Hugo Award - Story Winner

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

Title↥ Author/Editor Year Citations Reviews
"10 to 16 to 1" James Patrick Kelly 1999
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" Roger Zelazny 1985
5
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Mike Resnick 1997
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" Harlan Ellison 1974
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"All Seated on the Ground" Connie Willis 2007
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Allamagoosa" Eric Frank Russell 1955
7
Hugo Award - Story Winner
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Animal Farm" George Orwell 1946
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Artificial Condition" Martha Wells 2018
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"As the Last I May Know" S. L. Huang 2019
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Barnacle Bill the Spacer" Lucius Shepard 1992
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Bears Discover Fire" Terry Bisson 1990
16
Sturgeon winner
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories
"The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" Harlan Ellison 1968
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Beggars in Spain" Nancy Kress 1991
8
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
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
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Better Living Through Algorithms" Naomi Kritzer 2023
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Bicentennial Man" Isaac Asimov 1976
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1977The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1977The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Bicycle Repairman" Bruce Sterling 1996
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1997Year's Best SF 2 edited by David G. Hartwell
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Big Front Yard" Clifford D. Simak 1958
8
Hugo Award - Story Winner
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
1990The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"A Billion Eves" Robert Reed 2006
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas
"Binti" Nnedi Okorafor 2015
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Blood Music" Greg Bear 1983
15
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Nebula Award - Story Winner
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1984The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Blood of the Dragon" George R. R. Martin 1996
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Bloodchild" Octavia E. Butler 1984
18
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1985The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Boobs" Suzy McKee Charnas 1989
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
"The Borderland of Sol" Larry Niven 1975
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Bots of the Lost Ark" Suzanne Palmer 2021
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Bridesicle" Will McIntosh 2009
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
9
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"By Any Other Name" Spider Robinson 1976
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Cascade Point" Timothy Zahn 1983
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"A Case of Conscience" James Blish 1953
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1955Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"Cassandra" C. J. Cherryh 1978
6
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1979The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Cat Pictures Please" Naomi Kritzer 2015
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
"Catch That Zeppelin!" Fritz Leiber 1975
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1976The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The Cloak and the Staff" Gordon R. Dickson 1980
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Concrete Jungle" Charles Stross 2004
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Cookie Monster" Vernor Vinge 2003
6
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Coraline" Neil Gaiman 2002
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Crystal Spheres" David Brin 1984
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Darfsteller" Walter M. Miller, Jr. 1955
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Day the World Turned Upside Down" Thomas Olde Heuvelt 2014
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Death of Captain Future" Allen Steele 1995
5
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2006The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Death on the Nile" Connie Willis 1993
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Deathbird" Harlan Ellison 1973
7
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1974The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Different Kinds of Darkness" David Langford 2000
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"The Djinn's Wife" Ian McDonald 2006
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" Michael Swanwick 2001
6
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Down in the Bottomlands" Harry Turtledove 1993
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Dragon Masters" Jack Vance 1962
6
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Earthman, Come Home" James Blish 1953
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
"Emergency Skin" N. K. Jemisin 2019
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke
"The Emperor of Mars" Allen Steele 2010
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Emperor's Soul" Brandon Sanderson 2012
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Empress of Salt and Fortune" Nghi Vo 2020
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Enemy Mine" Barry B. Longyear 1979
7
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" Robert Silverberg 1989
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Equoid" Charles Stross 2013
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Erdmann Nexus" Nancy Kress 2008
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Eurema's Dam" R. A. Lafferty 1972
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
"Even the Queen" Connie Willis 1992
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Every Heart a Doorway" Seanan McGuire 2016
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Exhalation" Ted Chiang 2008
9
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories
"Exploration Team" Murray Leinster 1956
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Eye for Eye" Orson Scott Card 1987
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Eyes of Amber" Joan D. Vinge 1977
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1978The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The Faery Handbag" Kelly Link 2004
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Falling Onto Mars" Geoffrey A. Landis 2002
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" Vernor Vinge 2001
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Fermi and Frost" Frederik Pohl 1985
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1986The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Fire Watch" Connie Willis 1982
10
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1983The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"First Contact" Murray Leinster 1945
10
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1946The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes 1959
15
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1961Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Folding Beijing" Hao Jingfang 2015
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
"For Want of a Nail" Mary Robinette Kowal 2010
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Georgia on My Mind" Charles Sheffield 1993
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Gilgamesh in the Outback" Robert Silverberg 1986
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" James Tiptree, Jr. 1973
9
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" Pat Cadigan 2012
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Goat Song" Poul Anderson 1972
7
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Gold" Isaac Asimov 1991
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Gonna Roll the Bones" Fritz Leiber 1967
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Grotto of the Dancing Deer" Clifford D. Simak 1980
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1981The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Hell Is the Absence of God" Ted Chiang 2001
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Hemingway Hoax" Joe Haldeman 1990
7
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection 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
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Hole Man" Larry Niven 1974
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Home Is the Hangman" Roger Zelazny 1975
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Hothouse Series" Brian W. Aldiss 1962
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" James Tiptree, Jr. 1976
10
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1977The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"How We Went to Mars" Arthur C. Clarke 1938
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Hunter's Moon" Poul Anderson 1978
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Harlan Ellison 1967
11
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1968World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1986Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again" Zen Cho 2018
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"If This Goes On …" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Ill Met in Lankhmar" Fritz Leiber 1970
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Impossible Dreams" Tim Pratt 2006
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Inconstant Moon" Larry Niven 1971
9
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Inside Job" Connie Willis 2005
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Island" Peter Watts 2009
9
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2010Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Jeffty Is Five" Harlan Ellison 1977
10
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1978The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Kirinyaga" Mike Resnick 1988
7
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999Locus All Time Poll
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" Mary Robinette Kowal 2013
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Last Castle" Jack Vance 1966
7
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Last of the Winnebagos" Connie Willis 1988
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Legions in Time" Michael Swanwick 2003
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" Ted Chiang 2010
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Lincoln Train" Maureen F. McHugh 1995
8
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories
"The Little Black Bag" C. M. Kornbluth 1950
9
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Longest Voyage" Poul Anderson 1960
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Lost Dorsai" Gordon R. Dickson 1980
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"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 Sold the Moon" Robert A. Heinlein 1950
7
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1959A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Manamouki" Mike Resnick 1990
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Martian Child" David Gerrold 1994
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Meeting" Frederik PohlC. M. Kornbluth 1972
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
"Melancholy Elephants" Spider Robinson 1982
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Ted Chiang 2007
8
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Metal Like Blood in the Dark" Ursula Vernon 2020
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
"Millennium Babies" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 2000
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Mono No Aware" Ken Liu 2012
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Mountains of Mourning" Lois McMaster Bujold 1989
8
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Neutron Star" Larry Niven 1966
8
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Nightwings" Robert Silverberg 1968
6
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Nine Billion Names of God" Arthur C. Clarke 1953
13
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1956Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"No Truce with Kings" Poul Anderson 1963
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"None So Blind" Joe Haldeman 1994
5
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Nutcracker Coup" Janet Kagan 1992
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Oceanic" Greg Egan 1998
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Ursula K. Le Guin 1973
7
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Or All the Seas with Oysters" Avram Davidson 1958
10
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1959SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1990The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Paladin of the Lost Hour" Harlan Ellison 1985
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Palimpsest" Charles Stross 2009
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Paper Menagerie" Ken Liu 2011
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Permafrost" Roger Zelazny 1986
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The Persistence of Vision" John Varley 1978
12
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1979The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr
1979Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Press ENTER ■" John Varley 1984
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1985The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"A Psalm for the Wild-Built" Becky Chambers 2021
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Pusher" John Varley 1981
5
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The 1982 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" Poul Anderson 1971
9
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Rabbit Test" Samantha Mills 2022
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" Harlan Ellison 1965
15
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1966World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Riders of the Purple Wage" Philip José Farmer 1967
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Roads Must Roll" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
7
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Robbie" Isaac Asimov 1940
7
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Rule 18" Clifford D. Simak 1938
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Sandkings" George R. R. Martin 1979
11
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr
1980Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Saturn Game" Poul Anderson 1981
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" Michael Swanwick 1999
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories
"Schrödinger's Kitten" George Alec Effinger 1988
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon winner
1989The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Seasons of Glass and Iron" Amal El-Mohtar 2016
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Mike Resnick 1994
7
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Sharing of Flesh" Poul Anderson 1968
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Ship of Shadows" Fritz Leiber 1969
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1970World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
"Shoggoths in Bloom" Elizabeth Bear 2008
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
"Six Months, Three Days" Charlie Jane Anders 2011
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Slow Life" Michael Swanwick 2002
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Slow Sculpture" Theodore Sturgeon 1970
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1971World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Soldier, Ask Not" Gordon R. Dickson 1964
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001The Great SF Stories (1964) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"A Song for Lya" George R. R. Martin 1974
8
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective" Connie Willis 1996
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Souls" Joanna Russ 1982
9
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1983The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1983The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Space-Time Painter" Hai Ya 2022
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Speech Sounds" Octavia E. Butler 1983
8
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999Locus All Time Poll
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Star" Arthur C. Clarke 1955
16
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1962A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1963Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1998The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Stardance" Spider RobinsonJeanne Robinson 1977
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1978The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
1978Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"A Study in Emerald" Neil Gaiman 2003
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Taklamakan" Bruce Sterling 1998
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Tangents" Greg Bear 1986
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"That Hell-Bound Train" Robert Bloch 1958
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Think Like a Dinosaur" James Patrick Kelly 1995
12
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2024Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories
"This Is How You Lose the Time War" Amal El-MohtarMax Gladstone 2019
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Thornhedge" T. Kingfisher 2023
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"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
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" Samuel R. Delany 1968
8
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1969World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Tk'tk'tk" David D. Levine 2005
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"To Serve Man" Damon Knight 1950
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1951The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
"The Tomato Thief" Ursula Vernon 2016
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Travels with My Cats" Mike Resnick 2004
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Tricentennial" Joe Haldeman 1976
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
"Two Hearts" Peter S. Beagle 2005
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Two Truths and a Lie" Sarah Pinsker 2020
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2021The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"The Ultimate Earth" Jack Williamson 2000
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Uncommon Sense" Hal Clement 1945
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Unicorn Variation" Roger Zelazny 1981
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" Michael Swanwick 1998
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Walk in the Sun" Geoffrey A. Landis 1991
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" John Chu 2013
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Way of Cross and Dragon" George R. R. Martin 1979
8
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1980Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"We Will Drink a Fish Together …" Bill Johnson 1997
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Weyr Search" Anne McCaffrey 1967
6
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"… Where Angels Fear to Tread" Allen Steele 1997
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" Sarah Pinsker 2021
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Where the Drowned Girls Go" Seanan McGuire 2022
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Who Goes There?" John W. Campbell, Jr. 1938
12
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2005The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" Lawrence Watt-Evans 1987
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Winds of Marble Arch" Connie Willis 1999
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" Alix E. Harrow 2018
4
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton
"The Word for World Is Forest" Ursula K. Le Guin 1972
7
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Year Without Sunshine" Naomi Kritzer 2023
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Stories: 197