| "1/72 Scale" |
Ian R. MacLeod
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "102 H-Bombs" |
Thomas M. Disch
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" |
Kij Johnson
|
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Act One" |
Nancy Kress
|
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Adinkra Cloth" |
Mary C. Aldridge
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math" |
Aimee Picchi
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial" |
Mack Reynolds
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "After a Lean Winter" |
Dave Wolverton
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | Year's Best SF 2 edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
|
| "After King Kong Fell" |
Philip José Farmer
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Best SF: 1974 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
|
| "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "An Agent of Utopia" |
Andy Duncan
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Air Raid" |
John Varley
|
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "The Alchemist" |
Charles L. Harness
|
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Alchemist" |
Paolo Bacigalupi
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Alfred" |
Lisa Goldstein
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Alice Payne Arrives" |
Kate Heartfield
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Alien Jane" |
Kelley Eskridge
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" |
George Alec Effinger
|
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Alive, Alive Oh" |
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "All the Flavors" |
Ken Liu
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "All Vows" |
Esther M. Friesner
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The All-Consuming" |
Lucius Shepard,
Robert Frazier
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Aloha" |
Ken Wharton
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Amnesia" |
Jack Dann
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Ancient Engines" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
|
| "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1972 |
|
3
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" |
Shiv Ramdas
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "And Then There Were (N-One)" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2017 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "And Yet" |
A. T. Greenblatt
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula 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 |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Angel" |
Pat Cadigan
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Angel of Death" |
Michael Shea
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Animal Fair" |
Alfred Bester
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Annabel Lee" |
Nancy Kress
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Answering Service" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1968 | Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
|
| "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" |
Ted Chiang
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana" |
Michael Bishop
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Apology to Inky" |
Robert M. Green, Jr.
|
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
|
| "April Fool's Day Forever" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" |
Martha Soukup
|
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Archronology of Love" |
Caroline M. Yoachim
|
2019 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2020 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams |
|
|
|
| "Argonautica" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Arkfall" |
Carolyn Ives Gilman
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Artificial Condition" |
Martha Wells
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Arvies" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "The Asian Shore" |
Thomas M. Disch
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1971 | Best SF: 1970 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
|
| "The Astronaut from Wyoming" |
Adam-Troy Castro,
Jerry Oltion
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "At the Institute" |
Norman Kagan
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Attachment" |
Phyllis Eisenstein
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Aurora in Four Voices" |
Catherine Asaro
|
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Auspicious Eggs" |
James Morrow
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Autopsy" |
Michael Shea
|
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Awakening" |
Judith Berman
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Axiom of Choice" |
David W. Goldman
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Aymara" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Aztecs" |
Vonda N. McIntyre
|
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Baby Doll" |
Johanna Sinisalo
|
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
|
| "Baby, You Were Great" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
|
|
|
| "Back to the Stone Age" |
Jake Saunders
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Bad Doors" |
John Wiswell
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Bad Medicine" |
Jack Dann
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse" |
Rae Carson
|
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Balanced Ecology" |
James H. Schmitz
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
|
| "Ballad of Beta-2,The" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Ballad of Black Tom" |
Victor LaValle
|
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Barry's Deal" |
Lawrence M. Schoen
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Barry's Tale" |
Lawrence M. Schoen
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Basil the Dog" |
Frances Sherwood
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Basilisk" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Battle of the Abaco Reefs" |
Hilbert Schenck
|
1979 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Beatnik Bayou" |
John Varley
|
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Beauty Addict" |
Ray Aldridge
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Becalmed in Hell" |
Larry Niven
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
|
| "Before I Wake" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
|
| "The Beggar in the Living Room" |
William John Watkins
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Being There" |
Jerzy Kosinski
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Better Living Through Algorithms" |
Naomi Kritzer
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "A Better Mousehole" |
Edgar Pangborn
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Better Than Ever" |
Alex Kirs
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
|
|
|
| "Bibi" |
Mike Resnick,
Susan Shwartz
|
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Big Flash" |
Norman Spinrad
|
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bishop's Opening" |
R. S. A. Garcia
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Black Air" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Black Glass" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Black God's Drums" |
P. Djèlí Clark
|
2018 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Black Tides of Heaven" |
J. Y. Yang
|
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Bleeding Man" |
Craig Strete
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "Blind Shemmy" |
Jack Dann
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Blood Grains Speak Through Memories" |
Jason Sanford
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Blood of the Dragon" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Blooded on Arachne" |
Michael Bishop
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Bone Swans of Amandale" |
C. S. E. Cooney
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
|
|
|
| "Bones" |
Pat Murphy
|
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Boobs" |
Suzy McKee Charnas
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" |
Ken Liu
|
2012 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Born-Again" |
K. D. Wentworth
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil" |
Avram Davidson,
Grania Davis
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" |
Nancy Springer
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Brave Little Toaster" |
Thomas M. Disch
|
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Breath of War" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" |
Thomas F. Monteleone
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Breathmoss" |
Ian R. MacLeod
|
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Bridesicle" |
Will McIntosh
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Brief History of the Dead" |
Kevin Brockmeier
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Buffalo" |
John Kessel
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1987 |
|
3
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bully!" |
Mike Resnick
|
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super" |
A. T. Greenblatt
|
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Burning Bright" |
K. D. Wentworth
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "Burning Chrome" |
William Gibson
|
1982 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Burning Girls" |
Veronica Schanoes
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "The Button Bin" |
Mike Allen
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "By the Falls" |
Harry Harrison
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "A Cabin on the Coast" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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|
| "Calendrical Regression" |
Lawrence M. Schoen
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Calling Dr. Clockwork" |
Ron Goulart
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
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|
| "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" |
Bradley Denton
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Camera Obscura" |
Thomas F. Monteleone
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "Camps" |
Jack Dann
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Captive Girl" |
Jennifer Pelland
|
2006 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Carnival Nine" |
Caroline M. Yoachim
|
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin |
|
|
|
| "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" |
E. Lily Yu
|
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Case and the Dreamer" |
Theodore Sturgeon
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Cassandra" |
C. J. Cherryh
|
1978 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1979 | The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "Cassandra's Photographs" |
Lisa Goldstein
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Cat Pictures Please" |
Naomi Kritzer
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
|
| "A Catalog of Storms" |
Fran Wilde
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Catfish Lullaby" |
A. C. Wise
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Chains of the Sea" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Chief Designer" |
Andy Duncan
|
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Child of All Ages" |
P. J. Plauger
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1976 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
|
|
|
| "Child, Maiden, Mother, Crone" |
Terry Bramlett
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Children's Crusade" |
Robin Wayne Bailey
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Chronology Protection Case" |
Paul Levinson
|
1995 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Chrysalis" |
Robert Reed
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Cicada Queen" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Clash of Star-Kings" |
Avram Davidson
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Clay's Pride" |
Bud Sparhawk
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" |
Fran Wilde
|
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Cold Dark Night with Snow" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Cold Iron" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Color Winter" |
Steven Popkes
|
1988 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Colors of the Immortal Palette" |
Caroline M. Yoachim
|
2021 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2022 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse |
|
|
|
| "Come to Venus Melancholy" |
Thomas M. Disch
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1970 | Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
|
|
|
| "Computers Don't Argue" |
Gordon R. Dickson
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
|
|
|
| "Conditional Love" |
Felicity Shoulders
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Contact" |
Jerry Oltion,
Lee Goodloe
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Continued on Next Rock" |
R. A. Lafferty
|
1970 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Cookie Monster" |
Vernor Vinge
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The 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 |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Copyright Notice Case" |
Paul Levinson
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Corridors" |
Barry N. Malzberg
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Cost to Be Wise" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Court Magician" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2018 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "The Crab Lice" |
Gregory Feeley
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Crane Husband" |
Kelly Barnhill
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Creation" |
Jeffrey Ford
|
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Creation of Bennie Good" |
James Sallis
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Crocodile Rock" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Cryptic" |
Jack McDevitt
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Custer's Last Jump" |
Howard Waldrop,
Steven Utley
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Custodians" |
Richard Cowper
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1976 | Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
|
| "Cut" |
Robin Hobb
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Cyclops" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "D.I.Y" |
John Wiswell
|
2022 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Damage" |
David D. Levine
|
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
| 2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" |
Terry Carr
|
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
|
|
|
| "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" |
William Shunn
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dancing on Air" |
Nancy Kress
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Dangerous Games" |
Marta Randall
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dangerous Space" |
Kelley Eskridge
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Dark" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Dark Heaven" |
Gregory Benford
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Dark Rooms" |
Lisa Goldstein
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Day Before Forever" |
Keith Laumer
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Day's Work on the Moon" |
Mike Shepherd
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Days Between" |
Allen Steele
|
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Dead" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Dead Boy at Your Window" |
Bruce Holland Rogers
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dead Men on TV" |
Pat Murphy
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" |
Karen Osborne
|
2019 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dear Aunt Annie" |
Gordon Eklund
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" |
Michael Bishop
|
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Death of Captain Future" |
Allen Steele
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Death on the Nile" |
Connie Willis
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Deathbird" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Decision Makers" |
Joseph Green
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Deep" |
Rivers Solomon
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Deeper than the Darkness" |
Gregory Benford
|
1969 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Deepwater Bride" |
Tamsyn Muir
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Destiny Delayed" |
Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Devil Car" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
|
|
|
| "The Devil in America" |
Kai Ashante Wilson
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Devil You Don't Know" |
Dean Ing
|
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1979 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "The Devil's Arithmetic" |
Jane Yolen
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Diamond Pit" |
Jack Dann
|
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Diary of the Rose" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1976 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Dick Pig" |
Ian Muneshwar
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dirty Old Town" |
Richard Bowes
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Disciples" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Divining Light" |
Ted Kosmatka
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1988 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Doctor" |
Theodore L. Thomas
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" |
Michael Swanwick
|
2001 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2002 | Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Dog's Life" |
Martha Soukup
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Dog's Story" |
Eleanor Arnason
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dogfight" |
Michael Swanwick,
William Gibson
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
|
|
|
| "Doing Lennon" |
Gregory Benford
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "Don't Stop" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dori Bangs" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1989 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1990 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Douen" |
Suzan Palumbo
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Dozen Tough Jobs" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dramatic Mission" |
Anne McCaffrey
|
1969 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Dream at Noonday" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Dream Baby" |
Bruce McAllister
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "A Dream of Electric Mothers" |
Wole Talabi
|
2022 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe" |
Kij Johnson
|
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "The Dreaming Wind" |
Jeffrey Ford
|
2007 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Driftglass" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1967 |
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1
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1968 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
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| "Dry Bones" |
William Sanders
|
2003 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Duke in His Castle" |
Vera Nazarian
|
2008 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Dybbuk Dolls" |
Jack Dann
|
1975 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Dydeetown Girl" |
F. Paul Wilson
|
1985 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Earth Merchants" |
Norman Kagan
|
1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Earthwoman" |
Reginald Bretnor
|
1967 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Echea" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1998 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Ecopoiesis" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1997 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Eichmann Variations" |
George Zebrowski
|
1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Eight Billion" |
Richard Wilson
|
1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Eight-Thousanders" |
Jason Sanford
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2020 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Elephants on Neptune" |
Mike Resnick
|
2000 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Elizabeth Complex" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1996 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Embracing-the-New" |
Benjamin Rosenbaum
|
2004 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "(emet)" |
Lauren Ring
|
2021 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Empress of Mars" |
Kage Baker
|
2003 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2004 | Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
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| "The Encounter" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1970 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The End of the World as We Know It" |
Dale Bailey
|
2004 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "An End to All Things" |
Karina Sumner-Smith
|
2006 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Engine at Heartspring's Center" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1974 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
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| "England Underway" |
Terry Bisson
|
1993 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1989 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
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| "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite" |
R. A. Lafferty
|
1970 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Erase/Record/Play" |
John M. Ford
|
1996 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Escape from Kathmandu" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1986 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
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| "The Eskimo Invasion" |
Hayden Howard
|
1966 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Eszterhazy and the Autogóndola-Invention" |
Avram Davidson
|
1983 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" |
Octavia E. Butler
|
1987 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" |
Kij Johnson
|
2007 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "The Executioners' Guild" |
Andy Duncan
|
1999 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand" |
Joanna Russ
|
1979 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
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| "The Eyeflash Miracles" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1976 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
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| "Eyes Do More Than See" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
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| "Fade to White" |
Catherynne M. Valente
|
2012 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
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| "The Faithful Companion at Forty" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1987 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Fan" |
Geoff Ryman
|
1994 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Fandom for Robots" |
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
|
2017 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
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| "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" |
Jeffrey Ford
|
2000 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Fast Cars" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1989 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Fatal Fulfillment" |
Poul Anderson
|
1970 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Feast of Saint Janis" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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| "The Ferryman's Wife" |
Richard Bowes
|
2001 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "A Few Kindred Spirits" |
John Christopher
|
1965 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" |
Delia Sherman
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "Fields of Gold" |
Rachel Swirsky
|
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
|
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|
| "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1972 |
|
4
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
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| "The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhail" |
Randall Garrett
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Final War" |
Barry N. Malzberg
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1969 | Best SF: 1968 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
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|
| "Find the Lady" |
Nicholas Fisk
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "The Finite Canvas" |
Brit Mandelo
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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|
| "Finna" |
Nino Cipri
|
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Fire Ant" |
Jonathan P. Brazee
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "The Fire When It Comes" |
Parke Godwin
|
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Fireheart Tiger" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2021 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Fireship" |
Joan D. Vinge
|
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1979 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr |
|
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|
| "The Fisher Queen" |
Alyssa Wong
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" |
Alyssa Wong
|
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Five Days in April" |
Brian A. Hopkins
|
1999 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Five Fucks" |
Jonathan Lethem
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" |
Cat Rambo
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Flat Diane" |
Daniel Abraham
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Flatlander" |
Larry Niven
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Flower Kiss" |
Constance Ash
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Flowers for the Sea" |
Zin E. Rocklyn
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Flowers of Edo" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Flying over Water" |
Ellen Klages
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Fool to Believe" |
Pat Cadigan
|
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "For He Can Creep" |
Siobhan Carroll
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "For I Have Touched the Sky" |
Mike Resnick
|
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "For Lack of a Bed" |
John Wiswell
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Forgiveness Day" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1994 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "The Fort Moxie Branch" |
Jack McDevitt
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Fortitude" |
Andy Duncan
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara" |
Christopher Kastensmidt
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Fortune and Misfortune" |
Lisa Goldstein
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Founding Father" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
|
|
|
| "Four Ghosts In Hamlet" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Four Profound Weaves" |
Rose Lemberg
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" |
Tom Crosshill
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Franchise" |
John Kessel
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Fringe" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Fugue State" |
John M. Ford
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Funeral" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
|
|
|
| "The Funeral March of the Marionettes" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
1997 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Galaxy Called Rome" |
Barry N. Malzberg
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Gallery of His Dreams" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Gambler" |
Paolo Bacigalupi
|
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
|
| "Game" |
Donald Barthelme
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
|
|
|
| "Gate of Faces" |
Ray Aldridge
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Generation Gap" |
Stanley Schmidt
|
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Geometry of Narrative" |
Hilbert Schenck
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Getting Real" |
Susan Shwartz
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "Ghost Town" |
Chad Oliver
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" |
Paul Park
|
2010 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Ghosts of New York" |
Jennifer Pelland
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Giants of the Violet Sea" |
Eugenia Triantafyllou
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Gift from the GrayLanders" |
Michael Bishop
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Gilgamesh in the Outback" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Ginny Sweethips's Flying Circus" |
Neal Barrett, Jr.
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Ginungagap" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
|
| "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1973 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream" |
Maria Dahvana Headley
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Give Me English" |
Ai Jiang
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Gladiator's War: A Dialogue" |
Lois Tilton
|
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Goblin Night" |
James H. Schmitz
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
|
|
|
| "The God Engines" |
John Scalzi
|
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The God House" |
Keith Roberts
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "God's Hooks!" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Gods of Mars" |
Michael Swanwick,
Gardner Dozois,
Jack Dann
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach" |
Kelly Robson
|
2018 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Going Dark" |
Richard Fox
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Going Deep" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Going Under" |
Jack Dann
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "The Gold at the Starbow's End" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1972 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1972 | Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl |
| 1973 | The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Good Intentions" |
Jack McDevitt,
Stanley Schmidt
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Good New Days" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Good Pup" |
Bridget McKenna
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "Goodbye to All That" |
Harlan Ellison
|
2003 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "The Gorgon Field" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" |
Michael Bishop
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" |
Rachel Swirsky
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Grandma" |
Carol Emshwiller
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" |
Rose Lemberg
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "Grass Dancer" |
Owl Goingback
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Great Work of Time" |
John Crowley
|
1989 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "The Green Book" |
Amal El-Mohtar
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Green Days in Brunei" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Green Mars" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Greening of Bed-Stuy" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1984 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Griffin's Egg" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Growing Up in Edge City" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Guerrilla Trees" |
H. H. Hollis
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Guide for Working Breeds" |
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
|
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Half a Loaf" |
R. C. FitzPatrick
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Happy Man" |
Jonathan Lethem
|
1991 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
|
| "Hatrack River" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Haunted Humans" |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Haunting of Tram Car 015" |
P. Djèlí Clark
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Hawk Among the Sparrows" |
Dean McLaughlin
|
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Hawksbill Station" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1968 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1968 | Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Heathen God" |
George Zebrowski
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Heirs of the Perisphere" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" |
Esther M. Friesner
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Helper and His Hero" |
Matthew Hughes
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Henry James, This One's for You" |
Jack McDevitt
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Her Furry Face" |
Leigh Kennedy
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Her Habiline Husband" |
Michael Bishop
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Her Husband's Hands" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water" |
Vylar Kaftan
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Hibakusha Gallery" |
Edward Bryant
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "High Steel" |
Jack Dann,
Jack C. Haldeman, II
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "High Times in the Low Parliament" |
Kelly Robson
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" |
Mimi Mondal
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "His Hour Upon the Stage" |
Grant Carrington
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Hob" |
Judith Moffett
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Home for Christmas" |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|
1995 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Homefaring" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Honeycrafters" |
Carolyn Ives Gilman
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Hong's Bluff" |
William F. Wu
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" |
Saladin Ahmed
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Horrible Imaginings" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Horse of Air" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The House the Blakeneys Built" |
Avram Davidson
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
|
| "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "How the Highland People Came to Be" |
Bruce Holland Rogers
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "How the Trick Is Done" |
A. C. Wise
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "How to Make Unicorn Pie" |
Esther M. Friesner
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Hunting the Snark" |
Mike Resnick
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Husband Stitch" |
Carmen Maria Machado
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "I Am AI" |
Ai Jiang
|
2023 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "I Know What You're Thinking" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said" |
Richard Bowes
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "I Never Liked You Anyway" |
Jordan Kurella
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "I Remember the Future" |
Michael A. Burstein
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" |
Vylar Kaftan
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Ice Owl" |
Carolyn Ives Gilman
|
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Identity Theft" |
Robert J. Sawyer
|
2005 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Idiot's Mate" |
Robert Taylor
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" |
Theodore Sturgeon
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "If Angels Fight" |
Richard Bowes
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" |
Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe
|
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon" |
Angela Liu
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
|
|
|
| "In Our Block" |
R. A. Lafferty
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "In the Bowl" |
John Varley
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
|
| "In the Deadlands" |
David Gerrold
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "In the Late December" |
Greg van Eekhout
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "In the Pound, Near Breaktime" |
Kent Brewster
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "In the Queue" |
Keith Laumer
|
1970 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" |
Dean Wesley Smith
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "In the Western Tradition" |
Phyllis Eisenstein
|
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Inclination" |
William Shunn
|
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "The Infinity Box" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Inside Man" |
H. L. Gold
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Inspiration" |
Ben Bova
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Into the Miranda Rift" |
G. David Nordley
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Iron Shoes" |
J. Kathleen Cheney
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Island in the Lake" |
Phyllis Eisenstein
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Itsy Bitsy Spider" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
|
|
|
| "Izzy and the Father of Terror" |
Eliot Fintushel
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Jack" |
Connie Willis
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Jack Daw's Pack" |
Greer Gilman
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Jaguar Hunter" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "Jesus at the Bat" |
Esther M. Friesner
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Jewel and Her Lapidary" |
Fran Wilde
|
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Johnny Mnemonic" |
William Gibson
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Journals of the Plague Years" |
Norman Spinrad
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Journey into the Kingdom" |
M. Rickert
|
2006 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "The July Ward" |
Sharon N. Farber
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Jumping off the Planet" |
David Gerrold
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Junction" |
Jack Dann
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Just Enough Rain" |
P. H. Lee
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" |
Connie Willis
|
2003 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2004 | Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" |
Michael A. Burstein
|
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Kaleidoscope" |
K. D. Wentworth
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Katabasis" |
Robert Reed
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2013 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Keep Them Happy" |
Robert Rohrer
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Keys to December" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Kid Charlemagne" |
Paul Di Filippo
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Kingdom by the Sea" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Kiosk" |
Bruce Sterling
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Kirinyaga" |
Mike Resnick
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "Kiss Me Twice" |
Mary Robinette Kowal
|
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Knapsack Poems" |
Eleanor Arnason
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Kyrie" |
Poul Anderson
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
|
| "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" |
Henry Lien
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Lambing Season" |
Molly Gloss
|
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Language of Moths" |
Christopher Barzak
|
2005 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" |
Tina Connolly
|
2018 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
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|
| "The Last Ghost" |
Stephen Goldin
|
1971 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)" |
Matthew Kressel
|
2017 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
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|
| "The Last of the O-Forms" |
James Van Pelt
|
2002 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Laugh Along with Franz" |
Norman Kagan
|
1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1979 | Neglected Visions edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander |
|
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|
| "Laughter Amoung the Trees" |
Suzan Palumbo
|
2021 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "A Leader for Yesteryear" |
Mack Reynolds
|
1965 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Left of the Dial" |
Paul Witcover
|
2004 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Lennon Spex" |
Paul Di Filippo
|
1992 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Let All the Children Boogie" |
Sam J. Miller
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2022 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse |
|
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|
| "Lethe" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
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|
| "The Liar" |
John P. Murphy
|
2016 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "Lieserl" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1990 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "The Life of Your Time" |
Poul Anderson
|
1965 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" |
Michael Bishop
|
1991 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" |
Ted Chiang
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Light of Other Days" |
Bob Shaw
|
1966 |
|
2
|
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "The Lincoln Train" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Lines of Power" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1986 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
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|
| "Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Listeners" |
James E. Gunn
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Listening to Brahms" |
Suzy McKee Charnas
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King" |
Ken Liu
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Little Faces" |
Vonda N. McIntyre
|
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "Little Gods" |
Tim Pratt
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Living Trust" |
L. Timmel Duchamp
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Lobsters" |
Charles Stross
|
2001 |
|
2
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Loose Cannon" |
Susan Shwartz
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Loose Ends" |
Paul Levinson
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Lord Moon" |
M. J. Engh
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Lost Boys" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Lost Dorsai" |
Gordon R. Dickson
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" |
Pat Murphy
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Lucky Strike" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1984 |
|
3
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "Madeleine" |
Amal El-Mohtar
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
|
| "Madonna of the Maquiladora" |
Gregory Frost
|
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "Magic's Price" |
Bud Sparhawk
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Magician and Laplace's Demon" |
Tom Crosshill
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2015 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Maiden Voyage" |
J. W. Schutz
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" |
Tom Crosshill
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mammoths at the Gates" |
Nghi Vo
|
2023 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Man in His Time" |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
1965 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "Man Opening a Door" |
Pauline Ashwell
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" |
Ken Liu
|
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Learned Loving" |
Theodore Sturgeon
|
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Manamouki" |
Mike Resnick
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Map of Seventeen" |
Christopher Barzak
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Marrow Death" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mars Masked" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" |
Ruth Nestvold
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Marîd Changes His Mind" |
George Alec Effinger
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Masculinist Revolt" |
William Tenn
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Mask of the Rex" |
Richard Bowes
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Masks" |
Damon Knight
|
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
|
|
|
| "Masque of the Red Shift" |
Fred Saberhagen
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "The Matter of Seggri" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Matter's End" |
Gregory Benford
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "May Be Some Time" |
Brenda W. Clough
|
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye" |
Matthew Kressel
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mefisto in Onyx" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Memorare" |
Gene Wolfe
|
2007 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "A Memory of Wind" |
Rachel Swirsky
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Men Are Trouble" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2005 | Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Mercurymen" |
C. C. MacApp
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Mercy Gate" |
Mark J. McGarry
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Messenger" |
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne,
R. R. Virdi
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Migratory Pattern of Dancers" |
Katherine Sparrow
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mikal's Songbird" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Mimicking of Known Successes" |
Malka Older
|
2023 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue" |
John Kessel
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Mirror of Lop Nor" |
George Guthridge
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Mischief Maker" |
Richard Olin
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" |
Sherwood Smith
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Momentary Taste of Being" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Monkey Treatment" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Moon of Ice" |
Brad Linaweaver
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "More Than The Sum Of His Parts" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Mortimer Gray's History of Death" |
Brian Stableford
|
1995 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Mothers of Voorhisville" |
M. Rickert
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
|
|
|
| "Mount Charity" |
Edgar Pangborn
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Mountain to Mohammed" |
Nancy Kress
|
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "Movement" |
Nancy Fulda
|
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mr. Boy" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Mr. Death" |
Alix E. Harrow
|
2021 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" |
John Kessel
|
1988 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Mummer Kiss" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsiblity in the Digital Darkness" |
S. L. Huang
|
2022 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Must and Shall" |
Harry Turtledove
|
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "My Country Is a Ghost" |
Eugenia Triantafyllou
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "My Mother Dancing" |
Nancy Kress
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2005 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman" |
Joanna Russ
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Myths of the Near Future" |
J. G. Ballard
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Naming the Flowers" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Nanny's Day" |
Leah Cypess
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Narcissus Plague" |
Lisa Goldstein
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Necessity of Stars" |
E. Catherine Tobler
|
2021 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Necronauts" |
Terry Bisson
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Nekropolis" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1994 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "The New Atlantis" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
|
| "The New Mother" |
Eugene Fischer
|
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Newton Sleep" |
Gregory Benford
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Night Wind" |
Mary Rosenblum
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Nightwings" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Nine Lives" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1969 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1970 | Best SF: 1969 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Ninety Percent of Everything" |
James Patrick Kelly,
John Kessel,
Jonathan Lethem
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig von Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" |
Carter Scholz
|
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Nirvana High" |
Eileen Gunn,
Leslie What
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "Non-Zero Probabilities" |
N. K. Jemisin
|
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "None So Blind" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Not Long Before the End" |
Larry Niven
|
1969 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City" |
Jack McDevitt
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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| "The Nutcracker Coup" |
Janet Kagan
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
2003 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Of One Mind" |
James A. Durham
|
1965 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Old Equations" |
Jake Kerr
|
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Ommatidium Miniatures" |
Michael Bishop
|
1989 |
|
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "On a Red Station, Drifting" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2012 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "On the Downhill Side" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "On the Storm Planet" |
Cordwainer Smith
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "On the Street of the Serpents" |
Michael Bishop
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Once There Was a Giant" |
Keith Laumer
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont" |
P. A. Cornell
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "The Only Neat Thing to Do" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1985 |
|
1
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Options" |
John Varley
|
1979 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1980 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
|
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|
| "The Orangery" |
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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|
| "An Ornament to His Profession" |
Charles L. Harness
|
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
| 1972 | A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight |
|
|
|
| "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" |
Brooke Bolander
|
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Over the Long Haul" |
Martha Soukup
|
1990 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Over the River and Through the Woods" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
|
| "OwnzOred" |
Cory Doctorow
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Pagodas of Ciboure" |
M. Shayne Bell
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Paladin of the Lost Hour" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Paper Dragons" |
James P. Blaylock
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Paranormal Romance" |
Christopher Barzak
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Particle Theory" |
Edward Bryant
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1978 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Passing Strange" |
Ellen Klages
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Pathways of Desire" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Patron of the Arts" |
William Rotsler
|
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
|
|
|
| "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" |
Usman T. Malik
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
|
|
|
| "Peaches for Mad Molly" |
Steven Gould
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1989 | The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two edited by David S. Garnett |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Peacock King" |
Larry McCombs,
Ted White
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters" |
Henry Lien
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The People of Sand and Slag" |
Paolo Bacigalupi
|
2004 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2005 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Permafrost" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Perseids" |
Robert Charles Wilson
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Petra" |
Greg Bear
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Pill" |
Meg Elison
|
2020 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2021 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |
|
|
|
| "Pip and the Fairies" |
Theodora Goss
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" |
Richard Cowper
|
1976 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Pishaach" |
Shweta Narayan
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Planet of Forgetting" |
James H. Schmitz
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Plastic Abyss" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Plus or Minus" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" |
Geoff Ryman
|
2006 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "The Political Officer" |
Charles Coleman Finlay
|
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Political Prisoner" |
Charles Coleman Finlay
|
2008 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman" |
Avram Davidson
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Poor Man, Beggar Man" |
Joanna Russ
|
1971 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Pope of the Chimps" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia" |
Rachel Swirsky
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Potawottomie Giant" |
Andy Duncan
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Potter of Bones" |
Eleanor Arnason
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Power and the Passion" |
Pat Cadigan
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Prayer for the Crown-Shy" |
Becky Chambers
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Prayers on the Wind" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Pretty Boy Crossover" |
Pat Cadigan
|
1986 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1967 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1968 | Best SF: 1967 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
|
| "Pride" |
Mary A. Turzillo
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Primrose and Thorn" |
Bud Sparhawk
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain" |
Natalia Theodoridou
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Probable Cause" |
Charles L. Harness
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Proof by Induction" |
José Pablo Iriarte
|
2021 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2022 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse |
|
|
|
| "Protection" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" |
Becky Chambers
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Pusher" |
John Varley
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The 1982 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Pyre of New Day" |
Catherine Asaro
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Quiet" |
George Guthridge
|
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "A Quiet Revolution for Death" |
Jack Dann
|
1978 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Radiant Doors" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1998 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1999 | Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
|
| "Radiant Green Star" |
Lucius Shepard
|
2000 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Rat" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Rattlesnakes and Men" |
Michael Bishop
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Ray of Light" |
Brad R. Torgersen
|
2011 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" |
James Alan Gardner
|
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Reality Check" |
Michael A. Burstein
|
1999 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Red as Blood" |
Tanith Lee
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
|
| "The Region Between" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1970 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Regular" |
Ken Liu
|
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2015 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Research Alpha" |
A. E. van Vogt,
James H. Schmitz
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Rest Is Silence" |
Charles L. Grant
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Resurrection Man's Legacy" |
Dale Bailey
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Retrograde Summer" |
John Varley
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Riders of the Purple Wage" |
Philip José Farmer
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Riot Baby" |
Tochi Onyebuchi
|
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Rite of Spring" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "River of Teeth" |
Sarah Gailey
|
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Robot" |
Helena Bell
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Robot Dreams" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Rockabye Baby" |
S. C. Sykes
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Rogue Dragon" |
Avram Davidson
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Roll of the Dice" |
Catherine Asaro
|
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "The Rule of Three" |
Lawrence M. Schoen
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Runtime" |
S. B. Divya
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sabbath Wine" |
Barbara Krasnoff
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Safeguard" |
Nancy Kress
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sail the Tide of Mourning" |
Richard A. Lupoff
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
|
| "Saint Theresa of the Aliens" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Salvador" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Samurai and the Willows" |
Michael Bishop
|
1976 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Sanctuary" |
Michael A. Burstein
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Saturday's Song" |
Wole Talabi
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sauerkraut Station" |
Ferrett Steinmetz
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Schwarzschild Radius" |
Connie Willis
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "A Scraping at the Bones" |
Algis Budrys
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
|
| "Sea Changeling" |
Mildred Downey Broxon
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Second Inquisition" |
Joanna Russ
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Secret Sharer" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Secrets of the Heart" |
Charles L. Grant
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" |
Kenneth Schneyer
|
2013 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" |
Sofia Samatar
|
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2014 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "A Series of Steaks" |
Vina Jie-Min Prasad
|
2017 |
|
2
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
| 2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
|
| "Seven American Nights" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1978 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1979 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1979 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "Shadow Prisons" |
Caroline M. Yoachim
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Shaffery Among the Immortals" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Shaker Revival" |
Gerald Jonas
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" |
Robert Sheckley
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Shambling Towards Hiroshima" |
James Morrow
|
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
|
|
|
| "The Sharing of Flesh" |
Poul Anderson
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Shark" |
Edward Bryant
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Shatterday" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Ship of Shadows" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Shipbirth" |
Aliette de Bodard
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Shipwrecked Hotel" |
James Blish,
Norman L. Knight
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Shobies' Story" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" |
Renan Bernardo
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Short Timer" |
Dave Smeds
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Sidon in the Mirror" |
Connie Willis
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Silently and Very Fast" |
Catherynne M. Valente
|
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" |
Robin Hobb
|
1989 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Silver or Gold" |
Emma Bull
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Singing My Sister Down" |
Margo Lanagan
|
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Singular Habits of Wasps" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1994 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Sisters" |
Greg Bear
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Six Months, Three Days" |
Charlie Jane Anders
|
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" |
Eugenia Triantafyllou
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Six-Gun Snow White" |
Catherynne M. Valente
|
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Skeleton Key" |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sleep Walking Now and Then" |
Richard Bowes
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Slow Birds" |
Ian Watson
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1984 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Slow Tuesday Night" |
R. A. Lafferty
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
|
|
|
| "Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time" |
K. M. Szpara
|
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Small One" |
E. Clayton McCarty
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Snow" |
John Crowley
|
1985 |
|
2
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
|
|
|
| "The Snow Women" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1970 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Son of the Morning" |
Phyllis Gotlieb
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Song for Lya" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1974 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Soon Comes Night" |
Gregory Benford
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
|
| "Souls" |
Joanna Russ
|
1982 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Sound of Children Screaming" |
Rachael K. Jones
|
2023 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Sounds of Old Earth" |
Matthew Kressel
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Souvenir" |
J. G. Ballard
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Special Kind of Morning" |
Gardner Dozois
|
1971 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Standing in Line with Mr Jimmy" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Standing Room Only" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1997 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "The Stars Do Not Lie" |
Jay Lake
|
2012 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2013 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Stars Seen through Stone" |
Lucius Shepard
|
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Stellar Harvest" |
Eleanor Arnason
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Stepsister" |
Leah Cypess
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Still Life with Boobs" |
Anne Harris
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Stone Circle" |
Lisa Tuttle
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Stone City" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Stone Wall Truth" |
Caroline M. Yoachim
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Stories for Men" |
John Kessel
|
2002 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Storms of Windhaven" |
George R. R. Martin,
Lisa Tuttle
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Story Child" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Story of Love" |
Vera Nazarian
|
2006 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Story Writer" |
Richard Wilson
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Anne" |
Mike Shepherd
|
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Strange Uncertain Light" |
G. V. Anderson
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Strata" |
Edward Bryant
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The String" |
Kathleen Ann Goonan
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Style in Treason" |
James Blish
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sublimination Angels" |
Jason Sanford
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births" |
José Pablo Iriarte
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Sultan of the Clouds" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2011 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters" |
Aimee Ogden
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather" |
Craig Strete
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Sunken Gardens" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Sunrise West" |
William K. Carlson
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Suppose They Gave a Peace …" |
Susan Shwartz
|
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Surfacing" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Surviving" |
Judith Moffett
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1987 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Swarm" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1982 |
|
3
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Swarmer, Skimmer" |
Gregory Benford
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Swift, Brutal Retaliation" |
Meghan McCarron
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Sword Game" |
H. H. Hollis
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Taklamakan" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "The Tale of the Gorgik" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Tall One" |
K. D. Wentworth
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
2003 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Taste of Honey" |
Kai Ashante Wilson
|
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Tea and Hamsters" |
Michael G. Coney
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Temple to a Minor Goddess" |
Susan Shwartz
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" |
Nibedita Sen
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2020 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams |
|
|
|
| "The Territory" |
Bradley Denton
|
1992 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "That Story Isn't the Story" |
John Wiswell
|
2021 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "the button, and what you know" |
W. Gregory Stewart
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me" |
Avram Davidson
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "There's a Hole in the City" |
Richard Bowes
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Thermals of August" |
Edward Bryant
|
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of" |
Bruce Holland Rogers
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" |
Alaya Dawn Johnson
|
2013 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2014 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "They're Made Out of Meat" |
Terry Bisson
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "The Thing in the Stone" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1970 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "A Thing of Beauty" |
Norman Spinrad
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1974 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
|
|
|
| "Things Not Seen" |
Martha Soukup
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Things with Beards" |
Sam J. Miller
|
2016 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke |
| 2017 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Think Like a Dinosaur" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1995 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "This Is Not a Wardrobe Door" |
A. Merc Rustad
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2017 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu |
|
|
|
| "This Moment of the Storm" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1966 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "This Mortal Mountain" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
|
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|
| "Thornhedge" |
T. Kingfisher
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Though a Sparrow Fall" |
Thomas N. Scortia
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" |
James Alan Gardner
|
1997 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
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|
| "The Tiger Sweater" |
Keith Roberts
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Time Deer" |
Craig Strete
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Best SF: 1974 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss |
| 1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
|
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|
| "A Time for Every Purpose" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "Time Gypsy" |
Ellen Klages
|
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Time Travelers Never Die" |
Jack McDevitt
|
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Tin Woodman" |
Dennis Bailey,
Dave Bischoff
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Tiny Tango" |
Judith Moffett
|
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" |
David D. Levine
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
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|
| "To Jorslem" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1969 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "To Kiss the Star" |
Amy Sterling Casil
|
2001 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Today I Am Paul" |
Martin L. Shoemaker
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2016 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "The Tomb Wife" |
Gwyneth Jones
|
2007 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2008 | Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Total Environment" |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "A Touch of Lavender" |
Robin Hobb
|
1989 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Tower of Mud and Straw" |
Yaroslav Barsukov
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Transit" |
Vonda N. McIntyre
|
1983 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Traveler's Tale" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Travels with My Cats" |
Mike Resnick
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Trial of the Century" |
Lawrence M. Schoen
|
2013 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Tribes of Bela" |
Albert E. Cowdrey
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Tricentennial" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
|
|
|
| "Trinity" |
Nancy Kress
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Trojan Horse" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "True Names" |
Vernor Vinge
|
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Truest Chill" |
Gregory Feeley
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Twilla" |
Tom Reamy
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold" |
S. B. Divya
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Unaccompanied Sonata" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1979 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Uncollected Works" |
Lin Carter
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Unconquered Country" |
Geoff Ryman
|
1984 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "Under Two Moons" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Understanding Entropy" |
Barry N. Malzberg
|
1994 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Understanding Human Behavior" |
Thomas M. Disch
|
1982 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Undiscovered" |
William Sanders
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Undone" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
2001 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" |
Ian McDonald
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" |
Andy Duncan
|
2007 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Unsound Variations" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1982 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Untethered Sky" |
Fonda Lee
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Utopia of a Tired Man" |
Jorge Luis Borges
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Utopia, LOL?" |
Jamie Wahls
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2019 | The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman |
|
|
|
| "Vanishing Point" |
Jonathan Brand
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" |
Usman T. Malik
|
2014 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Venice Drowned" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Vernalfest Morning" |
Michael Bishop
|
1978 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" |
Michael Bishop
|
2008 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Vinland the Dream" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1991 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Virtual Love" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Voices of the Kill" |
Thomas M. Disch
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Voluntary State" |
Christopher Rowe
|
2004 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2005 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas |
|
|
|
| "The Wages of Syntax" |
Ray Vukcevich
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Wakulla Springs" |
Ellen Klages,
Andy Duncan
|
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Walk in Silence" |
Catherine Asaro
|
2003 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Wall, Stone, Craft" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Walls of the Universe" |
Paul Melko
|
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Walpurgis Afternoon" |
Delia Sherman
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "War Beneath the Tree" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" |
Eleanor Arnason
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
|
|
| "Waters of Versailles" |
Kelly Robson
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "The Waves" |
Ken Liu
|
2012 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2013 | Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell |
|
|
|
| "The Way of Cross and Dragon" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1979 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Way Station" |
Stephen King
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Ways of Love" |
Poul Anderson
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "We Are All Completely Fine" |
Daryl Gregory
|
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "We Are the Cloud" |
Sam J. Miller
|
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2015 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill |
|
|
|
| "We Built This City" |
Marie Vibbert
|
2022 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "We Will Drink a Fish Together …" |
Bill Johnson
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Weaponized Math" |
Jonathan P. Brazee
|
2017 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Weatherman" |
Lois McMaster Bujold
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "The Wedding Album" |
David Marusek
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0" |
Caroline M. Yoachim
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2017 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu |
|
|
|
| "Weyr Search" |
Anne McCaffrey
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "When It Ends, He Catches Her" |
Eugie Foster
|
2014 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "When the Bow Breaks" |
Steven Brust
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "When the Old Gods Die" |
Mike Resnick
|
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "When We Went to See the End of the World" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "When Your Child Strays From God" |
Sam J. Miller
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "… Where Angels Fear to Tread" |
Allen Steele
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Where You Linger" |
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "White Creatures" |
Gregory Benford
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The White Otters of Childhood" |
Michael Bishop
|
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "White Wolf Calling" |
Charles L. Grant
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" |
Lawrence Watt-Evans
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Wind Will Rove" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2017 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2018 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
|
| "Window" |
Bob Leman
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1981 | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Window Boy" |
Thomas Ha
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Wings" |
Vonda N. McIntyre
|
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Wings of Sorrow and Bone" |
Beth Cato
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Winter Beach" |
Kate Wilhelm
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Winter Fire" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Winter Market" |
William Gibson
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" |
Alix E. Harrow
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "With Morning Comes Mistfall" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1974 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Third Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" |
Richard A. Lupoff
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "With Unclean Hands" |
Adam-Troy Castro
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "Witness" |
Walter Jon Williams
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations" |
Eugene Mirabelli
|
2006 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
|
|
|
| "A Woman's Liberation" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1995 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" |
William F. Wu
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1983 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "The Word for World Is Forest" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
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1972 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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| "Wound the Wind" |
George Zebrowski
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2001 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Wrong-Way Street" |
Larry Niven
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1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine" |
Pat York
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1999 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" |
Alyssa Wong
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2016 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
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| "Young Doctor Eszterhazy" |
Avram Davidson
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Zeke" |
Tim Sullivan
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1981 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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| "Zora and the Zombie" |
Andy Duncan
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2004 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
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