Hugo Award - Story Winner

Titles in bold are on the Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories v2 list.

Title Author/Editor Year Citations↧ Reviews
"Bloodchild" Octavia E. Butler 1984
1
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1985The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Star" Arthur C. Clarke 1955
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1962A Century of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1963Best SF Five edited by Edmund Crispin
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1998The Road to Science Fiction v. 5: The British Way edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Bears Discover Fire" Terry Bisson 1990
3
Sturgeon winner
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Blood Music" Greg Bear 1983
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Nebula Award - Story Winner
1973The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
1984The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1984The 1984 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes 1959
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
1960The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril
1961Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" Harlan Ellison 1965
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1966World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-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
1956Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Persistence of Vision" John Varley 1978
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1979The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr
1979Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Who Goes There?" John W. Campbell, Jr. 1938
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2005The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Harlan Ellison 1967
3
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1968World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
1986Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Sandkings" George R. R. Martin 1979
7
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9 edited by Terry Carr
1980Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Think Like a Dinosaur" James Patrick Kelly 1995
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Fire Watch" Connie Willis 1982
1
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1983The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"First Contact" Murray Leinster 1945
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1946The Best of Science Fiction edited by Groff Conklin
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1982The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" James Tiptree, Jr. 1976
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1977The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1988Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh
1999Locus All Time Poll
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Jeffty Is Five" Harlan Ellison 1977
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1978The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Or All the Seas with Oysters" Avram Davidson 1958
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1959SF:'59: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1990The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Bicentennial Man" Isaac Asimov 1976
1
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1977The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1977The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 edited by Terry Carr
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Even the Queen" Connie Willis 1992
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time 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
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Hell Is the Absence of God" Ted Chiang 2001
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Inconstant Moon" Larry Niven 1971
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972Best Science Fiction for 1972 edited by Frederik Pohl
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Island" Peter Watts 2009
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2010Year's Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 edited by Rich Horton
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"The Last of the Winnebagos" Connie Willis 1988
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Little Black Bag" C. M. Kornbluth 1950
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" Kij Johnson 2011
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Press ENTER ■" John Varley 1984
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1985The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1985Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
1985The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" Poul Anderson 1971
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Souls" Joanna Russ 1982
1
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1983The 1983 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1983The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Beggars in Spain" Nancy Kress 1991
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Big Front Yard" Clifford D. Simak 1958
2
Hugo Award - Story Winner
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
1990The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Exhalation" Ted Chiang 2008
5
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Ted Chiang 2007
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Mountains of Mourning" Lois McMaster Bujold 1989
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Neutron Star" Larry Niven 1966
1
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1986Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-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
1975The 1975 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Speech Sounds" Octavia E. Butler 1983
4
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999Locus All Time Poll
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" Samuel R. Delany 1968
1
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1969World's Best Science Fiction: 1969 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Way of Cross and Dragon" George R. R. Martin 1979
2
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The 1980 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1980Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
1999Locus All Time Poll
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Allamagoosa" Eric Frank Russell 1955
Hugo Award - Story Winner
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Deathbird" Harlan Ellison 1973
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1974The 1974 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Enemy Mine" Barry B. Longyear 1979
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1980The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Goat Song" Poul Anderson 1972
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The 1973 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Hemingway Hoax" Joe Haldeman 1990
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1991The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Kirinyaga" Mike Resnick 1988
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1993The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Le Guin and Attebery
1999Locus All Time Poll
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"The Last Castle" Jack Vance 1966
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Lincoln Train" Maureen F. McHugh 1995
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" Robert A. Heinlein 1950
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1959A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Ursula K. Le Guin 1973
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Roads Must Roll" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Robbie" Isaac Asimov 1940
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Mike Resnick 1994
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Word for World Is Forest" Ursula K. Le Guin 1972
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Cassandra" C. J. Cherryh 1978
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1979The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"The Cookie Monster" Vernor Vinge 2003
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" Michael Swanwick 2001
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Dragon Masters" Jack Vance 1962
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Gonna Roll the Bones" Fritz Leiber 1967
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Grotto of the Dancing Deer" Clifford D. Simak 1980
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1981The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 edited by Terry Carr
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Nightwings" Robert Silverberg 1968
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Paper Menagerie" Ken Liu 2011
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2012The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Schrödinger's Kitten" George Alec Effinger 1988
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon winner
1989The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Slow Sculpture" Theodore Sturgeon 1970
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1971World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Tideline" Elizabeth Bear 2007
Hugo Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon winner
2008The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Weyr Search" Anne McCaffrey 1967
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" Roger Zelazny 1985
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Bicycle Repairman" Bruce Sterling 1996
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1997Year's Best SF 2 edited by David G. Hartwell
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Death of Captain Future" Allen Steele 1995
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2006The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Djinn's Wife" Ian McDonald 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" Vernor Vinge 2001
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Home Is the Hangman" Roger Zelazny 1975
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Ill Met in Lankhmar" Fritz Leiber 1970
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1986The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"None So Blind" Joe Haldeman 1994
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Oceanic" Greg Egan 1998
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Pusher" John Varley 1981
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The 1982 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Seasons of Glass and Iron" Amal El-Mohtar 2016
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Soldier, Ask Not" Gordon R. Dickson 1964
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2001The Great SF Stories (1964) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Stardance" Spider RobinsonJeanne Robinson 1977
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1978The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
1978Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"To Serve Man" Damon Knight 1950
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1951The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1980Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl
1984The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
"Barnacle Bill the Spacer" Lucius Shepard 1992
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"A Billion Eves" Robert Reed 2006
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Binti" Nnedi Okorafor 2015
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Blood of the Dragon" George R. R. Martin 1996
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Cat Pictures Please" Naomi Kritzer 2015
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
"Death on the Nile" Connie Willis 1993
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1994The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Emperor of Mars" Allen Steele 2010
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" Robert Silverberg 1989
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Eurema's Dam" R. A. Lafferty 1972
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
2001Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
"The Faery Handbag" Kelly Link 2004
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Folding Beijing" Hao Jingfang 2015
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
"The Hole Man" Larry Niven 1974
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr
1978Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Inside Job" Connie Willis 2005
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" Ted Chiang 2010
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Martian Child" David Gerrold 1994
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Paladin of the Lost Hour" Harlan Ellison 1985
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Riders of the Purple Wage" Philip José Farmer 1967
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Saturn Game" Poul Anderson 1981
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1982The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Shoggoths in Bloom" Elizabeth Bear 2008
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 1 edited by Allan Kaster
2010The 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
2012Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Slow Life" Michael Swanwick 2002
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Taklamakan" Bruce Sterling 1998
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Tangents" Greg Bear 1986
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Two Truths and a Lie" Sarah Pinsker 2020
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2021The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"A Walk in the Sun" Geoffrey A. Landis 1991
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"… Where Angels Fear to Tread" Allen Steele 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" Lawrence Watt-Evans 1987
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" Alix E. Harrow 2018
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton
"10 to 16 to 1" James Patrick Kelly 1999
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Mike Resnick 1997
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Boobs" Suzy McKee Charnas 1989
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1996Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Hartwell & Wolf
"Bridesicle" Will McIntosh 2009
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"A Case of Conscience" James Blish 1953
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1955Best SF edited by Edmund Crispin
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"Catch That Zeppelin!" Fritz Leiber 1975
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1976The 1976 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"The Concrete Jungle" Charles Stross 2004
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Coraline" Neil Gaiman 2002
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Crystal Spheres" David Brin 1984
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Different Kinds of Darkness" David Langford 2000
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"Emergency Skin" N. K. Jemisin 2019
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke
"The Erdmann Nexus" Nancy Kress 2008
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Every Heart a Doorway" Seanan McGuire 2016
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Exploration Team" Murray Leinster 1956
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Eyes of Amber" Joan D. Vinge 1977
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1978The 1978 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Fermi and Frost" Frederik Pohl 1985
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Hugo Award - Story Winner
1986The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1986The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Georgia on My Mind" Charles Sheffield 1993
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1994The 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
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" Pat Cadigan 2012
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Longest Voyage" Poul Anderson 1960
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Manamouki" Mike Resnick 1990
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Meeting" Frederik PohlC. M. Kornbluth 1972
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1973Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection edited by Lester del Rey
"Melancholy Elephants" Spider Robinson 1982
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Mono No Aware" Ken Liu 2012
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"No Truce with Kings" Poul Anderson 1963
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1992The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"Palimpsest" Charles Stross 2009
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Permafrost" Roger Zelazny 1986
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" Michael Swanwick 1999
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Ship of Shadows" Fritz Leiber 1969
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1970World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
"A Study in Emerald" Neil Gaiman 2003
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"That Hell-Bound Train" Robert Bloch 1958
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"This Is How You Lose the Time War" Amal El-MohtarMax Gladstone 2019
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Travels with My Cats" Mike Resnick 2004
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Tricentennial" Joe Haldeman 1976
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1979The 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
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Ultimate Earth" Jack Williamson 2000
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"We Will Drink a Fish Together …" Bill Johnson 1997
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" Harlan Ellison 1974
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"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
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" Harlan Ellison 1968
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Better Living Through Algorithms" Naomi Kritzer 2023
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Bots of the Lost Ark" Suzanne Palmer 2021
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Cascade Point" Timothy Zahn 1983
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"The Darfsteller" Walter M. Miller, Jr. 1955
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1988The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Earthman, Come Home" James Blish 1953
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1973The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B edited by Ben Bova
"Eye for Eye" Orson Scott Card 1987
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again" Zen Cho 2018
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Legions in Time" Michael Swanwick 2003
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Lost Dorsai" Gordon R. Dickson 1980
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Metal Like Blood in the Dark" Ursula Vernon 2020
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
"The Nutcracker Coup" Janet Kagan 1992
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"A Psalm for the Wild-Built" Becky Chambers 2021
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Rabbit Test" Samantha Mills 2022
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Sharing of Flesh" Poul Anderson 1968
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Thornhedge" T. Kingfisher 2023
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Tk'tk'tk" David D. Levine 2005
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Uncommon Sense" Hal Clement 1945
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Unicorn Variation" Roger Zelazny 1981
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999Locus All Time Poll
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" Michael Swanwick 1998
Hugo Award - Story Winner
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" Sarah Pinsker 2021
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Year Without Sunshine" Naomi Kritzer 2023
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"All Seated on the Ground" Connie Willis 2007
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Animal Farm" George Orwell 1946
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Borderland of Sol" Larry Niven 1975
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"By Any Other Name" Spider Robinson 1976
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Cloak and the Staff" Gordon R. Dickson 1980
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Day the World Turned Upside Down" Thomas Olde Heuvelt 2014
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Down in the Bottomlands" Harry Turtledove 1993
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Emperor's Soul" Brandon Sanderson 2012
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Empress of Salt and Fortune" Nghi Vo 2020
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Equoid" Charles Stross 2013
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Falling Onto Mars" Geoffrey A. Landis 2002
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"For Want of a Nail" Mary Robinette Kowal 2010
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Gold" Isaac Asimov 1991
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Hothouse Series" Brian W. Aldiss 1962
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"How We Went to Mars" Arthur C. Clarke 1938
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Hunter's Moon" Poul Anderson 1978
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"If This Goes On …" Robert A. Heinlein 1940
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Impossible Dreams" Tim Pratt 2006
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" Mary Robinette Kowal 2013
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Millennium Babies" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 2000
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Rule 18" Clifford D. Simak 1938
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"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
"The Space-Time Painter" Hai Ya 2022
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Tomato Thief" Ursula Vernon 2016
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" John Chu 2013
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Where the Drowned Girls Go" Seanan McGuire 2022
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"The Winds of Marble Arch" Connie Willis 1999
Hugo Award - Story Winner
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