Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories

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

Title↥ Author/Editor Year Citations Reviews
"All the King's Men" Barrington J. Bayley 1965
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"And the Gods Laughed" Fredric Brown 1944
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Aztecs" Vonda N. McIntyre 1977
4
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1978The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
"The Barbarian" Joanna Russ 1968
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
2018The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek
"Bindlestiff" James Blish 1950
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Chronokinesis of Jonathan Hull" Anthony Boucher 1946
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Common Denominator" John D. MacDonald 1951
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Dunwich Horror" H. P. Lovecraft 1929
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Evolution Island" Edmond Hamilton 1927
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Exiles from the Universe" Stanton A. Coblentz 1938
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Farewell to the Master" Harry Bates 1940
5
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1946Adventures in Time and Space edited by Healy and McComas
1979The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Fires Within" Arthur C. Clarke 1947
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1983The Great SF Stories 9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Firewater" William Tenn 1952
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1953Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
"First Contact" Murray Leinster 1945
10
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
"Four in One" Damon Knight 1953
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1958Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
1986The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Frontier Planet" Manly Wade Wellman 1943
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Golden Helix" Theodore Sturgeon 1954
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"Gulf" Robert A. Heinlein 1949
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1964A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels edited by Damon Knight
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" Gene Wolfe 1970
6
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Light of Other Days" Bob Shaw 1966
15
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1967World's Best Science Fiction: 1967 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1968SF 12 edited by Judith Merril
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1982The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
1999Locus All Time Poll
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"The Literary Corkscrew" David H. Keller 1934
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Lost Kafoozalum" Pauline Ashwell 1960
2
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Man Who Came Early" Poul Anderson 1956
7
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1968One Hundred Years of Science Fiction edited by Damon Knight
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1988The Great SF Stories 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"Mars Is Heaven!" Ray Bradbury 1948
7
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1949The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
1970The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg
1983The Great SF Stories 10 (1948) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
1999Locus All Time Poll
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
"The Mile-Long Spaceship" Kate Wilhelm 1957
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1958Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series edited by T. E. Dikty
1989The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"The Miracle of the Lily" Clare Winger Harris 1928
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
2010The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women edited by Mike Ashley
2018The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yaszek
"My Brother Leopold" Edgar Pangborn 1973
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"None But Lucifer" L. Sprague de Camp,  H. L. Gold 1939
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Now Is Forever" Thomas M. Disch 1964
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1965World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
"One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" Shirley Jackson 1955
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1956S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy edited by Judith Merril
1972A Science Fiction Argosy edited by Damon Knight
"Painwise" James Tiptree, Jr. 1972
4
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1973The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 edited by Terry Carr
1983The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
"Pale Roses" Michael Moorcock 1974
3
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1975The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr
"The Pi Man" Alfred Bester 1959
3
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1990The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" Richard Cowper 1976
3
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" Edgar Rice Burroughs 1937
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1967Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
"Retrograde Summer" John Varley 1975
3
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1976The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
"A Rival from the Grave" Seabury Quinn 1936
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Shambleau" C. L. Moore 1933
6
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
19711971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Pre-1940 SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker
2005The World Turned Upside Down edited by Drake, Baen, and Flint
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Sources of the Nile" Avram Davidson 1961
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Space Coffin" A. Rowley Hilliard 1932
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Stand-By" Philip K. Dick 1963
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Star Pit" Samuel R. Delany 1967
10
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1968SF 12 edited by Judith Merril
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1994Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Star Ship Invincible" Frank K. Kelly 1935
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Sundance" Robert Silverberg 1969
6
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1979The Road to Science Fiction v. 3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James Gunn
1980The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
1981Barry Malzberg Recommended Short Stories
1997The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell
1999Locus All Time Poll
"Through the Purple Cloud" Jack Williamson 1931
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Through the Vortex" Donald E. Keyhoe 1926
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"Two Dooms" C. M. Kornbluth 1958
3
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1989The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell
1990The Great SF Stories 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Ursula K. Le Guin 1971
9
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1972The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Terry Carr
1975Women of Wonder anthology series edited by Pamela Sargent, 1975-1995, 5 volumes
1983Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
2018ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Very Slow Time Machine" Ian Watson 1978
5
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1979The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
2022Hugo Award Hindsight by Dave Hook
"Via Jupiter" Otto Binder 1942
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"A Visitor from Egypt" Frank Belknap Long 1930
1
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
"The Vortex Blaster" Edward E. Smith 1941
2
Richard Lupoff Recommended Short Stories
1965Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Sam Moskowitz
"Where Is the Bird of Fire?" Thomas Burnett Swann 1962
2
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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