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Bone "Triggerman" Astounding Science-Fiction [ 14] Algis Budrys "The Edge of the Sea" Venture Science Fiction [ 14] C. M. Kornbluth "The Advent on Channel Twelve" Star Science Fiction Stories #4 (Ballantine Books ) [ 14] C. M. Kornbluth "Theory of Rocketry" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 14] Fritz Leiber "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 14] Stanley Mullen "Space to Swing a Cat" Astounding Science-Fiction [ 14] Manly Wade Wellman "Nine Yards of Other Cloth " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 14] 1960 Daniel Keyes *"Flowers for Algernon " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] Philip José Farmer "The Alley Man " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] Alfred Bester "The Pi Man " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] Theodore Sturgeon "The Man Who Lost the Sea " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 15] Ralph Williams "Cat and Mouse " Astounding Science-Fiction [ 15] 1961 Poul Anderson *"The Longest Voyage " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] Pauline Ashwell "The Lost Kafoozalum" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 16] Philip José Farmer "Open to Me, My Sister" (aka. "My Sister's Brother") The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 16] Theodore Sturgeon "Need" Beyond Fantasy Fiction [ 16] 1962 Brian Aldiss * Hothouse (series) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 17] Lloyd Biggle, Jr. "Monument" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 17] Fritz Leiber "Scylla's Daughter " Fantastic [ 17] Mack Reynolds "Status Quo" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 17] James H. Schmitz "Lion Loose" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 17] 1963 Jack Vance *"The Dragon Masters " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 18] Gary Jennings "Myrrha " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 18] Fritz Leiber "The Unholy Grail " Fantastic [ 18] Theodore Sturgeon "When You Care, When You Love" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 18] Thomas Burnett Swann "Where Is the Bird of Fire?" 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Delany "Aye, and Gomorrah " Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 23] 1969 Harlan Ellison *"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 24] Larry Niven "All the Myriad Ways " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 24] Terry Carr "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" The Farthest Reaches (Pocket Books ) [ 24] Betsy Curtis "The Steiger Effect " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 24] Damon Knight "Masks" Playboy [ 24] 1970 Samuel R. Delany *"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones " New Worlds [ 25] Robert Silverberg "Passengers " Orbit #4 (Putnam Publishing Group ) [ 25] Larry Niven "Not Long Before the End" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Gregory Benford "Deeper than the Darkness" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 25] Ursula K. Le Guin "Winter's King " Orbit #5 (Putnam Publishing Group ) [ 25] 1971 Theodore Sturgeon *"Slow Sculpture " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 26] R. A. Lafferty "Continued on Next Rock" Orbit #7 (Putnam Publishing Group ) [ 26] Gordon R. Dickson "Jean Duprès" Nova #1 (Delacorte Press ) [ 26] Keith Laumer "In the Queue" Orbit #7 (Putnam Publishing Group ) [ 26] Ben Bova "Brillo" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 26] 1972 Larry Niven *"Inconstant Moon " All the Myriad Ways (Ballantine Books ) [ 27] Ursula K. Le Guin "Vaster than Empires and More Slow " New Dimensions #1 (Doubleday ) [ 27] Clifford D. Simak "The Autumn Land" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 27] Stephen Tall "The Bear with the Knot on His Tail" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 27] R. A. Lafferty "Sky" New Dimensions #1 (Doubleday ) [ 27] George Alec Effinger "All the Last Wars at Once" Universe #1 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 27] 1973 R. A. Lafferty *"Eurema's Dam " New Dimensions #2 (Doubleday ) [ 28] Frederik Pohl *"The Meeting " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] C. M. Kornbluth * Robert Silverberg "When We Went to See the End of the World" Universe #2 (Bantam Spectra ) [ 28] James Tiptree, Jr. "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 28] Joanna Russ "When It Changed " Again, Dangerous Visions (Doubleday ) [ 28] 1974 Ursula K. Le Guin *"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas " New Dimensions #3 (Doubleday ) [ 29] George R. R. Martin "With Morning Comes Mistfall " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 29] Clifford D. Simak "Construction Shack" If [ 29] Vonda N. McIntyre "Wings" The Alien Condition (Ballantine Books ) [ 29] 1975 Larry Niven *"The Hole Man " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 30] Alfred Bester "The Four-Hour Fugue " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 30] Michael Bishop "Cathadonian Odyssey" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 30] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Day Before the Revolution " Galaxy Science Fiction [ 30] Robert Silverberg "Schwartz Between the Galaxies" Stellar #1 (Ballantine Books ) [ 30] 1976 Fritz Leiber *"Catch That Zeppelin! " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 31] Harlan Ellison "Croatoan " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 31] P. J. Plauger "Child of All Ages" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 31] Richard A. Lupoff "Sail the Tide of Mourning " New Dimensions #5 (Doubleday ) [ 31] Michael Bishop "Rogue Tomato" New Dimensions #5 (Doubleday ) [ 31] Gregory Benford "Doing Lennon" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 31] 1977 Joe Haldeman *"Tricentennial " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 32] Charles L. Grant "A Crowd of Shadows" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 32] Damon Knight "I See You" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 32] James White "Custom Fitting" Stellar #2 (Ballantine Books ) [ 32] 1978 Harlan Ellison *"Jeffty Is Five " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 33] John Varley "Air Raid " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 33] Spider Robinson "Dog Day Evening" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 33] Randall Garrett "Lauralyn" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 33] James Tiptree, Jr. "Time-Sharing Angel" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 33] 1979 C. J. Cherryh *"Cassandra " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 34] Harlan Ellison "Count the Clock that Tells the Time" Omni [ 34] Joan D. Vinge "View From a Height" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 34] Edward Bryant "Stone" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 34] Ian Watson "The Very Slow Time Machine" Anticipations (Faber and Faber ) [ 34] 1980 George R. R. Martin *"The Way of Cross and Dragon " Omni [ 35] Orson Scott Card "Unaccompanied Sonata " Omni [ 35] Ted Reynolds "Can These Bones Live?" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 35] Edward Bryant "giANTS " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 35] Connie Willis "Daisy, In the Sun" Galileo [ 35] 1981 Clifford D. Simak *"Grotto of the Dancing Deer " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 36] Robert Silverberg "Our Lady of the Sauropods" Omni [ 36] Susan C. Petrey "Spidersong" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 36] Jeff Duntemann "Cold Hands" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] Jeff Duntemann "Guardian" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 36] 1982 John Varley *"The Pusher " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 37] Gene Wolfe "The Woman the Unicorn Loved " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 37] Somtow Sucharitkul "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 37] George Guthridge "The Quiet" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 37] 1983 Spider Robinson *"Melancholy Elephants " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 38] Ursula K. Le Guin "Sur " The New Yorker [ 38] James Tiptree, Jr. "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 38] Bruce Sterling "Spider Rose" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 38] Howard Waldrop "Ike at the Mike " Omni [ 38] 1984 Octavia E. Butler *"Speech Sounds " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] Frederik Pohl "Servant of the People" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 39] Hilbert Schenck "The Geometry of Narrative " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 39] Gardner Dozois "The Peacemaker" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 39] William F. Wu "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium " Amazing Stories [ 39] 1985 David Brin *"The Crystal Spheres " Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 40] George Alec Effinger "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 40] Lee Killough "Symphony for a Lost Traveler" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 40] Lucius Shepard "Salvador " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 40] Kim Stanley Robinson "Ridge Running" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 40] Steven Gould "Rory" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 40] 1986 Frederik Pohl *"Fermi and Frost " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] Howard Waldrop "Flying Saucer Rock & Roll" Omni [ 41] John Crowley "Snow " Omni [ 41] Bruce Sterling "Dinner in Audoghast" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 41] William F. Wu "Hong's Bluff" Omni [ 41] 1987 Greg Bear *"Tangents " Omni [ 42] Isaac Asimov "Robot Dreams " Robot Dreams (Berkley Books ) [ 42] Nancy Springer "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 42] David S. Garnett "Still Life" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 42] James Patrick Kelly "Rat " The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 42] 1988 Lawrence Watt-Evans *"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] Kate Wilhelm "Forever Yours, Anna" Omni [ 43] Pat Cadigan "Angel" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] Howard Waldrop "Night of the Cooters" Omni [ 43] Karen Joy Fowler "The Faithful Companion at Forty" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] Lisa Goldstein "Cassandra's Photographs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 43] 1989 Mike Resnick *"Kirinyaga " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 44] David Brin "The Giving Plague " Interzone [ 44] Geoffrey A. Landis "Ripples in the Dirac Sea " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] Bruce Sterling "Our Neural Chernobyl" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 44] Eileen Gunn "Stable Strategies for Middle Management " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 44] Jack McDevitt "The Fort Moxie Branch " Full Spectrum (Doubleday ) [ 44] 1990 Suzy McKee Charnas *"Boobs " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Orson Scott Card "Lost Boys " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 45] Eileen Gunn "Computer Friendly" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Larry Niven "The Return of William Proxmire " What Might Have Been? Vol. 1: Alternate Empires (Bantam Spectra ) [ 45] Michael Swanwick "The Edge of the World" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] Bruce Sterling "Dori Bangs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 45] 1991 Terry Bisson *"Bears Discover Fire " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Connie Willis "Cibola" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] Charles Sheffield "Godspeed" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 46] Robert Reed "The Utility Man" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 46] W. R. Thompson "VRM-547" Analog Science Fact & Fiction [ 46] 1992 Geoffrey A. Landis *"A Walk in the Sun " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 47] Mike Resnick "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 47] Connie Willis "In the Late Cretaceous" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 47] Mike Resnick "Winter Solstice" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 47] Terry Bisson "Press Ann" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 47] John Kessel "Buffalo" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 47] Martha Soukup "Dog's Life" Amazing Stories [ 47] 1993 Connie Willis *"Even the Queen " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 48] Nancy Kress "The Mountain to Mohammed" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 48] Mike Resnick "The Lotus and the Spear " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 48] Martha Soukup "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 48] Nicholas A. DiChario "The Winterberry" Alternate Kennedys (Tor Books ) [ 48] 1994 Connie Willis *"Death on the Nile " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 49] Mike Resnick "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 49] Martha Soukup "The Story So Far" Full Spectrum 4 (Doubleday ) [ 49] Bridget McKenna "The Good Pup" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 49] Terry Bisson "England Underway" Omni [ 49] 1995 Joe Haldeman *"None So Blind " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Kate Wilhelm "I Know What You're Thinking" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Mike Resnick "Barnaby in Exile" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Terry Bisson "Dead Man's Curve" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] Barry N. Malzberg "Understanding Entropy" SF Age [ 50] M. Shayne Bell "Mrs. Lincoln's China" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 50] 1996 Maureen F. McHugh *"The Lincoln Train " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 51] Esther Friesner "A Birthday " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 51] Michael A. Burstein "TeleAbsence" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 51] Tony Daniel "Life on the Moon" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] Michael Swanwick "Walking Out" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 51] 1997 Connie Willis *"The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 52] James White "Un-Birthday Boy" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 52] Michael Swanwick "The Dead " Starlight #1 (Tor Books ) [ 52] Robert Reed "Decency" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 52] John Crowley "Gone" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 52] 1998 Mike Resnick *"The 43 Antarean Dynasties " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] James Patrick Kelly "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] Gene Wolfe "No Planets Strike" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 53] Robert J. Sawyer "The Hand You're Dealt" Free Space (Tor Books ) [ 53] Karen Joy Fowler "Standing Room Only" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] Andy Duncan "Beluthahatchie" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 53] 1999 Michael Swanwick *"The Very Pulse of the Machine " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 54] Bruce Sterling "Maneki Neko" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 54] Michael Swanwick "Radiant Doors " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 54] Michael Swanwick "Wild Minds " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 54] Michael A. Burstein "Cosmic Corkscrew" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 54] Robert Reed "Whiptail" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 54] 2000 Michael Swanwick *"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 55] Michael Swanwick "Ancient Engines " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 55] Mike Resnick "Hothouse Flowers" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 55] Terry Bisson "macs " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 55] Nicholas A. DiChario "Sarajevo" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 55] 2001 David Langford *"Different Kinds of Darkness " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 56] Michael A. Burstein "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 56] Michael Swanwick "Moon Dogs" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 56] Mike Resnick "The Elephants on Neptune" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 56] Stephen Baxter "The Gravity Mine" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 56] 2002 Michael Swanwick *"The Dog Said Bow-Wow " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 57] Ursula K. Le Guin "The Bones of the Earth" Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt ) [ 57] Mike Resnick "Old MacDonald Had a Farm " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 57] Stephen Baxter "The Ghost Pit " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 57] Michael A. Burstein "Spaceships" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 57] 2003 Geoffrey A. Landis *"Falling onto Mars " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 58] Michael Swanwick "'Hello,' Said the Stick " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 58] Michael Swanwick "The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 58] Jeffrey Ford "Creation" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 58] Molly Gloss "Lambing Season " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 58] 2004 Neil Gaiman *"A Study in Emerald " Shadows Over Baker Street (Del Rey Books ) [ 59] Michael A. Burstein "Paying It Forward " Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 59] Mike Resnick "Robots Don't Cry" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 59] Joe Haldeman "Four Short Novels" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 59] David D. Levine "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 59] 2005 Mike Resnick *"Travels with My Cats " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 60] James Patrick Kelly "The Best Christmas Ever " Scifi.com [ 60] Mike Resnick "A Princess of Earth" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 60] Robert J. Sawyer "Shed Skin" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 60] Michael A. Burstein "Decisions" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 60] 2006 David D. Levine *"Tk'tk'tk " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 61] Michael A. Burstein "Seventy-Five Years" Analog Science Fiction and Fact [ 61] Dominic Green "The Clockwork Atom Bomb " Interzone [ 61] Margo Lanagan "Singing My Sister Down " Black Juice (Eos ) [ 61] Mike Resnick "Down Memory Lane" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 61] 2007 Tim Pratt *"Impossible Dreams " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 62] Neil Gaiman "How to Talk to Girls at Parties " Fragile Things (William Morrow and Company ) [ 62] Robert Reed "Eight Episodes " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 62] Bruce McAllister "Kin " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 62] Benjamin Rosenbaum "The House Beyond Your Sky " Strange Horizons [ 62] 2008 Elizabeth Bear *"Tideline " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 63] Michael Swanwick "A Small Room in Koboldtown" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 63] Stephen Baxter "Last Contact " The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #1 (Solaris Books ) [ 63] Ken MacLeod "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? " The New Space Opera (Eos ) [ 63] Mike Resnick "Distant Replay " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 63] 2009 Ted Chiang *"Exhalation " Eclipse #2 (Night Shade Books ) [ 64] Kij Johnson "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 64] Michael Swanwick "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 64] Mary Robinette Kowal "Evil Robot Monkey " The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #2 (Solaris Books ) [ 64] Mike Resnick "Article of Faith" Jim Baen's Universe [ 64] 2010 Will McIntosh *"Bridesicle " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 65] Mike Resnick "The Bride of Frankenstein" Asimov's Science Fiction [ 65] Lawrence M. Schoen "The Moment " Footprints (Hadley Rille Books) [ 65] N. K. Jemisin "Non-Zero Probabilities" Clarkesworld Magazine [ 65] Kij Johnson "Spar " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 65] 2011 Mary Robinette Kowal *"For Want of a Nail " Asimov's Science Fiction [ 66] Carrie Vaughn "Amaryllis" Lightspeed Magazine [ 66] Kij Johnson "Ponies " Tor.com [ 66] Peter Watts "The Things " Clarkesworld Magazine [ 66] 2012 Ken Liu *"The Paper Menagerie " Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 67] E. 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