| "The Nine Billion Names of God" |
Arthur C. Clarke
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1953 |
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2
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| 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 |
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| "The Voices of Time" |
J. G. Ballard
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1960 |
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1
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| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction Stories edited by Michael Stapleton |
| 1991 | The Great SF Stories 22 (1960) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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| "Black Charlie" |
Gordon R. Dickson
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1954 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Business as Usual, During Alterations" |
Ralph Williams
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1958 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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| "The Equalizer" |
Norman Spinrad
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1964 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
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| "The Ingenious Patriot" |
Ambrose Bierce
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1891 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
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| "The Man Who Came Early" |
Poul Anderson
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1956 |
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| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" |
H. G. Wells
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1898 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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| "The Mindworm" |
C. M. Kornbluth
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1950 |
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| 1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) 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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| "New Apples in the Garden" |
Kris Neville
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1963 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
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| "Nobody Bothers Gus" |
Algis Budrys
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1955 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1956 | S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1979 | Science Fiction of the Fifties edited by Greenberg and Olander |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
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| "The Other Celia" |
Theodore Sturgeon
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1957 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "The Other Now" |
Murray Leinster
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1951 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
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| "The Quest for Saint Aquin" |
Anthony Boucher
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1951 |
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| 1963 | Best SF Five 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 |
| 1985 | The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) 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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| "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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| "The Shapes" |
J. -H. Rosny aîné
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1887 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 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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| "Splice of Life" |
Sonya Dorman
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1966 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
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| "A Subway Named Mobius" |
A. J. Deutsch
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1950 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1952 | Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin |
| 1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?" |
Gerald Kersh
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1953 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
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| "With the Night Mail" |
Rudyard Kipling
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1905 |
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| 1968 | One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1977 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells edited by James Gunn |
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