| "2064, or Thereabouts" |
David R. Bunch
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1964 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee" |
Pat Cadigan
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1985 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" |
Cordwainer Smith
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1961 |
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| 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 |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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| "America" |
Orson Scott Card
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1987 |
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| 1988 | The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "And the Angels Sing" |
Kate Wilhelm
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1990 |
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| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "As Simple as That" |
Zenna Henderson
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1971 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters" |
Diane Glancy
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1990 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Balanced Ecology" |
James H. Schmitz
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1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd." |
Michael Bishop
|
1985 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Brains of Rats" |
Michael Blumlein
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1986 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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| "The Byrds" |
Michael G. Coney
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1983 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Comes Now the Power" |
Roger Zelazny
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1966 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Day Million" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1966 |
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| 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 |
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| "Distant Signals" |
Andrew Weiner
|
1984 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Elbow Room" |
Marion Zimmer Bradley
|
1980 |
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| 1981 | The 1981 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Exposures" |
Gregory Benford
|
1981 |
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| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Feather Tigers" |
Gene Wolfe
|
1973 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "For the Sake of Grace" |
Suzette Haden Elgin
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1969 |
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| 1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Frozen Journey" |
Philip K. Dick
|
1980 |
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| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Gather Blue Roses" |
Pamela Sargent
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1972 |
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| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Gernsback Continuum" |
William Gibson
|
1981 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Good News from the Vatican" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1971 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1972 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year edited by Lester del Rey |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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| "Half-Life" |
Paul Preuss
|
1989 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Handler" |
Damon Knight
|
1960 |
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| 1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
| 1991 | The Great SF Stories 22 (1960) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "High Weir" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1968 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "His Vegetable Wife" |
Pat Murphy
|
1986 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Homelanding" |
Margaret Atwood
|
1989 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The House the Blakeneys Built" |
Avram Davidson
|
1965 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "How Beautiful with Banners" |
James Blish
|
1966 |
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| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Interlocking Pieces" |
Molly Gloss
|
1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Invaders" |
John Kessel
|
1990 |
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| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
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| "Kirinyaga" |
Mike Resnick
|
1988 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
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| "Kyrie" |
Poul Anderson
|
1968 |
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|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things" |
Karen Joy Fowler
|
1985 |
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| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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| "(Learning About) Machine Sex" |
Candas Jane Dorsey
|
1988 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Life of Anybody" |
Robert Sheckley
|
1984 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Lollipop and the Tar Baby" |
John Varley
|
1977 |
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| 1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Lucky Strike" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1984 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
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| "Making It All the Way Into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet" |
Barry N. Malzberg
|
1974 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Midnight News" |
Lisa Goldstein
|
1990 |
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| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "A Midwinter's Tale" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1988 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn" |
Vonda N. McIntyre
|
1974 |
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| 1975 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The New Atlantis" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1975 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1976 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Night-Rise" |
Katherine MacLean
|
1978 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" |
R. A. Lafferty
|
1966 |
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| 1967 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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| "Out of All Them Bright Stars" |
Nancy Kress
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Over the River and Through the Woods" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1965 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Precession" |
Edward Bryant
|
1980 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Private War of Private Jacob" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1974 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Rat" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1986 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Schrödinger's Plague" |
Greg Bear
|
1982 |
|
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Schwarzschild Radius" |
Connie Willis
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Snow" |
John Crowley
|
1985 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1986 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
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|
| "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 |
|
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|
| "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" |
Eileen Gunn
|
1988 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "The Start of the End of the World" |
Carol Emshwiller
|
1981 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Strange Wine" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1976 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Tandy's Story" |
Theodore Sturgeon
|
1961 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "Tauf Aleph" |
Phyllis Gotlieb
|
1981 |
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The War at Home" |
Lewis Shiner
|
1985 |
|
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| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" |
Eleanor Arnason
|
1974 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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| "We See Things Differently" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1989 |
|
|
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
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| "When I Was Miss Dow" |
Sonya Dorman
|
1966 |
|
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| 1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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|
| "The Winter Flies" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1967 |
|
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| 1968 | SF 12 edited by Judith Merril |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
|
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| "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 |
|
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|
| ""… The World As We Know't"" |
Howard Waldrop
|
1982 |
|
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| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
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