| "The Lucky Strike" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
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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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| "Press ENTER ■" |
John Varley
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1984 |
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2
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 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 |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
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| "Bloodchild" |
Octavia E. Butler
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1985 | Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 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 |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "The Affair" |
Robert Silverberg
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "At the Embassy Club" |
Elizabeth A. Lynn
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Bad Medicine" |
Jack Dann
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Black Coral" |
Lucius Shepard
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Blued Moon" |
Connie Willis
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1984 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 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 |
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| "A Cabin on the Coast" |
Gene Wolfe
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Company in the Wings" |
R. A. Lafferty
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1983 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Foreign Skins" |
Tanith Lee
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Friend" |
James Patrick Kelly,
John Kessel
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Interlocking Pieces" |
Molly Gloss
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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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| "The Kindly Isle" |
Frederik Pohl
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "The Map" |
Gene Wolfe
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "A Message to the King of Brobdingnag" |
Richard Cowper
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "New Rose Hotel" |
William Gibson
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Promises to Keep" |
Jack McDevitt
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Pursuit of Excellence" |
Rena Yount
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Rock On" |
Pat Cadigan
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Salvador" |
Lucius Shepard
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1984 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Sunken Gardens" |
Bruce Sterling
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Trinity" |
Nancy Kress
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 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 |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Trojan Horse" |
Michael Swanwick
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1984 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 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 |
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| "The Trouble with the Cotton People" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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| "Twilight Time" |
Lewis Shiner
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1984 |
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| 1985 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
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