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