Classics of Science Fiction

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

Joanna Russ

1972

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975	Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
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
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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

2009	Can't Live with them, so We'll live Without them!: Women Only Worlds in Science Fiction
2009	On Joanna Russ (SF Site)
2011	Queering SFF: The Female Man by Joanna Russ + Bonus Story, “When it Changed” (Tor.com)
2011	When Science Fiction Changed: Joanna Russ, In Memoriam (Beacon Broadside)
2014	A short story review: ‘When it Changed’ by Joanna Russ (Beyond Escapism)
2016	Thematic summary of When It Changed by Joanna Russ
2019	The Enduring Anger of Joanna Russ (The Portalist)
2020	Joanna Russ Was Sci-Fi’s Most Outspoken Feminist (Wired)
2020	Joanna Russ, the Science-Fiction Writer Who Said No (The New Yorker)
2020	When It Changed • 1972 • Feministic short story by Joanna Russ (Reißwolf)
2021	“When It Changed” by Joanna Russ (Classics of Science Fiction)

"Sandkings"

George R. R. Martin

1979

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr
1980	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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	The Puppy’s Revenge: George R. R. Martin’s “Sandkings” (Tor.com)
2019	THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION: “SANDKINGS,” BY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN (Black Gate)
2020	Sandkings by George R R Martin (Little Red Reviewer)
2020	Sandkings • 1979 • Horror SF novelette by George R.R. Martin (Reißwolf)
2021	Sandkings by George R. R. Martin (SF Short Stories)
2021	“Sandkings” by George R. R. Martin (Classics of Science Fiction)
2022	Sandkings (Thousand Worlds Wiki)

"A Boy and His Dog"

Harlan Ellison

1969

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1970	World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
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	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	"A Boy & His Dog" by Harlan Ellison (My Weird Life)
	A Boy and His Dog (Wikipedia)
2017	A Boy and His Dog • 1969 • Post-apocalyptic novella by Harlan Ellison (Reißwolf)
2019	Harlan Ellison's Dog Days: Remembering "A Boy and His Dog" at 50 (Kirkus)
2021	A Man and His Stories (The Bulwark)

"Exhalation"

Ted Chiang

2008

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009	Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
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 Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2024	Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories

	Exhalation (Wikipedia)
2012	Review - Ted Chiang - "Exhalation" (2008) (Fantastic Worlds)
2018	Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation”: Uncanny Neuroscience and the Radical Self-Exam (Synapsis)
2020	Exhalation • 2008 • SF short story by Ted Chiang (Reißwolf)
2021	Lite Reads Review: ‘Exhalation’ by Ted Chiang (The Feminist Bibliothecary)

"A Martian Odyssey"

Stanley G. Weinbaum

1934

1943	The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction edited by Donald A. Wollheim
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1992	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
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
2011	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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

2000	Millennial Reviews XXXII: “A Martian Odyssey” & “Valley of Dreams” by Stanley G. Weinbaum (James Nicoll Reviews)
2013	Book Review: A Martian Odyssey and Other Classics of Science Fiction, Stanley G. Weinbaum (1962) (Joachim Boaz)
2017	A Martian Odyssey • 1934 • SF novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum (Reißwolf)
2021	“A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley G. Weinbaum (Classics of Science Fiction)
9999	A Martian Odyssey (Wikipedia)

"Beggars in Spain"

Nancy Kress

1991

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1997	The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
2007	The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

	"Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress (Nicholas Whyte)
2013	Book Review: Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (The Book Smugglers)
2013	Review of "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress (Speculiction)
2015	Beggars in Spain • 1991 • Near Future SF novella by Nancy Kress (Reißwolf)

"The Fifth Head of Cerberus"

Gene Wolfe

1972

	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

	The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Wikipedia)
2001	The Fifth Head of Cerebus reviewd (Ultan's Library)
2014	Rereading Gene Wolfe’s “The Fifth Head of Cerberus” (Views from Crestmont Drive)
2019	The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Wolfe's Holy Trinity (Tor.com)

"Flowers for Algernon"

Daniel Keyes

1959

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1960	The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1961	Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982	The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1983	Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

2015	Escape Pod 490: Flowers for Algernon (Audio version of story)
2016	Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes (Young People Read Old SFF)
2021	15 Facts About Flowers for Algernon (Mental Floss)
9999	Meet American writer Daniel Keyes (Wayne State University)

"The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

James Tiptree, Jr.

1973

	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

	The Girl Who Was Plugged In (Wikipedia)
2013	Review of The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree jr. (Speculiction)
2019	The Girl Who Was Plugged In Is Must Read Proto-Cyberpunk (Consuming Cyberpunk)
2019	The Girl Who Was Plugged In: James Tiptree, Jr.’s 19th Century Monster in 20th Century Science Fiction (Fantasy Literature)

"The Last Question"

Isaac Asimov

1956

1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1988	The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2005	The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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

	The Last Question (Wikipedia)
2009	“The Last Question” and why I am so intrigued by it (Awkward Loop)
2011	Review: The Last Question (The Quill & The Keyboard)
2021	“The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov (Classics of Science Fiction)

""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman"

Harlan Ellison

1965

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1966	World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1997	The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
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
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

2021	"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" Harlan Ellison (Young People Read Old SFF)
2021	“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (SF Short Stories)
2021	“Repent, Harlequin!” Said The Ticktockman” Harlan Ellison Lecture And Review (YouTube)
2022	Civil disobedience challenging repressive authority

"Sailing to Byzantium"

Robert Silverberg

1985

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1986	The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
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
1994	Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories

	Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg (Fantasy Book Review)
2013	Review of Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg (Speculiction)
2014	Sailing to Byzantium: Move it to the top of your to-read stack (Fantasy Literature)
2021	Sailing to Byzantium • 1985 • Far future SF novella by Robert Silverberg (Reißwolf)

"Second Variety"

Philip K. Dick

1953

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1954	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1977	The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
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

2014	Second Variety (Philip K. Dick Review)
2020	Vintage Science Fiction Month: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick (Lydia Schoch)
2021	Humanity’s Immanent Self-Destruction: Analyzing “Second Variety” by Philip K. Dick (Medium)
2021	Second Variety. Philip K. Dick, 1953 (Tales From the Neon Beach)

"Speech Sounds"

Octavia E. Butler

1983

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993	The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
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	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	Speech Sounds (Wikipedia)
2019	“Law and order were nothing—not even words any longer”: Types of Aphasia and Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds” (Tor.com)
2020	Octavia E. Butler’s Success in Creating “Speech Sounds” (Medium)
2020	The Words That Will Bring Us Through the Chaos (Electric Lit)

"Story of Your Life"

Ted Chiang

1998

	Sturgeon winner
	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1999	Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth 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	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
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
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2024	Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas

	Story of Your Life (Wikipedia)
2017	WIRED Book Club: 'The Story of Your Life' Is Making Us Weep, Sometimes in Public (Wired)
2018	‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story (Gwern)
2020	Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang: Summary and Review (Friends of Words)

"Bears Discover Fire"

Terry Bisson

1990

	Sturgeon winner
	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1991	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996	Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2004	The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
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
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
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022	Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
2024	Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories

2017	Review of Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories by Terry Bisson (Speculiction)
9999	Bears Discover Fire (DUST) - a short film version
9999	"Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (Nicholas Whyte)

"Blood Music"

Greg Bear

1983

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
	Nebula Award - Story Winner
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1984	The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1984	The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
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
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
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
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

2020	Blood Music • 1983 • Near Future SF novelette by Greg Bear (Reißwolf)
2021	The 1984 Annual World's Best SF. edited by Donald A. Wollheim (Austin Beeman)
2022	Blood Music by Greg Bear (SF Short Stories)

"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"

Ursula K. Le Guin

1987

	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

	Ursula K. Le Guin's Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight? (A Green Man Review)
2014	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (Xeno Swarm)
2017	Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight • 1987 • Magical Realism novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin (Reißwolf)

"Burning Chrome"

William Gibson

1982

	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 Chrome (Literature in a Wired World Wiki)
2011	"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson: A Burning Chrome Review (Mr. Rhapsodist)
2021	Burning Chrome • 1982 • Cyberpunk novelette by William Gibson (Reißwolf)

"Day Million"

Frederik Pohl

1966

1967	World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1972	A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
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
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1993	The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999	Locus All Time Poll
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
2016	The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	"Day Million" (Transhumanism and science fiction)
2019	Day Million: language, singularities, affects, and encounters (not to mention "love") (Xeno Swarm)
2021	"Day Million" by Frederik Pohl (Classics of Science Fiction)

"Hardfought"

Greg Bear

1983

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo 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
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022	Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook

2013	Review of Hardfought by Greg Bear (Speculiction)
2015	Hardfought, by Greg Bear (C. L. Kagmi)
2016	Hardfought & Cascade Point (Marzaat)

"Hell Is the Absence of God"

Ted Chiang

2001

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story 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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

2006	Hell Is the Absence of God, by Ted Chiang (Nicholas Whyte)
2017	Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang (FuzzyRants)
2021	Ted Chiang’s Hell is the Absence of God: A Tale of Twisted Salvation And Mockery (Medium)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

Harlan Ellison

1967

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1968	World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1983	Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
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
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Wikipedia)
2016	A Review on the Short Story: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Teen Ink)
2020	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: Analysis (Jotted Lines)

"It's a Good Life"

Jerome Bixby

1953

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1961	Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1986	The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2012	WFR’s 101 Weird Writers: #13 — Jerome Bixby (Weird Fiction Review)
2017	Throwback Thursday: “It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby (1953) (ScienceFiction.com)
2018	Fantastic Transmissions E001 - It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby (Off the Bookshelf)

"The Man Who Lost the Sea"

Theodore Sturgeon

1959

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1960	The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1983	The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1990	The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2016	The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2019	Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

2010	Review: "The Man Who Lost the Sea" by Theodore Sturgeon (Good Short Fiction to Read)
2021	Short Story Review: Theodore Sturgeon’s “The Man Who Lost the Sea” (1959) (Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations)
2021	“The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon (Classics of Science Fiction)

"Scanners Live in Vain"

Cordwainer Smith

1950

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1984	The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

	Scanners Live in Vain (Wikipedia)
2019	Monsters of Duty: Cordwainer Smith’s Attack on Kantian Morality and the Suppression of Feeling in Scanners Live in Vain (VoegelinView)
2019	‘Scanners Live in Vain’ as realistic SF (Gwern.net)

"A Song for Lya"

George R. R. Martin

1974

	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

	A Song for Lya (George R. R. Martins THOUSAND WORLDS Wiki)
2013	Review of A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin (Speculiction)
2017	Loneliness and love in GRRM’s A Song for Lya (Fandomentals)

"Swarm"

Bruce Sterling

1982

	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

2011	Alien Contact Anthology -- Story #24 (More Red Ink)
2021	Swarm • 1982 • Transhuman SF novelette by Bruce Sterling (Reißwolf)
2022	"Swarm" by Bruce Sterling (Classics of Science Fiction)

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

Ray Bradbury

1950

1984	The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ (Interesting Literature)
	There Will Come Soft Rains (Wikipedia)
2019	Analysis of 'There Will Come Soft Rains' by Ray Bradbury (ThoughtCo.)

"The Things"

Peter Watts

2010

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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 Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois

2018	Resistance is Futile: Peter Watts’s “The Things” (Tor.com)
2018	"The Things" by Peter Watts - Short Story Review (The Unapologetic Geek)
2020	The Things • 2010 • First Contact short story by Peter Watts (Reißwolf)

"Who Goes There?"

John W. Campbell, Jr.

1938

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1946	Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2005	The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2011	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	Who Goes There? (Wikipedia)
2014	Who Goes There? (Kara Reviews)
2016	Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (This Is Horror)

"All You Zombies—"

Robert A. Heinlein

1959

	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1983	Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
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	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2004	All You Zombies: Reviewed by David Wright (The Heinlein Society)
2007	"All You Zombies—" by Robert Heinlein (Tangent)

"Arena"

Fredric Brown

1944

1950	Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1981	The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	Arena (Wikipedia)
2020	Retro Review: "Arena" by Fredric Brown (Cora Buhlert)

"Aye, and Gomorrah …"

Samuel R. Delany

1967

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1982	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2010	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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

2016	"Aye, and Gomorrah..." by Samuel R. Delany (My Weird Life)
2020	Aye, and Gomorrah • 1967 • SF short story by Samuel R. Delany (Reißwolf)

"The Big Front Yard"

Clifford D. Simak

1958

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
1990	The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	The Big Front Yard (Wikipedia)
	Hugo Review: The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak (Life, The Universe and Sci-fi)

"The Cold Equations"

Tom Godwin

1954

1955	The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955 edited by T. E. Dikty
1958	Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1987	The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2005	The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2011	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	The Cold Equations (Wikipedia)
2019	On Needless Cruelty in SF: Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations" (Tor.com)

"The Country of the Kind"

Damon Knight

1956

1956	S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1979	Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander
1988	The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1992	Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	The Country of the Kind (Wikipedia)
2023	"The Country of the Kind" by Damon Knight

"Even the Queen"

Connie Willis

1992

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004	The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2005	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

	Even the Queen, by Connie Willis (Nicholas Whyte)
2015	"Even the Queen" by Connie Williis (Bitter Tea and Mystery)

"Fondly Fahrenheit"

Alfred Bester

1954

	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1981	Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1987	The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

	Fondly Fahrenheit (Wikipedia)
2007	Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester (Auxiliary Memory)

"The Game of Rat and Dragon"

Cordwainer Smith

1955

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1956	Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 edited by T. E. Dikty
1958	Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1972	A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
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
1988	The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2006	The Space Opera 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
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

1977	Mythic Structures in Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon" (Science Fiction Studies)
2021	"The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Cordwainer Smith (classicsofsciencefiction.com)

"Great Work of Time"

John Crowley

1989

	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

	Great Work of Time (Wikipedia)
2011	Great Work of Time: It’s time to bring this book back (Fantasy Literature)

"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"

James Tiptree, Jr.

1976

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1977	The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2014	Review of Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. (Speculiction)
2017	Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (Worlds Without End)

"The Island"

Peter Watts

2009

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2010	Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2010	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2013	Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden

2010	“The Island”, by Peter Watts (Mataglap SF)
2020	Book Review: The Island, by Peter Watts (Sunflower Cycle) (Beer Rants and Books)

"Jeffty Is Five"

Harlan Ellison

1977

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1978	The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999	Locus All Time Poll
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

2021	Jeffty Is Five ... and I'm Sixty Three (Atomic Junk Shop)
2021	Jeffty is Five • 1977 • Magic Realism short story by Harlan Ellison

"Light of Other Days"

Bob Shaw

1966

	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

2005	"Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw: An Appreciation by Graham Sleight (The ED SF Project)
2017	The Light of Other Days (Young People Read Old SFF)

"The Little Black Bag"

C. M. Kornbluth

1950

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1984	The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	The Little Black Bag (Wikipedia)
2021	Flash Review: The Little Black Bag by Cyril M. Kornbluth (Stuffed Puffin)

"Lobsters"

Charles Stross

2001

	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

2012	“Lobsters” by Charles Stross: A “Rewired” Review (Mr. Rhapsodist)
2020	Lobsters • 2001 • Near future novelette by Charles Stross (Reißwolf)

"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"

Ted Chiang

2007

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

2007	The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang (Strange Horizons)
2014	Review of "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (Speculiction)

"The Moon Moth"

Jack Vance

1961

1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
1982	The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1991	The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1992	Modern Classics of Science Fiction 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
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

	The Moon Moth (Wikipedia)
2012	A Re-telling Full of Musical Script: Jack Vance’s “The Moon Moth”, Adapted By Humayoun Ibrahim (Tor.com)

"The Mountains of Mourning"

Lois McMaster Bujold

1989

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

2013	Review The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold (Speculiction)
2015	The Mountains of Mourning (Kara Reviews)

"The Nine Billion Names of God"

Arthur C. Clarke

1953

	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1956	Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1968	One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1986	The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
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

	The Nine Billion Names of God (Wikipedia)
2015	The Nine Billion Names of God • 1953 • SF short story by Arthur C. Clarke (Reißwolf)

"Or All the Seas with Oysters"

Avram Davidson

1958

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1959	SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1990	The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2012	"Retro Review - 'Or All the Seas with Oysters' (1958) by Avram Davidson" (Fantastic Worlds)
2015	Stories from the Borderland #3: "Or All the Seas With Oysters," by Avram Davidson (Scott Nicolay)

"The Persistence of Vision"

John Varley

1978

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979	The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
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
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
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2012	The Persistence of Vision: Fascinating (Fantasy Literature)
2013	Review of The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (Speculiction)

"Press ENTER ■"

John Varley

1984

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
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
1985	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

2016	“Press Enter █” & “Hawksbill Station” (Marzaat)
2019	“True Names” vs. “Press Enter ▮” (Classics of Science Fiction)

"The Queen of Air and Darkness"

Poul Anderson

1971

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972	The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2010	Reading List: “The Queen of Air and Darkness” (Vector)
2013	Review of The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson (Speculiction)

"A Rose for Ecclesiastes"

Roger Zelazny

1963

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1965	10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1992	The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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

2020	"A Rose for Ecclesiastes" by Roger Zelazny (Classics of Science Fiction)
2021	Flash Review: A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny (Stuffed Puffin)

"The Screwfly Solution"

James Tiptree, Jr.

1977

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1978	The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1978	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
1978	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022	Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook

2004	"The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon (The Mumpsimus)
2012	The Classics: 'The Screwfly Solution' (The Verge)

"The Sentinel"

Arthur C. Clarke

1951

1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1985	The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
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	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	The Sentinel (Wikipedia)
2020	"The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke - Sci-Fi Classic Review (The Unapologetic Geek)

"Surface Tension"

James Blish

1952

1953	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2011	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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

	Surface Tension (Wikipedia)
2021	"Surface Tension" by James Blish (Classics of Science Fiction)

"Think Like a Dinosaur"

James Patrick Kelly

1995

	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

2019	Hugosauriad 3.7: Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly (Camestros Felapton)
2020	The Cold Equations of Thinking Like a Dinosaur (Classics of Science Fiction)

"Vintage Season"

Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore

1946

	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1948	A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1981	Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1982	The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2020	“Vintage Season” – a story for a coronavirus outbreak (Leigh Turner)
2023	“Vintage Season” by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner

"The Women Men Don't See"

James Tiptree, Jr.

1973

1974	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1975	Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1975	Best SF: 1974 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
1993	The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

	The Women Men Don't See (Wikipedia)
2015	The Women Men Don’t See • 1973 • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. (Reißwolf)

"The Bicentennial Man"

Isaac Asimov

1976

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1977	The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1977	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

The Bicentennial Man (Wikipedia)

"Bloodchild"

Octavia E. Butler

1984

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975	Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
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
1985	Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
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
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2016	The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

2018	Why Men Get Pregnant: "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler (Tor.com)

"By His Bootstraps"

Robert A. Heinlein

1941

1946	Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1978	Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

By His Bootstraps (Wikipedia)

"Coming Attraction"

Fritz Leiber

1950

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1951	The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1965	Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1977	The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton
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
1980	Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1984	The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2010	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

Coming Attraction (Wikipedia)

"The Day Before the Revolution"

Ursula K. Le Guin

1974

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1975	Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1980	Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1986	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
2004	The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2015	The Day Before the Revolution • 1974 • SF short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (Reißwolf)

"The Death of Doctor Island"

Gene Wolfe

1973

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1974	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1986	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV 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
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2004	The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2014	Review of The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe (Speculiction)

"Fire Watch"

Connie Willis

1982

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1983	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1997	The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

Fire Watch, by Connie Willis (Nicholas Whyte)

"First Contact"

Murray Leinster

1945

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
	Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1946	The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982	The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

First Contact (Wikipedia)

"For a Breath I Tarry"

Roger Zelazny

1966

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1967	World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1983	Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

For a Breath I Tarry (Wikipedia)

"Harrison Bergeron"

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

1961

1970	Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

Harrison Bergeron (Wikipedia)

"Inconstant Moon"

Larry Niven

1971

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972	Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

Inconstant Moon (wikipedia.org)

"Microcosmic God"

Theodore Sturgeon

1941

1943	The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction edited by Donald A. Wollheim
1965	Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1978	Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr
1980	The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2021	Flash Review: Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon (Stuffed Puffin)

"Mimsy Were the Borogoves"

Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore

1943

1948	A Treasury of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1981	The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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

2021	"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett - Sci-Fi Classic Review (The Unapologetic Geek)

"Neutron Star"

Larry Niven

1966

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986	Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2014	Neutron Star (James Nicoll Reviews)

"Nightfall"

Isaac Asimov

1941

1946	Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1978	Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn
1980	The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2012	Darkness in literature: 'Nightfall' by Isaac Asimov (The Guardian)

"Passengers"

Robert Silverberg

1968

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1982	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
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	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

Passengers (Wikipedia)

"Seven American Nights"

Gene Wolfe

1978

	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

2015	Seven American Nights • 1978 • SF novella by Gene Wolfe (Reißwolf)

"The Star"

Arthur C. Clarke

1955

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1962	A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1963	Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973	The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1983	Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988	The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1998	The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
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

2021	The Star by Arthur C. Clarke (SF Short Stories)

"The Star Pit"

Samuel R. Delany

1967

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
	Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1968	SF 12 edited by Judith Merril
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
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

2018	Reading the Pulps 7: “The Star Pit” by Samuel R. Delany (Worlds Without End)

"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"

Samuel R. Delany

1968

	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

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (Wikipedia)

"The Ugly Chickens"

Howard Waldrop

1980

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo 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
1981	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992	Modern Classics of Science Fiction 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
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

2012	Howard Waldrop's "The Ugly Chickens" (Black Gate)

"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"

Philip K. Dick

1966

1967	World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

2014	We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick Review)

"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

"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

"All Summer in a Day"

Ray Bradbury

1954

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Allamagoosa"

Eric Frank Russell

1955

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1988	The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"… And He Built a Crooked House"

Robert A. Heinlein

1941

1943	The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction edited by Donald A. Wollheim
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1978	Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age edited by Terry Carr
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"… And Then There Were None"

Eric Frank Russell

1951

1952	Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Baby Is Three"

Theodore Sturgeon

1952

	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1981	Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell"

Cordwainer Smith

1962

1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1992	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
1992	The Great SF Stories 24 (1962) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Behold the Man"

Michael Moorcock

1966

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
1967	World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 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	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Beyond the Aquila Rift"

Alastair Reynolds

2005

2006	Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2006	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Bones of the Earth"

Ursula K. Le Guin

2001

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Bridesicle"

Will McIntosh

2009

	Nebula Award - Story Finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Bronte's Egg"

Richard Chwedyk

2002

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Burn"

James Patrick Kelly

2005

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Call of Cthulhu"

H. P. Lovecraft

1928

1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories

"The Calorie Man"

Paolo Bacigalupi

2005

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Sturgeon winner
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Cambist and Lord Iron"

Daniel Abraham

2007

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"A Canticle for Leibowitz"

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

1959

1956	Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 edited by T. E. Dikty
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward"

H. P. Lovecraft

1941

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Concrete Jungle"

Charles Stross

2004

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2005	Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"Coraline"

Neil Gaiman

2002

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Creation"

Jeffrey Ford

2002

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Dark Integers"

Greg Egan

2007

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2008	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"Diamond Dogs"

Alastair Reynolds

2001

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth"

Roger Zelazny

1965

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1970	Best SF Seven: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
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	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Dragon Masters"

Jack Vance

1962

	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

"Dragonrider"

Anne McCaffrey

1967

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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

"The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath"

H. P. Lovecraft

1943

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Dunwich Horror"

H. P. Lovecraft

1929

	Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Empire of Ice Cream"

Jeffrey Ford

2003

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003	Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Empress of Mars"

Kage Baker

2003

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Nebula Award - Story Finalist
	Sturgeon winner
2004	Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Ender's Game"

Orson Scott Card

1977

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1996	Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Enemy Mine"

Barry B. Longyear

1979

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980	The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Erdmann Nexus"

Nancy Kress

2008

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Eros, Philia, Agape"

Rachel Swirsky

2009

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2013	Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
2024	Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas

"The Faery Handbag"

Kelly Link

2004

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

"Fast Times at Fairmont High"

Vernor Vinge

2001

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2002	The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
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

"The Finder"

Ursula K. Le Guin

2001

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Fluted Girl"

Paolo Bacigalupi

2003

	Sturgeon finalist
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

"Foundation"

Isaac Asimov

1942

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1980	The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The God Engines"

John Scalzi

2009

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Gonna Roll the Bones"

Fritz Leiber

1967

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
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	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Green Hills of Earth"

Robert A. Heinlein

1947

1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1989	The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"He Who Shapes"

Roger Zelazny

1965

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
1982	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1997	The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Hemingway Hoax"

Joe Haldeman

1990

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1991	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth 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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

"Home Is the Hangman"

Roger Zelazny

1975

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Hothouse"

Brian W. Aldiss

1961

1991	The Great SF Stories 23 (1961) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"How Interesting: A Tiny Man"

Harlan Ellison

2010

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"How to Talk to Girls at Parties"

Neil Gaiman

2006

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010	Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Ill Met in Lankhmar"

Fritz Leiber

1970

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1986	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Inside Job"

Connie Willis

2005

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2006	Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"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

"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

"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window"

Rachel Swirsky

2010

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Last Castle"

Jack Vance

1966

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
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

"The Last of the Winnebagos"

Connie Willis

1988

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1989	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

"Learning to Be Me"

Greg Egan

1990

1991	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Liar!"

Isaac Asimov

1941

1965	Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
1980	The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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

"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

"Liking What You See: A Documentary"

Ted Chiang

2002

	Sturgeon finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Little Goddess"

Ian McDonald

2005

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006	Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006	Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2019	The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois

"The Lottery"

Shirley Jackson

1948

1999	Locus All Time Poll
2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death"

James Tiptree, Jr.

1973

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1986	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Magic for Beginners"

Kelly Link

2005

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006	Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2024	Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas

"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 Sold the Moon"

Robert A. Heinlein

1950

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1959	A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Marching Morons"

C. M. Kornbluth

1951

1952	The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1952 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1980	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1985	The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Martian Way"

Isaac Asimov

1952

1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
1986	The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
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
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"

Alfred Bester

1958

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1981	Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1983	The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Neil Gaiman

1990

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Million-Year Picnic"

Ray Bradbury

1946

1978	Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1982	The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Missile Gap"

Charles Stross

2006

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"New Light on the Drake Equation"

Ian R. MacLeod

2001

	Sturgeon finalist
2002	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2024	Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Novellas

"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

"October in the Chair"

Neil Gaiman

2002

2004	The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Ursula K. Le Guin

1973

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1974	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"A Pail of Air"

Fritz Leiber

1951

1985	The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2005	The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Palimpsest"

Charles Stross

2009

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Paper Menagerie"

Ken Liu

2011

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2012	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

"The Pelican Bar"

Karen Joy Fowler

2009

2010	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"Ponies"

Kij Johnson

2010

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Postman"

David Brin

1982

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Pump Six"

Paolo Bacigalupi

2008

2009	Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"R & R"

Lucius Shepard

1986

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
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
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

"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

"Red Nails"

Robert E. Howard

1936

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Reports of Certain Events in London"

China Miéville

2004

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"The Roads Must Roll"

Robert A. Heinlein

1940

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1946	Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1970	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1971	1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Robbie"

Isaac Asimov

1940

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979	The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Rogue Farm"

Charles Stross

2003

2004	Year's Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2004	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2013	Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
2019	The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois

"A Saucer of Loneliness"

Theodore Sturgeon

1953

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1979	Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander
1986	The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2001	Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories

"Second Person, Present Tense"

Daryl Gregory

2005

	Sturgeon finalist
2006	Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2006	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2013	Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden

"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge"

Mike Resnick

1994

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
1995	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018	ISFDB All Time Short Stories

"Seventy-Two Letters"

Ted Chiang

2000

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001	Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"

H. P. Lovecraft

1936

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Ship Who Sang"

Anne McCaffrey

1961

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

"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

"A Sound of Thunder"

Ray Bradbury

1952

1966	Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr
1986	The Great SF Stories 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Spar"

Kij Johnson

2009

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"A Study in Emerald"

Neil Gaiman

2003

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003	Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Terminal Beach"

J. G. Ballard

1964

1965	10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF edited by Judith Merril
1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1981	Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
2011	Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019	Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories

"Thunder and Roses"

Theodore Sturgeon

1947

1979	The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1983	The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1988	Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2005	The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2010	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Tideline"

Elizabeth Bear

2007

	Hugo Award - Story Winner
	Sturgeon winner
2008	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2013	Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
2019	Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories

"Tower of Babylon"

Ted Chiang

1990

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1991	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Travels with My Cats"

Mike Resnick

2004

	Nebula Award - Story Finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Troll Bridge"

Neil Gaiman

1993

2000	The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"Two Hearts"

Peter S. Beagle

2005

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
	Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"The Ugly Little Boy"

Isaac Asimov

1958

	Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1999	Locus All Time Poll
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"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

"Understand"

Ted Chiang

1991

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2002	The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"Universe"

Robert A. Heinlein

1941

1946	The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1973	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"

Robert A. Heinlein

1942

	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"The Veldt"

Ray Bradbury

1950

2012	Locus All Centuries Poll
2018	ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story

"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

"What I Didn't See"

Karen Joy Fowler

2002

	Nebula Award - Story Winner
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"

Cory Doctorow

2006

2007	Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2011	Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"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

"The Word for World Is Forest"

Ursula K. Le Guin

1972

	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

"Yellow Card Man"

Paolo Bacigalupi

2006

	Sturgeon finalist
	Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

"Zima Blue"

Alastair Reynolds

2005

2006	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012	Locus All Centuries Poll

Stories: 212

Locus All Centuries Poll