| "Genesis" |
Poul Anderson
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1995 |
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| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Gossamer" |
Stephen Baxter
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1995 |
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| 1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Matter's End" |
Gregory Benford
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1991 |
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| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Immersion" |
Gregory Benford
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1996 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Mount Olympus" |
Ben Bova
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1999 |
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| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "An Ever-Reddening Glow" |
David Brin
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1996 |
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Reality Check" |
David Brin
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2000 |
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| 2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Understand" |
Ted Chiang
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1991 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
| 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |
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| "The Hammer of God" |
Arthur C. Clarke
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1992 |
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| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Exchange Rate" |
Hal Clement
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1999 |
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| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Wang's Carpets" |
Greg Egan
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1995 |
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| 1996 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 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 |
| 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Reasons to be Cheerful" |
Greg Egan
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1997 |
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| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Built Upon the Sands of Time" |
Michael F. Flynn
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2000 |
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| 2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "For White Hill" |
Joe Haldeman
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1995 |
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| 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 |
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| "Madam Butterfly" |
James P. Hogan
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1997 |
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Think Like a Dinosaur" |
James Patrick Kelly
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1995 |
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| 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 |
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| "A Walk in the Sun" |
Geoffrey A. Landis
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1991 |
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| 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 |
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| "Different Kinds of Darkness" |
David Langford
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2000 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Winner |
| 2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "The Mendelian Lamp Case" |
Paul Levinson
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1997 |
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| 1998 | Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Gene Wars" |
Paul J. McAuley
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1991 |
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| 1992 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Reef" |
Paul J. McAuley
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2000 |
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| Sturgeon finalist |
| 2001 | Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Into the Miranda Rift" |
G. David Nordley
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1993 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| 1994 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Hatching the Phoenix" |
Frederik Pohl
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1999 |
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| 2000 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Marrow" |
Robert Reed
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1997 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1998 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Great Wall of Mars" |
Alastair Reynolds
|
2000 |
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| 2001 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Sexual Dimorphism" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1999 |
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| 1973 | The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1974) / A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) |
| 2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
1999 |
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "The Shoulders of Giants" |
Robert J. Sawyer
|
2000 |
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Halo" |
Karl Schroeder
|
1996 |
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "The Lady Vanishes" |
Charles Sheffield
|
1996 |
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| 1997 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Microbe" |
Joan Slonczewski
|
1995 |
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| 1996 | Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2011 | Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman |
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| "Sexual Chemistry" |
Brian Stableford
|
1991 |
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "The Good Rat" |
Allen Steele
|
1995 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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| "Bicycle Repairman" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1996 |
|
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| 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 |
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| "Taklamakan" |
Bruce Sterling
|
1998 |
|
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| 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 |
|
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| "Griffin's Egg" |
Michael Swanwick
|
1991 |
|
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| Nebula Award - Story Finalist |
| Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |
| 1993 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
| 2007 | The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Gardner Dozois |
|
|
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| "Fast Times at Fairmont High" |
Vernor Vinge
|
2001 |
|
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| 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 |
|
|
|
| "A Niche" |
Peter Watts
|
1990 |
|
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| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
|
|
|
| "Kinds of Strangers" |
Sarah Zettel
|
1999 |
|
|
| 1987 | The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha |
| 2000 | Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell |
| 2002 | The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer |
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