| "Bears Discover Fire" | Terry Bisson | 1990 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |  | 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |  | 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |  | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |  | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Blood Music" | Greg Bear | 1983 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  | 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |  | 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1984 | The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |  | 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |  | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |  | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Burning Chrome" | William Gibson | 1982 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |  | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |  | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" | James Tiptree, Jr. | 1973 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Death of Doctor Island" | Gene Wolfe | 1973 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |  | 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Souls" | Joanna Russ | 1982 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |  | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Boobs" | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1989 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "A Braver Thing" | Charles Sheffield | 1990 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Devil You Don't Know" | Dean Ing | 1978 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1979 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Doing Lennon" | Gregory Benford | 1975 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Ender's Game" | Orson Scott Card | 1977 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Forever Yours, Anna" | Kate Wilhelm | 1987 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1988 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 edited by David S. Garnett |  | 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |  | 
                    
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                            | "Getting Real" | Susan Shwartz | 1991 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Identifying the Object" | Gwyneth Jones | 1990 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Jamboree" | Jack Williamson | 1969 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Masque of the Red Shift" | Fred Saberhagen | 1965 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Mountain to Mohammed" | Nancy Kress | 1992 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Mr. Boy" | James Patrick Kelly | 1990 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "One Down, One to Go" | Philip José Farmer | 1990 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" | John Varley | 1976 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1977 | The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Paperjack" | Charles de Lint | 1991 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Redemption in the Quantum Realm" | Frederik Pohl | 1994 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Ship Who Sang" | Anne McCaffrey | 1961 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |  | 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |  | 1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Spider Silk" | Andre Norton | 1976 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Split Light" | Lisa Goldstein | 1994 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Sun Spider" | Lucius Shepard | 1987 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1988 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 edited by David S. Garnett |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sur" | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1982 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Them Old Hyannis Blues" | Judith Tarr | 1992 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "True Names" | Vernor Vinge | 1981 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "A Tupolev Too Far" | Brian W. Aldiss | 1989 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 
                    
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                            | "Wall, Stone, Craft" | Walter Jon Williams | 1993 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 
                    
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