Farmer 1952
5
1962A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1986The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Sources of the Nile" Avram Davidson 1961
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Store of the Worlds" Robert Sheckley 1959
4
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Summer People" Shirley Jackson 1950
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Terminal Beach" J. G. Ballard 1964
7
196510th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1981Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"They" Robert A. Heinlein 1941
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" Alfred Bester 1963
4
1964The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril
1981Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1992The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"This Moment of the Storm" Roger Zelazny 1966
4
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Through a Glass - Darkly" Zenna Henderson 1970
1
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Tideline" Elizabeth Bear 2007
6
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon winner
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Useless Things" Maureen F. McHugh 2009
3
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Very Slow Time Machine" Ian Watson 1978
5
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Who Can Replace a Man?" Brian W. Aldiss 1958
7
1962A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1963Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
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