List of science fiction short stories

This is a non-comprehensive list of short stories with significant science fiction elements.

Title  | Author  | First published in  | Publication year  | Notes

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2 B R 0 2 B | Kurt Vonnegut | Worlds of If Science Fiction | 1962  |
2430 A.D. | Isaac Asimov | Think (IBM magazine)  | 1970  |
A Boy's Best Friend | Isaac Asimov | Boy's Life | 1975  |
A Braver Thing | Charles Sheffield | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1990  |
A Cabin on the Coast | Gene Wolfe | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1984  |
A Can of Paint | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
A Clean Escape | John Kessel | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1985  |
A Colder War | Charles Stross | Spectrum SF | 2000  |
A Dream of Armageddon | H. G. Wells | Black and White | 1901  |
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts | Philip K. Dick | Final Stage  | 1975  |
A Logic Named Joe | Murray Leinster | Analog Science Fiction | 1946  |
A Loint of Paw | Isaac Asimov | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1957  |
A Man of the People | Chinua Achebe | Heinemann | 1966  |
A Martian Odyssey | Stanley G. Weinbaum | Wonder Stories | 1934  |
A Martian Odyssey and Others | Stanley G. Weinbaum | Fantasy Press | 1949  |
A Pail of Air | Fritz Leiber | Galaxy Magazine | 1951  |
A Series of Steaks | Vina Jie-Min Prasad | Clarkesworld | 2017  |
A Slice at a Time | Karen Traviss | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2002  |
A Sound of Thunder | Ray Bradbury | Collier's | 1952  |
A Statue for Father | Isaac Asimov | Satellite Science Fiction | 1959  |
A Study in Emerald | Neil Gaiman | Shadows Over Baker Street | 2003  |
A Tenderfoot in Space | Robert A. Heinlein | Boys' Life | 1958  |
A Thousand Deaths (London short story) | Jack London |  | 1899  |
A Toy for Juliette | Robert Bloch | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
A Walk in the Sun (short story) | Geoffrey A. Landis | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1991  |
A Work of Art | James Blish | Science Fiction Stories | 1956  |
A Year in the Linear City | Paul Di Filippo |  | 2002  |
All Summer in a Day | Ray Bradbury | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1954  |
All You Zombies | Robert A. Heinlein | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1959  |
Allamagoosa | Eric Frank Russell | Analog Science Fiction | 1955  |
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side | James Tiptree Jr. | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1972  |
Arena (short story) | Fredric Brown | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
Armaments Race | Arthur C. Clarke | Adventure | 1954  |
Arvies | Adam-Troy Castro | Lightspeed Magazine | 2010  |
Auto-da-Fé (short story) | Roger Zelazny | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
Azathoth (short story) | H. P. Lovecraft | Leaves  | 1938  |
Baby, You Were Great | Kate Wilhelm | Orbit 2 | 1968  |
Backstage Lensman | Randall Garrett | Analog Science Fiction | 1978  |
Be My Guest | Damon Knight | Fantastic Universe | 1958  |
Beachworld | Stephen King | Weird Tales | 1984  |
Bicycle Repairman | Bruce Sterling | Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology  | 1996  |
Big Game Hunt | Arthur C. Clarke | Adventure | 1956  |
Birth of a Notion (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Amazing Stories | 1976  |
Black Box | Jennifer Egan | Twitter account of The New Yorker | 2012  |
Black Destroyer | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1939  |
Black Projects, White Knights | Kage Baker | Golden Gryphon Press | 2002  |
Black Sheep Astray | Mack Reynolds | Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology | 1973  |
Blank! | Isaac Asimov | Infinity Science Fiction | 1957  |
BLIT | David Langford | Interzone | 1988  |
Breakfast at Twilight | Philip K. Dick | Amazing Stories | 1954  |
Bridesicle | Will McIntosh | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2009  |
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1987  |
Burning Chrome | William Gibson | Omni | 1982  |
But Who Can Replace a Man? | Brian Aldiss |  | 1965  |
Buy Jupiter | Isaac Asimov | Venture Science Fiction Magazine | 1958  |
By His Bootstraps | Robert A. Heinlein | Analog Science Fiction | 1941  |
Byomjatrir Diary | Satyajit Ray | Sandesh | 1965  |
Cal | Isaac Asimov | Gold | 1991  |
Call Me Joe | Poul Anderson | Astounding Science Fiction | 1957  |
Captive Market (short story) | Philip K. Dick | If Magazine | 1955  |
Cassandra (short story) | C. J. Cherryh | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1978  |
Cat Pictures Please | Naomi Kritzer | Clarkesworld | 2015  |
Chronopolis | J. G. Ballard |  | 1960  |
Cold War (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Satellite Science Fiction | 1957  |
Colliding Branes | Rudy Rucker | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2009  |
Collision Orbit | Jack Williamson | Analog Science Fiction | 1942  |
Colony (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Galaxy | 1953  |
Columbus Was a Dope | Robert A. Heinlein | Startling Stories | 1947  |
Coming Attraction | Fritz Leiber | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1950  |
Coming of Age in Karhide | Ursula K. Le Guin | New Legends  | 1995  |
Common Time | James Blish | Science Fiction Quarterly | 1953  |
Covenant | Elizabeth Bear | Hieroglyph  | 2014  |
Coventry (short story) | Robert A. Heinlein | Analog Science Fiction | 1940  |
Critical Factor | Hal Clement | Star Science Fiction Stories No.2 | 1953  |
Critical Mass (Arthur C. Clarke short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Lilliput | 1949  |
Crouch End (short story) | Stephen King | Cthulhu Mythos anthology | 1980  |
Crusade (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | The Wind from the Sun | 1968  |
Dagon (short story) | H. P. Lovecraft | The Vagrant | 1919  |
Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites | William Shunn | Tor Books | 2000  |
Dancer in the Dark (short story) | David Gerrold | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2004  |
Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed | Ray Bradbury | Thrilling Wonder Stories | 1949  |
Darth Maul: Saboteur | James Luceno | Del Rey Books | 2001  |
Darwinian Pool Room | Isaac Asimov | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1950  |
Day of the Hunters | Isaac Asimov | Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories | 1950  |
Deadline | Cleve Cartmill | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
Dear Pen Pal | A. E. van Vogt | The Arkham Sampler | 1949  |
Death by Ecstasy | Larry Niven | Galaxy | 1969  |
Delilah and the Space Rigger | Robert A. Heinlein | Blue Book | 1949  |
Despoilers of the Golden Empire | Randall Garrett | Analog Science Fiction | 1959  |
Destination Moon (short story) | Robert A. Heinlein | Short Stories | 1950  |
Destination: Universe! | A. E. van Vogt |  | 1952  |
Devil You Don't Know | Dean Ing | Analog Science Fiction | 1978  |
Dinosaurs (short story) | Walter Jon Williams | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1987  |
Divide and Rule (short story) | L. Sprague de Camp | Unknown (magazine)  | 1939  |
Divided We Fall | Raymond F. Jones | Amazing Stories | 1950  |
Division by Zero (story) | Ted Chiang | Full Spectrum 3 | 1991  |
Dog Star (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1962  |
Dogfight (short story) | Michael Swanwick | Omni | 1985  |
Dr. Ox's Experiment | Jules Verne |  | 1872  |
Dreaming Is a Private Thing | Isaac Asimov | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1955  |
Drode's Equations | Richard Grant | The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF | 1981  |
Dulcie and Decorum | Damon Knight | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1955  |
Dune short stories | Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | The Road to Dune | 2005  |
E for Effort | T. L. Sherred | Analog Science Fiction | 1947  |
Earthlight (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Thrilling Wonder Stories | 1951  |
Eight Episodes | Robert Reed | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2006  |
Elemental (story) | Geoffrey A. Landis | Analog Science Fiction | 1984  |
Elsewhen | Robert A. Heinlein | Analog Science Fiction | 1941  |
Encounter in the Dawn | Arthur C. Clarke | Amazing Stories | 1953  |
Enemy Mine | Barry B. Longyear | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1979  |
EPICAC | Kurt Vonnegut | Welcome to the Monkey House | 1950  |
Eutopia (short story) | Poul Anderson | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
Even the Queen | Connie Willis | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1992  |
Everest (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Universe Science Fiction | 1953  |
Evil Robot Monkey | Mary Robinette Kowal | The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2 | 2008  |
Exhalation (short story) | Ted Chiang | Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2008  |
Exhibit Piece | Philip K. Dick |  | 1954  |
Exile of the Eons | Arthur C. Clarke | Super Science Stories | 1950  |
Exile to Hell | Isaac Asimov | Analog Science Fiction | 1968  |
Expendable (short story) | Philip K. Dick | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1953  |
Exploration Team | Murray Leinster | Analog Science Fiction | 1956  |
Extempore (short story) | Damon Knight | Infinity Science Fiction | 1956  |
Eye for Eye | Orson Scott Card | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1987  |
Eyes Do More Than See | Isaac Asimov | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1965  |
Fair Game (short story) | Philip K. Dick | If Magazine | 1959  |
Falling Onto Mars | Geoffrey A. Landis | Analog Science Fiction | 2002  |
Far Centaurus | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
Farewell to the Master | Harry Bates | Analog Science Fiction | 1940  |
Feghoot |  |  |  |
Fermi and Frost | Frederik Pohl | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1985  |
Finis | Frank Lillie Pollock | The Argosy | 1906  |
Fire Watch (short story) | Connie Willis | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1982  |
First Contact (short story) | Murray Leinster | Analog Science Fiction | 1945  |
First Law | Isaac Asimov | Fantastic Universe | 1956  |
Flat Diane | Daniel Abraham | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2004  |
Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | The Washington Post | 1959  |
For a Breath I Tarry | Roger Zelazny |  | 1966  |
Fountain of Age | Nancy Kress | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2007  |
Fragments of a Hologram Rose | William Gibson | Unearth3 | 1977  |
Free Men | Robert A. Heinlein | The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein | 1966  |
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled | Michael Swanwick | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2008  |
Frost and Fire | Ray Bradbury | Planet Stories | 1946  |
Gateway to Strangeness | Jack Vance | Amazing Stories | 1962  |
Gene Hive | Brian Aldiss | Nebula Science Fiction | 1958  |
Genius of the Species | Reginald Bretnor | 9 Tales of Space and Time | 1954  |
Gentlemen, Be Seated! | Robert A. Heinlein | Argosy | 1948  |
Georgia on My Mind (novelette) | Charles Sheffield | Analog Science Fiction | 1993  |
Getting Real (short story) | Harry Turtledove | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2009  |
Getting to Know You | David Marusek | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1998  |
Ghostweight | Yoon Ha Lee | Clarkesworld Magazine | 2011  |
Giant Killer | A. Bertram Chandler | Analog Science Fiction | 1945  |
Gilgamesh in the Outback | Robert Silverberg | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1986  |
Goat Song (novelette) | Poul Anderson | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1972  |
Gods and Pawns | Kage Baker | Tor Books | 2007  |
Gold (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Analog Science Fiction | 1991  |
Good Night, Moon | Bruce Sterling | Tor.com | 2010  |
Gramma (short story) | Stephen King | Weirdbook (magazine)  | 1984  |
Great Science Fiction Stories About the Moon |  |  | 1967  | anthology
Great Work of Time | John Crowley | Novelty (book)  | 1989  |
Grotto of the Dancing Deer | Clifford D. Simak | Analog Science Fiction | 1980  |
Hallucination (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Boy's Life | 1985  |
Hammer's Slammers | David Drake | Ace Books | 1979  |
Happy Ending (short story) | Henry Kuttner | Thrilling Wonder Stories | 1948  |
Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1961  |
He Walked Around the Horses | H. Beam Piper | Analog Science Fiction | 1948  |
Helix the Cat | Theodore Sturgeon | Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology | 1973  | first published in 1973, although written in 1939 or 1940
Hell-Fire (story) | Isaac Asimov | Fantastic Universe | 1956  |
Henry James, This One's for You | Jack McDevitt | Subterranean Magazine | 2005  |
Herbert West–Reanimator | H. P. Lovecraft | Home Brew | 1922  |
Here There Be Tygers | Ray Bradbury | New Tales of Space and Time | 1951  |
Hinterlands (short story) | William Gibson | Omni | 1981  |
History of the Necronomicon | H. P. Lovecraft |  | 1938  |
Home Delivery | Stephen King | Book of the Dead | 1989  |
Honeymoon in Hell | Fredric Brown | Bantam Books | 1958  |
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? | James Tiptree Jr. | Aurora: Beyond Equality (anthology)  | 1976  |
How to Talk to Girls at Parties | Neil Gaiman | Fragile Things | 2006  |
How We Went to Mars | Arthur C. Clarke | Amateur Science Stories | 1938  |
How's the Night Life on Cissalda? | Harlan Ellison | Chrysalis, anthology published by Zebra Books | 1977  |
Huddling Place | Clifford D. Simak | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
Human Is | Philip K. Dick | Startling Stories | 1955  |
I Am the Doorway | Stephen King | Night Shift | 1978  |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | IF: Worlds of Science Fiction | 1967  |
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon | Philip K. Dick | Playboy | 1980  |
I Know What You Need | Stephen King | Night Shift | 1978  |
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda | Isaac Asimov | Venture | 1957  |
I, Cthulhu | Neil Gaiman |  | 2012  |
I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | Gnome Press | 1950  |
I, Robot (short story) | Eando Binder | Amazing Stories | 1939  |
Idiot Stick | Damon Knight | Star Science Fiction | 1958  |
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? | Theodore Sturgeon | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth | Arthur C. Clarke | Future SF | 1951  |
If There Were No Benny Cemoli | Philip K. Dick | Galaxy Magazine | 1963  |
Impossible Dreams | Tim Pratt | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2006  |
Impostor (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Analog Science Fiction | 1953  |
In Darkness Waiting | Stephen Leigh | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1977  |
In the Pound, Near Breaktime | Kent Brewster | Tomorrow Speculative Fiction | 1995  |
In the Walls of Eryx | H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J. Sterling | Weird Tales | 1939  |
In the Year 2889 | Jules Verne and Michel Verne |  | 1889  |
Inclination (novella) | William Shunn | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2006  |
Inertia (short story) | Nancy Kress | Analog Science Fiction | 1990  |
Inheritance (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | New Worlds | 1947  |
Internal Combustion (short story) | L. Sprague de Camp | Infinity Science Fiction | 1956  |
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) | edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |  | 1979  |
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) | edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg,  |  | 1979  |
It's a Good Life | Jerome Bixby | Star Science Fiction Stories No.2 | 1953  |
It's Great to Be Back! | Robert A. Heinlein |  | 1947  |
Jack-in-the-Box (short story) | Ray Bradbury | Dark Carnival | 1947  |
Jerry Was a Man | Robert A. Heinlein |  | 1947  |
Jerusalem's Lot | Stephen King | Night Shift | 1978  |
Jipi and the Paranoid Chip | Neal Stephenson | Forbes | 1997  |
Judas (short story) | John Brunner | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
Judgment Day (short story) | L. Sprague de Camp | Analog Science Fiction | 1955  |
Ker-Plop | Ted Reynolds |  | 1979  |
Kid Stuff | Isaac Asimov | Beyond Fantasy Fiction | 1953  |
Killdozer! (short story) | Theodore Sturgeon | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
Kin (short story) | Bruce McAllister | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2006  |
King Solomon's Ring (short story) | Roger Zelazny | Fantastic: Stories of Imagination | 1963  |
Knock | Fredric Brown | Thrilling Wonder Stories | 1948  |
Lambing Season | Molly Gloss | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2002  |
Land of the Great Horses | R. A. Lafferty | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
Last Contact | Stephen Baxter |  | 2007  |
Last Enemy | H. Beam Piper | Analog Science Fiction | 1950  |
Lecture Demonstration | Hal Clement | Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology | 1973  |
Left to Right | Isaac Asimov | Gold | 1995  |
Legions in Time | Michael Swanwick | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2003  |
Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories | L. Sprague de Camp | Phoenix Pick | 2011  |
Lest We Remember | Isaac Asimov | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1982  |
Let There Be Light (Clarke short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Playboy | 1957  |
Let There Be Light (Heinlein short story) | Robert A. Heinlein | Super Science Stories | 1940  |
Let's Go to Golgotha! | Garry Kilworth | The Sunday Times | 1957  |
Life-Line | Robert A. Heinlein | Analog Science Fiction | 1939  |
Light of Other Days | Bob Shaw | Analog Science Fiction | 1966  |
Lipidleggin' | F. Paul Wilson | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1978  |
Little Brother (short story) | Walter Mosley | Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World  | 2001  |
Live Without a Net (book) | Lou Anders |  | 2003  |
Living Space | Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction | 1956  |
Lorelei at Storyville West | Sherwood Springer | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1977  |
Lost Dorsai | Gordon R. Dickson | Ace Books | 1980  |
Machine Made | J. T. McIntosh | New Worlds | 1951  |
Macs (short story) | Terry Bisson | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1999  |
Marionettes, Inc. | Ray Bradbury | Startling Stories | 1949  |
Mars Is Heaven! | Ray Bradbury | Planet Stories | 1948  |
Masks (short story) | Damon Knight | Playboy | 1968  |
Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body | Simon Petrie |  | 2017  |
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson | George Alec Effinger |  | 1993  |
May Be Some Time | Brenda Clough | Analog Science Fiction | 2001  |
Medusa's Coil | H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop | Weird Tales | 1939  |
Melancholy Elephants | Spider Robinson |  | 1982  |
Memorare (novella) | Gene Wolfe | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2007  |
Memory (short story) | H. P. Lovecraft | The National Amateur  | 1923  |
Men Without Bones | Gerald Kersh | Esquire | 1954  |
Merlusine | Lucy Sussex | The Horns of Elfland | 1997  |
Mimsy Were the Borogoves | Lewis Padgett | Analog Science Fiction | 1943  |
Misfit | Robert A. Heinlein | Analog Science Fiction | 1939  |
Morning Child | Gardner Dozois |  | 1984  |
Mortimer Gray's History of Death | Brian Stableford | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1995  |
Movement | Nancy Fulda | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2007  |
Moving Spirit | Arthur C. Clarke | Tales from the White Hart | 1957  |
Moxon's Master | Ambrose Bierce | The San Francisco Examiner | 1899  |
Mozart in Mirrorshades | Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling | Omni | 1985  |
Mr F. is Mr F. | J. G. Ballard | Science Fantasy | 1961  |
Mr. Boy | James Patrick Kelly | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1990  |
MS Fnd in a Lbry | Hal Draper | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1961  |
My Object All Sublime | Poul Anderson | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1961  |
My Son, the Physicist | Isaac Asimov | Scientific American | 1962  |
Myths of the Near Future | J. G. Ballard | Jonathan Cape | 1982  |
Nanny (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Startling Stories | 1955  |
Neanderthal Planet | Brian W. Aldiss |  | 1959  |
Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again | Neil Gaiman | Oni Double Feature  | 1998  |
Neutron Star (short story collection) | Larry Niven | If and Galaxy Science Fiction | 1966  |
Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel) | Isaac Asimov | Astounding Science Fiction | 1941
Nightwings (novella) | Robert Silverberg | Galaxy Magazine | 1968  |
Nine Lives (novelette) | Ursula K. Le Guin | Playboy | 1969  |
Nirvana High | Eileen Gunn and Leslie What | Stable Strategies and Others  | 2004  |
No Love Lost (book) | Alice Munro |  | 2003  |
Nobody Bothers Gus | Algis Budrys | Analog Science Fiction | 1955  |
None So Blind | Joe Haldeman | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1994  |
Not with a Bang | Damon Knight | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1949  |
Notebook Found in a Deserted House | Robert Bloch | Weird Tales | 1951  |
Nothing But Ice | Dmitri Bilenkin |  | 1974  |
Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon | Robert A. Heinlein | Boys' Life | 1949  |
Now: Zero | J. G. Ballard | The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 | 1959  |
Nyarlathotep (short story) | H. P. Lovecraft | The United Amateur | 1920  |
Old Hundredth (short story) | Brian Aldiss | Airs of the Earth  | 1963  |
Old MacDonald Had a Farm (short story) | Mike Resnick | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2001  |
Old Man in New World | Olaf Stapledon |  | 1994  |
Old Music and the Slave Women | Ursula K. Le Guin | Far Horizons | 1999  |
Omnilingual | H. Beam Piper | Analog Science Fiction | 1957  |
Or All the Seas with Oysters | Avram Davidson | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1958  |
Ordeal in Space | Robert A. Heinlein | Town & Country | 1948  |
Orphans of the Helix | Dan Simmons | Far Horizons | 1999  |
Orpheus with Clay Feet | Philip K. Dick | Escapade | 1964  |
Our Fair City | Robert A. Heinlein | Weird Tales | 1949  |
Out in the Garden | Philip K. Dick | Fantasy Fiction | 1953  |
Paladin of the Lost Hour | Harlan Ellison |  | 1984  |
Paying It Forward | Michael A. Burstein | Analog Science Fiction | 2003  |
Permafrost (story) | Roger Zelazny | Omni | 1986  |
Piper in the Woods | Philip K. Dick | Imagination | 1953  |
Plato's Dream | Voltaire |  | 1756  |
Point of View (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Boys' Life | 1975  |
Polaris (short story) | H.P. Lovecraft | Philosopher | 1920  |
Polly Plus | Randall Garrett | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1978  |
Poor Daddy | Robert A. Heinlein | Calling All Girls | 1949  |
Poor Dionis | Mihai Eminescu |  | 1872  |
Prize Ship | Philip K. Dick | Thrilling Wonder Stories | 1954  |
Professor Shonkur Kandokarkhana | Satyajit Ray |  | 1970  |
Project Nightmare | Robert A. Heinlein | Amazing Stories | 1953  |
Proxima Centauri (short story) | Murray Leinster | Street & Smith | 1935  |
Psi-man Heal My Child! | Philip K. Dick | Imaginative Tales | 1955  |
Queen of the Black Coast | Robert E. Howard | Weird Tales | 1934  |
Quicker Than the Eye | Ray Bradbury | Avon Books | 1996  |
Rachel in Love | Pat Murphy |  | 1985  |
Radiant Doors | Michael Swanwick | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1998  |
Rat (short story) | James Patrick Kelly | Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1986  |
Recall Mechanism | Philip K. Dick |  | 1959  |
Red Star, Winter Orbit | William Gibson | Omni | 1983  |
Replacements (short story) | Lisa Tuttle |  | 1992  |
Requiem (short story) | Robert A Heinlein | Analog Science Fiction | 1940  |
Ring Around the Sun | Isaac Asimov | Future Fiction | 1940  |
Ripples in the Dirac Sea | Geoffrey A. Landis | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1988  |
Rivers of Time | L. Sprague de Camp | Baen Books | 1993  |
Rogue Farm | Charles Stross |  | 2003  |
Rome, Sweet Rome | James Erwin | self-published on Reddit | 2011  |
Roverandom | J. R. R. Tolkien |  | 1998  | submitted for publication in 1937
Rule 18 | Clifford D. Simak | Analog Science Fiction | 1938  |
Salvador (short story) | Lucius Shepard | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1984  |
Sam Hall (short story) | Poul Anderson |  | 1953  |
Searchlight (short story) | Robert A Heinlein |  | 1962  |
Selam Professor Shonku | Satyajit Ray |  | 1995  |
Selkie Stories Are for Losers | Sofia Samatar | Strange Horizons | 2013  |
Sergeant Chip | Bradley Denton | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2004  |
Service Call | Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction Stories | 1955  |
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge | Mike Resnick | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1994  |
Sex and/or Mr. Morrison | Carol Emshwiller | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
Shabash Professor Shonku | Satyajit Ray |  | 1974  |
Shadows over Innsmouth | Stephen Jones |  | 1994  |
Shah Guido G. | Isaac Asimov | Marvel Science Fiction | 1951  |
Shall the Dust Praise Thee? | Damon Knight | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
Shambleau | C. L. Moore | Weird Tales | 1933  |
Shatterday | Harlan Ellison |  | 1985  |
Shell Game (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1954  |
Shikari in Galveston | S. M. Stirling | Worlds That Weren't | 2003  |
Shoggoths in Bloom | Elizabeth Bear | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2008  |
Shonku Ekai Aksho | Satyajit Ray |  | 1983  |
Silence Please | Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fantasy | 1950  |
Sister Planet | Poul Anderson | Satellite Science Fiction  | 1959  |
Skirmish on a Summer Morning | Bob Shaw | Cosmic Kaleidoscope | 1976  |
Sky Lift | Robert A. Heinlein | The Menace from Earth | 1953  |
Sleeping Beauty (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Infinity Science Fiction | 1957  |
Slow Life (novelette) | Michael Swanwick | Analog Science Fiction | 2002  |
Slow Sculpture | Theodore Sturgeon | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1970  |
Soldier Boy | Michael Shaara | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1953  |
Soldier from Tomorrow | Harlan Ellison | Fantastic Universe | 1957  |
Something Up There Likes Me | Alfred Bester | Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology | 1973  |
Son of the Tree | Jack Vance | Ace Books | 1951  |
Source Decay | Charlie Jane Anders | Strange Horizons | 2011  |
Space Jockey | Robert A. Heinlein | The Saturday Evening Post | 1947  |
Special Delivery | Damon Knight | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1954  |
Specialist | Robert Sheckley |  | 1953  |
Speech Sounds | Octavia Butler | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1983  |
Spell My Name with an S | Isaac Asimov | Star Science Fiction | 1958  |
Stability (short story) | Philip K. Dick |  | 1987  |
Stable Strategies for Middle Management | Eileen Gunn | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1988  |
Star Light (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Science American | 1962  |
Stellar Ships | Ivan Yefremov |  | 1948  |
Sticks (short story) | Karl Edward Wagner | Whispers | 1974  |
Study in Still Life | Eric Frank Russell | Astounding Science Fiction | 1959  |
Suitable for the Orient | Karen Traviss | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1963  |
Superiority (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1951  |
Supertoys Last All Summer Long | Brian Aldiss | Harper's Bazaar | 1969  |
Surface Tension (short story) | James Blish | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1952  |
Swords Against Tomorrow | Robert Hoskins | Signet Books | 1970  |
Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures Aligned to the Meridian of Mérida of the Yucatán by an Anctitone or Inhabitant of the Moon, and Addressed to the Scholar Don Ambrosio de Echevarria | Manuel Antonio de Rivas |  | ~1775  |
Take a Match | Isaac Asimov | New Dimensions II | 1972  |
Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories | Hayden Taylor |  | 2016  | Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Taklamakan (short story) | Bruce Sterling |  | 1998  |
TAP (novelette) | Greg Egan |  | 1995  |
Terminal Avenue | Eden Robinson |  | 1995  |
Test to Destruction | Keith Laumer | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
That Only a Mother | Judith Merril |  | 1948  |
The Adaptive Ultimate | Stanley G. Weinbaum | Analog Science Fiction | 1935  |
The Answer | H. Beam Piper | Fantastic Universe | 1959  |
The Aqueduct (story) | Ray Bradbury |  | 1979  |
The Awakening (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke |  | 1942  |
The Ballad of Black Tom | Victor LaValle |  | 2016  |
The Barbie Murders | John Varley | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World | Harlan Ellison | Avon | 1969  |
The Bitter End (short story) | Randall Garrett | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Black Pits of Luna | Robert A. Heinlein | The Saturday Evening Post | 1948  |
The Black Stone | Robert E. Howard | Weird Tales | 1931  |
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species | Ken Liu | Lightspeed | 2012  |
The Brains of Rats | Michael Blumlein |  | 1988  |
The Builder (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Amazing Stories | 1954  |
The Call of Cthulhu | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1928  |
The Caller of the Black | Brian Lumley | Arkham House | 1971  |
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians | Bradley Denton | Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1988  |
The Children of the Night | Robert E. Howard | Weird Tales | 1931  |
The Chronic Argonauts | H. G. Wells |  | 1888  |
The Cloak and the Staff | Gordon R. Dickson | Analog Science Fiction | 1980  |
The Clock that Went Backward | Edward Page Mitchell | The Sun | 1881  |
The Clockwork Atom Bomb | Dominic Green | Interzone | 2005  |
The Cold Equations | Tom Godwin |  | 1954  |
The Colour Out of Space | H. P. Lovecraft | Amazing Stories | 1927  |
The Comet (short story) | W. E. B. Du Bois |  | 1920  |
The Commuter (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Amazing Stories | 1953  |
The Concentration City | J. G. Ballard | New Worlds | 1957  |
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion | Edgar Allan Poe | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | 1839  |
The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk | Dafydd ab Hugh | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1990  |
The Country of the Kind | Damon Knight | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Crawlers | Philip K. Dick | Imagination | 1954  |
The Crystal Crypt | Philip K. Dick | Planet Stories | 1954  |
The Crystal Spheres | David Brin | Analog | 1984  |
The Curse (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke |  | 1946  |
The Curse of Yig | H. P. Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop | Weird Tales | 1929  |
The Damned Thing | Ambrose Bierce | Town Topics | 1893  |
The Dancers at the End of Time | Michael Moorcock | New Worlds | 1981  |
The Dandelion Girl | Robert F. Young | The Saturday Evening Post | 1961  |
The Darfsteller | Walter M. Miller | Astounding Science Fiction | 1955  |
The Dark Between the Stars | Kevin J. Anderson |  | 2011  |
The Day After the Day the Martians Came | Frederik Pohl | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
The Day of Forever | J. G. Ballard | Panther | 1967  |
The Dead | James Joyce |  | 1914  |
The Deathbird | Harlan Ellison |  | 1974  |
The Defenseless Dead | Larry Niven |  | 1973  |
The Diamond Pit | Jack Dann | Jubilee | 2001  |
The Disaster Area | J. G. Ballard | Jonathan Cape | 1967  |
The Discarded | Harlan Ellison |  | 1959  |
The Disintegration Machine | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Strand Magazine | 1929  |
The Doll-House | Hugh Parry | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
The Dowry of Angyar | Ursula K. Le Guin |  | 1964  |
The Dragon Masters | Jack Vance | Ace Books | 1963  |
The Dreams in the Witch House | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1933  |
The Dunwich Horror | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1929  |
The Dying Night | Isaac Asimov | Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Enchantress of Venus | Leigh Brackett | Planet Stories | 1949  |
The Enemy (short story) | Damon Knight | Venture Science Fiction | 1958  |
The Eternal Adam | Jules Verne |  | 1910  |
The Evening and the Morning and the Night | Octavia Butler | Omni | 1987  |
The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change | Kij Johnson |  | 2007  |
The Exiles (Bradbury story) | Ray Bradbury | Maclean's | 1949  |
The Exit Door Leads In | Philip K. Dick |  | 1979  |
The Far Look | Theodore L. Thomas | Astounding Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Father-thing | Philip K. Dick |  | 1954  |
The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model | Charlie Jane Anders | Tor.com | 2010  |
The Festival | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1923  |
The First Men | Howard Fast | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1960  |
The Fly | George Langelaan | Playboy | 1957  |
The Fog Horn | Ray Bradbury |  | 1951  |
The Food of the Gods (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Playboy | 1964  |
The Fort Moxie Branch | Jack McDevitt |  | 1988  |
The Fun They Had | Isaac Asimov | Boys and Girls Page | 1951  |
The Galoshes of Fortune | Hans Christian Andersen | Three Poetical Works. (Tre Digtninger.)  | 1838  |
The Gambler (Bacigalupi story) | Paolo Bacigalupi | Fast Forward 2 | 2008  |
The General Zapped an Angel | Howard Fast | William Morrow | 1970  |
The Ghost Pit | Stephen Baxter |  | 2001  |
The Gift of Gab | Jack Vance | Analog Science Fiction | 1955  |
The Girl Who Was Plugged In | James Tiptree Jr. |  | 1974  |
The Gnarly Man | L. Sprague de Camp | Unknown | 1939  |
The God in the Bowl | Robert E. Howard | Space Science Fiction | 1952  |
The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind | Ray Bradbury |  | 1953  |
The Great C | Philip K. Dick | Fantastic Story Magazine | 1953  |
The Great Nebraska Sea | Allan Danzig | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1963  |
The Great Secret | L. Ron Hubbard | Science Fiction Stories | 1943  |
The Great Simoleon Caper | Neal Stephenson | TIME | 1995  |
The Great Wall of Mexico (short story) | John Sladek | Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings | 1973  |
The Green Leopard Plague | Walter Jon Williams |  | 2004  |
The Gun (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Planet Stories | 1984  |
The Gunslinger (novella) | Stephen King | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Gunslinger and the Dark Man | Stephen King | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1981  |
The Hanging Stranger | Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction Adventures | 1953  |
The Happy Breed | John Sladek | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
The Haunter of the Dark | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1936  |
The Haunter of the Ring | Robert E. Howard | Weird Tales | 1934  |
The Heart of the Serpent | Ivan Yefremov | Foreign Languages | 1958  |
The Hemingway Hoax | Joe Haldeman |  | 1990  |
The Hibited Man | L. Sprague de Camp | Thrilling Wonder Stories | 1949  |
The Hole Man | Larry Niven | Analog | 1974  |
The Hood Maker | Philip K. Dick | Imagination | 1955  |
The Hound | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1924  |
The House Beyond Your Sky | Benjamin Rosenbaum | Strange Horizons | 2006  |
The House of the Worm | Gary Myers |  | 1975  |
The House on Maple Street | Stephen King | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | 1993  |
The Houses of Iszm | Jack Vance | Ace Books | 1964  |
The Human Operators  | Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1971  |
The Impossible Man | J. G. Ballard | Berkley Books | 1966  |
The Indefatigable Frog | Philip K. Dick | Fantastic Story Magazine | 1953  |
The Infinites | Philip K. Dick | Planet Stories | 1953  |
The Jigsaw Man | Larry Niven | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
The July Ward | S.N. Dyer | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1991  |
The Keeper | H. Beam Piper | Venture Science Fiction | 1957  |
The Key | Isaac Asimov | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1966  |
The Land Ironclads | H. G. Wells | The Strand Magazine | 1903  |
The Last Castle | Jack Vance |  | 1966  |
The Last Command (short story) | Keith Laumer |  | 1967  |
The Last Defender of Camelot (short story) | Roger Zelazny | Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine | 1979  |
The Last Full Measure | George Alec Effinger | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Last Lunarians | John Wyndham |  | 1973  |
The Last of the Masters | Philip K. Dick | Orbit Science Fiction | 1953  |
The Last of the Winnebagos | Connie Willis | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1988  |
The Last Trump | Isaac Asimov | Fantastic Universe | 1955  |
The Last Word | Damon Knight | Satellite Science Fiction | 1957  |
The Lawnmower Man | Stephen King | Cavalier | 1975  |
The Liberation of Earth | William Tenn | Future Science Fiction | 1953  |
The Lincoln Train | Maureen F. McHugh |  | 1995  |
The Little Black Bag | Cyril M. Kornbluth | Analog Science Fiction | 1950  |
The Little Movement | Philip K. Dick | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1952  |
The Little Sisters of Eluria | Stephen King | Legends | 1998  |
The Long Rain | Ray Bradbury | Planet Stories | 1950  |
The Long Watch | Robert A. Heinlein |  | 1949  |
The Longest Voyage | Poul Anderson | Analog Science Fiction | 1960  |
The Love Letter (1998 film) | Jack Finney | The Saturday Evening Post | 1959  |
The Machine Stops | E. M. Forster | The Oxford and Cambridge Review | 1909  |
The Machine That Won the War (short story) | Isaac Asimov | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1961  |
The Man Who Bridged the Mist | Kij Johnson | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2011  |
The Man Who Came Early | Poul Anderson | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Man Who Evolved | Edmond Hamilton | Wonder Stories | 1931  |
The Man Who Ploughed the Sea | Arthur C. Clarke | Satellite Science Fiction | 1957  |
The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles | Margaret St. Clair |  | 1951  |
The Man Who Sold the Moon | Robert A. Heinlein |  | 1950  |
The Martian Star-Gazers | Frederik Pohl | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1962  |
The Men and the Mirror | Ross Rocklynne | Astounding Science Fiction | 1938  |
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | Alfred Bester | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1958  |
The Menace from Earth | Robert A. Heinlein | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1957  |
The Message (short story) | Isaac Asimov | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Million Cities | J. T. McIntosh |  | 1958  |
The Monster | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1948  |
The Monster of Lake LaMetrie | Wardon Allan Curtis | Pearson's Magazine | 1899  |
The Moon Is Hell! | John W. Campbell Jr. |  | 1950  |
The Moon Moth | Jack Vance | Galaxy | 1961  |
The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck | Hilbert Schenck | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Nameless City | H. P. Lovecraft | The Wolverine | 1921  |
The New Accelerator | H. G. Wells | The Strand Magazine | 1901  |
The New Prime | Jack Vance | Worlds Beyond | 1951  |
The Night That All Time Broke Out | Brian W. Aldiss | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
The Nutcracker Coup | Janet Kagan | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1992  |
No Woman Born | C. L. Moore | Analog Science Fiction | 1944  |
The Oracle and the Mountains | Stephen King | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1981  |
The Originist | Orson Scott Card | Foundation's Friends | 1989  |
The Past Through Tomorrow | Robert A. Heinlein |  | 1975  | collection
The Pause (story) | Isaac Asimov |  | 1954  |
The Pedestrian | Ray Bradbury | The Reporter | 1951  |
The People of Sand and Slag | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2004  |
The Persistence of Vision | John Varley | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Planck Dive | Greg Egan | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1998  |
The Possessed (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Dynamic Science Fiction | 1953  |
The Pre-persons | Philip K. Dick | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1974  |
The Preserving Machine (short story) | Philip K. Dick | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1953  |
The Prize of Peril | Robert Sheckley | Bantam Books | 1960  |
The Proper Study | Isaac Asimov | Boys' Life | 1968  |
The Prophets' Paradise | Robert W. Chambers |  | 1895  |
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World | Harlan Ellison | Dangerous Visions | 1967  |
The Queen of Air and Darkness (novella) | Poul Anderson | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1971  |
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper | H. G. Wells | Ladies' Home Journal | 1932  |
The Rats in the Walls | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1923  |
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story | James Alan Gardner | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2008  |
The Red One | Jack London |  | 1918  |
The Red Queen's Race | Isaac Asimov | Analog Science Fiction | 1949  |
The Reluctant Orchid | Arthur C. Clarke | Satellite Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw | Edgar Rice |  | 1937  |
The Return | Roberto Bolaño |  | 2010  |
The Return of the Sorcerer | Clark Ashton Smith | Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror | 1931  |
The Return of William Proxmire | Larry Niven |  | 1989  |
The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution | Christopher Cherniak |  | 1981  |
The Rocket (short story) | Ray Bradbury |  | 1950  |
The Rulers | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1946  |
The Runaway Skyscraper | Murray Leinster | Argosy | 1919  |
The Ruum | Arthur Porges | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1953  |
The Saturn Game | Poul Anderson | Analog Science Fiction | 1981  |
The Screwfly Solution | Raccoona Sheldon | Analog Science Fiction | 1977  |
The Search (short story) | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1943  |
The Secret (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | This Week | 1963  |
The Secret Sense | Isaac Asimov | Cosmic Stories | 1941  |
The Sensitive Man | Poul Anderson | Fantastic Universe | 1954  |
The Sentinel (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Ten Story Fantasy | 1951  |
The Shadow over Innsmouth | H. P. Lovecraft | Visionary Publishing Company | 1936  |
The Shambler from the Stars (Short Story) | Robert Bloch | Weird Tales | 1935  |
The Sharing of Flesh | Poul Anderson | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1968  |
The Shobies' Story | Ursula K. Le Guin | Universe 1 | 1990  |
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford | Philip K. Dick | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1954  |
The Silver Key | H.P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1929  |
The Singing Bell | Isaac Asimov | Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1955  |
The Skull (short story) | Philip K. Dick | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1952  |
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World | Philip José Farmer | New Dimensions 1 (Doubleday) | 1971  |
The Slithering Shadow | Robert E. Howard | Weird Tales | 1933  |
The Slow Mutants | Stephen King | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1981  |
The Sound (short story) | A. E. van Vogt | Analog Science Fiction | 1950  |
The Sound-Sweep | J. G. Ballard |  | 1959  |
The Sounds of Old Earth | Matthew Kressel | Lightspeed | 2013  |
The Space Traders | Derrick Bell |  | 1992  |
The Specter General | Theodore Cogswell | Astounding Science Fiction | 1952  |
The Statement of Randolph Carter | H. P. Lovecraft |  | 1919  |
The Stolen Dormouse | L. Sprague de Camp | Analog Science Fiction | 1941  |
The Strange High House in the Mist | H.P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1931  |
The Streets of Ashkelon | Harry Harrison | New Worlds | 1962  |
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros | Clark Ashton Smith | Weird Tales | 1931  |
The Talking Stone | Isaac Asimov | Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1955  |
The Terrible Old Man | H. P. Lovecraft |  | 1920  |
The Testament of Athammaus | Clark Ashton Smith | Weird Tales | 1932  |
The Thing on the Doorstep | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1937  |
The Tissue-Culture King | Julian Huxley | Cornhill Magazine, The Yale Review | 1926  |
The Tower of the Elephant | Robert E. Howard | Weird Tales | 1933  |
The Toynbee Convector | Ray Bradbury | Playboy | 1984  |
The Tryouts | Barry B. Longyear | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1978  |
The Tunnel under the World | Frederik Pohl | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1955  |
The Ugly Little Boy | Isaac Asimov | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1958  |
The Ultimate Melody | Arthur C. Clarke | If | 1957  |
The Undiscovered | William Sanders | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1997  |
The Ungoverned | Vernor Vinge |  | 1985  |
The Unnamable (short story) | H.P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1925  |
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall | Edgar Allan Poe |  | 1835  |
The Unreconstructed M | Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction Stories | 1957  |
The Vale of Lost Women | Robert E. Howard | The Magazine of Horror | 1967  |
The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family | Usman T. Malik |  | 2014  |
The Veldt (short story) | Ray Bradbury | The Saturday Evening Post | 1950  |
The Village | Kate Wilhelm |  | 1973  |
The Voice in the Night | William Hope Hodgson | Blue Book Magazine | 1907  |
The Wages of Syntax | Ray Vukcevich | Sci Fiction | 2003  |
The Waitabits | Eric Frank Russell | Analog Science Fiction | 1955  |
The Wall Around the World | Theodore Cogswell | Beyond Fantasy Fiction | 1953  |
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere | John Chu | Tor.com | 2013  |
The Watery Place | Isaac Asimov | Satellite Science Fiction | 1956  |
The Way of Cross and Dragon | George R. R. Martin | Omni | 1979  |
The Way Station | Stephen King | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1980  |
The Web (story series) |  |  | 1999  | collection
The Whisperer in Darkness | H. P. Lovecraft | Weird Tales | 1931  |
The Wilderness | Ray Bradbury | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1952  |
The Windows of Heaven | John Brunner | New Worlds | 1956  |
The Women Men Don't See | James Tiptree, Jr. | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1973  |
The World Well Lost | Theodore Sturgeon | Universe | 1953  |
The Xi Effect | Robert S. Richardson | Astounding Science Fiction | 1950  |
There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury | Collier's | 1950  |
They (Heinlein) | Robert A. Heinlein | Unknown  | 1941  |
Thing of Beauty (short story) | Damon Knight | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1958  |
Think Blue, Count Two | Cordwainer Smith | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1963  |
Think Like a Dinosaur | James Patrick Kelly | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1995  |
Think! (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1977  |
Thiotimoline | Isaac Asimov | Analog Science Fiction | 1948  |
Thirsty God | Margaret St. Clair | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1953  |
Thor Meets Captain America | David Brin |  | 1986  |
Through the Gates of the Silver Key | H. P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price | Weird Tales | 1934  |
Scales (short story) | Alastair Reynolds | Lightspeed Magazine | 2011  |
Tideline (short story) | Elizabeth Bear | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2007  |
Time and Stars | Poul Anderson |  | 1964  |
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones | Samuel R. Delaney |  | 1968  |
Time Enough | Damon Knight | Amazing Science Fiction Stories | 1960  |
Time's Arrow (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fantasy | 1950  |
Titanium Mike Saves the Day | David D. Levine | Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2007  |
Tk'tk'tk | David D. Levine | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2005  |
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | Jorge Luis Borges | Sur | 1961  |
To Arkham and the Stars | Fritz Leiber |  | 1966  |
To Mars and Providence | Don Webb |  | 1996  |
To Serve Man | Damon Knight | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1950  |
Tony and the Beetles | Philip K. Dick |  | 1953  |
Tower of Babylon | Ted Chiang | Omni | 1990  |
Track 12 | J. G. Ballard | New Worlds | 1958  |
Transfusion | Chad Oliver | Astounding Science Fiction | 1959  |
Transience (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | Startling Stories | 1949  |
Travel by Wire! | Arthur C. Clarke | Amateur Science Stories | 1937  |
Trends (short story) | Isaac Asimov | Analog Science Fiction | 1939  |
Trouble with the Natives | Arthur C. Clarke | Lilliput | 1951  |
True Names | Vernor Vinge |  | 1981  |
Ullward's Retreat | Jack Vance | Galaxy | 1958  |
Uncharted Territory (novella) | Connie Willis |  | 1994  |
Uncommon Sense | Hal Clement |  | 1945  |
Understand (story) | Ted Chiang | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1991  |
Vaster than Empires and More Slow | Ursula K. Le Guin | New Dimensions 1 (Doubleday) | 1971  |
Vault of the Beast | A. E. van Vogt | Astounding Science Fiction | 1940  |
Venture to the Moon | Arthur C. Clarke | Evening Standard | 1956  |
Venus and the Seven Sexes | William Tenn | The Girl with the Hungry Eyes | 1949  |
Venus Equilateral | George O. Smith |  | 1947  |
Venus Smiles | J. G. Ballard | Science Fantasy | 1957  |
Vilcabamba | Harry Turtledove | Tor.com | 2010  |
Vintage Season | C. L. Moore, Henry Kuttner |  | 1946  |
Wanderers of Time (short story) | John Wyndham | Wonder Stories | 1933  |
War Game (short story) | Philip K. Dick | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1959  |
War Veteran | Philip K. Dick | If | 1955  |
Waterspider | Philip K. Dick | If | 1964  |
We Also Walk Dogs | Robert A. Heinlein | Astounding Science Fiction | 1941  |
What Goes Up (short story) | Arthur C. Clarke | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1956  |
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? | Gerald Kersh |  | 1953  |
When in the Course | H. Beam Piper |  | 1981  |
When It Ends, He Catches Her | Eugie Foster | Daily Science Fiction | 2014  |
When the Twerms Came | Arthur C. Clarke | Playboy | 1972  |
When the World Screamed | Arthur Conan Doyle | Liberty | 1928  |
Who Goes There? | John W. Campbell, Jr. | Astounding Science Fiction | 1938  |
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? | Ken MacLeod | The New Space Opera (Eos)  | 2007  |
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers | Lawrence Watt-Evans | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1987  |
Wild Minds | Michael Swanwick | Asimov's Science Fiction | 1998  |
Window (short story) | Bob Leman | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 1980  |
Winter's King | Ursula K. Le Guin | Orbit | 1969  |
With Folded Hands | Jack Williamson | Fantasy Press | 1947  |
With Morning Comes Mistfall | George R. R. Martin | Analog Science Fiction & Fact | 1973  |
Yellow Card Man | Paolo Bacigalupi | Asimov's Science Fiction | 2006  |
You Were Right, Joe | J. T. McIntosh | Galaxy Science Fiction | 1957  |
You're Another | Damon Knight | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | 1955  |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams |  | 1986  |
Zone of Terror | J. G. Ballard | New Worlds | 1960  |

## Award winning short stories[edit | edit source]

The two main awards given in American science fiction are the Hugos and the Nebulas. Complete lists of the short stories that won these awards are at Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

## See also[edit | edit source]

* The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964, the best short stories from before the awarding of the Nebulas.

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