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