| "10 to 16 to 1" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth 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 |
|
|
|
| "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" |
Mike Resnick
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1974 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "All Seated on the Ground" |
Connie Willis
|
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Allamagoosa" |
Eric Frank Russell
|
1955 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Animal Farm" |
George Orwell
|
1946 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Artificial Condition" |
Martha Wells
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "As the Last I May Know" |
S. L. Huang
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" |
Lucius Shepard
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bears Discover Fire" |
Terry Bisson
|
1990 |
|
3
|
| Sturgeon winner |
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 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 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2022 | Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook |
|
|
|
| "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1968 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Beggars in Spain" |
Nancy Kress
|
1991 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Better Living Through Algorithms" |
Naomi Kritzer
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Bicentennial Man" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1976 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1977 | The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1977 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Bicycle Repairman" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1997 | Year's Best SF 2 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "The Big Front Yard" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1958 |
|
2
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
| 1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "A Billion Eves" |
Robert Reed
|
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2007 | Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton |
| 2007 | Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "Binti" |
Nnedi Okorafor
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Blood Music" |
Greg Bear
|
1983 |
|
3
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 1984 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1984 | The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 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 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Blood of the Dragon" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1996 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Bloodchild" |
Octavia E. Butler
|
1984 |
|
1
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Boobs" |
Suzy McKee Charnas
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
|
|
|
| "The Borderland of Sol" |
Larry Niven
|
1975 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Bots of the Lost Ark" |
Suzanne Palmer
|
2021 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Bridesicle" |
Will McIntosh
|
2009 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1987 |
|
3
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1988 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "By Any Other Name" |
Spider Robinson
|
1976 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Cascade Point" |
Timothy Zahn
|
1983 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "A Case of Conscience" |
James Blish
|
1953 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1955 | Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
|
| "Cassandra" |
C. J. Cherryh
|
1978 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1979 | The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "Cat Pictures Please" |
Naomi Kritzer
|
2015 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
|
| "Catch That Zeppelin!" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1976 | The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Cloak and the Staff" |
Gordon R. Dickson
|
1980 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Concrete Jungle" |
Charles Stross
|
2004 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2005 | Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Cookie Monster" |
Vernor Vinge
|
2003 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2004 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Coraline" |
Neil Gaiman
|
2002 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Crystal Spheres" |
David Brin
|
1984 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Darfsteller" |
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
|
1955 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
|
|
|
| "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" |
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
|
2014 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Death of Captain Future" |
Allen Steele
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2006 | The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Death on the Nile" |
Connie Willis
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Deathbird" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1973 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1974 | The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Different Kinds of Darkness" |
David Langford
|
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "The Djinn's Wife" |
Ian McDonald
|
2006 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2007 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2007 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" |
Michael Swanwick
|
2001 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2002 | Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2002 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Down in the Bottomlands" |
Harry Turtledove
|
1993 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Dragon Masters" |
Jack Vance
|
1962 |
|
|
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Earthman, Come Home" |
James Blish
|
1953 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova |
|
|
|
| "Emergency Skin" |
N. K. Jemisin
|
2019 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2020 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2020 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
|
| "The Emperor of Mars" |
Allen Steele
|
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2011 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "The Emperor's Soul" |
Brandon Sanderson
|
2012 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Empress of Salt and Fortune" |
Nghi Vo
|
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Enemy Mine" |
Barry B. Longyear
|
1979 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1989 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1990 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Equoid" |
Charles Stross
|
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Erdmann Nexus" |
Nancy Kress
|
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2009 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Eurema's Dam" |
R. A. Lafferty
|
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
|
|
|
| "Even the Queen" |
Connie Willis
|
1992 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Every Heart a Doorway" |
Seanan McGuire
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Exhalation" |
Ted Chiang
|
2008 |
|
5
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2009 | Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Exploration Team" |
Murray Leinster
|
1956 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1988 | The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Eye for Eye" |
Orson Scott Card
|
1987 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "Eyes of Amber" |
Joan D. Vinge
|
1977 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes |
| 1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Faery Handbag" |
Kelly Link
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Falling Onto Mars" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Fast Times at Fairmont High" |
Vernor Vinge
|
2001 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "Fermi and Frost" |
Frederik Pohl
|
1985 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1986 | The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1986 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Fire Watch" |
Connie Willis
|
1982 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "First Contact" |
Murray Leinster
|
1945 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories |
| 1946 | The Best 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 |
| 1982 | The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Flowers for Algernon" |
Daniel Keyes
|
1959 |
|
4
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |
| 1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 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 |
| 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |
| 1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Folding Beijing" |
Hao Jingfang
|
2015 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2016 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2016 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke |
|
|
|
| "For Want of a Nail" |
Mary Robinette Kowal
|
2010 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Georgia on My Mind" |
Charles Sheffield
|
1993 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Gilgamesh in the Outback" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1973 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" |
Pat Cadigan
|
2012 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2013 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 | The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Goat Song" |
Poul Anderson
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1973 | The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Gold" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Gonna Roll the Bones" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Grotto of the Dancing Deer" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1981 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Hell Is the Absence of God" |
Ted Chiang
|
2001 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Hemingway Hoax" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1991 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Hole Man" |
Larry Niven
|
1974 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "Home Is the Hangman" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1975 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Hothouse Series" |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
1962 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" |
James Tiptree, Jr.
|
1976 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1977 | The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "How We Went to Mars" |
Arthur C. Clarke
|
1938 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Hunter's Moon" |
Poul Anderson
|
1978 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1967 |
|
3
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1968 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
| 1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
| 1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again" |
Zen Cho
|
2018 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "If This Goes On …" |
Robert A. Heinlein
|
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Ill Met in Lankhmar" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Impossible Dreams" |
Tim Pratt
|
2006 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Inconstant Moon" |
Larry Niven
|
1971 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1972 | Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl |
| 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Inside Job" |
Connie Willis
|
2005 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2006 | Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Island" |
Peter Watts
|
2009 |
|
2
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2010 | Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2010 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2010 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
|
| "Jeffty Is Five" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1977 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1978 | The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Kirinyaga" |
Mike Resnick
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1993 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2005 | The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" |
Mary Robinette Kowal
|
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Last Castle" |
Jack Vance
|
1966 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Last of the Winnebagos" |
Connie Willis
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth 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 |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Legions in Time" |
Michael Swanwick
|
2003 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" |
Ted Chiang
|
2010 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Lincoln Train" |
Maureen F. McHugh
|
1995 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth 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 |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Little Black Bag" |
C. M. Kornbluth
|
1950 |
|
2
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 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 |
| 1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Longest Voyage" |
Poul Anderson
|
1960 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Lost Dorsai" |
Gordon R. Dickson
|
1980 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" |
Kij Johnson
|
2011 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Man Who Sold the Moon" |
Robert A. Heinlein
|
1950 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Manamouki" |
Mike Resnick
|
1990 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Martian Child" |
David Gerrold
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Meeting" |
Frederik Pohl,
C. M. Kornbluth
|
1972 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1973 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1973 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey |
|
|
|
| "Melancholy Elephants" |
Spider Robinson
|
1982 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" |
Ted Chiang
|
2007 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2008 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Metal Like Blood in the Dark" |
Ursula Vernon
|
2020 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2021 | The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster |
|
|
|
| "Millennium Babies" |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
|
2000 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Mono No Aware" |
Ken Liu
|
2012 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2013 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
|
|
|
| "The Mountains of Mourning" |
Lois McMaster Bujold
|
1989 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Neutron Star" |
Larry Niven
|
1966 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Nightwings" |
Robert Silverberg
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Nine Billion Names of God" |
Arthur C. Clarke
|
1953 |
|
2
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "No Truce with Kings" |
Poul Anderson
|
1963 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1992 | The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "None So Blind" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth 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 |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Nutcracker Coup" |
Janet Kagan
|
1992 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Oceanic" |
Greg Egan
|
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1973 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1974 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Or All the Seas with Oysters" |
Avram Davidson
|
1958 |
|
2
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1959 | SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1990 | The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Paladin of the Lost Hour" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1985 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Palimpsest" |
Charles Stross
|
2009 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Paper Menagerie" |
Ken Liu
|
2011 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2012 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Permafrost" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
|
|
|
| "The Persistence of Vision" |
John Varley
|
1978 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1979 | The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1979 | The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1979 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 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 |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Press ENTER ■" |
John Varley
|
1984 |
|
2
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" |
Becky Chambers
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Pusher" |
John Varley
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The 1982 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Queen of Air and Darkness" |
Poul Anderson
|
1971 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1972 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Rabbit Test" |
Samantha Mills
|
2022 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" |
Harlan Ellison
|
1965 |
|
4
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1966 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1997 | The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 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 Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Riders of the Purple Wage" |
Philip José Farmer
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Roads Must Roll" |
Robert A. Heinlein
|
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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|
|
| "Robbie" |
Isaac Asimov
|
1940 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1979 | The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) 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 |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
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|
| "Rule 18" |
Clifford D. Simak
|
1938 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
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|
| "Sandkings" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1979 |
|
7
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Saturn Game" |
Poul Anderson
|
1981 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1982 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
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|
| "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1999 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Schrödinger's Kitten" |
George Alec Effinger
|
1988 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 1989 | The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1989 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Seasons of Glass and Iron" |
Amal El-Mohtar
|
2016 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2017 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" |
Mike Resnick
|
1994 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1995 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Sharing of Flesh" |
Poul Anderson
|
1968 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Ship of Shadows" |
Fritz Leiber
|
1969 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1970 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
|
|
|
| "Shoggoths in Bloom" |
Elizabeth Bear
|
2008 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2009 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2009 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster |
| 2010 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "Six Months, Three Days" |
Charlie Jane Anders
|
2011 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Slow Life" |
Michael Swanwick
|
2002 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2003 | Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer |
| 2003 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |
|
|
|
| "Slow Sculpture" |
Theodore Sturgeon
|
1970 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1971 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1986 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Soldier, Ask Not" |
Gordon R. Dickson
|
1964 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2001 | The Great SF Stories (1964) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "A Song for Lya" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1974 |
|
3
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1975 | The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective" |
Connie Willis
|
1996 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Souls" |
Joanna Russ
|
1982 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1983 | The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1983 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1994 | Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1996 | Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf |
| 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 |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Space-Time Painter" |
Hai Ya
|
2022 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Speech Sounds" |
Octavia E. Butler
|
1983 |
|
4
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
| "The Star" |
Arthur C. Clarke
|
1955 |
|
1
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1962 | A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight |
| 1963 | Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin |
| 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) |
| 1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |
| 1988 | The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 1998 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2010 | Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Stardance" |
Spider Robinson,
Jeanne Robinson
|
1977 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1978 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr |
| 1978 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "A Study in Emerald" |
Neil Gaiman
|
2003 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2003 | Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Taklamakan" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1998 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Tangents" |
Greg Bear
|
1986 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1987 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "That Hell-Bound Train" |
Robert Bloch
|
1958 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Think Like a Dinosaur" |
James Patrick Kelly
|
1995 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2010 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al |
| 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 |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "This Is How You Lose the Time War" |
Amal El-Mohtar,
Max Gladstone
|
2019 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Thornhedge" |
T. Kingfisher
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Tideline" |
Elizabeth Bear
|
2007 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| Sturgeon winner |
| 2008 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
| 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" |
Samuel R. Delany
|
1968 |
|
1
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1969 | World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr |
| 1982 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Tk'tk'tk" |
David D. Levine
|
2005 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2013 | Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
|
|
|
| "To Serve Man" |
Damon Knight
|
1950 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1951 | The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty |
| 1980 | Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
| 1984 | The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2000 | The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts |
|
|
|
| "The Tomato Thief" |
Ursula Vernon
|
2016 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Travels with My Cats" |
Mike Resnick
|
2004 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Tricentennial" |
Joe Haldeman
|
1976 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1979 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn |
|
|
|
| "Two Hearts" |
Peter S. Beagle
|
2005 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
|
|
|
| "Two Truths and a Lie" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2020 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2021 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams |
| 2022 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "The Ultimate Earth" |
Jack Williamson
|
2000 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Uncommon Sense" |
Hal Clement
|
1945 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
|
|
|
| "Unicorn Variation" |
Roger Zelazny
|
1981 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
|
|
|
| "The Very Pulse of the Machine" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1998 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "A Walk in the Sun" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
1991 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" |
John Chu
|
2013 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "The Way of Cross and Dragon" |
George R. R. Martin
|
1979 |
|
2
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1980 | The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 1980 | Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 1992 | The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2004 | The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "We Will Drink a Fish Together …" |
Bill Johnson
|
1997 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
|
| "Weyr Search" |
Anne McCaffrey
|
1967 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "… Where Angels Fear to Tread" |
Allen Steele
|
1997 |
|
|
| Sturgeon finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB All Time Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" |
Sarah Pinsker
|
2021 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Where the Drowned Girls Go" |
Seanan McGuire
|
2022 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "Who Goes There?" |
John W. Campbell, Jr.
|
1938 |
|
3
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1946 | Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |
| 1973 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova |
| 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2005 | The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" |
Lawrence Watt-Evans
|
1987 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
|
|
|
| "The Winds of Marble Arch" |
Connie Willis
|
1999 |
|
|
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|
| "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" |
Alix E. Harrow
|
2018 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2019 | The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan |
| 2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton |
|
|
|
| "The Word for World Is Forest" |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
1972 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
|
|
|
| "The Year Without Sunshine" |
Naomi Kritzer
|
2023 |
|
|
| Nebula Award - Story Winner |
| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
|
|
|