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