Hugo Award - Story Finalist

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

Title Author/Editor↥ Year Citations Reviews
"The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks: A Squeezed Novel by Mr Skunk" Dafydd Ab Hugh 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" Daniel Abraham 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Man in His Time" Brian W. Aldiss 1965
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Total Environment" Brian W. Aldiss 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1969World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Enemies of the System" Brian W. Aldiss 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Asymmetrical Warfare" S. R. Algernon 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Art of Space Travel" Nina Allan 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Helping Hand" Poul Anderson 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Three Hearts and Three Lions" Poul Anderson 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Un-Man" Poul Anderson 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Sam Hall" Poul Anderson 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Malzberg and Pronzini
"Marque and Reprisal" Poul Anderson 1965
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Getting Through University" Piers Anthony 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"On A Spiritual Plain" Lou Antonelli 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Stellar Harvest" Eleanor Arnason 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Aurora in Four Voices" Catherine Asaro 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2006The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"A Roll of the Dice" Catherine Asaro 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Walk in Silence" Catherine Asaro 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Unwillingly to School" Pauline Ashwell 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Lost Kafoozalum" Pauline Ashwell 1960
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Runaround" Isaac Asimov 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Foundation" Isaac Asimov 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Bridle and Saddle" Isaac Asimov 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Dead Hand" Isaac Asimov 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"… And Now You Don't" Isaac Asimov 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"—That Thou Art Mindful of Him!" Isaac Asimov 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Robot Dreams" Isaac Asimov 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The People of Sand and Slag" Paolo Bacigalupi 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Calorie Man" Paolo Bacigalupi 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Yellow Card Man" Paolo Bacigalupi 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Gambler" Paolo Bacigalupi 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"They've Been Working On …" Anton Lee Baker 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Son Observe the Time" Kage Baker 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Empress of Mars" Kage Baker 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2004Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Women of Nell Gwynne's" Kage Baker 2009
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The White Cliff" Lu Ban 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Ginny Sweethips's Flying Circus" Neal Barrett, Jr. 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Age of Aquarius" William Barton 1996
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Farewell to the Master" Harry Bates 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1979The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Moon Six" Stephen Baxter 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"On the Orion Line" Stephen Baxter 2000
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Gravity Mine" Stephen Baxter 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Ghost Pit" Stephen Baxter 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Last Contact" Stephen Baxter 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Opera Vita Aeterna" Theodore Beale 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Hardfought" Greg Bear 1983
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1984The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Mrs. Lincoln's China" M. Shayne Bell 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Deeper than the Darkness" Gregory Benford 1969
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Doing Lennon" Gregory Benford 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
"A Snark in the Night" Gregory Benford 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Immersion" Gregory Benford 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Hell Is Forever" Alfred Bester 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Star Light, Star Bright" Alfred Bester 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" Alfred Bester 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1981Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Pi Man" Alfred Bester 1959
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Four-Hour Fugue" Alfred Bester 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1975Best SF: 1974 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
"Monument" Lloyd Biggle, Jr. 1961
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Death and Designation Among the Asadi" Michael Bishop 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1974The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The White Otters of Childhood" Michael Bishop 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Cathadonian Odyssey" Michael Bishop 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Rogue Tomato" Michael Bishop 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
"The Samurai and the Willows" Michael Bishop 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1977Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Quickening" Michael Bishop 1981
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Gift from the GrayLanders" Michael Bishop 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
"Cri de Coeur" Michael Bishop 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Press Ann" Terry Bisson 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"England Underway" Terry Bisson 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Shadow Knows" Terry Bisson 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dead Man's Curve" Terry Bisson 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Get Me to the Church on Time" Terry Bisson 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"macs" Terry Bisson 1999
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"It's a Good Life" Jerome Bixby 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1961Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Okie" James Blish 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"King of the Hill" James Blish 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"We All Die Naked" James Blish 1969
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1977The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton
"On the Razor's Edge" Jiang Bo 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" Brooke Bolander 2015
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" Brooke Bolander 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" Brooke Bolander 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Only Harmless Great Thing" Brooke Bolander 2018
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Triggerman" J. F. Bone 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1959SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" Jorge Luis Borges 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"The Compleat Werewolf" Anthony Boucher 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Martian Quest" Leigh Brackett 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Stellar Legion" Leigh Brackett 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Hollerbochen's Dilemma" Ray Bradbury 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Dragon" Ray Bradbury 1956
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out" Reginald Bretnor 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1951The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
"The Postman" David Brin 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Cyclops" David Brin 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Thor Meets Captain America" David Brin 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Giving Plague" David Brin 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1989The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Etaoin Shrdlu" Fredric Brown 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Star Mouse" Fredric Brown 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Waveries" Fredric Brown 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Pi in the Sky" Fredric Brown 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1978Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Dread Empire" John Brunner 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Stone" Edward Bryant 1978
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"giANTS" Edward Bryant 1979
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Thermals of August" Edward Bryant 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
"The End of Summer" Algis Budrys 1954
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1979The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Malzberg and Pronzini
1987The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Nobody Bothers Gus" Algis Budrys 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1956S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1979Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
"The Edge of the Sea" Algis Budrys 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1958SF:'58: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
"The Silent Eyes of Time" Algis Budrys 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
"Winterfair Gifts" Lois McMaster Bujold 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Penric's Demon" Lois McMaster Bujold 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Penric and the Shaman" Lois McMaster Bujold 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Savage Pellucidar" Edgar Rice Burroughs 1963
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Barsoom Series" Edgar Rice Burroughs 1964
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"TeleAbsence" Michael A. Burstein 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Broken Symmetry" Michael A. Burstein 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Cosmic Corkscrew" Michael A. Burstein 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Kaddish for the Last Survivor" Michael A. Burstein 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Spaceships" Michael A. Burstein 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Paying It Forward" Michael A. Burstein 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Decisions" Michael A. Burstein 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Time Ablaze" Michael A. Burstein 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Seventy-Five Years" Michael A. Burstein 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"TelePresence" Michael A. Burstein 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Angel" Pat Cadigan 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1988The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Fool to Believe" Pat Cadigan 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Dispatches from the Revolution" Pat Cadigan 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"True Faces" Pat Cadigan 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Night We Buried Road Dog" Jack Cady 1993
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Dead Knowledge" John W. Campbell, Jr. 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Ender's Game" Orson Scott Card 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Mikal's Songbird" Orson Scott Card 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Unaccompanied Sonata" Orson Scott Card 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Songhouse" Orson Scott Card 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
"The Fringe" Orson Scott Card 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Hatrack River" Orson Scott Card 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Dogwalker" Orson Scott Card 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1990The 1990 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1990The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Lost Boys" Orson Scott Card 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Uh-Oh City" Jonathan Carroll 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"For He Can Creep" Siobhan Carroll 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Dance of the Changer and the Three" Terry Carr 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1969World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
"Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse" Rae Carson 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Funeral March of the Marionettes" Adam-Troy Castro 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Astronaut from Wyoming" Adam-Troy CastroJerry Oltion 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"To Be Taught, If Fortunate" Becky Chambers 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Giant Killer" A. Bertram Chandler 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast" Suzy McKee Charnas 1996
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Scapegoat" C. J. Cherryh 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Tower of Babylon" Ted Chiang 1990
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Understand" Ted Chiang 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Story of Your Life" Ted Chiang 1998
Sturgeon winner
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Seventy-Two Letters" Ted Chiang 2000
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" Ted Chiang 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Omphalos" Ted Chiang 2019
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" John Chu 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Bronte's Egg" Richard Chwedyk 2002
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Finna" Nino Cipri 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Meeting with Medusa" Arthur C. Clarke 1971
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1972Best SF: 1971 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" P. Djèlí Clark 2018
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"The Black God's Drums" P. Djèlí Clark 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Haunting of Tram Car 015" P. Djèlí Clark 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times" P. Djèlí Clark 2020
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Proof" Hal Clement 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"May Be Some Time" Brenda W. Clough 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Wall Around the World" Theodore R. Cogswell 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" Tina Connolly 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"One of Our Bastards Is Missing" Paul Cornell 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"The Copenhagen Interpretation" Paul Cornell 2011
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Custodians" Richard Cowper 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1976The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1976Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" Richard Cowper 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Snow" John Crowley 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"Gone" John Crowley 1996
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"The Steiger Effect" Betsy Curtis 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Life on the Moon" Tony Daniel 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Diamond Pit" Jack Dann 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Jaguar House, in Shadow" Aliette de Bodard 2010
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Immersion" Aliette de Bodard 2012
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"On a Red Station, Drifting" Aliette de Bodard 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Waiting Stars" Aliette de Bodard 2013
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Children of Thorns, Children of Water" Aliette de Bodard 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Tea Master and the Detective" Aliette de Bodard 2018
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Inaccessibility of Heaven" Aliette de Bodard 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Fireheart Tiger" Aliette de Bodard 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Hyperpilosity" L. Sprague de Camp 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1952Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1976Science Fiction of the Thirties edited by Damon Knight
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn
"The Mathematics of Magic" L. Sprague de CampFletcher Pratt 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Roaring Trumpet" L. Sprague de CampFletcher Pratt 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Gun for Dinosaur" L. Sprague de Camp 1956
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2005The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Brainchild" Joseph H. Delaney 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"In the Face of My Enemy" Joseph H. Delaney 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1984The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Valentina" Joseph H. DelaneyMarc Stiegler 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Aye, and Gomorrah …" Samuel R. Delany 1967
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Star Pit" Samuel R. Delany 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1968SF 12 edited by Judith Merril
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Lines of Power" Samuel R. Delany 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Prismatica" Samuel R. Delany 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" Bradley Denton 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Territory" Bradley Denton 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Sergeant Chip" Bradley Denton 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"A Subway Named Mobius" A. J. Deutsch 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1952Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1961Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"A Single Samurai" Steven Diamond 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Winterberry" Nicholas A. DiChario 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Sarajevo" Nicholas A. DiChario 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Second Variety" Philip K. Dick 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1954Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1977The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Faith of Our Fathers" Philip K. Dick 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound" Gordon R. DicksonPoul Anderson 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Call Him Lord" Gordon R. Dickson 1966
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
"Jean Duprès" Gordon R. Dickson 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Year in the Linear City" Paul Di Filippo 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Man Who Had No Idea" Thomas M. Disch 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
"The Brave Little Toaster" Thomas M. Disch 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"I, Robot" Cory Doctorow 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"True Names" Cory DoctorowBenjamin Rosenbaum 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Special Kind of Morning" Gardner Dozois 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Kingdom by the Sea" Gardner Dozois 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Chains of the Sea" Gardner Dozois 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Strangers" Gardner Dozois 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Peacemaker" Gardner Dozois 1983
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Beluthahatchie" Andy Duncan 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Chief Designer" Andy Duncan 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Cold Hands" Jeff Duntemann 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Guardian" Jeff Duntemann 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"All the Last Wars at Once" George Alec Effinger 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
"The City on the Sand" George Alec Effinger 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" George Alec Effinger 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1985The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
"Everything But Honor" George Alec Effinger 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Cocoon" Greg Egan 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Luminous" Greg Egan 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"TAP" Greg Egan 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Planck Drive" Greg Egan 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Border Guards" Greg Egan 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"Oracle" Greg Egan 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Glory" Greg Egan 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dark Integers" Greg Egan 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2008Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"In the Western Tradition" Phyllis Eisenstein 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Nightlife" Phyllis Eisenstein 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Pill" Meg Elison 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams
"Delusion for a Dragon Slayer" Harlan Ellison 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" Harlan Ellison 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1968Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
"A Boy and His Dog" Harlan Ellison 1969
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1970World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Region Between" Harlan Ellison 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Brillo" Harlan EllisonBen Bova 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Basilisk" Harlan Ellison 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Croatoan" Harlan Ellison 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
"Count the Clock That Tells the Time" Harlan Ellison 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
"All the Lies that Are My Life" Harlan Ellison 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Function of Dream Sleep" Harlan Ellison 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Mefisto in Onyx" Harlan Ellison 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Totaled" Kary English 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"I Sexually Identify As an Attack Helicopter" Isabel Fall 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Alley Man" Philip José Farmer 1959
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Open to Me, My Sister" Philip José Farmer 1960
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Day of the Great Shout" Philip José Farmer 1965
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Political Officer" Charles Coleman Finlay 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Political Prisoner" Charles Coleman Finlay 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Eifelheim" Michael F. Flynn 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Forest of Time" Michael F. Flynn 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Melodies of the Heart" Michael F. Flynn 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Clapping Hands of God" Michael F. Flynn 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" Michael F. Flynn 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Journeyman: In the Stone House" Michael F. Flynn 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"In Spirit" Pat Forde 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Creation" Jeffrey Ford 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Empire of Ice Cream" Jeffrey Ford 2003
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" Eugie Foster 2009
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Faithful Companion at Forty" Karen Joy Fowler 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Standing Room Only" Karen Joy Fowler 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"A Birthday" Esther M. Friesner 1995
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Madonna of the Maquiladora" Gregory Frost 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Movement" Nancy Fulda 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"River of Teeth" Sarah Gailey 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"STET" Sarah Gailey 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"Away With the Wolves" Sarah Gailey 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Upright Women Wanted" Sarah Gailey 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" Neil Gaiman 2006
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" James Alan Gardner 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" James Alan Gardner 2008
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2009The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Still Life" David S. Garnett 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Lauralyn" Randall Garrett 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Winter Market" William Gibson 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Ice Owl" Carolyn Ives Gilman 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"Touring with the Alien" Carolyn Ives Gilman 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster
"Lambing Season" Molly Gloss 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Fire When It Comes" Parke Godwin 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Matter of Form" H. L. Gold 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Cassandra's Photographs" Lisa Goldstein 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Rory" Steven Gould 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Peaches for Mad Molly" Steven Gould 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1989The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two edited by David S. Garnett
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Crowd of Shadows" Charles L. Grant 1976
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" A. T. Greenblatt 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"The Clockwork Atom Bomb" Dominic Green 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Apology to Inky" Robert M. Green, Jr. 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
"Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" Daryl Gregory 2018
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"It Takes Two" Nicola Griffith 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Stable Strategies for Middle Management" Eileen Gunn 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Computer Friendly" Eileen Gunn 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
"The Quiet" George Guthridge 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
"Hero" Joe Haldeman 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best SF: 1972 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Four Short Novels" Joe Haldeman 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2004Year's Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" Elizabeth Hand 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Rose" Charles L. Harness 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
"An Ornament to His Profession" Charles L. Harness 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1968SF 12 edited by Judith Merril
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
"The Alchemist" Charles L. Harness 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Summer Solstice" Charles L. Harness 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
"Do Not Look Back, My Lion" Alix E. Harrow 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Spindle Splintered" Alix E. Harrow 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Mr. Death" Alix E. Harrow 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Mirror Mended" Alix E. Harrow 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Blowups Happen" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1956Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Requiem" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1965Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Magic, Inc." Robert A. Heinlein 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Coventry" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Goldfish Bowl" Robert A. Heinlein 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" Robert A. Heinlein 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Waldo" Robert A. Heinlein 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1959A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Future History Series" Robert A. Heinlein 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"When We Were Starless" Simone Heller 2018
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster
"Captivity" Zenna Henderson 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Boy Who Cast No Shadow" Thomas Olde Heuvelt 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" Thomas Olde Heuvelt 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex" Stix Hiscock 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Touch of Lavender" Robin Hobb 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Eskimo Invasion" Hayden Howard 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Pigeons From Hell" Robert E. Howard 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsiblity in the Digital Darkness" S. L. Huang 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"To the Stars" L. Ron Hubbard 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Devil You Don't Know" Dean Ing 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
"Proof by Induction" José Pablo Iriarte 2021
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"Non-Zero Probabilities" N. K. Jemisin 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The City Born Great" N. K. Jemisin 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu
"Myrrha" Gary Jennings 1962
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Secret History of the Ornithopter" Jan Lars Jensen 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" Kij Johnson 2008
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Spar" Kij Johnson 2009
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Ponies" Kij Johnson 2010
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Mantis Wives" Kij Johnson 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe" Kij Johnson 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Correspondence Course" Raymond F. Jones 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Rat Race" Raymond F. Jones 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Rat" James Patrick Kelly 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Itsy Bitsy Spider" James Patrick Kelly 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Undone" James Patrick Kelly 2001
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Bernardo's House" James Patrick Kelly 2003
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"The Best Christmas Ever" James Patrick Kelly 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Burn" James Patrick Kelly 2005
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Plus or Minus" James Patrick Kelly 2010
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Another Orphan" John Kessel 1982
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Buffalo" John Kessel 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Franchise" John Kessel 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Pride and Prometheus" John Kessel 2008
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Symphony for a Lost Traveler" Lee Killough 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Moon Goddess and the Son" Donald Kingsbury 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
"Obits" Stephen King 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Time Gypsy" Ellen Klages 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Wakulla Springs" Ellen KlagesAndy Duncan 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Masks" Damon Knight 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1969World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
"I See You" Damon Knight 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1977The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1977The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr
"Beastchild" Dean Koontz 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Advent on Channel Twelve" C. M. Kornbluth 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Reap the Dark Tide" C. M. Kornbluth 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Theory of Rocketry" C. M. Kornbluth 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Evil Robot Monkey" Mary Robinette Kowal 2008
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Kiss Me Twice" Mary Robinette Kowal 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"Big Boys Don't Cry" Tom Kratman 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Price of Oranges" Nancy Kress 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"And Wild for to Hold" Nancy Kress 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Mountain to Mohammed" Nancy Kress 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
"Dancing on Air" Nancy Kress 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Fault Lines" Nancy Kress 1995
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Steamship Soldier on the Information Front" Nancy Kress 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Fountain of Age" Nancy Kress 2007
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Act One" Nancy Kress 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall" Nancy Kress 2012
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Thing About Ghost Stories" Naomi Kritzer 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Little Free Library" Naomi Kritzer 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"Monster" Naomi Kritzer 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Hollywood on the Moon" Henry Kuttner 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Time Trap" Henry Kuttner 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Twonky" Henry KuttnerC. L. Moore 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1978Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"What You Need" Henry KuttnerC. L. Moore 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1952Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Piper's Son" Henry KuttnerC. L. Moore 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
"Home There's No Returning" Henry KuttnerC. L. Moore 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1956S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
"Continued on Next Rock" R. A. Lafferty 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1971World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Sky" R. A. Lafferty 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Into the Gardens of Sweet Night" Jay Lake 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Stars Do Not Lie" Jay Lake 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"Singing My Sister Down" Margo Lanagan 2004
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Elemental" Geoffrey A. Landis 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" Geoffrey A. Landis 1988
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1989The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Singular Habits of Wasps" Geoffrey A. Landis 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Ecopoiesis" Geoffrey A. Landis 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Sultan of the Clouds" Geoffrey A. Landis 2010
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster
"In the Queue" Keith Laumer 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Wonderful Secret" Keith Laumer 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Ballad of Black Tom" Victor LaValle 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Extracurricular Activities" Yoon Ha Lee 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
"The Mermaid Astronaut" Yoon Ha Lee 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Winter's King" Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Ursula K. Le Guin 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Day Before the Revolution" Ursula K. Le Guin 1974
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The New Atlantis" Ursula K. Le Guin 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
"The Diary of the Rose" Ursula K. Le Guin 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1977Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Sur" Ursula K. Le Guin 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1983The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
"Forgiveness Day" Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Matter of Seggri" Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Solitude" Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Woman's Liberation" Ursula K. Le Guin 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Man of the People" Ursula K. Le Guin 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Mountain Ways" Ursula K. Le Guin 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Bones of the Earth" Ursula K. Le Guin 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Wild Girls" Ursula K. Le Guin 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Sunken Land" Fritz Leiber 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Coming Attraction" Fritz Leiber 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1951The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1965Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1977The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"A Deskful of Girls" Fritz Leiber 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee" Fritz Leiber 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
"Scylla's Daughter" Fritz Leiber 1961
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Unholy Grail" Fritz Leiber 1962
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Stardock" Fritz Leiber 1965
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Snow Women" Fritz Leiber 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Midnight by the Morphy Watch" Fritz Leiber 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Ethical Equations" Murray Leinster 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1948A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Championship B'tok" Edward M. Lerner 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" David D. Levine 2003
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Loose Ends" Paul Levinson 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Magic for Beginners" Kelly Link 2005
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" Ken Liu 2011
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"Homecoming" Barry B. Longyear 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Savage Planet" Barry B. Longyear 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"After the Dreamtime" Richard A. Lupoff 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Sail the Tide of Mourning" Richard A. Lupoff 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
"Second Game" Katherine MacLeanCharles V. De Vet 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Summer Isles" Ian R. MacLeod 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Chop Girl" Ian R. MacLeod 1999
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Breathmoss" Ian R. MacLeod 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" Ken MacLeod 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"In the Stone House" Barry N. Malzberg 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Understanding Entropy" Barry N. Malzberg 1994
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"With Morning Comes Mistfall" George R. R. Martin 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1974Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"And Seven Times Never Kill Man" George R. R. Martin 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Storms of Windhaven" George R. R. MartinLisa Tuttle 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1976The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
"Nightflyers" George R. R. Martin 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1981The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1981The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr
1981Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"One-Wing" George R. R. MartinLisa Tuttle 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Guardians" George R. R. Martin 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Unsound Variations" George R. R. Martin 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Monkey Treatment" George R. R. Martin 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Portraits of His Children" George R. R. Martin 1985
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Born of Man and Woman" Richard Matheson 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1951The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Dream Baby" Bruce McAllister 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Kin" Bruce McAllister 2006
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dragonrider" Anne McCaffrey 1967
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Dramatic Mission" Anne McCaffrey 1969
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Fort Moxie Branch" Jack McDevitt 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Time Travelers Never Die" Jack McDevitt 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Little Goddess" Ian McDonald 2005
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Tear" Ian McDonald 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
"Vishnu at the Cat Circus" Ian McDonald 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Countdown" Seanan McGuire 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats" Seanan McGuire 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Rat-Catcher" Seanan McGuire 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"In Sea-Salt Tears" Seanan McGuire 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Down Among the Sticks and Bones" Seanan McGuire 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Beneath the Sugar Sky" Seanan McGuire 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"In an Absent Dream" Seanan McGuire 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Come Tumbling Down" Seanan McGuire 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Tangles" Seanan McGuire 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Across the Green Grass Fields" Seanan McGuire 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Protection" Maureen F. McHugh 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Cost to Be Wise" Maureen F. McHugh 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
"Presence" Maureen F. McHugh 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" Vonda N. McIntyre 1973
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Wings" Vonda N. McIntyre 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Aztecs" Vonda N. McIntyre 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1978The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
"Fireflood" Vonda N. McIntyre 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr
"The Good Pup" Bridget McKenna 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Secret Place" Richard McKenna 1966
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
"Hawk Among the Sparrows" Dean McLaughlin 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Eight Miles" Sean McMullen 2010
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Walls of the Universe" Paul Melko 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"This Census-Taker" China Miéville 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Tiny Tango" Judith Moffett 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Finisterra" David Moles 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Werewoman" C. L. Moore 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"There Shall Be Darkness" C. L. Moore 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Shambling Towards Hiroshima" James Morrow 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
"Space to Swing a Cat" Stanley Mullen 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Rachel in Love" Pat Murphy 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1988The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 edited by David S. Garnett
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1988The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Bones" Pat Murphy 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"An American Childhood" Pat Murphy 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Martian Obelisk" Linda Nagata 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
"Unknown Number" Blue Neustifter 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Jigsaw Man" Larry Niven 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
"All the Myriad Ways" Larry Niven 1968
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
"Not Long Before the End" Larry Niven 1969
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Fourth Profession" Larry Niven 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
"ARM" Larry Niven 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Locusts" Larry NivenSteven Barnes 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The Return of William Proxmire" Larry Niven 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Into the Miranda Rift" G. David Nordley 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Wizard's World" Andre Norton 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Brightside Crossing" Alan E. Nourse 1956
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1988The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"O2 Arena" Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe 2021
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Binti: Home" Nnedi Okorafor 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Binti: The Night Masquerade" Nnedi Okorafor 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Abandon in Place" Jerry Oltion 1996
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Riot Baby" Tochi Onyebuchi 2020
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Emergence" David R. Palmer 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
"Seeking" David R. Palmer 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Secret Life of Bots" Suzanne Palmer 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"Spidersong" Susan C. Petrey 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Rat in the Skull" Rog Phillips 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"And Then There Were (N-One)" Sarah Pinsker 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
"Wind Will Rove" Sarah Pinsker 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
"The Court Magician" Sarah Pinsker 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2019The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton
"The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" Sarah Pinsker 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Last Enemy" H. Beam Piper 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Child of All Ages" P. J. Plauger 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1976The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
1976Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
"The Gold at the Starbow's End" Frederik Pohl 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1972Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl
1973The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Servant of the People" Frederik Pohl 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1984The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr
"Stopping at Slowyear" Frederik Pohl 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Builders" Daniel Polansky 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Even Though I Knew the End" C. L. Polk 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Mercenary" Jerry Pournelle 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"He Fell Into a Dark Hole" Jerry Pournelle 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Extreme Prejudice" Jerry Pournelle 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Tinker" Jerry Pournelle 1975
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Fandom for Robots" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
"A Series of Steaks" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2017
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"A Guide for Working Breeds" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2020
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"The Watched" Christopher Priest 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr
"Palely Loitering" Christopher Priest 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
"Fossil Games" Tom Purdom 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
"And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" Shiv Ramdas 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
"Anthem" Ayn Rand 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Code Three" Rick Raphael 1963
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2005The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
"Once a Cop" Rick Raphael 1964
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"San Diego Lightfoot Sue" Tom Reamy 1975
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999Locus All Time Poll
"The Utility Man" Robert Reed 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Decency" Robert Reed 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Marrow" Robert Reed 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Whiptail" Robert Reed 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
"Hexagons" Robert Reed 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Eight Episodes" Robert Reed 2006
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Truth" Robert Reed 2008
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Resurrection" Channing Ren 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"For I Have Touched the Sky" Mike Resnick 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Bully!" Mike Resnick 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Winter Solstice" Mike Resnick 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"One Perfect Morning, with Jackals" Mike Resnick 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Lotus and the Spear" Mike Resnick 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" Mike Resnick 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Little Knowledge" Mike Resnick 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Barnaby in Exile" Mike Resnick 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Bibi" Mike ResnickSusan Shwartz 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"When the Old Gods Die" Mike Resnick 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Land of Nod" Mike Resnick 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Hunting the Snark" Mike Resnick 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Hothouse Flowers" Mike Resnick 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Elephants on Neptune" Mike Resnick 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Redchapel" Mike Resnick 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" Mike Resnick 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Robots Don't Cry" Mike Resnick 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Princess of Earth" Mike Resnick 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Down Memory Lane" Mike Resnick 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"All the Things You Are" Mike Resnick 2006
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Distant Replay" Mike Resnick 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Article of Faith" Mike Resnick 2008
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" Mike Resnick 2008
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Bride of Frankenstein" Mike Resnick 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Homecoming" Mike Resnick 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Faithful" Lester del Rey 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn
"Helen O'Loy" Lester del Rey 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Nerves" Lester del Rey 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Into Thy Hands" Lester del Rey 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Troika" Alastair Reynolds 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster
"Slow Bullets" Alastair Reynolds 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Status Quo" Mack Reynolds 1961
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Ker-Plop" Ted Reynolds 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
"Can These Bones Live?" Ted Reynolds 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium" Gray Rinehart 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" Rebecca Roanhorse 2017
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"The Lordly Ones" Keith Roberts 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"To Leave a Mark" Kim Stanley Robinson 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Black Air" Kim Stanley Robinson 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Lucky Strike" Kim Stanley Robinson 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Ridge Running" Kim Stanley Robinson 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Green Mars" Kim Stanley Robinson 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Escape from Kathmandu" Kim Stanley Robinson 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr
"The Blind Geometer" Kim Stanley Robinson 1986
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Mother Goddess of the World" Kim Stanley Robinson 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Short, Sharp Shock" Kim Stanley Robinson 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dog Day Evening" Spider Robinson 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach" Kelly Robson 2018
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes"" Benjamin Rosenbaum 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The House Beyond Your Sky" Benjamin Rosenbaum 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Gas Fish" Mary Rosenblum 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Patron of the Arts" William Rotsler 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
"The Voluntary State" Christopher Rowe 2004
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Gallery of His Dreams" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Echea" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Retrieval Artist" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Recovering Apollo 8" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dear Devil" Eric Frank Russell 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Legwork" Eric Frank Russell 1956
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"When It Changed" Joanna Russ 1972
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" Geoff Ryman 2006
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
"What We Found" Geoff Ryman 2011
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Turncoat" Steve Rzasa 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Mr. Jester" Fred Saberhagen 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Selkie Stories Are for Losers" Sofia Samatar 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Perfect State" Brandon Sanderson 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Undiscovered" William Sanders 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Danny Goes to Mars" Pamela Sargent 1992
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Hand You're Dealt" Robert J. Sawyer 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Shed Skin" Robert J. Sawyer 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Identity Theft" Robert J. Sawyer 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The God Engines" John Scalzi 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue" John Scalzi 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" Hilbert Schenck 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1980Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Hurricane Claude" Hilbert Schenck 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Geometry of Narrative" Hilbert Schenck 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Silicon Muse" Hilbert Schenck 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
"Generation Gap" Stanley Schmidt 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Lion Loose" James H. Schmitz 1961
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Moment" Lawrence M. Schoen 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig von Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" Carter Scholz 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1981Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" Nibedita Sen 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2020The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams
"Seven Kill Tiger" Charles Shao 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"I Remember Lemuria!" Richard S. Shaver 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Light of Other Days" Bob Shaw 1966
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1967World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1968SF 12 edited by Judith Merril
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Autopsy" Michael Shea 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Seventh Victim" Robert Sheckley 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Spy Story" Robert Sheckley 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Godspeed" Charles Sheffield 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Braver Thing" Charles Sheffield 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" Lucius Shepard 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Salvador" Lucius Shepard 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1985The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"R & R" Lucius Shepard 1986
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" Lucius Shepard 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Father of Stones" Lucius Shepard 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Radiant Green Star" Lucius Shepard 2000
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Stars Seen through Stone" Lucius Shepard 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Inclination" William Shunn 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"Suppose They Gave a Peace …" Susan Shwartz 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Hawksbill Station" Robert Silverberg 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1968World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1968Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Passengers" Robert Silverberg 1968
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"To Jorslem" Robert Silverberg 1969
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The World Outside" Robert Silverberg 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"When We Went to See the End of the World" Robert Silverberg 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Born with the Dead" Robert Silverberg 1974
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1975The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Schwartz Between the Galaxies" Robert Silverberg 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Our Lady of the Sauropods" Robert Silverberg 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Sailing to Byzantium" Robert Silverberg 1985
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1986The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1986Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"The Secret Sharer" Robert Silverberg 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Thing in the Stone" Clifford D. Simak 1970
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1971World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
"The Autumn Land" Clifford D. Simak 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Construction Shack" Clifford D. Simak 1973
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1974The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1974Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
1986Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
"Scanners Live in Vain" Cordwainer Smith 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Game of Rat and Dragon" Cordwainer Smith 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1956Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 edited by T. E. Dikty
1958Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2006The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Lensmen Series" Edward E. Smith 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Blood Is Another Word for Hunger" Rivers Solomon 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Deep" Rivers Solomon 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile …" S. P. Somtow 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The 1982 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Aquila" S. P. Somtow 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Over the Long Haul" Martha Soukup 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Dog's Life" Martha Soukup 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" Martha Soukup 1992
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Story So Far" Martha Soukup 1993
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Riding the Torch" Norman Spinrad 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Journals of the Plague Years" Norman Spinrad 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Boy Who Plaited Manes" Nancy Springer 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Flow" Arlan Andrews, Sr. 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Les Fleurs Du Mal" Brian Stableford 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Good Rat" Allen Steele 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Zwarte Piet's Tale" Allen Steele 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Agape Among the Robots" Allen Steele 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Days Between" Allen Steele 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Stealing Alabama" Allen Steele 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Swarm" Bruce Sterling 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1983The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1983The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Spider Rose" Bruce Sterling 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dinner in Audoghast" Bruce Sterling 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Flowers of Edo" Bruce Sterling 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Our Neural Chernobyl" Bruce Sterling 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Dori Bangs" Bruce Sterling 1989
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Deep Eddy" Bruce Sterling 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Maneki Neko" Bruce Sterling 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" Eric James Stone 2010
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Lobsters" Charles Stross 2001
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Halo" Charles Stross 2002
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Nightfall" Charles Stross 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Elector" Charles Stross 2004
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Overtime" Charles Stross 2009
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"It" Theodore Sturgeon 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Dreaming Jewels" Theodore Sturgeon 1950
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Saucer of Loneliness" Theodore Sturgeon 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"… And My Fear Is Great …" Theodore Sturgeon 1953
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Who?" Theodore Sturgeon 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Twink" Theodore Sturgeon 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Man Who Lost the Sea" Theodore Sturgeon 1959
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Need" Theodore Sturgeon 1960
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"When You Care, When You Love" Theodore Sturgeon 1962
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1992The Great SF Stories 24 (1962) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Where Is the Bird of Fire?" Thomas Burnett Swann 1962
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Manor of Roses" Thomas Burnett Swann 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dogfight" Michael SwanwickWilliam Gibson 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
"The Edge of the World" Michael Swanwick 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Sturgeon winner
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Griffin's Egg" Michael Swanwick 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
"Walking Out" Michael Swanwick 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Dead" Michael Swanwick 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Wild Minds" Michael Swanwick 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Radiant Doors" Michael Swanwick 1998
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
"Ancient Engines" Michael Swanwick 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Moon Dogs" Michael Swanwick 2000
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
""Hello", Said the Stick" Michael Swanwick 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" Michael Swanwick 2002
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Lord Weary's Empire" Michael Swanwick 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"A Small Room in Koboldtown" Michael Swanwick 2007
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" Michael Swanwick 2008
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Eros, Philia, Agape" Rachel Swirsky 2009
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" Rachel Swirsky 2010
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Fields of Gold" Rachel Swirsky 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
"If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" Rachel Swirsky 2013
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time" K. M. Szpara 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"If You Were an Award, My Love" Juan TaboS. Harris 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Dream of Electric Mothers" Wole Talabi 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Bear with the Knot on His Tail" Stephen Tall 1971
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1972The 1972 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Elder Race" Adrian Tchaikovsky 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Ogres" Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"VRM-547" W. R. Thompson 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Space Raptor Butt Invasion" Chuck Tingle 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" James Tiptree, Jr. 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Painwise" James Tiptree, Jr. 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" James Tiptree, Jr. 1973
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Time-Sharing Angel" James Tiptree, Jr. 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Screwfly Solution" James Tiptree, Jr. 1977
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1978The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1978The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
1978Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" James Tiptree, Jr. 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Only Neat Thing to Do" James Tiptree, Jr. 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Ray of Light" Brad R. Torgersen 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Exchange Officers" Brad R. Torgersen 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Chaplain's Legacy" Brad R. Torgersen 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Return of Spring" Shane Tourtellotte 2001
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Must and Shall" Harry Turtledove 1995
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Forty, Counting Down" Harry Turtledove 1999
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" Rajnar Vajra 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Silently and Very Fast" Catherynne M. Valente 2011
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Fade to White" Catherynne M. Valente 2012
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Six-Gun Snow White" Catherynne M. Valente 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Past Is Red" Catherynne M. Valente 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"L'Esprit de L'Escalier" Catherynne M. Valente 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"The Sin of America" Catherynne M. Valente 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Difference Between Love and Time" Catherynne M. Valente 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Miracle-Workers" Jack Vance 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Assault on a City" Jack Vance 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"What Price Humanity?" David VanDyke 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Vault of the Beast" A. E. van Vogt 1940
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1978Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr
1979The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Weapon Shop" A. E. van Vogt 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Asylum" A. E. van Vogt 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Mixed Men" A. E. van Vogt 1945
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Phantom of Kansas" John Varley 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1977The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
"Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" John Varley 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"In the Hall of the Martian Kings" John Varley 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1978The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1978Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Air Raid" John Varley 1977
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1977Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Barbie Murders" John Varley 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
"Options" John Varley 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1980The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
"Beatnik Bayou" John Varley 1980
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1981The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1981The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr
"Blue Champagne" John Varley 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Amaryllis" Carrie Vaughn 2010
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"That Game We Played During the War" Carrie Vaughn 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Sun, Moon, Dust" Ursula Vernon 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society" Ursula Vernon 2018
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"What Moves the Dead" Ursula Vernon 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"We Built This City" Marie Vibbert 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Fireship" Joan D. Vinge 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr
"View from a Height" Joan D. Vinge 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
1979Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
"True Names" Vernor Vinge 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Barbarian Princess" Vernor Vinge 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Weigher" Eric VinicoffMarcia Martin 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Into the Riverlands" Nghi Vo 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Flashpoint: Titan" Cheah Kai Wai 2015
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Ugly Chickens" Howard Waldrop 1980
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1981The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1981The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr
1981Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Ike at the Mike" Howard Waldrop 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" Howard Waldrop 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1986Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Night of the Cooters" Howard Waldrop 1987
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" Howard Waldrop 1988
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Fin de Cyclé" Howard Waldrop 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The King of Where-I-Go" Howard Waldrop 2005
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"End as a World" F. L. Wallace 1955
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Assistant Self" F. L. Wallace 1956
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Nix Olympica" William Walling 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Zhurong on Mars" Regina Kanyu Wang 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Very Slow Time Machine" Ian Watson 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Slow Birds" Ian Watson 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1984The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Things" Peter Watts 2010
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Nine Yards of Other Cloth" Manly Wade Wellman 1958
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Butcher of Khardov" Dan Wells 2013
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"All Systems Red" Martha Wells 2017
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Custom Fitting" James White 1976
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1998The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn
"Un-Birthday Boy" James White 1996
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Jewel and Her Lapidary" Fran Wilde 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" Fran Wilde 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Catalog of Storms" Fran Wilde 2019
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
"Unseelie Brothers, Ltd." Fran Wilde 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls" Kate Wilhelm 1974
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope" Kate Wilhelm 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Forever Yours, Anna" Kate Wilhelm 1987
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1988The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 edited by David S. Garnett
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
"I Know What You're Thinking" Kate Wilhelm 1994
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Cat and Mouse" Ralph Williams 1959
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Dinosaurs" Walter Jon Williams 1987
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Surfacing" Walter Jon Williams 1988
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
"Wall, Stone, Craft" Walter Jon Williams 1993
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Green Leopard Plague" Walter Jon Williams 2003
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2004Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Daisy, In the Sun" Connie Willis 1979
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The Sidon in the Mirror" Connie Willis 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1984The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Blued Moon" Connie Willis 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Spice Pogrom" Connie Willis 1986
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"At the Rialto" Connie Willis 1989
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1990The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Time Out" Connie Willis 1989
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Cibola" Connie Willis 1990
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"In the Late Cretaceous" Connie Willis 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Jack" Connie Willis 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Miracle" Connie Willis 1991
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" Connie Willis 2003
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2004Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"A Taste of Honey" Kai Ashante Wilson 2016
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Mother to the World" Richard Wilson 1968
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
"Divided by Infinity" Robert Charles Wilson 1998
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Julian: A Christmas Story" Robert Charles Wilson 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Open House on Haunted Hill" John Wiswell 2020
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"That Story Isn't the Story" John Wiswell 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"D.I.Y." John Wiswell 2022
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Fifth Head of Cerberus" Gene Wolfe 1972
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Death of Doctor Island" Gene Wolfe 1973
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Seven American Nights" Gene Wolfe 1978
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1979The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr
1979Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Woman the Unicorn Loved" Gene Wolfe 1981
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
"No Planets Strike" Gene Wolfe 1997
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Memorare" Gene Wolfe 2007
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Mimic" Donald A. Wollheim 1942
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" Alyssa Wong 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" Alyssa Wong 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Plural of Helen of Troy" John C. Wright 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Parliament of Beasts and Birds" John C. Wright 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"One Bright Star to Guide Them" John C. Wright 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Pale Realms of Shade" John C. Wright 2014
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Unimaginable Light" John C. Wright 2016
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" William F. Wu 1983
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Hong's Bluff" William F. Wu 1985
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Sleepers of Mars" John Wyndham 1938
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Black Tides of Heaven" J. Y. Yang 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Carnival Nine" Caroline M. Yoachim 2017
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin
"The Archronology of Love" Caroline M. Yoachim 2019
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
2020The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams
"Colors of the Immortal Palette" Caroline M. Yoachim 2021
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"Little Dog Gone" Robert F. Young 1964
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" E. Lily Yu 2011
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Pawn's Gambit" Timothy Zahn 1982
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1983The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Return to the Fold" Timothy Zahn 1984
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"A Rose for Ecclesiastes" Roger Zelazny 1963
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
196510th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1992The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" Roger Zelazny 1965
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1970Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"This Moment of the Storm" Roger Zelazny 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"For a Breath I Tarry" Roger Zelazny 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1967World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Comes Now the Power" Roger Zelazny 1966
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
"Damnation Alley" Roger Zelazny 1967
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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