Sturgeon finalist

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

Title Author/Editor↥ Year Citations Reviews
"The Spine Divers" Ray Aldridge 1995
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"The Art of Space Travel" Nina Allan 2016
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster
"Six Months, Three Days" Charlie Jane Anders 2011
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"If You Take My Meaning" Charlie Jane Anders 2020
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2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance" Eleanor Arnason 1999
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2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Mammoths of the Great Plains" Eleanor Arnason 2010
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2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Things Greater Than Love" Kate Bachus 2012
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2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
"The Fluted Girl" Paolo Bacigalupi 2003
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2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Yellow Card Man" Paolo Bacigalupi 2006
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Gambler" Paolo Bacigalupi 2008
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"My Advice to the Civilized" John Barnes 1990
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"Things Undone" John Barnes 2009
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2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Stairs" Neal Barrett, Jr. 1988
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2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Forest" Laird Barron 2007
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"Age of Aquarius" William Barton 1996
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Heart of Glass" William Barton 2000
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"Off on a Starship" William Barton 2003
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2004Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Sheena 5" Stephen Baxter 2000
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2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
"On the Orion Line" Stephen Baxter 2000
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling" L. X. Beckett 2018
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2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
"Lady With Fox" Gregory Benford 2014
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"The Window" Judith Berman 1999
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"The Fear Gun" Judith Berman 2004
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2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Cri de Coeur" Michael Bishop 1994
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"I, Iscariot" Michael Bishop 1995
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"macs" Terry Bisson 1999
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Scout's Honor" Terry Bisson 2004
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2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Thirteen Phantasms" James P. Blaylock 1996
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1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" Brooke Bolander 2015
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
"The Only Harmless Great Thing" Brooke Bolander 2018
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Bloom" Gregory Norman Bossert 2013
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"Ma Qui" Alan Brennert 1991
Nebula Award - Story Winner
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"Echoes" Alan Brennert 1997
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1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"This Wind Blowing, and This Tide" Damien Broderick 2009
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2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Under the Moons of Venus" Damien Broderick 2010
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2011Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Fire that Scours" Edward Bryant 1994
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"Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" Tobias S. Buckell 2017
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2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" Tobias S. Buckell 2019
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2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams
"Reality Check" Michael A. Burstein 1999
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" Octavia E. Butler 1987
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Childfinder" Octavia E. Butler 2014
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"Pretty Boy Crossover" Pat Cadigan 1986
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Paris in June" Pat Cadigan 1994
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1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" Raphael Carter 1998
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"The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes" Adam-Troy Castro 2003
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"In Her Eyes" Seth Chambers 2014
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2015The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition edited by Paula Guran
"The Translator, at Low Tide" Vajra Chandrasekera 2020
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2022The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
"Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast" Suzy McKee Charnas 1996
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Wellness Plague" Robert R. Chase 1995
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"Seventy-Two Letters" Ted Chiang 2000
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Hell Is the Absence of God" Ted Chiang 2001
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Liking What You See: A Documentary" Ted Chiang 2002
Sturgeon finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Ted Chiang 2007
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Omphalos" Ted Chiang 2019
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Measure of All Things" Richard Chwedyk 2001
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2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Bronte's Egg" Richard Chwedyk 2002
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"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
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"If the Martians Have Magic" P. Djèlí Clark 2021
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2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"Symphony for Skyfall" Rick CookPeter L. Manly 1994
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"Savant Songs" Brenda Cooper 2004
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2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"The Copenhagen Interpretation" Paul Cornell 2011
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Gone" John Crowley 1996
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"Radio Praha" Tony Daniel 1998
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"Scattered Along the River of Heaven" Aliette de Bodard 2012
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
"Immersion" Aliette de Bodard 2012
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Wildfires of Antarctica" Alan DeNiro 2013
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton
"A Year in the Linear City" Paul Di Filippo 2002
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Craphound" Cory Doctorow 1998
Sturgeon finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"True Names" Cory DoctorowBenjamin Rosenbaum 2008
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dance at the Edge" L. Timmel Duchamp 1998
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"Herd Immunity" Tananarive Due 2014
Sturgeon finalist
"Close Encounters" Andy Duncan 2012
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2013Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"Cocoon" Greg Egan 1994
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Planck Drive" Greg Egan 1998
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Singleton" Greg Egan 2002
Sturgeon finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred" Greg Egan 2015
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"The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine" Greg Egan 2017
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Seasons of Glass and Iron" Amal El-Mohtar 2016
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"This Is How You Lose the Time War" Amal El-MohtarMax Gladstone 2019
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Pill" Meg Elison 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams
"The Weighing of Ayre" Gregory Feeley 1996
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1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Animae Celestes" Gregory Feeley 1998
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"Arabian Wine" Gregory Feeley 2004
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2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Political Prisoner" Charles Coleman Finlay 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Crane Fly" Eliot Fintushel 1998
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"Milo and Sylvie" Eliot Fintushel 2000
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2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The New Mother" Eugene Fischer 2015
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Melodies of the Heart" Michael F. Flynn 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" Michael F. Flynn 2006
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Gift" Pat Forde 1987
Sturgeon finalist
"The Empire of Ice Cream" Jeffrey Ford 2003
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Dreaming Wind" Jeffrey Ford 2007
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Erase/Record/Play" John M. Ford 1996
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"When It Ends, He Catches Her" Eugie Foster 2014
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Elizabeth Complex" Karen Joy Fowler 1996
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Always" Karen Joy Fowler 2007
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2008Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"How Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His Toes" Gregory Frost 1998
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"Madonna of the Maquiladora" Gregory Frost 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma" R. S. A. Garcia 2021
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"As Women Fight" Sara Genge 2009
Sturgeon finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Martian Child" David Gerrold 1994
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Dancer in the Dark" David Gerrold 2004
Sturgeon finalist
"Touring with the Alien" Carolyn Ives Gilman 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster
"Umbernight" Carolyn Ives Gilman 2018
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton
2019The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Two Domains" Allen Goldbarth 1994
Sturgeon finalist
"Memory Dog" Kathleen Ann Goonan 2008
Sturgeon finalist
2009Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Give the Family My Love" A. T. Greenblatt 2019
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2020The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
"Second Person, Present Tense" Daryl Gregory 2005
Sturgeon finalist
2006Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"We Are All Completely Fine" Daryl Gregory 2014
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" Daryl Gregory 2018
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"The Album of Dr. Moreau" Daryl Gregory 2021
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"The Giftie" James E. Gunn 1999
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"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" Elizabeth Hand 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Suicide Coast" M. John Harrison 1999
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"When We Were Starless" Simone Heller 2018
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster
"At the Shadow of a Dream" Howard V. Hendrix 1993
Sturgeon finalist
"Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" Robin Hobb 1989
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Home for Christmas" Nina Kiriki Hoffman 1995
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Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Five Days in April" Brian A. Hopkins 1999
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Proof by Induction" José Pablo Iriarte 2021
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"Folding Beijing" Hao Jingfang 2015
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
"They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" Alaya Dawn Johnson 2013
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton
"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" Kij Johnson 2007
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Spar" Kij Johnson 2009
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" Kij Johnson 2011
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Tomb Wife" Gwyneth Jones 2007
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Emergence" Gwyneth Jones 2015
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Weight of the Sunrise" Vylar Kaftan 2013
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4 edited by Allen Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Wading River Dogs and More" Michael Kandel 1998
Sturgeon finalist
"Grave Angels" Richard Kearns 1986
Sturgeon finalist
1987Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Heroics" James Patrick Kelly 1987
Sturgeon finalist
"Dancing with the Chairs" James Patrick Kelly 1989
Sturgeon finalist
"Faith" James Patrick Kelly 1989
Sturgeon finalist
"Itsy Bitsy Spider" James Patrick Kelly 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Lovestory" James Patrick Kelly 1998
Sturgeon finalist
"Undone" James Patrick Kelly 2001
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Bernardo's House" James Patrick Kelly 2003
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"The Old Equations" Jake Kerr 2011
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" John Kessel 1988
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Juniper Tree" John Kessel 2000
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Stories for Men" John Kessel 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"It's All True" John Kessel 2003
Sturgeon finalist
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" John Kessel 2004
Sturgeon finalist
"The Last American" John Kessel 2007
Sturgeon finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Dark Ride" John Kessel 2021
Sturgeon finalist
"Blood Dauber" Ted KosmatkaMichael Poore 2009
Sturgeon finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Fault Lines" Nancy Kress 1995
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Marigold Outlet" Nancy Kress 1996
Sturgeon finalist
"Savior" Nancy Kress 2000
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"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
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition edited by Paula Guran
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Episodes of the Argo" R. A. Lafferty 1990
Sturgeon finalist
"The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future" Jay Lake 2012
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
2013The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"Singing My Sister Down" Margo Lanagan 2004
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"A Hotel in Antarctica" Geoffrey A. Landis 2014
Sturgeon finalist
"The Ballad of Black Tom" Victor LaValle 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Universal Grammar" Mary Soon Lee 1997
Sturgeon finalist
"Clockatrice" Tanith Lee 2009
Sturgeon finalist
"Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" Yoon Ha Lee 2010
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Ghostweight" Yoon Ha Lee 2011
Sturgeon finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Starship and the Temple Cat" Yoon Ha Lee 2018
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton
"The Mermaid Astronaut" Yoon Ha Lee 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Another Story, or, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
Sturgeon finalist
"The Birthday of the World" Ursula K. Le Guin 2000
Sturgeon finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Wild Girls" Ursula K. Le Guin 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Seasons of the Ansarac" Ursula K. Le Guin 2002
Sturgeon finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Happy Man" Jonathan Lethem 1991
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" David D. Levine 2003
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Damage" David D. Levine 2015
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
2016The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Chronology Protection Case" Paul Levinson 1995
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Loose Ends" Paul Levinson 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Advantage, Bellarmine" Paul Levinson 1998
Sturgeon finalist
"Stone Animals" Kelly Link 2004
Sturgeon finalist
"Magic for Beginners" Kelly Link 2005
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" Ken Liu 2011
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Paper Menagerie" Ken Liu 2011
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Mono No Aware" Ken Liu 2012
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" Ken Liu 2012
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Regular" Ken Liu 2014
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2015The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know" Ken Liu 2020
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
2021The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"The Lightness of the Movement" Pat MacEwen 2014
Sturgeon finalist
"The Summer Isles" Ian R. MacLeod 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Chop Girl" Ian R. MacLeod 1999
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Isabel of the Fall" Ian R. MacLeod 2001
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"New Light on the Drake Equation" Ian R. MacLeod 2001
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Breathmoss" Ian R. MacLeod 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Master Miller's Tale" Ian R. MacLeod 2007
Sturgeon finalist
"The Visitor from Taured" Ian R. MacLeod 2016
Sturgeon finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 1 edited by Allan Kaster
"Understanding Entropy" Barry N. Malzberg 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy" David Marusek 1995
Sturgeon finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Reef" Paul J. McAuley 2000
Sturgeon finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Once Upon a Matter Crushed" Wil McCarthy 1999
Sturgeon finalist
"Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals" John G. McDaid 2005
Sturgeon finalist
"The Little Goddess" Ian McDonald 2005
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Djinn's Wife" Ian McDonald 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Tear" Ian McDonald 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
"The Fifth Dragon" Ian McDonald 2014
Sturgeon finalist
2015The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" Ian McDonald 2015
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster
"Nekropolis" Maureen F. McHugh 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Interview: On Any Given Day" Maureen F. McHugh 2001
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Special Economics" Maureen F. McHugh 2008
Sturgeon finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Sidewalks" Maureen F. McHugh 2017
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" Maureen F. McHugh 2020
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2022The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
"Over There" Will McIntosh 2013
Sturgeon finalist
"Little Faces" Vonda N. McIntyre 2005
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Walls of the Universe" Paul Melko 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"We Are the Cloud" Sam J. Miller 2014
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2015The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill
"Things with Beards" Sam J. Miller 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Metric" David Moles 2021
Sturgeon finalist
"A Mastery of German" Marian Denise Moore 2020
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Cat's Pajamas" James Morrow 2001
Sturgeon finalist
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Nahiku West" Linda Nagata 2012
Sturgeon finalist
2013Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2013The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Martian Obelisk" Linda Nagata 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
"Sarcophagus" Ray Nayler 2021
Sturgeon finalist
"Looking through Lace" Ruth Nestvold 2003
Sturgeon finalist
"The Irish Astronaut" Val Nolan 2013
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2014The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster
"Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Magical Negro" Nnedi Okorafor 2004
Sturgeon finalist
"The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" Karen Osborne 2019
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Shatterdown" Suzanne Palmer 2014
Sturgeon finalist
"The Secret Life of Bots" Suzanne Palmer 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"The Painter of Trees" Suzanne Palmer 2019
Sturgeon finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke
"Bots of the Lost Ark" Suzanne Palmer 2021
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Elephant" Susan Palwick 1986
Sturgeon finalist
"Get a Grip" Paul Park 1997
Sturgeon finalist
"Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" Paul Park 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
"Project Empathy" Dominica Phetteplace 2016
Sturgeon finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
"Our Lady of the Open Road" Sarah Pinsker 2015
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"And Then There Were (N-One)" Sarah Pinsker 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
"The Color Winter" Steven Popkes 1988
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Series of Steaks" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"Fandom for Robots" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
"A Guide for Working Breeds" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"Her Voice in a Bottle" Tim Pratt 2009
Sturgeon finalist
"His Master's Voice" Hannu Rajaniemi 2008
Sturgeon finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Sisters of the Vast Black" Lina Rather 2019
Sturgeon finalist
"Winemaster" Robert Reed 1999
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Coelacanths" Robert Reed 2002
Sturgeon finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Mere" Robert Reed 2004
Sturgeon finalist
"A Billion Eves" Robert Reed 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"True Fame" Robert Reed 2009
Sturgeon finalist
"Dead Man's Run" Robert Reed 2010
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
"Eater-of-Bone" Robert Reed 2012
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"Mystic Falls" Robert Reed 2013
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Cryptic Age" Robert Reed 2014
Sturgeon finalist
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Mike Resnick 1994
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Mike Resnick 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Troika" Alastair Reynolds 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster
"You Have Never Been Here" M. Rickert 2006
Sturgeon finalist
"Love of the True God" Uncle River 1998
Sturgeon finalist
"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" Rebecca Roanhorse 2017
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"A Princess of Helium" R. Garcia y Robertson 1998
Sturgeon finalist
"The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" Kelly Robson 2015
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"We Who Live in the Heart" Kelly Robson 2017
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach" Kelly Robson 2018
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Start the Clock" Benjamin Rosenbaum 2004
Sturgeon finalist
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"The House Beyond Your Sky" Benjamin Rosenbaum 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"One Good Juror" Mary RosenblumJames Sarafin 1997
Sturgeon finalist
"The Voluntary State" Christopher Rowe 2004
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Another Word for Map Is Faith" Christopher Rowe 2006
Sturgeon finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Echea" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Everywhere" Geoff Ryman 1999
Sturgeon finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
"Have Not Have" Geoff Ryman 2001
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Undiscovered" William Sanders 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Jennifer, Just Before Midnight" William Sanders 1999
Sturgeon finalist
"Dry Bones" William Sanders 2003
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Danny Goes to Mars" Pamela Sargent 1992
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Venus Flowers at Night" Pamela Sargent 2004
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" Kenneth Schneyer 2013
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Gypsy" Carter Scholz 2015
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster
"On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog" Adam R. Shannon 2018
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"Radiant Green Star" Lucius Shepard 2000
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Eternity and Afterward" Lucius Shepard 2001
Sturgeon finalist
"Only Partly Here" Lucius Shepard 2003
Sturgeon finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Anne" Mike Shepherd 2004
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Death of Che Guevara" Lewis Shiner 2009
Sturgeon finalist
"Inclination" William Shunn 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"AirBody" Sameem Siddiqui 2020
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2022The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
"Slipping" David B. Silva 1991
Sturgeon finalist
"Baby Doll" Johanna Sinisalo 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"Dead Worlds" Jack Skillingstead 2003
Sturgeon finalist
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Avery Cates: The Walled City" Jeff Somers 2015
Sturgeon finalist
"Diamonds Aren't Forever" S. P. Somtow 1995
Sturgeon finalist
"The Story So Far" Martha Soukup 1993
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" Brian Stableford 1995
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Age of Innocence" Brian Stableford 1995
Sturgeon finalist
"Coming to Grips with the Great Plague" Brian Stableford 1997
Sturgeon finalist
"… Where Angels Fear to Tread" Allen Steele 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Dori Bangs" Bruce Sterling 1989
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Maneki Neko" Bruce Sterling 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"In Paradise" Bruce Sterling 2002
Sturgeon finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Blemmye's Strategem" Bruce Sterling 2005
Sturgeon finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Peak of Eternal Light" Bruce Sterling 2012
Sturgeon finalist
2013Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell
"Panacea" Jason Stoddard 2005
Sturgeon finalist
"Antibodies" Charles Stross 2000
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Lobsters" Charles Stross 2001
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Halo" Charles Stross 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Radio Waves" Michael Swanwick 1995
Sturgeon finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Wild Minds" Michael Swanwick 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Radiant Doors" Michael Swanwick 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" Michael Swanwick 2001
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Lord Weary's Empire" Michael Swanwick 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" Michael Swanwick 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Eros, Philia, Agape" Rachel Swirsky 2009
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Death and the Lady" Judith Tarr 1992
Sturgeon finalist
"A Letter from the Emperor" Steve Rasnic Tem 2010
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"Yard Dog" Tade Thompson 2018
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir" Karin Tidbeck 2019
Sturgeon finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Night Train" Lavie Tidhar 2010
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"New Atlantis" Lavie Tidhar 2020
Sturgeon finalist
"Gladiator's War: A Dialogue" Lois Tilton 2004
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky" E. Catherine Tobler 2012
Sturgeon finalist
"The Necessity of Stars" E. Catherine Tobler 2021
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects" Steve Tomasula 2004
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Invisible Kingdoms" Steven Utley 2004
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Silently and Very Fast" Catherynne M. Valente 2011
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dradin, in Love" Jeff VanderMeer 1996
Sturgeon finalist
"The Inn at Mount Either" James Van Pelt 2005
Sturgeon finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"Green Tea" Richard Wadholm 1999
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Lions Are Asleep This Night" Howard Waldrop 1986
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" Howard Waldrop 1988
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"An Appeal to Adolf" Ian Watson 2004
Sturgeon finalist
"The Island" Peter Watts 2009
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2010Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"The Things" Peter Watts 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dinosaurs" Walter Jon Williams 1987
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Lethe" Walter Jon Williams 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Daddy's World" Walter Jon Williams 1999
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Even the Queen" Connie Willis 1992
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Inside Job" Connie Willis 2005
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"A Taste of Honey" Kai Ashante Wilson 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Julian: A Christmas Story" Robert Charles Wilson 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Lost Pilgrim" Gene Wolfe 2004
Sturgeon finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Memorare" Gene Wolfe 2007
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Archronology of Love" Caroline M. Yoachim 2019
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
2020The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams
"The Urishima Effect" E. Lily Yu 2013
Sturgeon finalist
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