| "And the Rock Cried Out" |
Ray Bradbury
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1953 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Battle of Long Island" |
Nancy Kress
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1993 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Chance" |
Connie Willis
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1986 |
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| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Common Time" |
James Blish
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1953 |
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| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Crucifixus Etiam" |
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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1953 |
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| 1954 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
| 1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Day at the Beach" |
Carol Emshwiller
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1959 |
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| 1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
| 1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Dori Bangs" |
Bruce Sterling
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1989 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1990 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Echo" |
Elizabeth Hand
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2005 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Ether, OR" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
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1995 |
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| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Faith of Our Fathers" |
Philip K. Dick
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1967 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Forlesen" |
Gene Wolfe
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1974 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Longtooth" |
Edgar Pangborn
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1970 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" |
Kij Johnson
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2011 |
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| 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 |
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| "The Man Who Lost the Sea" |
Theodore Sturgeon
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1959 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
| 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Man Who Never Grew Young" |
Fritz Leiber
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1947 |
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| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Meathouse Man" |
George R. R. Martin
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1976 |
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| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Morning Child" |
Gardner Dozois
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "On Sequoia Time" |
Daniel Keys Moran
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1996 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Rainbird" |
R. A. Lafferty
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1961 |
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| 1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
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1988 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Roxie" |
Robert Reed
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2007 |
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| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Sail On! Sail On!" |
Philip José Farmer
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1952 |
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| 1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Sailing to Byzantium" |
Robert Silverberg
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1985 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 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 |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 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 |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Sources of the Nile" |
Avram Davidson
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1961 |
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| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Store of the Worlds" |
Robert Sheckley
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1959 |
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| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Summer People" |
Shirley Jackson
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1950 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Terminal Beach" |
J. G. Ballard
|
1964 |
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| 1965 | 10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "They" |
Robert A. Heinlein
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1941 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" |
Alfred Bester
|
1963 |
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| 1964 | The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
| 1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
| 1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "This Moment of the Storm" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1966 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Through a Glass - Darkly" |
Zenna Henderson
|
1970 |
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| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Tideline" |
Elizabeth Bear
|
2007 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Useless Things" |
Maureen F. McHugh
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2009 |
|
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| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
| 2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "The Very Slow Time Machine" |
Ian Watson
|
1978 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 1979 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
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| "Who Can Replace a Man?" |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
1958 |
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| 1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1963 | Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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