"ZeroS" | Peter Watts |
2017 |
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2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2018 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Zero Hour" | Ray Bradbury |
1947 |
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1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
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"Zero for Conduct" | Greg Egan |
2013 |
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2014 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2014 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" | Tobias S. Buckell |
2017 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" | Alyssa Wong |
2016 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
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"Yesterday's Kin" | Nancy Kress |
2014 |
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| 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 |
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"The Yellow Pill" | Rog Phillips |
1958 |
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1959 | SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Yellow Card Man" | Paolo Bacigalupi |
2006 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" | Maureen F. McHugh |
2020 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |
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"The Year of the Jackpot" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1952 |
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1966 | Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"A Work of Art" | James Blish |
1956 |
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1966 | Best SF Six edited by Edmund Crispin |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
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"The Word for World Is Forest" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1972 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Women Men Don't See" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1973 |
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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 |
1975 | Best SF: 1974 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"A Woman's Liberation" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1995 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"With Morning Comes Mistfall" | George R. R. Martin |
1973 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1974 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"With Folded Hands …" | Jack Williamson |
1947 |
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1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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"The Witches of Karres" | James H. Schmitz |
1949 |
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1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" | Alix E. Harrow |
2018 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
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"Winter's King" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1969 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"Winter Timeshare" | Ray Nayler |
2017 |
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2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Winter Market" | William Gibson |
1985 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"The Wings of Night" | Lester del Rey |
1942 |
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1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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"Window" | Bob Leman |
1980 |
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| Nebula 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 |
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"Wind Will Rove" | Sarah Pinsker |
2017 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
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"The Wind People" | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
1959 |
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1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
1987 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"Who Can Replace a Man?" | Brian W. Aldiss |
1958 |
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1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1963 | Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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"Where the Golden Apples Grow" | Kage Baker |
2006 |
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2007 | Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"… Where Angels Fear to Tread" | Allen Steele |
1997 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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"When You Care, When You Love" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1962 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 24 (1962) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"When We Were Starless" | Simone Heller |
2018 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"When We Went to See the End of the World" | Robert Silverberg |
1972 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
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"When the Old Gods Die" | Mike Resnick |
1995 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" | Cory Doctorow |
2006 |
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2007 | Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
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"When It Changed" | Joanna Russ |
1972 |
|
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| 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 |
|
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"When I Was Miss Dow" | Sonya Dorman |
1966 |
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1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
|
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"What's It Like Out There?" | Edmond Hamilton |
1952 |
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1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1966 | Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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"What You Need" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1945 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"What We Found" | Geoff Ryman |
2011 |
|
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| 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 |
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"Weyr Search" | Anne McCaffrey |
1967 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future" | Jay Lake |
2012 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
2013 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"Weep for Day" | Indrapramit Das |
2012 |
|
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2013 | Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Wedding Album" | David Marusek |
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"The Weapon Shop" | A. E. van Vogt |
1942 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Weapon" | Fredric Brown |
1951 |
|
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1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1966 | Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr |
1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"We Will Drink a Fish Together …" | Bill Johnson |
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"We Who Live in the Heart" | Kelly Robson |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"We See Things Differently" | Bruce Sterling |
1989 |
|
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1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
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"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" | Philip K. Dick |
1966 |
|
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1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
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 |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"We Are the Cloud" | Sam J. Miller |
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2015 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill |
|
|
"The Way of Cross and Dragon" | George R. R. Martin |
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" | Eleanor Arnason |
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
"Wang's Carpets" | Greg Egan |
1995 |
|
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1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Walls of the Universe" | Paul Melko |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
"Wall, Stone, Craft" | Walter Jon Williams |
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night" | Algis Budrys |
1961 |
|
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1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
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"The Wall Around the World" | Theodore R. Cogswell |
1953 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
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"A Walk in the Sun" | Geoffrey A. Landis |
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Waldo" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1942 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
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"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 Voluntary State" | Christopher Rowe |
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2005 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Voices of Time" | J. G. Ballard |
1960 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1991 | The Great SF Stories 22 (1960) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"The Visitor from Taured" | Ian R. MacLeod |
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Vintage Season" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1946 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"View from a Height" | Joan D. Vinge |
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1979 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr |
1979 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
|
|
"The Very Slow Time Machine" | Ian Watson |
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1979 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"The Veldt" | Ray Bradbury |
1950 |
|
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2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Vault of the Beast" | A. E. van Vogt |
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1971 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
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 |
|
|
"The Vanishing Kind" | Lavie Tidhar |
2016 |
|
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2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Utriusque Cosmi" | Robert Charles Wilson |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Utopia, LOL?" | Jamie Wahls |
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
"Useless Things" | Maureen F. McHugh |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1942 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Universe" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1941 |
|
|
1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Undone" | James Patrick Kelly |
2001 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2002 | Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"The Undiscovered" | William Sanders |
1997 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth 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 |
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"Understanding Entropy" | Barry N. Malzberg |
1994 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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"Understand" | Ted Chiang |
1991 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Under the Moons of Venus" | Damien Broderick |
2010 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"The Unconquered Country" | Geoff Ryman |
1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
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"Unaccompanied Sonata" | Orson Scott Card |
1979 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Umbernight" | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
2018 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
2019 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"The Ultimate Earth" | Jack Williamson |
2000 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"The Ugly Little Boy" | Isaac Asimov |
1958 |
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| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Ugly Chickens" | Howard Waldrop |
1980 |
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| 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 |
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"The Twonky" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1942 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Two Truths and a Lie" | Sarah Pinsker |
2020 |
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| 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 |
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"Two Hearts" | Peter S. Beagle |
2005 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"Two Dooms" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1958 |
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| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Turing's Apples" | Stephen Baxter |
2008 |
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2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"The Tunnel Under the World" | Frederik Pohl |
1955 |
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Tunnel Ahead" | Alice Glaser |
1961 |
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1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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"The Tunesmith" | Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
1957 |
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1958 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series edited by T. E. Dikty |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
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"True Names" | Vernor Vinge |
1981 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Trojan Horse" | Michael Swanwick |
1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
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 |
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"Troika" | Alastair Reynolds |
2010 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Trinity" | Nancy Kress |
1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
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 |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Triceratops Summer" | Michael Swanwick |
2005 |
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2006 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Tricentennial" | Joe Haldeman |
1976 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
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"Travels with My Cats" | Mike Resnick |
2004 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"Tower of Babylon" | Ted Chiang |
1990 |
|
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| 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 |
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"Touring with the Alien" | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
2016 |
|
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Total Environment" | Brian W. Aldiss |
1968 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Tomb Wife" | Gwyneth Jones |
2007 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
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"Today I Am Paul" | Martin L. Shoemaker |
2015 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"To Serve Man" | Damon Knight |
1950 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" | Jorge Luis Borges |
1940 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
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"Tiny Tango" | Judith Moffett |
1989 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Tin Marsh" | Michael Swanwick |
2006 |
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2007 | Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Time Travelers Never Die" | Jack McDevitt |
1996 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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"Time Deer" | Craig Strete |
1974 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Best SF: 1974 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
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"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" | Samuel R. Delany |
1968 |
|
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| 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 |
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"Tideline" | Elizabeth Bear |
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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"Thunder and Roses" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1947 |
|
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1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" | James Alan Gardner |
1997 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
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"Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" | Aliette de Bodard |
2015 |
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2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"This Wind Blowing, and This Tide" | Damien Broderick |
2009 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe" | Robert Charles Wilson |
2009 |
|
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2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"This Moment of the Storm" | Roger Zelazny |
1966 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"This Is How You Lose the Time War" | Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone |
2019 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
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"Thirteen Phantasms" | James P. Blaylock |
1996 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
"The Third Level" | Jack Finney |
1950 |
|
|
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
"Think Like a Dinosaur" | James Patrick Kelly |
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Things with Beards" | Sam J. Miller |
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"The Things" | Peter Watts |
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 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 |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"A Thing of Beauty" | Norman Spinrad |
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1974 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
|
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"The Thing in the Stone" | Clifford D. Simak |
1970 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
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"They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" | Alaya Dawn Johnson |
2013 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton |
|
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"They Have All One Breath" | Karl Bunker |
2016 |
|
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2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" | Alfred Bester |
1963 |
|
|
1964 | The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Thermals of August" | Edward Bryant |
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
"There Will Come Soft Rains" | Ray Bradbury |
1950 |
|
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1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Thaw" | Tanith Lee |
1979 |
|
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1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1980 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr |
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"That Only a Mother" | Judith Merril |
1948 |
|
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1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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"That Hell-Bound Train" | Robert Bloch |
1958 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
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"That Game We Played During the War" | Carrie Vaughn |
2016 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"The Territory" | Bradley Denton |
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"The Terminal Beach" | J. G. Ballard |
1964 |
|
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1965 | 10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
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"Terminal" | Lavie Tidhar |
2016 |
|
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2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Tendeléo's Story" | Ian McDonald |
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" | Nibedita Sen |
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2020 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams |
|
|
"The Tear" | Ian McDonald |
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"A Taste of Honey" | Kai Ashante Wilson |
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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"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 |
|
|
"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" | David D. Levine |
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse" | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
2017 |
|
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2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Taklamakan" | Bruce Sterling |
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"Swift, Brutal Retaliation" | Meghan McCarron |
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
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"Swarm" | Bruce Sterling |
1982 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
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 |
|
|
"Surviving" | Judith Moffett |
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Surfacing" | Walter Jon Williams |
1988 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth 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 |
|
|
"Surface Tension" | James Blish |
1952 |
|
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1953 | Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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 |
|
|
"Sur" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1982 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
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"Sundance" | Robert Silverberg |
1969 |
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| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
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 |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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"The Sun Spider" | Lucius Shepard |
1987 |
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1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1988 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 edited by David S. Garnett |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
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"The Summer Isles" | Ian R. MacLeod |
1998 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"The Sultan of the Clouds" | Geoffrey A. Landis |
2010 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"A Subway Named Mobius" | A. J. Deutsch |
1950 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"A Study in Emerald" | Neil Gaiman |
2003 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"The Streets of Ashkelon" | Harry Harrison |
1962 |
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 24 (1962) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Stranger Station" | Damon Knight |
1956 |
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1957 | SF:'57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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"The Strange Case of John Kingman" | Murray Leinster |
1948 |
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1949 | The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"A Story, with Beans" | Steven Gould |
2009 |
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2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Story of Your Life" | Ted Chiang |
1998 |
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|
| Sturgeon winner |
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1999 | Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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"The Storms of Windhaven" | George R. R. Martin, Lisa Tuttle |
1975 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
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"Stories for Men" | John Kessel |
2002 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Store of the Worlds" | Robert Sheckley |
1959 |
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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|
"Start the Clock" | Benjamin Rosenbaum |
2004 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
"The Starship and the Temple Cat" | Yoon Ha Lee |
2018 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
|
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"The Stars Do Not Lie" | Jay Lake |
2012 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"Stardance" | Jeanne Robinson, Spider 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 |
|
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"The Star Pit" | Samuel R. Delany |
1967 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
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"The Star Mouse" | Fredric Brown |
1942 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"The Star Ducks" | Bill Brown |
1950 |
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1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1966 | Best SF Six edited by Edmund Crispin |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
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"The Star" | Arthur C. Clarke |
1955 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1963 | Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Standing Room Only" | Karen Joy Fowler |
1997 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
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"Stable Strategies for Middle Management" | Eileen Gunn |
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Split Light" | Lisa Goldstein |
1994 |
|
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1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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"Speech Sounds" | Octavia E. Butler |
1983 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Spectator Sport" | John D. MacDonald |
1950 |
|
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1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
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"Special Economics" | Maureen F. McHugh |
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"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 |
|
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"Space-Time for Springers" | Fritz Leiber |
1958 |
|
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1959 | SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Sources of the Nile" | Avram Davidson |
1961 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
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"A Sound of Thunder" | Ray Bradbury |
1952 |
|
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1966 | Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov 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 |
|
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"Souls" | Joanna Russ |
1982 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"A Song for Lya" | George R. R. Martin |
1974 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1975 | The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"Someday" | James Patrick Kelly |
2014 |
|
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2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Soldier, Ask Not" | Gordon R. Dickson |
1964 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2001 | The Great SF Stories (1964) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Snowball Effect" | Katherine MacLean |
1952 |
|
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"Snow" | John Crowley |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"Slow Tuesday Night" | R. A. Lafferty |
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1966 | 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Slow Music" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1980 |
|
|
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 |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"Slow Life" | Michael Swanwick |
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
"Slow Birds" | Ian Watson |
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula 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 |
|
|
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" | Philip José Farmer |
1971 |
|
|
1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
1972 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Six Months, Three Days" | Charlie Jane Anders |
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
"The Singular Habits of Wasps" | Geoffrey A. Landis |
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Singleton" | Greg Egan |
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Singing My Sister Down" | Margo Lanagan |
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" | Robin Hobb |
1989 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Silently and Very Fast" | Catherynne M. Valente |
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Sidon in the Mirror" | Connie Willis |
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula 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 |
|
|
"Sidewalks" | Maureen F. McHugh |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Shoggoths in Bloom" | Elizabeth Bear |
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"The Shobies' Story" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"The Ship Who Sang" | Anne McCaffrey |
1961 |
|
|
1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Ship of Shadows" | Fritz Leiber |
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
"Shambling Towards Hiroshima" | James Morrow |
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
|
|
"Sexual Dimorphism" | Kim Stanley Robinson |
1999 |
|
|
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"Seventy-Two Letters" | Ted Chiang |
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Seven American Nights" | Gene Wolfe |
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"A Series of Steaks" | Vina Jie-Min Prasad |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
"Sergeant Chip" | Bradley Denton |
2004 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2005 | Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2005 | Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"The Sentinel" | Arthur C. Clarke |
1951 |
|
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1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2011 | 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 |
|
|
"Selkie Stories Are for Losers" | Sofia Samatar |
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2014 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"The Secret Sharer" | Robert Silverberg |
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Secret Life of Bots" | Suzanne Palmer |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
"Second Variety" | Philip K. Dick |
1953 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1954 | Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Second Person, Present Tense" | Daryl Gregory |
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2006 | Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"The Second Inquisition" | Joanna Russ |
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Screwfly Solution" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1977 |
|
|
| 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 |
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"Scout's Honor" | Terry Bisson |
2004 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2005 | Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Schwarzschild Radius" | Connie Willis |
1987 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"Schrödinger's Kitten" | George Alec Effinger |
1988 |
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|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" | Michael Swanwick |
1999 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Scanners Live in Vain" | Cordwainer Smith |
1950 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov 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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" | Lucius Shepard |
1988 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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|
"Savant Songs" | Brenda Cooper |
2004 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2005 | Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
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"A Saucer of Loneliness" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1953 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"The Saturn Game" | Poul Anderson |
1981 |
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| 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 |
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"Sanity" | Fritz Leiber |
1944 |
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1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Sandkings" | George R. R. Martin |
1979 |
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| 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 |
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"San Diego Lightfoot Sue" | Tom Reamy |
1975 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
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"The Samurai and the Willows" | Michael Bishop |
1976 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Salvador" | Lucius Shepard |
1984 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Sailing to Byzantium" | Robert Silverberg |
1985 |
|
|
| 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 |
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"Sail the Tide of Mourning" | Richard A. Lupoff |
1975 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
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"Sail On! Sail On!" | Philip José Farmer |
1952 |
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1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Sadness" | Timons Esaias |
2014 |
|
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2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2015 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"A Rose for Ecclesiastes" | Roger Zelazny |
1963 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1965 | 10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"Rosary and Goldenstar" | Geoff Ryman |
2013 |
|
|
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton |
2014 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"A Roll of the Dice" | Catherine Asaro |
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Rogue Farm" | Charles Stross |
2003 |
|
|
2004 | Year's Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Robot Dreams" | Isaac Asimov |
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Robbie" | Isaac Asimov |
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Roads Must Roll" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Riders of the Purple Wage" | Philip José Farmer |
1967 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Retrograde Summer" | John Varley |
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
"Rescue Party" | Arthur C. Clarke |
1946 |
|
|
1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Requiem" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" | Harlan Ellison |
1965 |
|
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| 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 |
|
|
"The Remoras" | Robert Reed |
1994 |
|
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1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"The Regular" | Ken Liu |
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2015 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Reef" | Paul J. McAuley |
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"Redking" | Craig DeLancey |
2016 |
|
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2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Recording Angel" | Paul J. McAuley |
1995 |
|
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1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"Reason" | Isaac Asimov |
1941 |
|
|
1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" | James Alan Gardner |
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"Rat" | James Patrick Kelly |
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Radiant Green Star" | Lucius Shepard |
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Radiant Doors" | Michael Swanwick |
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1999 | Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
"Rachel in Love" | Pat Murphy |
1987 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Quietus" | Ross Rocklynne |
1940 |
|
|
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
|
|
"The Quiet" | George Guthridge |
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
"The Quest for Saint Aquin" | Anthony Boucher |
1951 |
|
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1963 | Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" | Poul Anderson |
1971 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"The Pusher" | John Varley |
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1982 | The 1982 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
"The Pure Product" | John Kessel |
1986 |
|
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1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Proving Ground" | Alec Nevala-Lee |
2017 |
|
|
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"The Proud Robot" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1943 |
|
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1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Protection" | Maureen F. McHugh |
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Prophet of Flores" | Ted Kosmatka |
2007 |
|
|
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 |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"Proof by Induction" | José Pablo Iriarte |
2021 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2022 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse |
|
|
"Prodigal" | Gord Sellar |
2016 |
|
|
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Process" | A. E. van Vogt |
1950 |
|
|
1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The Prize of Peril" | Robert Sheckley |
1958 |
|
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1959 | SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Private Eye" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1949 |
|
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1950 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" | Harlan Ellison |
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1968 | Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
"Pretty Boy Crossover" | Pat Cadigan |
1986 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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 |
|
|
"Press ENTER ■" | John Varley |
1984 |
|
|
| 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 Potter of Bones" | Eleanor Arnason |
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Pots" | C. J. Cherryh |
1985 |
|
|
1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"The Postman" | David Brin |
1982 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Poor Little Warrior!" | Brian W. Aldiss |
1958 |
|
|
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Ponies" | Kij Johnson |
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"The Political Prisoner" | Charles Coleman Finlay |
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Political Officer" | Charles Coleman Finlay |
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" | Geoff Ryman |
2006 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Plus or Minus" | James Patrick Kelly |
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"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 |
|
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"A Planet Named Shayol" | Cordwainer Smith |
1961 |
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1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Piper's Son" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1945 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
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"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" | Richard Cowper |
1976 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
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"The Pill" | Meg Elison |
2020 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |
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"Pictures Don't Lie" | Katherine MacLean |
1951 |
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1955 | Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin |
1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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"The Pi Man" | Alfred Bester |
1959 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Pi in the Sky" | Fredric Brown |
1945 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"The Phantom of Kansas" | John Varley |
1976 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
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"The Persistence of Vision" | John Varley |
1978 |
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| 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 |
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"Permafrost" | Roger Zelazny |
1986 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
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"The People of Sand and Slag" | Paolo Bacigalupi |
2004 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2005 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Pelt" | Carol Emshwiller |
1958 |
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1959 | SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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"The Pedestrian" | Ray Bradbury |
1951 |
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1952 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1952 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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"Peaches for Mad Molly" | Steven Gould |
1988 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1989 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two edited by David S. Garnett |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | Usman T. Malik |
2015 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
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"Patron of the Arts" | William Rotsler |
1972 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
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"Pathways" | Nancy Kress |
2013 |
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2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2014 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Passengers" | Robert Silverberg |
1968 |
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| 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 |
|
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"Particle Theory" | Edward Bryant |
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1978 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Parthen" | R. A. Lafferty |
1973 |
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1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1974 | Best SF: 1973 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1974 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
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"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 |
|
|
"Palimpsest" | Charles Stross |
2009 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"Pale Roses" | Michael Moorcock |
1974 |
|
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| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
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"Paladin of the Lost Hour" | Harlan Ellison |
1985 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"Painwise" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The Painter of Trees" | Suzanne Palmer |
2019 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2020 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
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"A Pail of Air" | Fritz Leiber |
1951 |
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1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" | John Varley |
1976 |
|
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1977 | The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
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"Over the River and Through the Woods" | Clifford D. Simak |
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
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"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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"An Ornament to His Profession" | Charles L. Harness |
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
"Oracle" | Greg Egan |
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Or All the Seas with Oysters" | Avram Davidson |
1958 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1959 | SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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 |
|
|
"Options" | John Varley |
1979 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1980 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
|
|
"Openness" | Alexander Weinstein |
2016 |
|
|
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu |
2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Only Thing We Learn" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1949 |
|
|
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
|
|
"Only Partly Here" | Lucius Shepard |
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
"The Only Neat Thing to Do" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"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 |
|
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"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" | Shirley Jackson |
1955 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1956 | S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
"One of Our Bastards Is Missing" | Paul Cornell |
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"On the Storm Planet" | Cordwainer Smith |
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"On the Orion Line" | Stephen Baxter |
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"On the Human Plan" | Jay Lake |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Omnilingual" | H. Beam Piper |
1957 |
|
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1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Okay, Glory" | Elizabeth Bear |
2018 |
|
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2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Off on a Starship" | William Barton |
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon 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 |
|
|
"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" | Vonda N. McIntyre |
1973 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Oceanic" | Greg Egan |
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Ocean Between the Leaves" | Ray Nayler |
2019 |
|
|
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 |
2020 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Occam's Scalpel" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1971 |
|
|
1972 | The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
1972 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
|
|
"Number Nine Moon" | Alex Irvine |
2016 |
|
|
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Not with a Bang" | Damon Knight |
1950 |
|
|
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1966 | Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"None So Blind" | Joe Haldeman |
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth 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 |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Nobody's Home" | Joanna Russ |
1972 |
|
|
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"Nobody Bothers Gus" | Algis Budrys |
1955 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1956 | S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
"No Woman Born" | C. L. Moore |
1944 |
|
|
1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1955 | Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"No Truce with Kings" | Poul Anderson |
1963 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"No Placeholder for You, My Love" | Nick Wolven |
2015 |
|
|
2016 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 edited by John Joseph Adams and Karen Joy Fowler |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"No Direction Home" | Norman Spinrad |
1971 |
|
|
1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
1972 | Best SF: 1971 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig von Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" | Carter Scholz |
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Nine Lives" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1970 | Best SF: 1969 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" | Daryl Gregory |
2018 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams |
|
|
"Nine Hundred Grandmothers" | R. A. Lafferty |
1966 |
|
|
1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
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 |
|
|
"The Nine Billion Names of God" | Arthur C. Clarke |
1953 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Nightwings" | Robert Silverberg |
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Nightflyers" | George R. R. Martin |
1980 |
|
|
| 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 |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Nightfall" | Isaac Asimov |
1941 |
|
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1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Night Train" | Lavie Tidhar |
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"New Rose Hotel" | William Gibson |
1984 |
|
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1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"The New Mother" | Eugene Fischer |
2015 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2016 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"New Light on the Drake Equation" | Ian R. MacLeod |
2001 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 |
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"The New Atlantis" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1975 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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"Neutron Star" | Larry Niven |
1966 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
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 |
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"Nerves" | Lester del Rey |
1942 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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"Nekropolis" | Maureen F. McHugh |
1994 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
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"Narrow Valley" | R. A. Lafferty |
1966 |
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1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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"Nahiku West" | Linda Nagata |
2012 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2013 | Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2013 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"My Mother Dancing" | Nancy Kress |
2004 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2005 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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"My English Name" | R. S. Benedict |
2017 |
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2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Music Master of Babylon" | Edgar Pangborn |
1954 |
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1970 | Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
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"The Muse" | Anthony Burgess |
1968 |
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1970 | Best SF: 1969 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
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"A Murmuration" | Alastair Reynolds |
2015 |
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2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" | John Kessel |
1988 |
|
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Mr. Boy" | James Patrick Kelly |
1990 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Mountains of Mourning" | Lois McMaster Bujold |
1989 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
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"The Mountain to Mohammed" | Nancy Kress |
1992 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
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"Mother Tongues" | S. Qiouyi Lu |
2018 |
|
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2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
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"Mother to the World" | Richard Wilson |
1968 |
|
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| 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 |
|
|
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" | Brian Stableford |
1995 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Morning Child" | Gardner Dozois |
1984 |
|
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| 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 |
|
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"The Moon Moth" | Jack Vance |
1961 |
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1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Moon Is Not a Battlefield" | Indrapramit Das |
2017 |
|
|
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Mono No Aware" | Ken Liu |
2012 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"The Monkey Treatment" | George R. R. Martin |
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Mongoose" | Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Model of a Judge" | William Morrison |
1953 |
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1954 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"The Miracle-Workers" | Jack Vance |
1958 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Mindworm" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1950 |
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1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" | Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore |
1943 |
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1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Million-Year Picnic" | Ray Bradbury |
1946 |
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1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Mile-Long Spaceship" | Kate Wilhelm |
1957 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1958 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series edited by T. E. Dikty |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Microcosmic God" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1941 |
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1943 | The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction edited by Donald A. Wollheim |
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
|
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"Microbe" | Joan Slonczewski |
1995 |
|
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1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Mermaid Astronaut" | Yoon Ha Lee |
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
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"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" | Ted Chiang |
2007 |
|
|
| 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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"The Menace from Earth" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1957 |
|
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2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" | Alfred Bester |
1958 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Men Are Trouble" | James Patrick Kelly |
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2005 | Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Memorial" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1946 |
|
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1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Memorare" | Gene Wolfe |
2007 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
"Melodies of the Heart" | Michael F. Flynn |
1994 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Melancholy Elephants" | Spider Robinson |
1982 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Mefisto in Onyx" | Harlan Ellison |
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"A Meeting with Medusa" | Arthur C. Clarke |
1971 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"The Meeting" | Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth |
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
|
|
"The Mechanical Mice" | Maurice G. Hugi, Eric Frank Russell |
1941 |
|
|
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Meat and Salt and Sparks" | Rich Larson |
2018 |
|
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2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"May Be Some Time" | Brenda W. Clough |
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Matter's End" | Gregory Benford |
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"The Matter of Seggri" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"A Mastery of German" | Marian Denise Moore |
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Masque of the Red Shift" | Fred Saberhagen |
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
"Masks" | Damon Knight |
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
|
|
"The Martian Way" | Isaac Asimov |
1952 |
|
|
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
|
|
"The Martian Obelisk" | Linda Nagata |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"Martian Heart" | John Barnes |
2011 |
|
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2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Martian Child" | David Gerrold |
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Mars Is Heaven!" | Ray Bradbury |
1948 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1949 | The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Marrow" | Robert Reed |
1997 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"The Marching Morons" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1951 |
|
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1952 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1952 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Manna" | Peter Phillips |
1949 |
|
|
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Maneki Neko" | Bruce Sterling |
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1999 | Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
|
|
"The Manamouki" | Mike Resnick |
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Man Who Walked Home" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1972 |
|
|
1973 | The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1950 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" | Cory Doctorow |
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2015 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" | Lucius Shepard |
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Man Who Lost the Sea" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1959 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" | Ken Liu |
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Man Who Came Early" | Poul Anderson |
1956 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" | Kij Johnson |
2011 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Man in His Time" | Brian W. Aldiss |
1965 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" | Elizabeth Hand |
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| 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 |
|
|
"The Magician and Laplace's Demon" | Tom Crosshill |
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Madonna of the Maquiladora" | Gregory Frost |
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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"macs" | Terry Bisson |
1999 |
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|
| 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 |
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"Luminous" | Greg Egan |
1995 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"The Lucky Strike" | Kim Stanley Robinson |
1984 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
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"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1973 |
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|
| 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 |
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"The Lottery" | Shirley Jackson |
1948 |
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|
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Lot" | Ward Moore |
1953 |
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1954 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Lord Weary's Empire" | Michael Swanwick |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
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"Loose Ends" | Paul Levinson |
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
"The Longest Voyage" | Poul Anderson |
1960 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"The Long Watch" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1949 |
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1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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"The Long Haul from The Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" | Ken Liu |
2014 |
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|
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Lobsters" | Charles Stross |
2001 |
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|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
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 |
|
|
"A Little Knowledge" | Poul Anderson |
1971 |
|
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1972 | The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1972 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
|
|
"The Little Goddess" | Ian McDonald |
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2006 | Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Little Faces" | Vonda N. McIntyre |
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Little Black Bag" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1950 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
|
|
"The Lions Are Asleep This Night" | Howard Waldrop |
1986 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
"The Lincoln Train" | Maureen F. McHugh |
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth 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 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Liking What You See: A Documentary" | Ted Chiang |
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Light of Other Days" | Bob Shaw |
1966 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
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 |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" | Ted Chiang |
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Life-Line" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1939 |
|
|
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"The Liberation of Earth" | William Tenn |
1953 |
|
|
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Liar!" | Isaac Asimov |
1941 |
|
|
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"A Letter from the Emperor" | Steve Rasnic Tem |
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Lethe" | Walter Jon Williams |
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Les Fleurs Du Mal" | Brian Stableford |
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Learning to Be Me" | Greg Egan |
1990 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
"The Last Question" | Isaac Asimov |
1956 |
|
|
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Last Objective" | Paul A. Carter |
1946 |
|
|
1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
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"The Last Lonely Man" | John Brunner |
1964 |
|
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1965 | 10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
1965 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
2001 | The Great SF Stories (1964) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Last Contact" | Stephen Baxter |
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Lambing Season" | Molly Gloss |
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth 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 |
|
|
"The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things" | Karen Joy Fowler |
1985 |
|
|
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 |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"Laika's Ghost" | Karl Schroeder |
2011 |
|
|
2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"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 |
|
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"Kyrie" | Poul Anderson |
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
"Kiss Me Twice" | Mary Robinette Kowal |
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Kirinyaga" | Mike Resnick |
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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 |
|
|
"Kiosk" | Bruce Sterling |
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
|
|
"Kings Who Die" | Poul Anderson |
1962 |
|
|
1963 | The 8th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 24 (1962) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The King of Where-I-Go" | Howard Waldrop |
2005 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Kinds of Strangers" | Sarah Zettel |
1999 |
|
|
1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"Killdozer!" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1944 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Keys to December" | Roger Zelazny |
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Katabasis" | Robert Reed |
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
|
|
"Kaleidoscope" | Ray Bradbury |
1949 |
|
|
1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1966 | Best SF Six edited by Edmund Crispin |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" | Connie Willis |
2003 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2004 | Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Julian: A Christmas Story" | Robert Charles Wilson |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Johnny Mnemonic" | William Gibson |
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Jigsaw Man" | Larry Niven |
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
"Jeffty Is Five" | Harlan Ellison |
1977 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"The Jaguar Hunter" | Lucius Shepard |
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
"Jackie's-Boy" | Steven Popkes |
2010 |
|
|
2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Jack" | Connie Willis |
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Itsy Bitsy Spider" | James Patrick Kelly |
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell |
1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
"It's a Good Life" | Jerome Bixby |
1953 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"It Takes Two" | Nicola Griffith |
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" | Gene Wolfe |
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Island" | Peter Watts |
2009 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"The Iron Tactician" | Alastair Reynolds |
2016 |
|
|
2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Irish Astronaut" | Val Nolan |
2013 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2014 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2014 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Invasion of Venus" | Stephen Baxter |
2010 |
|
|
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 |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Invaders" | John Kessel |
1990 |
|
|
1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
|
|
"Into the Miranda Rift" | G. David Nordley |
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"Intervention" | Kelly Robson |
2018 |
|
|
2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
2019 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Inside Job" | Connie Willis |
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2006 | Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"Inhuman Garbage" | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
2015 |
|
|
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Infinities" | Vandana Singh |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"An Infinite Summer" | Christopher Priest |
1976 |
|
|
1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Inconstant Moon" | Larry Niven |
1971 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1972 | Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Inclination" | William Shunn |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
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"Incarnation Day" | Walter Jon Williams |
2006 |
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2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"In the House Of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns" | Elizabeth Bear |
2012 |
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2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"In the Hall of the Martian Kings" | John Varley |
1977 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1978 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
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"In the Bowl" | John Varley |
1975 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
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|
"In Paradise" | Bruce Sterling |
2002 |
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|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"In Hiding" | Wilmar H. Shiras |
1948 |
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1949 | The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1966 | Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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"Imposter" | Philip K. Dick |
1953 |
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1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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"An Important Failure" | Rebecca Campbell |
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |
2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
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"Immersion" | Gregory Benford |
1996 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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"Immersion" | Aliette de Bodard |
2012 |
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| 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 |
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"Ill Met in Lankhmar" | Fritz Leiber |
1970 |
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| 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 |
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"If the Stars Are Gods" | Gordon Eklund, Gregory Benford |
1974 |
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|
| 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 |
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"If Angels Fight" | Richard Bowes |
2008 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
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"The Ice Owl" | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
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 |
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|
"I, Robot" | Cory Doctorow |
2005 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2006 | Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
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"I See You" | Damon Knight |
1976 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
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"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" | Harlan Ellison |
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1968 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1949 |
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1950 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
"Hunting the Snark" | Mike Resnick |
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Hunting Machine" | Carol Emshwiller |
1957 |
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|
1958 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series edited by T. E. Dikty |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"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 Human Operators" | Harlan Ellison, A. E. van Vogt |
1971 |
|
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1972 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Huddling Place" | Clifford D. Simak |
1944 |
|
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1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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|
"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" | Neil Gaiman |
2006 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar" | Rich Larson |
2020 |
|
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2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1976 |
|
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| 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 House of Compassionate Sharers" | Michael Bishop |
1977 |
|
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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 |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"The House Beyond Your Sky" | Benjamin Rosenbaum |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Hothouse" | Brian W. Aldiss |
1961 |
|
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1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"Home Is the Hangman" | Roger Zelazny |
1975 |
|
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| 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 |
|
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"The Hole Man" | Larry Niven |
1974 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
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|
"Hobson's Choice" | Alfred Bester |
1952 |
|
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1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
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"Hobbyist" | Eric Frank Russell |
1947 |
|
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1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
|
|
"His Master's Voice" | Hannu Rajaniemi |
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
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"Hero" | Joe Haldeman |
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1973 | Best SF: 1972 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Hermit of Houston" | Samuel R. Delany |
2017 |
|
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2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |
|
|
"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 |
|
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"Hello, Hello" | Seanan McGuire |
2015 |
|
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2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Hell Is the Absence of God" | Ted Chiang |
2001 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Heavy Planet" | Milton A. Rothman |
1939 |
|
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1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
|
|
"The Heat Death of the Universe" | Pamela Zoline |
1967 |
|
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
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 |
|
|
"He Walked Around the Horses" | H. Beam Piper |
1948 |
|
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1958 | Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Hawksbill Station" | Robert Silverberg |
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1968 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1968 | Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Have Not Have" | Geoff Ryman |
2001 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 |
|
|
"Hatrack River" | Orson Scott Card |
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Harrison Bergeron" | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
1961 |
|
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1970 | Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Hardfought" | Greg Bear |
1983 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Hard Mary" | Sofia Samatar |
2018 |
|
|
2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams |
|
|
"The Happy Man" | Jonathan Lethem |
1991 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
"The Handler" | Damon Knight |
1960 |
|
|
1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1991 | The Great SF Stories 22 (1960) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
"The Hand Is Quicker" | Elizabeth Bear |
2014 |
|
|
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Halo" | Charles Stross |
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Gypsy" | Carter Scholz |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"A Gun for Dinosaur" | L. Sprague de Camp |
1956 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Gulf" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1949 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1964 | A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Damon Knight |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed 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 |
|
|
"A Guide for Working Breeds" | Vina Jie-Min Prasad |
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |
2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Griffin's Egg" | Michael Swanwick |
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Green Mars" | Kim Stanley Robinson |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2019 | Rich Horton 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 Green Hills of Earth" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1947 |
|
|
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
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 |
|
|
"Green Days in Brunei" | Bruce Sterling |
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Great Work of Time" | John Crowley |
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"Grave Angels" | Richard Kearns |
1986 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Grandpa" | James H. Schmitz |
1955 |
|
|
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" | Rachel Swirsky |
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Good News from the Vatican" | Robert Silverberg |
1971 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Gone" | John Crowley |
1996 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
|
|
"The Golem" | Avram Davidson |
1955 |
|
|
1956 | S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
|
|
"The Gold at the Starbow's End" | Frederik Pohl |
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1972 | Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl |
1973 | The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Going Under" | Jack Dann |
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach" | Kelly Robson |
2018 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
"The God Engines" | John Scalzi |
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"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 |
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"Go. Now. Fix." | Timons Esaias |
2020 |
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| Asimov's Readers' Poll - Winner |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Glory" | Greg Egan |
2007 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Give the Family My Love" | A. T. Greenblatt |
2019 |
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|
| 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 |
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"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" | Pat Cadigan |
2012 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1973 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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|
"Ginungagap" | Michael Swanwick |
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
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|
"Gilgamesh in the Outback" | Robert Silverberg |
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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|
"A Gift from the GrayLanders" | Michael Bishop |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
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|
"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 |
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|
"Giant Killer" | A. Bertram Chandler |
1945 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Ghostweight" | Yoon Ha Lee |
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" | Paul Park |
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"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 |
|
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"Gehenna" | Barry N. Malzberg |
1971 |
|
|
1972 | The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
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 |
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"Game Preserve" | Rog Phillips |
1957 |
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|
1958 | SF:'58: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The Game of Smash and Recovery" | Kelly Link |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 edited by John Joseph Adams and Karen Joy Fowler |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Game of Rat and Dragon" | Cordwainer Smith |
1955 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1956 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 edited by T. E. Dikty |
1958 | Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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 |
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 |
|
|
"The Gambler" | Paolo Bacigalupi |
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"The Gallery of His Dreams" | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
1991 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"A Galaxy Called Rome" | Barry N. Malzberg |
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
"The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" | Tobias S. Buckell |
2019 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2020 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams |
|
|
"The Future Is Blue" | Catherynne M. Valente |
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu |
|
|
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" | Michael Swanwick |
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Fringe" | Orson Scott Card |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Fourth Profession" | Larry Niven |
1971 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1972 | The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
"The Four-Hour Fugue" | Alfred Bester |
1974 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1975 | Best SF: 1974 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
"Four in One" | Damon Knight |
1953 |
|
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1958 | Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Four Brands of Impossible" | Norman Kagan |
1964 |
|
|
1965 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
2001 | The Great SF Stories (1964) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Foundation" | Isaac Asimov |
1942 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Fortress Ship" | Fred Saberhagen |
1963 |
|
|
1964 | The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Forgiveness Day" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"For White Hill" | Joe Haldeman |
1995 |
|
|
1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"For I Have Touched the Sky" | Mike Resnick |
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again" | Michael Swanwick |
2011 |
|
|
2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"For a Breath I Tarry" | Roger Zelazny |
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Fondly Fahrenheit" | Alfred Bester |
1954 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2011 | 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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Folding Beijing" | Hao Jingfang |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
"Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" | Howard Waldrop |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Fly" | Arthur Porges |
1952 |
|
|
1953 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1953 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1966 | Best SF Six edited by Edmund Crispin |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
|
|
"The Fluted Girl" | Paolo Bacigalupi |
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"Flowers of Edo" | Bruce Sterling |
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Flowers for Algernon" | Daniel Keyes |
1959 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" | Yoon Ha Lee |
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Fixing Hanover" | Jeff VanderMeer |
2008 |
|
|
2009 | Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"Five Thrillers" | Robert Reed |
2008 |
|
|
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"First Contact" | Murray Leinster |
1945 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
|
|
"Fireship" | Joan D. Vinge |
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1979 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
"Fire Watch" | Connie Willis |
1982 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Finisterra" | David Moles |
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Fifth Head of Cerberus" | Gene Wolfe |
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction 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 |
|
|
"The Fifth Dragon" | Ian McDonald |
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Fields of Gold" | Rachel Swirsky |
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"Fermi and Frost" | Frederik Pohl |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Father-Thing" | Philip K. Dick |
1954 |
|
|
1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" | Vernor Vinge |
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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 |
|
|
"Farewell to the Master" | Harry Bates |
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Fandom for Robots" | Vina Jie-Min Prasad |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"The Faithful Companion at Forty" | Karen Joy Fowler |
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Faith of Our Fathers" | Philip K. Dick |
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Fade to White" | Catherynne M. Valente |
2012 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Eyes of Amber" | Joan D. Vinge |
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
"The Eyeflash Miracles" | Gene Wolfe |
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"Extracurricular Activities" | Yoon Ha Lee |
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
"Exploration Team" | Murray Leinster |
1956 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Exhalation" | Ted Chiang |
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2009 | Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Evil Robot Monkey" | Mary Robinette Kowal |
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"Everywhere" | Geoff Ryman |
1999 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
|
|
"Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home" | Genevieve Valentine |
2016 |
|
|
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu |
|
|
"Every Heart a Doorway" | Seanan McGuire |
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance" | John Kessel |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"An Evening with Severyn Grimes" | Rich Larson |
2017 |
|
|
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" | Octavia E. Butler |
1987 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Even the Queen" | Connie Willis |
1992 |
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|
| 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 |
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"Eurema's Dam" | R. A. Lafferty |
1972 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
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"Escape from Kathmandu" | Kim Stanley Robinson |
1986 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
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"Erosion" | Ian Creasey |
2009 |
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|
2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
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|
"Eros, Philia, Agape" | Rachel Swirsky |
2009 |
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|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
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"The Erdmann Nexus" | Nancy Kress |
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" | Robert Silverberg |
1989 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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"Entangled" | Ian R. MacLeod |
2013 |
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|
2014 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2014 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"The Engine at Heartspring's Center" | Roger Zelazny |
1974 |
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|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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|
"Enemy Mine" | Barry B. Longyear |
1979 |
|
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| 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 |
|
|
"Ender's Game" | Orson Scott Card |
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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|
"The End of Summer" | Algis Budrys |
1954 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Malzberg and Pronzini |
1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Enchanted Village" | A. E. van Vogt |
1950 |
|
|
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"The Empress of Mars" | Kage Baker |
2003 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2004 | Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Emperor of Mars" | Allen Steele |
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Emergency Skin" | N. K. Jemisin |
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2020 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
"Emergence" | Gwyneth Jones |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Elves of Antarctica" | Paul J. McAuley |
2016 |
|
|
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Elegy for a Young Elk" | Hannu Rajaniemi |
2010 |
|
|
2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Electric Ant" | Philip K. Dick |
1969 |
|
|
1970 | Best SF: 1969 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Eight Miles" | Sean McMullen |
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Eight Episodes" | Robert Reed |
2006 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
"The Edge of the World" | Michael Swanwick |
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Edge of the Sea" | Algis Budrys |
1958 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1958 | SF:'58: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
|
|
"Echea" | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Eater-of-Bone" | Robert Reed |
2012 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2013 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"E for Effort" | T. L. Sherred |
1947 |
|
|
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1964 | A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Damon Knight |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Drowned Giant" | J. G. Ballard |
1964 |
|
|
1966 | 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
"Driftglass" | Samuel R. Delany |
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1968 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
"Dreams Are Sacred" | Peter Phillips |
1948 |
|
|
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
|
|
"The Dreaming Wind" | Jeffrey Ford |
2007 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe" | Kij Johnson |
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Dream Baby" | Bruce McAllister |
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"The Dragon Masters" | Jack Vance |
1962 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Dormant" | A. E. van Vogt |
1948 |
|
|
1955 | Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Dori Bangs" | Bruce Sterling |
1989 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Doorway Into Time" | C. L. Moore |
1943 |
|
|
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" | Charlie Jane Anders |
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |
|
|
"Doing Lennon" | Gregory Benford |
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
"Dogwalker" | Orson Scott Card |
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1990 | The 1990 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1990 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Dogfight" | Michael Swanwick, William Gibson |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
|
|
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" | Michael Swanwick |
2001 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2002 | Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" | Howard Waldrop |
1988 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Djinn's Wife" | Ian McDonald |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Discovered Country" | Ian R. MacLeod |
2013 |
|
|
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton |
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The 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 |
1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Dinner in Audoghast" | Bruce Sterling |
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third 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 |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
"Different Kinds of Darkness" | David Langford |
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
"The Diary of the Rose" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1976 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Diamond Pit" | Jack Dann |
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Devil You Don't Know" | Dean Ing |
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1979 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
"Desertion" | Clifford D. Simak |
1944 |
|
|
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Deepwater Bride" | Tamsyn Muir |
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"The Deathbird" | Harlan Ellison |
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Death on the Nile" | Connie Willis |
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Death of Doctor Island" | Gene Wolfe |
1973 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"The Death of Captain Future" | Allen Steele |
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Death and Designation Among the Asadi" | Michael Bishop |
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
"Dear Devil" | Eric Frank Russell |
1950 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Deadline" | Cleve Cartmill |
1944 |
|
|
1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Dead Worlds" | Jack Skillingstead |
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Dead Past" | Isaac Asimov |
1956 |
|
|
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Dead Men Walking" | Paul J. McAuley |
2006 |
|
|
2007 | Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"The Dead" | Michael Swanwick |
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth 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 |
|
|
"The Days Between" | Allen Steele |
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Day Million" | Frederik Pohl |
1966 |
|
|
1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
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 |
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 |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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 |
|
|
"The Day Before the Revolution" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1974 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Day at the Beach" | Carol Emshwiller |
1959 |
|
|
1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" | Michael F. Flynn |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2007 | Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" | Ray Bradbury |
1949 |
|
|
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Dark Integers" | Greg Egan |
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2008 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"Danny Goes to Mars" | Pamela Sargent |
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Dancing on Air" | Nancy Kress |
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Dance of the Changer and the Three" | Terry Carr |
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
|
|
"Damage" | David D. Levine |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"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 |
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"The Custodians" | Richard Cowper |
1975 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1976 | Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
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"Custer's Last Jump" | Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop |
1976 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Crystal Spheres" | David Brin |
1984 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"Crucifixus Etiam" | Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
1953 |
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1954 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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"Crimes and Glory" | Paul J. McAuley |
2009 |
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2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Cri de Coeur" | Michael Bishop |
1994 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Creation" | Jeffrey Ford |
2002 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"Craphound" | Cory Doctorow |
1998 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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"Covenant" | Elizabeth Bear |
2014 |
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2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2015 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"The Court Magician" | Sarah Pinsker |
2018 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
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"The Country of the Kind" | Damon Knight |
1956 |
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1956 | S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Cost to Be Wise" | Maureen F. McHugh |
1996 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Correspondence Course" | Raymond F. Jones |
1945 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Coraline" | Neil Gaiman |
2002 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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"The Copenhagen Interpretation" | Paul Cornell |
2011 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks: A Squeezed Novel by Mr Skunk" | Dafydd Ab Hugh |
1990 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"The Cookie Monster" | Vernor Vinge |
2003 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"The Contrary Gardener" | Christopher Rowe |
2012 |
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2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2013 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Continued on Next Rock" | R. A. Lafferty |
1970 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
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"Contagion" | Katherine MacLean |
1950 |
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1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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"Construction Shack" | Clifford D. Simak |
1973 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1974 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
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"Consider Her Ways" | John Wyndham |
1956 |
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1963 | Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
"The Concrete Jungle" | Charles Stross |
2004 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2005 | Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
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"Computers Don't Argue" | Gordon R. Dickson |
1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
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"Common Time" | James Blish |
1953 |
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
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"Command Performance" | Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
1952 |
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1953 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1953 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Coming of Age in Karhide" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1995 |
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1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Coming Attraction" | Fritz Leiber |
1950 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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|
"Colors of the Immortal Palette" | Caroline M. Yoachim |
2021 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2022 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse |
|
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"The Cold Equations" | Tom Godwin |
1954 |
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1955 | The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955 edited by T. E. Dikty |
1958 | Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
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 |
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"Coelacanths" | Robert Reed |
2002 |
|
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"Cocoon" | Greg Egan |
1994 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth 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 |
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"Clerical Error" | Mark Clifton |
1956 |
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1956 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 edited by T. E. Dikty |
1979 | Neglected Visions edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"The Citadel of Weeping Pearls" | Aliette de Bodard |
2015 |
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2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" | Theodora Goss |
2014 |
|
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2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill |
|
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"Cibola" | Connie Willis |
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
"The Choice" | Paul J. McAuley |
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"Child's Play" | William Tenn |
1947 |
|
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1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1983 | The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Child of All Ages" | P. J. Plauger |
1975 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
1976 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
|
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"The Chief Designer" | Andy Duncan |
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Chance" | Connie Willis |
1986 |
|
|
1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"A Catalog of Storms" | Fran Wilde |
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
|
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"Cat Pictures Please" | Naomi Kritzer |
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
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"Cassandra" | C. J. Cherryh |
1978 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1979 | The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
"A Case of Conscience" | James Blish |
1953 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1955 | Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" | E. Lily Yu |
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
|
|
"The Cartesian Theater" | Robert Charles Wilson |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon winner |
2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Carnival Nine" | Caroline M. Yoachim |
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |
|
|
"Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r." | Geoff Ryman |
2015 |
|
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2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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"A Canticle for Leibowitz" | Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
1959 |
|
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1956 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 edited by T. E. Dikty |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Canterbury Hollow" | Chris Lawson |
2011 |
|
|
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
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"Calved" | Sam J. Miller |
2015 |
|
|
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
"The Calorie Man" | Paolo Bacigalupi |
2005 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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"Call Me Joe" | Poul Anderson |
1957 |
|
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1958 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series edited by T. E. Dikty |
1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Call Him Lord" | Gordon R. Dickson |
1966 |
|
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| 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 |
|
|
"The Cage" | A. Bertram Chandler |
1957 |
|
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1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1989 | The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
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"A Cabin on the Coast" | Gene Wolfe |
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second 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 |
|
|
"By His Bootstraps" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1941 |
|
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1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 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 |
|
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"The Burning of the Brain" | Cordwainer Smith |
1958 |
|
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1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Burning Chrome" | William Gibson |
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" | A. T. Greenblatt |
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
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"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 Buried Giant" | Lavie Tidhar |
2018 |
|
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2019 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke |
2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
2019 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Bully!" | Mike Resnick |
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
1987 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Buffalo" | John Kessel |
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Bronte's Egg" | Richard Chwedyk |
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
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"Brightside Crossing" | Alan E. Nourse |
1956 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Bridesicle" | Will McIntosh |
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"Bricks, Sticks, Straw" | Gwyneth Jones |
2012 |
|
|
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 Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Breathmoss" | Ian R. MacLeod |
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth 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 |
|
|
"A Braver Thing" | Charles Sheffield |
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"The Brave Little Toaster" | Thomas M. Disch |
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"A Boy and His Dog" | Harlan Ellison |
1969 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" | Ian McDonald |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Born with the Dead" | Robert Silverberg |
1974 |
|
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| 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 |
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"Born of Man and Woman" | Richard Matheson |
1950 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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"Border Guards" | Greg Egan |
1999 |
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|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
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"Boojum" | Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette |
2008 |
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2009 | Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
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|
"Boobs" | Suzy McKee Charnas |
1989 |
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|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
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"Blued Moon" | Connie Willis |
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
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 |
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"The Blue Giraffe" | L. Sprague de Camp |
1939 |
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1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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|
"Blowups Happen" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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|
"Bloodchild" | Octavia E. Butler |
1984 |
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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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|
"Blood of the Dragon" | George R. R. Martin |
1996 |
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|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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"Blood Music" | Greg Bear |
1983 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Blocked" | Geoff Ryman |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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|
"Blind Shemmy" | Jack Dann |
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula 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 |
|
|
"The Blind Geometer" | Kim Stanley Robinson |
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
"The Blemmye's Strategem" | Bruce Sterling |
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Black Swan" | Bruce Sterling |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Black Destroyer" | A. E. van Vogt |
1939 |
|
|
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Black Air" | Kim Stanley Robinson |
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Birthday of the World" | Ursula K. Le Guin |
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"A Billion Eves" | Robert Reed |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2007 | Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Billennium" | J. G. Ballard |
1961 |
|
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1966 | Best SF Six edited by Edmund Crispin |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
|
|
"The Big Front Yard" | Clifford D. Simak |
1958 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov 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 Big Flash" | Norman Spinrad |
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
"Bicycle Repairman" | Bruce Sterling |
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1997 | Year's Best SF 2 edited by David G. Hartwell |
1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"The Bicentennial Man" | Isaac Asimov |
1976 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Bibi" | Mike Resnick, Susan Shwartz |
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars" | Mercurio D. Rivera |
2020 |
|
|
2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |
2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"Beyond the Aquila Rift" | Alastair Reynolds |
2005 |
|
|
2006 | Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
"The Best We Can" | Carrie Vaughn |
2013 |
|
|
2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2014 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Bernie the Faust" | William Tenn |
1963 |
|
|
1964 | The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Bernardo's House" | James Patrick Kelly |
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"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 |
|
|
"Beggars in Spain" | Nancy Kress |
1991 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Before My Last Breath" | Robert Reed |
2009 |
|
|
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Before Eden" | Arthur C. Clarke |
1961 |
|
|
1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
|
|
"Becalmed in Hell" | Larry Niven |
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
"Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast" | Suzy McKee Charnas |
1996 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Beatnik Bayou" | John Varley |
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula 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 |
|
|
"Bears Discover Fire" | Terry Bisson |
1990 |
|
|
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
|
|
"The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" | Hilbert Schenck |
1979 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Barnacle Bill the Spacer" | Lucius Shepard |
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" | Cordwainer Smith |
1962 |
|
|
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
1992 | The Great SF Stories 24 (1962) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Ballad of Black Tom" | Victor LaValle |
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"Balancing Accounts" | James L. Cambias |
2008 |
|
|
2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
"The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" | Nadia Afifi |
2020 |
|
|
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |
2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"A Bad Day for Sales" | Fritz Leiber |
1953 |
|
|
1954 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
"Baby, You Were Great" | Kate Wilhelm |
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
|
|
"Baby Is Three" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1952 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"Baby Doll" | Johanna Sinisalo |
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
"Aztecs" | Vonda N. McIntyre |
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
"Aye, and Gomorrah …" | Samuel R. Delany |
1967 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"Aurora in Four Voices" | Catherine Asaro |
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Audience" | Sean McMullen |
2015 |
|
|
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"At the Rialto" | Connie Willis |
1989 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
"At the Fall" | Alec Nevala-Lee |
2019 |
|
|
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
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 |
2020 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"Asylum" | A. E. van Vogt |
1942 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"The Astronaut from Wyoming" | Jerry Oltion, Adam-Troy Castro |
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"The Asian Shore" | Thomas M. Disch |
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1971 | Best SF: 1970 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
"As Women Fight" | Sara Genge |
2009 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Art of Space Travel" | Nina Allan |
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2017 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
"The Art of Alchemy" | Ted Kosmatka |
2008 |
|
|
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
"Arena" | Fredric Brown |
1944 |
|
|
1950 | Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
"The Archronology of Love" | Caroline M. Yoachim |
2019 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
2020 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams |
|
|
"Apology to Inky" | Robert M. Green, Jr. |
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
"Anything Box" | Zenna Henderson |
1956 |
|
|
1957 | SF:'57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
"Answer" | Fredric Brown |
1954 |
|
|
1958 | Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
"Another Word for World" | Ann Leckie |
2015 |
|
|
2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
"Another Word for Map Is Faith" | Christopher Rowe |
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
"Angouleme" | Thomas M. Disch |
1971 |
|
|
1972 | Best SF: 1971 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
"Angel's Egg" | Edgar Pangborn |
1951 |
|
|
1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
"Angel" | Pat Cadigan |
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" | Brooke Bolander |
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
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"And Wild for to Hold" | Nancy Kress |
1991 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"… And Then There Were None" | Eric Frank Russell |
1951 |
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1952 | Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"And Then There Were (N-One)" | Sarah Pinsker |
2017 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
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"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" | Shiv Ramdas |
2019 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
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"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" | James Tiptree, Jr. |
1972 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
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 |
2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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"… And He Built a Crooked House" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1941 |
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1943 | The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction edited by Donald A. Wollheim |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1978 | Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age 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 |
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"Ancient Engines" | Michael Swanwick |
1999 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
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"Amicae Aeternum" | Ellen Klages |
2014 |
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2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2015 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"America" | Orson Scott Card |
1987 |
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1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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"Always" | Karen Joy Fowler |
2007 |
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| 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 |
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"The Altar at Midnight" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1952 |
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1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
1979 | The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Malzberg and Pronzini |
1986 | The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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"Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" | Cordwainer Smith |
1961 |
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1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"Allamagoosa" | Eric Frank Russell |
1955 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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 |
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"All You Zombies—" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1959 |
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| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
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 |
1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
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 |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"All the Last Wars at Once" | George Alec Effinger |
1971 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
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"All Systems Red" | Martha Wells |
2017 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"All Summer in a Day" | Ray Bradbury |
1954 |
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2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" | George Alec Effinger |
1984 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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 |
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"The Algorithms for Love" | Ken Liu |
2004 |
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2005 | Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
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"AirBody" | Sameem Siddiqui |
2020 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2022 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke |
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"Air Raid" | John Varley |
1977 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
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"Age of Aquarius" | William Barton |
1996 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall" | Nancy Kress |
2012 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
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"After the Apocalypse" | Maureen F. McHugh |
2011 |
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2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2012 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 edited by Allan Kaster |
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"Adam and No Eve" | Alfred Bester |
1941 |
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1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
1980 | The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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"Act One" | Nancy Kress |
2009 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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"Abominable" | Carol Emshwiller |
1980 |
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1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
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"50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know" | Ken Liu |
2020 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |
2021 | The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
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"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" | Mike Resnick |
1997 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" | Kij Johnson |
2008 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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"24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" | Roger Zelazny |
1985 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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"2066: Election Day" | Michael Shaara |
1956 |
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1958 | Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series edited by T. E. Dikty |
1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
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"10 to 16 to 1" | James Patrick Kelly |
1999 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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