| "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1970 | Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "He Who Shapes" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Home Is the Hangman" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Sister Emily's Lightship" |
Jane Yolen
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Lost Girls" |
Jane Yolen
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" |
Alyssa Wong
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Death of Doctor Island" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1973 |
|
1
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Open House on Haunted Hill" |
John Wiswell
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Mother to the World" |
Richard Wilson
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
|
|
|
| "Fire Watch" |
Connie Willis
|
1982 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "A Letter from the Clearys" |
Connie Willis
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Last of the Winnebagos" |
Connie Willis
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "At the Rialto" |
Connie Willis
|
1989 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1990 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Even the Queen" |
Connie Willis
|
1992 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Daddy's World" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 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 |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Green Leopard Plague" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2004 | Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Ultimate Earth" |
Jack Williamson
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Planners" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
|
|
|
| "The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Forever Yours, Anna" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1987 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "The Cost of Doing Business" |
Leslie What
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "All Systems Red" |
Martha Wells
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Ugly Chickens" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1980 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Jackalope Wives" |
Ursula Vernon
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Persistence of Vision" |
John Varley
|
1978 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1979 | The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1979 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1979 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 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 |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Press ENTER ■" |
John Varley
|
1984 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Last Castle" |
Jack Vance
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Bone Flute" |
Lisa Tuttle
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Mars Is No Place For Children" |
Mary A. Turzillo
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1976 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1977 | The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Screwfly Solution" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1977 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1978 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" |
Rachel Swirsky
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" |
Rachel Swirsky
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Slow Sculpture" |
Theodore Sturgeon
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" |
Eric James Stone
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Defense of the Social Contracts" |
Martha Soukup
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Grotto of the Dancing Deer" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Passengers" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1968 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 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 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Good News from the Vatican" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1971 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1972 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
|
| "Born with the Dead" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1974 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Sailing to Byzantium" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1985 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "R & R" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Georgia on My Mind" |
Charles Sheffield
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Danny Goes to Mars" |
Pamela Sargent
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "What We Found" |
Geoff Ryman
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "When It Changed" |
Joanna Russ
|
1972 |
|
11
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 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 |
| 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 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" |
Bruce Holland Rogers
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Thirteen Ways to Water" |
Bruce Holland Rogers
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "A Human Stain" |
Kelly Robson
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Stardance" |
Spider Robinson,
Jeanne Robinson
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1978 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Blind Geometer" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" |
Rebecca Roanhorse
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
|
| "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" |
Mike Resnick
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" |
Tom Reamy
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "Carpe Glitter" |
Cat Rambo
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Even Though I Knew the End" |
C. L. Polk
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Our Lady of the Open Road" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
|
| "Two Truths and a Lie" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |
| 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Cure for Everything" |
Severna Park
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Abandon in Place" |
Jerry Oltion
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Binti" |
Nnedi Okorafor
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "O2 Arena" |
Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Goddesses" |
Linda Nagata
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Rachel in Love" |
Pat Murphy
|
1987 |
|
4
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" |
James Morrow
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "City of Truth" |
James Morrow
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "Behold the Man" |
Michael Moorcock
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "And What Can We Offer You Tonight" |
Premee Mohamed
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Rabbit Test" |
Samantha Mills
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Secret Place" |
Richard McKenna
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
|
|
|
| "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" |
Vonda N. McIntyre
|
1973 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "Every Heart a Doorway" |
Seanan McGuire
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Dragonrider" |
Anne McCaffrey
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Sandkings" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1979 |
|
7
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Portraits of His Children" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Missing Man" |
Katherine MacLean
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Enemy Mine" |
Barry B. Longyear
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Paper Menagerie" |
Ken Liu
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Louise's Ghost" |
Kelly Link
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Faery Handbag" |
Kelly Link
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Magic for Beginners" |
Kelly Link
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "Gonna Roll the Bones" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Ill Met in Lankhmar" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Catch That Zeppelin!" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Day Before the Revolution" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1974 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Solitude" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Long Fall Up" |
William Ledbetter
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Year Without Sunshine" |
Naomi Kritzer
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Out of All Them Bright Stars" |
Nancy Kress
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Beggars in Spain" |
Nancy Kress
|
1991 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" |
Nancy Kress
|
1996 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Fountain of Age" |
Nancy Kress
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall" |
Nancy Kress
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Yesterday's Kin" |
Nancy Kress
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Basement Magic" |
Ellen Klages
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Another Orphan" |
John Kessel
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Pride and Prometheus" |
John Kessel
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Burn" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Weight of the Sunrise" |
Vylar Kaftan
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2014 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4 edited by Allen Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Spar" |
Kij Johnson
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Ponies" |
Kij Johnson
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" |
Kij Johnson
|
2011 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" |
Alaya Dawn Johnson
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2015 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "Linghun" |
Ai Jiang
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Trophy Wives" |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Last Summer at Mars Hill" |
Elizabeth Hand
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Echo" |
Elizabeth Hand
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Hemingway Hoax" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Graves" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Coming to Terms" |
Eileen Gunn
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Give the Family My Love" |
A. T. Greenblatt
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2020 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "A Crowd of Shadows" |
Charles L. Grant
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" |
Charles L. Grant
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Martian Child" |
David Gerrold
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" |
R. S. A. Garcia
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Coraline" |
Neil Gaiman
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Death and the Librarian" |
Esther M. Friesner
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "A Birthday" |
Esther M. Friesner
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "What I Didn't See" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Always" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2008 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" |
Eugie Foster
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Empire of Ice Cream" |
Jeffrey Ford
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Reading the Bones" |
Sheila Finch
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Creature" |
Carol Emshwiller
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "I Live with You" |
Carol Emshwiller
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1965 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 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 |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "A Boy and His Dog" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1969 |
|
5
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Jeffty Is Five" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1977 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1978 | The 1978 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" |
Harlan Ellison
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Seasons of Glass and Iron" |
Amal El-Mohtar
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "This Is How You Lose the Time War" |
Amal El-Mohtar,
Max Gladstone
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Schrödinger's Kitten" |
George Alec Effinger
|
1988 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Close Encounters" |
Andy Duncan
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2013 | Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2013 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "The Peacemaker" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Morning Child" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Call Him Lord" |
Gordon R. Dickson
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
|
|
|
| "Aye, and Gomorrah …" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1967 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1968 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Immersion" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "The Waiting Stars" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Tea Master and the Detective" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Da Vinci Rising" |
Jack Dann
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Guide Dog" |
Mike Conner
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" |
P. Djèlí Clark
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2019 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams |
|
|
|
| "Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times" |
P. Djèlí Clark
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Meeting with Medusa" |
Arthur C. Clarke
|
1971 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
| 1972 | Best SF: 1971 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
| 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Bronte's Egg" |
Richard Chwedyk
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" |
John Chu
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Tower of Babylon" |
Ted Chiang
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Story of Your Life" |
Ted Chiang
|
1998 |
|
4
|
| 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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| "Hell Is the Absence of God" |
Ted Chiang
|
2001 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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|
|
| "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" |
Ted Chiang
|
2007 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Unicorn Tapestry" |
Suzy McKee Charnas
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "The Night We Buried Road Dog" |
Jack Cady
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Bloodchild" |
Octavia E. Butler
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1984 |
|
1
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 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 |
| 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 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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|
| "The Mountains of Mourning" |
Lois McMaster Bujold
|
1989 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 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 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Stone" |
Edward Bryant
|
1978 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "giANTS" |
Edward Bryant
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Ma Qui" |
Alan Brennert
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Only Harmless Great Thing" |
Brooke Bolander
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Bears Discover Fire" |
Terry Bisson
|
1990 |
|
3
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "macs" |
Terry Bisson
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Quickening" |
Michael Bishop
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "If the Stars Are Gods" |
Gregory Benford,
Gordon Eklund
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
|
| "Hardfought" |
Greg Bear
|
1983 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "Blood Music" |
Greg Bear
|
1983 |
|
3
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Tangents" |
Greg Bear
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Two Hearts" |
Peter S. Beagle
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Women of Nell Gwynne's" |
Kage Baker
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Bicentennial Man" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1976 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1977 | The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Spacetime Pool" |
Catherine Asaro
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Queen of Air and Darkness" |
Poul Anderson
|
1971 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Goat Song" |
Poul Anderson
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1973 | The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Saturn Game" |
Poul Anderson
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Saliva Tree" |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
|
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