Sturgeon finalist

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

Title Author/Editor Year Citations Reviews↧
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
9
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
"Hell Is the Absence of God" Ted Chiang 2001
9
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
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" Kij Johnson 2011
9
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
"The Things" Peter Watts 2010
9
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
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
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Even the Queen" Connie Willis 1992
9
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 Island" Peter Watts 2009
9
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
"Lobsters" Charles Stross 2001
9
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Ted Chiang 2007
8
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
"A Series of Steaks" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2017
8
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" Mike Resnick 1997
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know" Ken Liu 2020
5
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
2021The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"Advantage, Bellarmine" Paul Levinson 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall" Nancy Kress 2012
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Age of Aquarius" William Barton 1996
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Age of Innocence" Brian Stableford 1995
1
Sturgeon finalist
"AirBody" Sameem Siddiqui 2020
3
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2022The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
"The Album of Dr. Moreau" Daryl Gregory 2021
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Always" Karen Joy Fowler 2007
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2008Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"And Then There Were (N-One)" Sarah Pinsker 2017
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" Brooke Bolander 2015
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
"Animae Celestes" Gregory Feeley 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Another Story, or, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" Ursula K. Le Guin 1994
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Another Word for Map Is Faith" Christopher Rowe 2006
3
Sturgeon finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
2007The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Antibodies" Charles Stross 2000
2
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"An Appeal to Adolf" Ian Watson 2004
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Arabian Wine" Gregory Feeley 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Archronology of Love" Caroline M. Yoachim 2019
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
2020The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams
"The Art of Space Travel" Nina Allan 2016
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster
"As Women Fight" Sara Genge 2009
4
Sturgeon finalist
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 Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"At the Shadow of a Dream" Howard V. Hendrix 1993
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Avery Cates: The Walled City" Jeff Somers 2015
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Baby Doll" Johanna Sinisalo 2002
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"The Ballad of Black Tom" Victor LaValle 2016
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" John Kessel 2004
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast" Suzy McKee Charnas 1996
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Bernardo's House" James Patrick Kelly 2003
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"A Billion Eves" Robert Reed 2006
4
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
"The Birthday of the World" Ursula K. Le Guin 2000
3
Sturgeon finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Blemmye's Strategem" Bruce Sterling 2005
3
Sturgeon finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Blood Dauber" Ted KosmatkaMichael Poore 2009
2
Sturgeon finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Bloom" Gregory Norman Bossert 2013
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" Ken Liu 2012
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" Ian McDonald 2015
6
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 edited by Rich Horton
2016The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster
"Bots of the Lost Ark" Suzanne Palmer 2021
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"Breathmoss" Ian R. MacLeod 2002
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Bronte's Egg" Richard Chwedyk 2002
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"The Cat's Pajamas" James Morrow 2001
2
Sturgeon finalist
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Childfinder" Octavia E. Butler 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Chop Girl" Ian R. MacLeod 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Chronology Protection Case" Paul Levinson 1995
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Clockatrice" Tanith Lee 2009
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Close Encounters" Andy Duncan 2012
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2013Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"Cocoon" Greg Egan 1994
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Coelacanths" Robert Reed 2002
3
Sturgeon finalist
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
"The Color Winter" Steven Popkes 1988
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Coming to Grips with the Great Plague" Brian Stableford 1997
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" Raphael Carter 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Copenhagen Interpretation" Paul Cornell 2011
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Crane Fly" Eliot Fintushel 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Craphound" Cory Doctorow 1998
3
Sturgeon finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
"Cri de Coeur" Michael Bishop 1994
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Cryptic Age" Robert Reed 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Daddy's World" Walter Jon Williams 1999
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
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
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"Damage" David D. Levine 2015
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
2016The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 edited by Allan Kaster
"Dance at the Edge" L. Timmel Duchamp 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Dancer in the Dark" David Gerrold 2004
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Dancing with the Chairs" James Patrick Kelly 1989
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Danny Goes to Mars" Pamela Sargent 1992
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance" Eleanor Arnason 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Dark Ride" John Kessel 2021
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" Michael F. Flynn 2006
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Dead Man's Run" Robert Reed 2010
2
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
"Dead Worlds" Jack Skillingstead 2003
3
Sturgeon finalist
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010Nancy Kress Recommended Short Stories
"The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power" Karen Osborne 2019
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Death and the Lady" Judith Tarr 1992
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Death of Che Guevara" Lewis Shiner 2009
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Diamonds Aren't Forever" S. P. Somtow 1995
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Dinosaurs" Walter Jon Williams 1987
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1988The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine" Greg Egan 2017
2
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Djinn's Wife" Ian McDonald 2006
5
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
"Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" Howard Waldrop 1988
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" Michael Swanwick 2001
6
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
"Dori Bangs" Bruce Sterling 1989
7
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three edited by David S. Garnett
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2019Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories
"Dradin, in Love" Jeff VanderMeer 1996
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Dreaming Wind" Jeffrey Ford 2007
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Dry Bones" William Sanders 2003
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Eater-of-Bone" Robert Reed 2012
3
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"Echea" Kristine Kathryn Rusch 1998
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Echoes" Alan Brennert 1997
2
Sturgeon finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Elephant" Susan Palwick 1986
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Elizabeth Complex" Karen Joy Fowler 1996
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Emergence" Gwyneth Jones 2015
4
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten edited by Jonathan Strahan
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third 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 Empire of Ice Cream" Jeffrey Ford 2003
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Episodes of the Argo" R. A. Lafferty 1990
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Erase/Record/Play" John M. Ford 1996
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Eros, Philia, Agape" Rachel Swirsky 2009
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Eternity and Afterward" Lucius Shepard 2001
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" Octavia E. Butler 1987
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1988The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Everywhere" Geoff Ryman 1999
4
Sturgeon finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" Kij Johnson 2007
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Faith" James Patrick Kelly 1989
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Fandom for Robots" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2017
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
"Fault Lines" Nancy Kress 1995
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Fear Gun" Judith Berman 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
2005Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Fifth Dragon" Ian McDonald 2014
3
Sturgeon finalist
2015The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine edited by Jonathan Strahan
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Fire that Scours" Edward Bryant 1994
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Five Days in April" Brian A. Hopkins 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" Yoon Ha Lee 2010
5
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
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
"The Fluted Girl" Paolo Bacigalupi 2003
4
Sturgeon finalist
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
"Folding Beijing" Hao Jingfang 2015
4
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 Forest" Laird Barron 2007
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred" Greg Egan 2015
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling" L. X. Beckett 2018
2
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" Michael Swanwick 2008
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" Tobias S. Buckell 2019
3
Sturgeon finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2020The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 edited by Gabaldon & Adams
"The Gambler" Paolo Bacigalupi 2008
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Get a Grip" Paul Park 1997
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" Paul Park 2010
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
"Ghostweight" Yoon Ha Lee 2011
3
Sturgeon finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 edited by Rich Horton
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Gift" Pat Forde 1987
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Giftie" James E. Gunn 1999
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Give the Family My Love" A. T. Greenblatt 2019
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2020The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 edited by Rich Horton
"Gladiator's War: A Dialogue" Lois Tilton 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach" Kelly Robson 2018
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Gone" John Crowley 1996
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"Grave Angels" Richard Kearns 1986
3
Sturgeon finalist
1987Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Green Tea" Richard Wadholm 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Guide for Working Breeds" Vina Jie-Min Prasad 2020
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection edited by Allan Kaster
2022The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 edited by Rich Horton
"Gypsy" Carter Scholz 2015
5
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Neil Clarke
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition edited by Paula Guran
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2016The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster
"Halo" Charles Stross 2002
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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
"The Happy Man" Jonathan Lethem 1991
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Have Not Have" Geoff Ryman 2001
3
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2005The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Heart of Glass" William Barton 2000
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Her Voice in a Bottle" Tim Pratt 2009
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Herd Immunity" Tananarive Due 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Heroics" James Patrick Kelly 1987
1
Sturgeon finalist
"His Master's Voice" Hannu Rajaniemi 2008
4
Sturgeon finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Home for Christmas" Nina Kiriki Hoffman 1995
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Hotel in Antarctica" Geoffrey A. Landis 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The House Beyond Your Sky" Benjamin Rosenbaum 2006
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
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
"How Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His Toes" Gregory Frost 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"I, Iscariot" Michael Bishop 1995
1
Sturgeon finalist
"If the Martians Have Magic" P. Djèlí Clark 2021
2
Sturgeon finalist
2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"If You Take My Meaning" Charlie Jane Anders 2020
2
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe 2020
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Immersion" Aliette de Bodard 2012
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"In Her Eyes" Seth Chambers 2014
2
Sturgeon finalist
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition edited by Paula Guran
"In Paradise" Bruce Sterling 2002
3
Sturgeon finalist
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
"Inclination" William Shunn 2006
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2007Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"The Inn at Mount Either" James Van Pelt 2005
2
Sturgeon finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition edited by Rich Horton
"Inside Job" Connie Willis 2005
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Interview: On Any Given Day" Maureen F. McHugh 2001
2
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Invisible Kingdoms" Steven Utley 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Irish Astronaut" Val Nolan 2013
4
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2014The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster
"Isabel of the Fall" Ian R. MacLeod 2001
2
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"It's All True" John Kessel 2003
2
Sturgeon finalist
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Itsy Bitsy Spider" James Patrick Kelly 1997
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998Year's Best SF 3 edited by David G. Hartwell
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Jennifer, Just Before Midnight" William Sanders 1999
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Julian: A Christmas Story" Robert Charles Wilson 2006
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2007The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Juniper Tree" John Kessel 2000
2
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals" John G. McDaid 2005
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Lady With Fox" Gregory Benford 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Last American" John Kessel 2007
2
Sturgeon finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir" Karin Tidbeck 2019
2
Sturgeon finalist
2020The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Lethe" Walter Jon Williams 1997
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"A Letter from the Emperor" Steve Rasnic Tem 2010
3
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Lightness of the Movement" Pat MacEwen 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Liking What You See: A Documentary" Ted Chiang 2002
3
Sturgeon finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"The Lions Are Asleep This Night" Howard Waldrop 1986
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
"Little Faces" Vonda N. McIntyre 2005
5
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"The Little Goddess" Ian McDonald 2005
7
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2019The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
"Looking through Lace" Ruth Nestvold 2003
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Loose Ends" Paul Levinson 1997
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Lord Weary's Empire" Michael Swanwick 2006
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2007Best Short Novels 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Lost Pilgrim" Gene Wolfe 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"Love of the True God" Uncle River 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Lovestory" James Patrick Kelly 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Ma Qui" Alan Brennert 1991
2
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
"macs" Terry Bisson 1999
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2000Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Madonna of the Maquiladora" Gregory Frost 2002
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"Magic for Beginners" Kelly Link 2005
6
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2006Best Short Novels 2006 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Magical Negro" Nnedi Okorafor 2004
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" Elizabeth Hand 2010
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Mammoths of the Great Plains" Eleanor Arnason 2010
2
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" Ken Liu 2011
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster
"Maneki Neko" Bruce Sterling 1998
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
2004The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Brown & Strahan
"Marigold Outlet" Nancy Kress 1996
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Martian Child" David Gerrold 1994
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Martian Obelisk" Linda Nagata 2017
7
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Master Miller's Tale" Ian R. MacLeod 2007
1
Sturgeon finalist
"A Mastery of German" Marian Denise Moore 2020
3
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Measure of All Things" Richard Chwedyk 2001
2
Sturgeon finalist
2002Year's Best SF 7 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Melodies of the Heart" Michael F. Flynn 1994
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Memorare" Gene Wolfe 2007
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Memory Dog" Kathleen Ann Goonan 2008
2
Sturgeon finalist
2009Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Mere" Robert Reed 2004
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Mermaid Astronaut" Yoon Ha Lee 2020
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Metric" David Moles 2021
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Milo and Sylvie" Eliot Fintushel 2000
2
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Mono No Aware" Ken Liu 2012
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" Brian Stableford 1995
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
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
"Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner" John Kessel 1988
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1989The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"My Advice to the Civilized" John Barnes 1990
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Mystic Falls" Robert Reed 2013
2
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Nahiku West" Linda Nagata 2012
5
Sturgeon finalist
2013Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
2013The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2013The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Necessity of Stars" E. Catherine Tobler 2021
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Nekropolis" Maureen F. McHugh 1994
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"New Atlantis" Lavie Tidhar 2020
1
Sturgeon finalist
"New Light on the Drake Equation" Ian R. MacLeod 2001
5
Sturgeon finalist
2002The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth 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
"The New Mother" Eugene Fischer 2015
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2016The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 edited by Allan Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Night Train" Lavie Tidhar 2010
3
Sturgeon finalist
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" Daryl Gregory 2018
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"Off on a Starship" William Barton 2003
3
Sturgeon finalist
2004Best Short Novels: 2004 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2004The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Old Equations" Jake Kerr 2011
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Omphalos" Ted Chiang 2019
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog" Adam R. Shannon 2018
2
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"On the Orion Line" Stephen Baxter 2000
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Once Upon a Matter Crushed" Wil McCarthy 1999
1
Sturgeon finalist
"One Good Juror" Mary RosenblumJames Sarafin 1997
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Only Harmless Great Thing" Brooke Bolander 2018
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"Only Partly Here" Lucius Shepard 2003
3
Sturgeon finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2007Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams
"Our Lady of the Open Road" Sarah Pinsker 2015
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"Over There" Will McIntosh 2013
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Painter of Trees" Suzanne Palmer 2019
3
Sturgeon finalist
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
"Panacea" Jason Stoddard 2005
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Paper Menagerie" Ken Liu 2011
6
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
"Paris in June" Pat Cadigan 1994
2
Sturgeon finalist
1995The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Peak of Eternal Light" Bruce Sterling 2012
2
Sturgeon finalist
2013Year's Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell
"Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma" R. S. A. Garcia 2021
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Pill" Meg Elison 2020
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2021The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 edited by Roth & Adams
"The Planck Drive" Greg Egan 1998
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Political Prisoner" Charles Coleman Finlay 2008
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Pretty Boy Crossover" Pat Cadigan 1986
7
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1987The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
1987The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
1992Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Evans et al
2011Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction edited by Leigh Ronald Grossman
"A Princess of Helium" R. Garcia y Robertson 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Project Empathy" Dominica Phetteplace 2016
2
Sturgeon finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
"Proof by Induction" José Pablo Iriarte 2021
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2022The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
"Radiant Doors" Michael Swanwick 1998
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1999Year's Best SF 4 edited by David G. Hartwell
"Radiant Green Star" Lucius Shepard 2000
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Radio Praha" Tony Daniel 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Radio Waves" Michael Swanwick 1995
2
Sturgeon finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Reality Check" Michael A. Burstein 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Reef" Paul J. McAuley 2000
4
Sturgeon finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2002The Hard SF Renaissance edited by Hartwell & Cramer
"The Regular" Ken Liu 2014
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2015The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects" Steve Tomasula 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Sarcophagus" Ray Nayler 2021
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Savant Songs" Brenda Cooper 2004
3
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"Savior" Nancy Kress 2000
2
Sturgeon finalist
2001The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Scattered Along the River of Heaven" Aliette de Bodard 2012
2
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
"Scout's Honor" Terry Bisson 2004
3
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Seasons of Glass and Iron" Amal El-Mohtar 2016
5
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
"The Seasons of the Ansarac" Ursula K. Le Guin 2002
2
Sturgeon finalist
2003Year's Best SF 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Second Person, Present Tense" Daryl Gregory 2005
5
Sturgeon finalist
2006Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2006The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2013Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
"The Secret Life of Bots" Suzanne Palmer 2017
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 edited by Rich Horton
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" P. Djèlí Clark 2018
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Machado & Adams
"Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" Kenneth Schneyer 2013
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Mike Resnick 1994
7
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
"Seventy-Two Letters" Ted Chiang 2000
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story
"Shatterdown" Suzanne Palmer 2014
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Sheena 5" Stephen Baxter 2000
2
Sturgeon finalist
2001Year's Best SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell
"Sidewalks" Maureen F. McHugh 2017
3
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Silently and Very Fast" Catherynne M. Valente 2011
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man" Robin Hobb 1989
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1990The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Singing My Sister Down" Margo Lanagan 2004
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Singleton" Greg Egan 2002
3
Sturgeon finalist
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
"Sisters of the Vast Black" Lina Rather 2019
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Six Months, Three Days" Charlie Jane Anders 2011
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2012Year's Best SF 17 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Slipping" David B. Silva 1991
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Spar" Kij Johnson 2009
5
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2010The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Special Economics" Maureen F. McHugh 2008
3
Sturgeon finalist
2009The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Spine Divers" Ray Aldridge 1995
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Stairs" Neal Barrett, Jr. 1988
2
Sturgeon finalist
2019Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories
"The Starship and the Temple Cat" Yoon Ha Lee 2018
3
Sturgeon finalist
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
"Start the Clock" Benjamin Rosenbaum 2004
3
Sturgeon finalist
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2011Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri
"Stone Animals" Kelly Link 2004
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Stories for Men" John Kessel 2002
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2003The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Story So Far" Martha Soukup 1993
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Anne" Mike Shepherd 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"Suicide Coast" M. John Harrison 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Summer Isles" Ian R. MacLeod 1998
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
1999The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Symphony for Skyfall" Rick CookPeter L. Manly 1994
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" David D. Levine 2003
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2003Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
"The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes" Adam-Troy Castro 2003
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"A Taste of Honey" Kai Ashante Wilson 2016
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Tear" Ian McDonald 2008
4
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2009The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 edited by Rich Horton
"They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass" Alaya Dawn Johnson 2013
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton
"Things Greater Than Love" Kate Bachus 2012
2
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
"Things Undone" John Barnes 2009
2
Sturgeon finalist
2010The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Things with Beards" Sam J. Miller 2016
6
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Thirteen Phantasms" James P. Blaylock 1996
3
Sturgeon finalist
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2000The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Garyn G. Roberts
"This Is How You Lose the Time War" Amal El-MohtarMax Gladstone 2019
3
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
"This Wind Blowing, and This Tide" Damien Broderick 2009
3
Sturgeon finalist
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
"The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill" Kelly Robson 2015
2
Sturgeon finalist
2016The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky" E. Catherine Tobler 2012
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Tomb Wife" Gwyneth Jones 2007
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2008Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"Touring with the Alien" Carolyn Ives Gilman 2016
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Translator, at Low Tide" Vajra Chandrasekera 2020
2
Sturgeon finalist
2022The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
"Troika" Alastair Reynolds 2010
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2011The Year's Top Short SF Novels 1 edited by Allan Kaster
"True Fame" Robert Reed 2009
1
Sturgeon finalist
"True Names" Cory DoctorowBenjamin Rosenbaum 2008
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Two Domains" Allen Goldbarth 1994
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Umbernight" Carolyn Ives Gilman 2018
4
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 edited by Rich Horton
2019The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"Under the Moons of Venus" Damien Broderick 2010
6
Sturgeon finalist
2011Year's Best SF 16 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
2011The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 edited by Rich Horton
2011The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five edited by Jonathan Strahan
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
"Understanding Entropy" Barry N. Malzberg 1994
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"The Undiscovered" William Sanders 1997
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
1998The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth 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
"Undone" James Patrick Kelly 2001
6
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
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
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Universal Grammar" Mary Soon Lee 1997
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Urishima Effect" E. Lily Yu 2013
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Venus Flowers at Night" Pamela Sargent 2004
2
Sturgeon finalist
2005Year's Best SF 10 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
"The Visitor from Taured" Ian R. MacLeod 2016
6
Sturgeon finalist
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 edited by Rich Horton
2017The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
2017The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 edited by Neil Clarke
2017The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2017The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 1 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Voluntary State" Christopher Rowe 2004
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2005Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
2005The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Wading River Dogs and More" Michael Kandel 1998
1
Sturgeon finalist
"The Walls of the Universe" Paul Melko 2006
3
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"We Are All Completely Fine" Daryl Gregory 2014
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"We Are the Cloud" Sam J. Miller 2014
3
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
2015The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill
"We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy" David Marusek 1995
2
Sturgeon finalist
1996The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"We Who Live in the Heart" Kelly Robson 2017
3
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Weighing of Ayre" Gregory Feeley 1996
2
Sturgeon finalist
1997The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future" Jay Lake 2012
3
Sturgeon finalist
2013The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 edited by Rich Horton
2013The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 edited by Allan Kaster
"The Weight of the Sunrise" Vylar Kaftan 2013
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4 edited by Allen Kaster
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" Rebecca Roanhorse 2017
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The New Voices of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman
"The Wellness Plague" Robert R. Chase 1995
1
Sturgeon finalist
"When It Ends, He Catches Her" Eugie Foster 2014
2
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
"When We Were Starless" Simone Heller 2018
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
2019The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
2019The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories edited by Allan Kaster
"… Where Angels Fear to Tread" Allen Steele 1997
4
Sturgeon finalist
Nebula Award - Story Finalist
Hugo Award - Story Winner
2018ISFDB All Time Short Stories
"The Wild Girls" Ursula K. Le Guin 2002
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Wild Minds" Michael Swanwick 1998
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"The Wildfires of Antarctica" Alan DeNiro 2013
2
Sturgeon finalist
2014The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 edited by Rich Horton
"The Window" Judith Berman 1999
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Winemaster" Robert Reed 1999
2
Sturgeon finalist
2000The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"Yard Dog" Tade Thompson 2018
2
Sturgeon finalist
2019The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen edited by Jonathan Strahan
"A Year in the Linear City" Paul Di Filippo 2002
2
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" Maureen F. McHugh 2020
3
Sturgeon finalist
2021The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan
2022The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
"Yellow Card Man" Paolo Bacigalupi 2006
5
Sturgeon finalist
Hugo Award - Story Finalist
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
2012Locus All Centuries Poll
"Yesterday's Kin" Nancy Kress 2014
4
Nebula Award - Story Winner
Sturgeon finalist
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition edited by Paula Guran
2015The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
"You Have Never Been Here" M. Rickert 2006
1
Sturgeon finalist
"Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance" Tobias S. Buckell 2017
6
Sturgeon finalist
2018The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
2018The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by John Joseph Adams and N. K. Jemisin
2018The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke
2018The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
2018The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 edited by Allan Kaster
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