| "The Martian Crown Jewels" |
Poul Anderson
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1958 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "The Other Side of the Sky" |
Arthur C. Clarke
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1957 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Sandra" |
George P. Elliott
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1957 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff" |
Theodore Sturgeon
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1955 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Dead Center" |
Judith Merril
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1954 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "The Father-Thing" |
Philip K. Dick
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1954 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
| 1978 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology edited by Greenberg, Olander, Warrick |
| 1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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| "Gomez" |
C. M. Kornbluth
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1954 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Letters from Laura" |
Mildred Clingerman
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1954 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
| 1987 | The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |
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| "The Shape of Things That Came" |
Richard Deming
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1951 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "The Man Who Sold the Moon" |
Robert A. Heinlein
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1950 |
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| 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 |
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| "The Morning of the Day They Did It" |
E. B. White
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1950 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Pillar of Fire" |
Ray Bradbury
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1948 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "The Children's Hour" |
Henry Kuttner,
C. L. Moore
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1944 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
| 1981 | Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories |
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| "Lost Art" |
George O. Smith
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1943 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Piggy Bank" |
Henry Kuttner,
C. L. Moore
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1942 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Waldo" |
Robert A. Heinlein
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1942 |
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| Hugo Award - Story Finalist |
| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
| 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |
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| "Bullard Reflects" |
Malcolm Jameson
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1941 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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| "Magic City" |
Nelson S. Bond
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1941 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
| 1978 | Science Fiction of the Forties edited by Greenberg, Olander, Pohl |
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| "Beyond Space and Time" |
Joel Townsley Rogers
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1938 |
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| 1959 | A Treasury of Great Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher |
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