| "Broad Dutty Water" | Nalo Hopkinson | 2021 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2022 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse |  | 
                    
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                            | "Buffalo" | John Kessel | 1991 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 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 |  | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Calorie Man" | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2005 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Cartesian Theater" | Robert Charles Wilson | 2006 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |  | 2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Chief Designer" | Andy Duncan | 2001 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Choice" | Paul J. McAuley | 2011 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon 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 Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" | Charlie Jane Anders | 2017 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |  | 2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Edge of the World" | Michael Swanwick | 1989 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Empress of Mars" | Kage Baker | 2003 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2004 | Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 
                    
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                            | "Finisterra" | David Moles | 2007 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |  | 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 Flowers of Aulit Prison" | Nancy Kress | 1996 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |  | 
                    
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                            | "Fox Magic" | Kij Johnson | 1993 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Future Is Blue" | Catherynne M. Valente | 2016 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2017 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Game of Smash and Recovery" | Kelly Link | 2015 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |  | 2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2016 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 edited by John Joseph Adams and Karen Joy Fowler |  | 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Grinnell Method" | Molly Gloss | 2012 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "House of Dreams" | Michael F. Flynn | 1997 |  | 
                                
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                            | "An Important Failure" | Rebecca Campbell | 2020 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |  | 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |  | 
                    
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                            | "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" | Sarah Pinsker | 2013 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 
                    
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                            | "Jigoku no Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)" | John G. McDaid | 1995 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Man Who Sold the Moon" | Cory Doctorow | 2014 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2015 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "Over Yonder" | Lucius Shepard | 2002 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" | James Alan Gardner | 2008 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 
                    
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                            | "Schrödinger's Kitten" | George Alec Effinger | 1988 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sergeant Chip" | Bradley Denton | 2004 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2005 | Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |  | 2005 | Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 
                    
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                            | "Shambling Towards Hiroshima" | James Morrow | 2009 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Sultan of the Clouds" | Geoffrey A. Landis | 2010 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |  | 2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2011 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster |  | 
                    
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                            | "Surviving" | Judith Moffett | 1986 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |  | 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Tendeléo's Story" | Ian McDonald | 2000 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "This Year's Class Picture" | Dan Simmons | 1992 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time 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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                            | "Waterlines" | Suzanne Palmer | 2019 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Wedding Album" | David Marusek | 1999 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis" | Annalee Newitz | 2018 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 2019 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Forgiveness Day" | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1994 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |  | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |  | 
                    
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                            | "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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                            | "Rachel in Love" | Pat Murphy | 1987 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Sturgeon winner |  | 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |  | 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 |  | 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 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 |  | 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Story of Your Life" | Ted Chiang | 1998 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Sturgeon winner |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |  | 1999 | Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell |  | 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |  | 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 |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |  | 
                    
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