| "Black Destroyer" | A. E. van Vogt |
1939 |
9
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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 |
| 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 |
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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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| "Heavy Planet" | Milton A. Rothman |
1939 |
3
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| 1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
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| "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 |
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| "The Day Is Done" | Lester del Rey |
1939 |
2
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| 1976 | Science Fiction of the Thirties edited by Damon Knight |
| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "I, Robot" | Otto Binder |
1939 |
2
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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 |
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| "The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton" | Robert Bloch |
1939 |
2
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| 1965 | Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz |
| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Ultimate Catalyst" | John Taine |
1939 |
2
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Almuric" | Robert E. Howard |
1939 |
1
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| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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| "Children of the "Betsy B"" | Malcolm Jameson |
1939 |
1
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| 1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Cloak of Aesir" | John W. Campbell, Jr. |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Divide and Rule" | L. Sprague de Camp |
1939 |
1
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| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Ether Breather" | Theodore Sturgeon |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Four-Sided Triangle" | William F. Temple |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Gnarly Man" | L. Sprague de Camp |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Greater Than Gods" | C. L. Moore |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Living Fossil" | L. Sprague de Camp |
1939 |
1
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| 1948 | A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Madness from Mars" | Clifford D. Simak |
1939 |
1
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| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
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| "Marooned Off Vesta" | Isaac Asimov |
1939 |
1
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| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
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| "Misfit" | Robert A. Heinlein |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Misguided Halo" | Henry Kuttner |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Monster from Nowhere" | Nelson S. Bond |
1939 |
1
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "None But Lucifer" | H. L. Gold, L. Sprague de Camp |
1939 |
1
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| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Nothing Happens on the Moon" | Paul Ernst |
1939 |
1
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| 1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Pilgrimage" | Nelson S. Bond |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Robot Nemesis" | Edward E. Smith |
1939 |
1
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| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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| "The Rocket of 1955" | C. M. Kornbluth |
1939 |
1
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| 1980 | The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Rust" | Joseph E. Kelleam |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Spawn" | P. Schuyler Miller |
1939 |
1
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| 2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
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| "Special Flight" | John Berryman |
1939 |
1
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| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
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| "Star Bright" | Jack Williamson |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Time-Travel Happens!" | A. M. Phillips |
1939 |
1
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| 1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
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| "Trends" | Isaac Asimov |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Trouble With Water" | H. L. Gold |
1939 |
1
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| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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