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Kornbluth "Reap the Dark Tide" (aka: "Shark Ship") Vanguard [ 11] Fritz Leiber "A Deskful of Girls" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 11] Katherine MacLean "Second Game" Astounding Science-Fiction [ 11] Rog Phillips "Rat in the Skull" If [ 11] Jack Vance "The Miracle-Workers" Astounding Science-Fiction [ 11] 1967 Jack Vance *"The Last Castle " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 12] Gordon R. Dickson "Call Him Lord " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 12] Robert M. Green, Jr. "Apology to Inky" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 12] Charles L. Harness "The Alchemist" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 12] Charles L. Harness "An Ornament to His Profession" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 12] Hayden Howard "The Eskimo Invasion" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 12] Thomas Burnett Swann "The Manor of Roses" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 12] Roger Zelazny "For a Breath I Tarry " Fantastic [ 12] Roger Zelazny "This Moment of the Storm" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 12] 1968 Fritz Leiber *"Gonna Roll the Bones " Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 13] Andre Norton "Wizard's World" If [ 13] Philip K. Dick "Faith of Our Fathers " Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 13] Harlan Ellison "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" Knight [ 13] 1969 Poul Anderson *"The Sharing of Flesh " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 14] Brian Aldiss "Total Environment" Galaxy Science Fiction [ 14] Piers Anthony "Getting Through University" If [ 14] Richard Wilson "Mother to the World" Orbit #3 (G. P. 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McIntyre "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] James Tiptree, Jr. "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death " The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books ) [ 16] George Alec Effinger "The City on the Sand" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 16] Jerry Pournelle "He Fell into a Dark Hole " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] 1975 Harlan Ellison *"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Isaac Asimov "—That Thou art Mindful of Him " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Fritz Leiber "Midnight by the Morphy Watch " If [ 17] Richard A. Lupoff "After the Dreamtime " New Dimensions #4 (Doubleday ) [ 17] Jerry Pournelle "Extreme Prejudice" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 17] William Walling "Nix Olympica" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 17] Kate Wilhelm "A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls" Orbit #14 (G. P. 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Delany "Prismatica" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 20] Carter Scholz "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs " Universe #7 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 20] 1979 Poul Anderson *"Hunter's Moon " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 21] Orson Scott Card "Mikal's Songbird " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 21] Thomas Disch "The Man Who Had No Idea " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 21] Dean Ing "Devil You Don't Know " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 21] John Varley "The Barbie Murders " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 21] 1980 George R. R. Martin *"Sandkings " Omni [ 22] Barry B. Longyear "Homecoming" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 22] Larry Niven "The Locusts" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 22] Vonda N. McIntyre "Fireflood" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 22] John Varley "Options " Universe #9 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 22] Christopher Priest "Palely Loitering" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 22] 1981 Gordon R. Dickson *"The Cloak and the Staff " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 23] Barry B. Longyear "Savage Planet" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 23] John Varley "Beatnik Bayou " New Voices #3: The Campbell Award Nominees (Berkley Books ) [ 23] Keith Roberts "The Lordly Ones" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] Michael Shea "The Autopsy" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 23] Howard Waldrop "The Ugly Chickens" Universe #10 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 23] 1982 Roger Zelazny *"Unicorn Variation " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 24] George R. R. Martin "Guardians" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 24] Edward Bryant "The Thermals of August" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 24] Parke Godwin "The Fire When It Comes " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 24] Michael Bishop "The Quickening" Universe #11 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 24] 1983 Connie Willis *"Fire Watch " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Phyllis Eisenstein "Nightlife" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Timothy Zahn "Pawn's Gambit" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 25] S. P. Somtow "Aquila" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 25] Bruce Sterling "Swarm " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] 1984 Greg Bear *"Blood Music " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 26] George R. R. Martin "The Monkey Treatment" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] Connie Willis "The Sidon in the Mirror" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 26] Ian Watson "Slow Birds" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] Kim Stanley Robinson "Black Air" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 26] 1985 Octavia E. Butler *"Bloodchild " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 27] Lucius Shepard "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 27] Timothy Zahn "Return to the Fold" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 27] Connie Willis "Blued Moon" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 27] Hilbert Schenck "Silicon Muse" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 27] Eric Vinicoff "The Weigher" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 27] Kim Stanley Robinson "The Lucky Strike" Universe #14 (Bantam Spectra ) 1986 Harlan Ellison *"Paladin of the Lost Hour " Universe #15 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 28] George R. R. Martin "Portraits of His Children" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 28] Orson Scott Card "The Fringe " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] Michael Bishop "A Gift from the GrayLanders" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 28] Michael Swanwick "Dogfight " Omni [ 28] William Gibson 1987 Roger Zelazny *"Permafrost " Omni [ 29] David Brin "Thor Meets Captain America " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 29] William Gibson "The Winter Market " Stardate [ 29] Orson Scott Card "Hatrack River " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 29] Vernor Vinge "The Barbarian Princess" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 29] 1988 Ursula K. Le Guin *"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 30] Pat Murphy "Rachel in Love " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 30] Walter Jon Williams "Dinosaurs " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 30] Bruce Sterling "Flowers of Edo" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 30] Bruce McAllister "Dream Baby" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 30] 1989 George Alec Effinger *"Schrödinger's Kitten " Omni [ 31] Steven Gould "Peaches for Mad Molly" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 31] Howard Waldrop "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] Harlan Ellison "The Function of Dream Sleep " Midnight Graffiti [ 31] Neal Barrett, Jr. "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 31] 1990 Robert Silverberg *"Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Mike Resnick "For I Have Touched the Sky " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 32] George Alec Effinger "Everything But Honor" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Connie Willis "At the Rialto" Omni [ 32] Nancy Kress "The Price of Oranges" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] Orson Scott Card "Dogwalker " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 32] 1991 Mike Resnick *"The Manamouki " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Charles Sheffield "A Braver Thing " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Ted Chiang "Tower of Babylon " Omni [ 33] Dafydd ab Hugh "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Martha Soukup "Over the Long Haul" Amazing Stories [ 33] 1992 Isaac Asimov *"Gold " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 34] Pat Cadigan "Dispatches from the Revolution" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Connie Willis "Miracle" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] Howard Waldrop "Fin de Cyclé" Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories (Mark V. Ziesing ) [ 34] Ted Chiang "Understand " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 34] 1993 Janet Kagan *"The Nutcracker Coup " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 35] Pamela Sargent "Danny Goes to Mars " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 35] Pat Cadigan "True Faces" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 35] Susan Shwartz "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." Alternate Presidents (Tor Books ) [ 35] Barry N. Malzberg "In the Stone House" Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books ) [ 35] 1994 Charles Sheffield *"Georgia on My Mind " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 36] Nancy Kress "Dancing on Air" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] Terry Bisson "The Shadow Knows" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] Bruce Sterling "Deep Eddy" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] John Kessel "The Franchise" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] 1995 David Gerrold *"The Martian Child " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 37] Greg Egan "Cocoon" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 37] Mike Resnick "A Little Knowledge" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 37] Ursula K. Le Guin "Solitude" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 37] Geoffrey A. Landis "The Singular Habits of Wasps " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 37] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Matter of Seggri" Crank [ 37] 1996 James Patrick Kelly *"Think Like a Dinosaur " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 38] Mike Resnick "When the Old Gods Die" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 38] Allen Steele "The Good Rat" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 38] Harry Turtledove "Must and Shall" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 38] Greg Egan "Luminous " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 38] Greg Egan "TAP " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 38] 1997 Bruce Sterling *"Bicycle Repairman " Intersections (Tor Books ) [ 39] Mike Resnick "The Land of Nod" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] Ursula K. Le Guin "Mountain Ways" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] Suzy McKee Charnas "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] William Barton "Age of Aquarius" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] 1998 Bill Johnson *"We Will Drink a Fish Together... " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 40] James Alan Gardner "Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 40] Stephen Baxter "Moon Six " SF Age [ 40] Michael A. Burstein "Broken Symmetry" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 40] William Sanders "The Undiscovered " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 40] 1999 Bruce Sterling *"Taklamakan " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Echea" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] Allen Steele "Zwarte Piet's Tale" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 41] Nancy Kress "Steamship Soldier on the Information Front" Future Histories (Horizon House) [ 41] Greg Egan "The Planck Dive " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] Ellen Klages "Time Gypsy" Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction ( The Overlook Press ) [ 41] Robert Charles Wilson "Divided by Infinity" Starlight #2 (Tor Books ) [ 41] 2000 James Patrick Kelly *"1016 to 1 " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 42] Eleanor Arnason "Stellar Harvest" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 42] Greg Egan "Border Guards" Interzone [ 42] Jan Jensen "The Secret History of the Ornithopter" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 42] Tom Purdom "Fossil Games" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 42] Ian R. MacLeod "The Chop Girl" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 42] 2001 Kristine Kathryn Rusch *"Millennium Babies " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] Stephen Baxter "On the Orion Line" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] Allen Steele "Agape Among the Robots" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 43] Stanley Schmidt "Generation Gap" Artemis [ 43] Mike Resnick "Redchapel" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] 2002 Ted Chiang *"Hell Is the Absence of God " Starlight #3 (Tor Books ) [ 44] Allen Steele "The Days Between" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] James Patrick Kelly "Undone" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] Charles Stross "Lobsters " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] Shane Tourtellotte "The Return of Spring" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 44] 2003 Michael Swanwick *"Slow Life " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 45] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Wild Girls" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Charles Stross "Halo " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Maureen F. McHugh "Presence" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 45] Gregory Frost "Madonna of the Maquiladora" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] 2004 Michael Swanwick *"Legions in Time " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Jeffrey Ford "The Empire of Ice Cream" Scifi.com [ 46] Charles Stross "Nightfall " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Jay Lake "Into the Gardens of Sweet Night" Writers of the Future #19 (Galaxy Press ) [ 46] James Patrick Kelly "Bernardo's House" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Robert Reed "Hexagons " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] 2005 Kelly Link *"The Faery Handbag " The Faery Reel (Viking Publishers) [ 47] Michael F. Flynn "The Clapping Hands of God" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 47] Paolo Bacigalupi "The People of Sand and Slag " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 47] Benjamin Rosenbaum "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum" All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (Wheatland Press ) [ 47] Christopher Rowe "The Voluntary State" Scifi.com [ 47] 2006 Peter S. Beagle *"Two Hearts " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 48] Paolo Bacigalupi "The Calorie Man" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 48] Michael A. Burstein "TelePresence" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 48] Cory Doctorow "I, Robot " The Infinite Matrix [ 48] Howard Waldrop "The King of Where-I-Go" Scifi.com [ 48] 2007 Ian McDonald *"The Djinn's Wife " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 49] Geoff Ryman "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 49] Michael F. Flynn "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 49] Mike Resnick "All the Things You Are" Jim Baen's Universe [ 49] Paolo Bacigalupi "Yellow Card Man " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 49] 2008 Ted Chiang *"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 50] Daniel Abraham "The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics " Logorrhea (Bantam Books ) [ 50] Greg Egan "Dark Integers " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Greg Egan "Glory" The New Space Opera (Eos ) [ 50] David Moles "Finisterra " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 50] 2009 Elizabeth Bear *"Shoggoths in Bloom " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] John Kessel "Pride and Prometheus" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 51] James Alan Gardner "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] Paolo Bacigalupi "The Gambler " Fast Forward 2 (Pyr ) [ 51] Mike Resnick "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] 2010 Peter Watts *"The Island " The New Space Opera #2 (Eos ) [ 52] Rachel Swirsky "Eros, Philia, Agape" Tor.com [ 52] Nicola Griffith "It Takes Two " Eclipse #3 (Night Shade Books ) [ 52] Paul Cornell "One of Our Bastards is Missing" The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #3 (Solaris Books ) [ 52] Charles Stross "Overtime" Tor.com [ 52] Eugie Foster "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast " Interzone [ 52] 2011 Allen Steele *"The Emperor of Mars " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] Sean McMullen "Eight Miles " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 53] Aliette de Bodard "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] Eric James Stone "The Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 53] James Patrick Kelly "Plus or Minus" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] 2012 Charlie Jane Anders *"Six Months, Three Days " Tor.com [ 54] Paul Cornell "The Copenhagen Interpretation" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 54] Rachel Swirsky "Fields of Gold " Eclipse #4 (Night Shade Books ) [ 54] Brad R. Torgersen "Ray of Light" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 54] Geoff Ryman "What We Found " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 54] 2013 Pat Cadigan *"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi " Edge of Infinity (Solaris Books ) [ 55] Thomas Olde Heuvelt "The Boy Who Cast No Shadow" Postscripts: Unfit For Eden (PS Publishing ) [ 55] Catherynne M. Valente "Fade to White " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 55] Seanan McGuire "In Sea-Salt Tears" Self-published [ 55] Seanan McGuire "Rat-Catcher" A Fantasy Medley 2 (Subterranean Press ) [ 55] 2014 Mary Robinette Kowal *"The Lady Astronaut of Mars " Tor.com [ 56] Vox Day "Opera Vita Aeterna" The Last Witchking (Marcher Lord Hinterlands) [ 56] Brad R. Torgersen "The Exchange Officers" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 56] Ted Chiang "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling " Subterranean Magazine [ 56] Aliette de Bodard "The Waiting Stars" The Other Half of the Sky (Candlemark & Gleam) [ 56] 2015 Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Dutch)* [ Note 2] "The Day The World Turned Upside Down " Lightspeed [ 57] Lia Belt (translator) * [ Note 2] Michael F. Flynn "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 57] Edward M. Lerner "Championship B’tok" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 57] Gray Rinehart "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium" Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show [ 57] Rajnar Vajra "The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 57] 2016 Hao Jingfang * [ Note 2] "Folding Beijing "* Uncanny Magazine [ 58] Ken Liu (translator) * [ Note 2] Brooke Bolander "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" Lightspeed [ 58] Cheah Kai Wai "Flashpoint: Titan" There Will Be War Volume X (Castalia House) [ 58] Stephen King "Obits " The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Charles Scribner's Sons ) [ 58] David VanDyke "What Price Humanity?" 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