| "First Contact" |
Murray Leinster
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1945 |
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| 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 |
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| "The 32nd of May" |
Paul Ernst
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1935 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Atomic Power" |
John W. Campbell, Jr.
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1934 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Blind Alley" |
Isaac Asimov
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1945 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Blowups Happen" |
Robert A. Heinlein
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1940 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1956 | Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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| "The Conquest of Gola" |
Leslie F. Stone
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1931 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 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 |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek |
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| "Davey Jones' Ambassador" |
Raymond Z. Gallun
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1935 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1976 | Science Fiction of the Thirties edited by Damon Knight |
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| "Deadline" |
Cleve Cartmill
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1944 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "En Route to Pluto" |
Wallace West
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1936 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Expedition" |
Anthony Boucher
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1943 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Flame Midget" |
Frank Belknap Long
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1936 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Giant in the Earth" |
Morrison Colladay
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1933 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Goldfish Bowl" |
Robert A. Heinlein
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1942 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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1885 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1981 | Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh |
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| "The Great War Syndicate" |
Frank R. Stockton
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1888 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Ivy War" |
David H. Keller
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1930 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Jackdaw" |
Ross Rocklynne
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1942 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Killdozer!" |
Theodore Sturgeon
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1944 |
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| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1981 | The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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| "The Lanson Screen" |
Arthur Leo Zagat
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1936 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Liquid Life" |
Ralph Milne Farley
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1936 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Lobby" |
Clifford D. Simak
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1944 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Machine" |
John W. Campbell, Jr.
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1935 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Man Who Saved the Earth" |
Austin Hall
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1919 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Monster from Nowhere" |
Nelson S. Bond
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1939 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Piper's Son" |
Henry Kuttner,
C. L. Moore
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1945 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
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| "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" |
H. G. Wells
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1895 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Retreat to Mars" |
Cecil B. White
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1927 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "A Scientist Divides" |
Donald Wandrei
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1934 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
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| "The Search" |
A. E. van Vogt
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1943 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Short-Circuited Probability" |
Norman L. Knight
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1941 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Solution Unsatisfactory" |
Robert A. Heinlein
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1941 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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| "Spawn of the Stars" |
Charles W. Diffin
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1930 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" |
Edgar Allan Poe
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1844 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1966 | Future Perfect edited by H. Bruce Franklin |
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| "The Terrible Sense" |
Calvin Peregoy
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1938 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Tissue-Culture King" |
Julian Huxley
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1926 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 2: From Wells to Heinlein edited by James Gunn |
| 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Tricky Tonnage" |
Malcolm Jameson
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1944 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "The Ultimate Catalyst" |
John Taine
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1939 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Ultimate Metal" |
Nat Schachner
|
1935 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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| "Universe" |
Robert A. Heinlein
|
1941 |
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| 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 |
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| "The Upper Level Road" |
F. Orlin Tremaine
|
1935 |
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| 1946 | The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
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