| "Flying Lessons" | Kelly Link | 1996 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Over There" | Mike Resnick | 1991 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Time of the Burning" | Robert Silverberg | 1982 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Children of Time" | Stephen Baxter | 2005 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2006 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Ether, OR" | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1995 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Glacier" | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1988 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        | 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Cibola" | Connie Willis | 1990 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "The Happy Man" | Jonathan Lethem | 1991 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Only Partly Here" | Lucius Shepard | 2003 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  | 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Ancient Engines" | Michael Swanwick | 1999 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Dinner in Audoghast" | Bruce Sterling | 1985 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third 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 |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Eight Episodes" | Robert Reed | 2006 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 2024 | Rich Horton - SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018 - Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Itsy Bitsy Spider" | James Patrick Kelly | 1997 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell |  | 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 
                    
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                            | "Robot Dreams" | Isaac Asimov | 1986 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Speech Sounds" | Octavia E. Butler | 1983 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  | 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Lobsters" | Charles Stross | 2001 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Sturgeon finalist |  |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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 |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 
                    
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                            | "Air Raid" | John Varley | 1977 |  |  | 
                    
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  |  | Nebula Award - Story Finalist |  | 1977 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |  | 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2007 | Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams |  | 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |  | 
                    
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