| "Total Environment" | Brian W. Aldiss | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | 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 |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Worm That Flies" | Brian W. Aldiss | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 
                    
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                            | "Kyrie" | Poul Anderson | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | 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 |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" | Terry Carr | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | 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 |  | 
                    
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                            | "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" | Samuel R. Delany | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Winner |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Backtracked" | Burt K. Filer | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Sword Game" | H. H. Hollis | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Cloudbuilders" | Colin Kapp | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Masks" | Damon Knight | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | 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 |  | 
                    
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                            | "This Grand Carcass" | R. A. Lafferty | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Square Root of Brain" | Fritz Leiber | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Fear Hound" | Katherine MacLean | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Starsong" | Fred Saberhagen | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" | Robert Sheckley | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Going Down Smooth" | Robert Silverberg | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |  | 
                    
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                            | "A Visit to Cleveland General" | Sydney J. Van Scyoc | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "Welcome to the Monkey House" | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "HEMEAC" | E. G. Von Wald | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Selchey Kids" | Laurence Yep | 1968 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |  | 
                    
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