Big Book of Science Fiction

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

Title Author/Editor Year↧ Citations Reviews
"Dear Devil" Eric Frank Russell 1950
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Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Forever and the Earth" Ray Bradbury 1950
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Isolationist" Mack Reynolds 1950
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Long Dawn" Noel Loomis 1950
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Nobody Saw the Ship" Murray Leinster 1950
1
1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Not with a Bang" Damon Knight 1950
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1966Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science edited by Terry Carr
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Peacebringer" Ward Moore 1950
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Contact, Incorporated" Robertson Osborne 1949
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Defense Mechanism" Katherine MacLean 1949
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1984The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Manna" Peter Phillips 1949
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
1984The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Miniature" John D. MacDonald 1949
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Only Thing We Learn" C. M. Kornbluth 1949
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1984The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2005The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
"The Outer Limit" Graham Doar 1949
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Rat Race" Dorothy De Courcy,  John de Courcy 1948
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"E for Effort" T. L. Sherred 1947
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1964A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Damon Knight
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
1981Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1983The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Margin for Error" Henry Kuttner,  C. L. Moore 1947
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Mewhu's Jet" Theodore Sturgeon 1946
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1982The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Arena" Fredric Brown 1944
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1981The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Culture" Jerry Shelton 1944
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Desertion" Clifford D. Simak 1944
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1981The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Sanity" Fritz Leiber 1944
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1981The Great SF Stories 6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Wings of Night" Lester del Rey 1942
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1980The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Emergency Landing" Ralph Williams 1940
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"A Matter of Form" H. L. Gold 1938
2
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Planetoid of Doom" Morrison Colladay 1932
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"Mr. Murphy of New York" Thomas McMorrow 1930
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
"The Ship That Turned Aside" G. Peyton Wertenbaker 1930
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"One Leg Too Many" W. Alexander 1929
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Roger Bacon Formula" Fletcher Pratt 1929
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Man with the Strange Head" Miles J. Breuer, M.D. 1927
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"The Diminishing Draft" Waldemar Kaempffert 1918
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
"In the Year 2889" Jules Verne 1889
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1950Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
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