| "All the Tea in China" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Reginald Bretnor
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Among the Dangs" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
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                        1958 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Asteroids, 2194" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John Wyndham
                              
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                        1960 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Beat Cluster" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Fritz Leiber
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Countdown" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                John Haase
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Dandelion Girl" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert F. Young
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Fastest Gun Dead" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Julian F. Grow
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Freedom" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Mack Reynolds
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "High Barbary" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Lawrence Durrell
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Immediately Yours" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Robert Beverly Hale
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "It Becomes Necessary" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ward Moore
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Judas Bomb" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Kit Reed
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                                             | 1966 | Best SF Six edited by Edmund Crispin | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Long Night" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Ray Russell
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "My Trial as a War Criminal" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Leo Szilard
                              
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                        1949 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Nightmare in Time" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Fredric Brown
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Ottmar Balleau X2" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                George Bamber
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "Parky" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                David Rome
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "A Passage From the Stars" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Kaatje Hurlbut
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "A Planet Named Shayol" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Cordwainer Smith
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril | 
                                             | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker | 
                                             | 1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll | 
                                             | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Portobello Road" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Muriel Spark
                              
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                        1956 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "A Prize for Edie" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                J. F. Bone
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril | 
                                             | 1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Quaker Cannon" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Frederik Pohl, 
                              
                            
                          
                        
                          
                            
                              C. M. Kornbluth
                            
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                                             | 1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "The Ship Who Sang" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Anne McCaffrey
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril | 
                                             | 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes | 
                                             | 1991 | The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg | 
                                             | 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf | 
                                             | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll | 
                                             | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories | 
                                             | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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                            | "A Small Miracle of Fishhooks and Straight Pins" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                David R. Bunch
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                            | "The Tunnel Ahead" | 
                          
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          
                            
                              
                                Alice Glaser
                              
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                        1961 | 
                      
                            
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                                        | 1962 | The 7th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril | 
                                             | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories | 
                                             | 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek | 
                                             
                                       
                                     
                                   
                                 
                               
                             
                           
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