Top Sci-Fi Short Fiction
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Dafydd ab Hugh - The Coon Rolled Down & Ruptured His... (1990)
Brian Aldiss - But Who Can Replace a Man? (1958)
Brian Aldiss - Poor Little Warrior (1958)
Poul Anderson - The Man Who Came Early (1956)
Poul Anderson - The Longest Voyage (1960)
Poul Anderson - The Queen of Air and Darkness (1971)
Isaac Asimov - Robbie (1940)
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall (1941)
Isaac Asimov - Breeds There a Man? (1951)
Isaac Asimov - The Martian Way (1952)
Isaac Asimov - The Last Question (1956)
Isaac Asimov - The Dead Past (1956)
Isaac Asimov - I'm In Marsport Without Hilda (1957)
Isaac Asimov - The Ugly Little Boy (1958)
Isaac Asimov - The Feeling Of Power (1958)
Isaac Asimov - All the Troubles Of the World (1958)
Isaac Asimov - The Billiard Ball (1967)
Isaac Asimov - That Thou Art Mindful Of Him! (1974)
Isaac Asimov - The Bicentennial Man (1976)
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Calorie Man (2005)
Paolo Bacigalupi - Yellow Card Man (2006)
Kage Baker - The Empress of Mars (2003)
J G Ballard - Billenium (1961)
Stephen Baxter - Huddle (1999)
Stephen Baxter - Last Contact (2007)
Greg Bear - Blood Music (1983)
Greg Bear - Hardfought (1983)
Greg Bear - Tangents (1986)
Elizabeth Bear - Tideline (2007)
Edward Bellamy - To Whom This May Come (1889)
Alfred Bester - Adam and No Eve (1941)
Alfred Bester - Fondly Fahrenheit (1954)
Dmitri Bilenkin - What Never Was [Where Is He From?] (1958)
Terry Bisson - Bears Discover Fire (1990)
Terry Bisson - Two Guys From the Future (1992)
Jerome Bixby - It's a Good Life (1953)
James Blish - Surface Tension (1952)
James Blish - Common Time (1953)
Robert Bloch - That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
Anthony Boucher - The Quest For Saint Aquin (1951)
Bova/Ellison - Brillo (1970)
Ray Bradbury - The Scythe (1943)
Ray Bradbury - Frost and Fire (1946)
Ray Bradbury - Zero Hour (1947)
Ray Bradbury - Mars Is Heaven! (The Third Expediton) (1948)
Ray Bradbury - Kaleidoscope (1949)
Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains (1950)
Ray Bradbury - The Veldt (1950)
Ray Bradbury - Usher II (1950)
Ray Bradbury - The Long Rain [vt Death-By-Rain] (1950)
Ray Bradbury - A Sound Of Thunder (1952)
David Brin - The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf (1983)
David Brin - The Crystal Spheres (1984)
David Brin - The Smartest Mob (2008)
Fredric Brown - The Waveries (1945)
Fredric Brown - Answer (1954)
Fredric Brown - Arena (1968)
Lois M Bujold - The Mountains Of Mourning (1989)
Octavia Butler - Speech Sounds (1983)
Octavia Butler - Bloodchild (1984)
Pat Cadigan - Pretty Boy Crossover (1986)
Pat Cadigan - Dispatches from the Revolution (1991)
John W Campbell - Who Goes There? (1938)
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (1977)
Orson Scott Card - Kingsmeat (1978)
Orson Scott Card - Unaccompanied Sonata (1979)
Orson Scott Card - Hatrack River (1986)
Orson Scott Card - Eye for Eye (1987)
Orson Scott Card - Dogwalker (1989)
Orson Scott Card - The Originist (1989)
A Bertram Chandler - Familiar Pattern (1959)
Suzy Charnas - Boobs (1989)
C J Cherryh - Cassandra (1978)
Ted Chiang - Story of Your Life (1998)
Ted Chiang - Hell Is the Absence of God (2001)
Ted Chiang - The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007)
Richard Chwedyk - Bronte's Egg (2002)
Arthur C Clarke - Rescue Party (1946)
Arthur C Clarke - History Lesson (1949)
Arthur C Clarke - The Sentinel (1951)
Arthur C Clarke - The Nine Billion Names Of God (1953)
Arthur C Clarke - The Star (1955)
Arthur C Clarke - A Meeting With Medusa (1971)
Hal Clement - Planetfall (1972)
John Crowley - Snow (1985)
John Crowley - Great Work of Time (1989)
Jack Dann - Da Vinci Rising (1996)
Avram Davidson - The Golem (1955)
L Sprague de Camp - Hyperpilosity (1938)
Guy de Maupassant - The Horla, or Modern Ghosts (1886)
Lester Del Rey - Helen O'Loy (1938)
Lester Del Rey - The Faithful (1938)
Lester Del Rey - Nerves (1942)
Samuel Delany - Aye, and Gomorrah… (1967)
Samuel Delany - Time Considered as a Helix… (1968)
Bradley Denton - Sergeant Chip (2004)
Philip K Dick - Second Variety (1953)
Philip K Dick - Impostor (1953)
Philip K Dick - Colony (1953)
Philip K Dick - The Father-Thing (1954)
Philip K Dick - The Minority Report (1956)
Philip K Dick - Oh, To Be a Blobel! (1964)
Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1966)
Philip K Dick - Faith of Our Fathers (1967)
Philip K Dick - The Electric Ant (1969)
Gordon Dickson - The Monkey Wrench (1951)
Thomas M Disch - The Brave Little Toaster (1980)
Cory Doctorow - I, Robot (2005)
Cory Doctorow - When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006)
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885)
Andy Duncan - The Chief Designer (2001)
George Effinger - Schrodinger's Kitten (1988)
Greg Egan - Learning To Be Me (1990)
Greg Egan - The Caress (1990)
Greg Egan - Blood Sisters (1991)
Greg Egan - The Moat (1991)
Greg Egan - Dust (1992)
Greg Egan - Wang's Carpets (1995)
Greg Egan - Luminous (1995)
Greg Egan - Oceanic (1998)
Greg Egan - Border Guards (1999)
Greg Egan - Steve Fever (2007)
Harlan Ellison - 'Repent Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman (1965)
Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967)
Harlan Ellison - Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967)
Harlan Ellison - A Boy and His Dog (1969)
Harlan Ellison - Along the Scenic Route (1969)
Harlan Ellison - The Deathbird (1973)
Harlan Ellison - Adrift Just off the Islets of Langerhans (1974)
Harlan Ellison - Jeffty Is Five (1977)
Harlan Ellison - Paladin Of the Lost Hour (1985)
Carol Emshwiller - Creature (2001)
Sheila Finch - Reading the Bones (1998)
Michael F Flynn - Melodies Of the Heart (1994)
Michael F Flynn - House of Dreams (1997)
Michael F Flynn - Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth (2006)
E M Forster - The Machine Stops (1909)
Neil Gaiman - How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2006)
William Gibson - Johnny Mnemonic (1981)
William Gibson - The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
William Gibson - Burning Chrome (1982)
William Gibson - New Rose Hotel (1984)
William Gibson - The Winter Market (1985)
William Gibson - Skinner's Room (1990)
Gibson/Shirley - The Belonging Kind (1981)
Gibson/Sterling - Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983)
Gibson/Swanwick - Dogfight (1985)
Tom Godwin - The Cold Equations (1954)
Lisa Goldstein - Tourists (1985)
Steven Gould - Peaches for Mad Molly (1988)
Eileen Gunn - Stable Strategies for Middle Management (1988)
Joe Haldeman - The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
Joe Haldeman - None So Blind (1994)
Edmond Hamilton - He That Hath Wings (1938)
Edmond Hamilton - What's It Like Out There? (1952)
Elizabeth Hand - Echo (2006)
Harry Harrison - The Streets Of Ashkelon (1962)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)
Robert A Heinlein - Life-Line (1939)
Robert A Heinlein - Misfit (1939)
Robert A Heinlein - The Roads Must Roll (1940)
Robert A Heinlein - Requiem (1940)
Robert A Heinlein - Coventry (1940)
Robert A Heinlein - If This Goes On (1940)
Robert A Heinlein - By His Bootstraps (1941)
Robert A Heinlein - And He Built a Crooked House (1941)
Robert A Heinlein - The Green Hills Of Earth (1947)
Robert A Heinlein - Gentlemen, Be Seated! (1948)
Robert A Heinlein - The Long Watch (1949)
Robert A Heinlein - The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
Robert A Heinlein - All You Zombies (1959)
John G Hemry - Small Moments in Time (2004)
E T A Hoffman - The Sandman (1816)
Julian Huxley - The Tissue-Culture King (1926)
Alexander Jablokov - Living Will (1991)
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (1948)
Bill Johnson - We Will Drink a Fish Together (1997)
Kij Johnson - The Evolution of Trickster Stories… (2007)
James Patrick Kelly - Rat (1986)
James Patrick Kelly - Mr Boy (1990)
James Patrick Kelly - Pogrom (1991)
James Patrick Kelly - Think Like a Dinosaur (1995)
James Patrick Kelly - 10 to 16 to 1 (1999)
James Patrick Kelly - Burn (2006)
Daniel Keyes - Flowers For Algernon (1959)
Stephen King - I Am the Doorway (1971)
Stephen King - The Mist (1980)
Rudyard Kipling - With the Night Mail (1905)
Ellen Klages - Ringing Up Baby (2006)
Damon Knight - The Country Of the Kind (1956)
C M Kornbluth - The Little Black Bag (1950)
C M Kornbluth - The Marching Morons (1951)
Nancy Kress - Out of All Them Bright Stars (1985)
Nancy Kress - The Price of Oranges (1989)
Nancy Kress - Beggars In Spain (1991)
Nancy Kress - The Flowers of Aulit Prison (1996)
Nancy Kress - Fountain of Age (2007)
Henry Kuttner - The Proud Robot (1943)
Kuttner & Moore - The Twonky (1942)
Kuttner & Moore - Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943)
Kuttner & Moore - Vintage Season (1976)
R A Lafferty - Narrow Valley (1966)
R A Lafferty - Primary Education of the Camiroi (1966)
Geoffrey Landis - A Walk In the Sun (1991)
Geoffrey A Landis - Falling Onto Mars (2002)
Ursula K Le Guin - Semley's Necklace (1964)
Ursula K Le Guin - Nine Lives (1969)
Ursula K Le Guin - The Word for World is Forest (1972)
Ursula K Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
Ursula K Le Guin - The Day Before the Revolution (1974)
Ursula K Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987)
Ursula K Le Guin - Forgiveness Day (1994)
Ursula K Le Guin - The Matter Of Seggri (1994)
Fritz Leiber - Coming Attraction (1950)
Fritz Leiber - Space-Time for Springers (1958)
Fritz Leiber - Gonna Roll the Bones (1967)
Fritz Leiber - Catch That Zeppelin! (1975)
Murray Leinster - Proxima Centauri (1935)
Murray Leinster - First Contact (1945)
David D Levine - Tk'tk'tk (2005)
Jack London - A Thousand Deaths (1899)
Jack London - The Red One (1918)
Barry Longyear - Enemy Mine (1979)
H P Lovecraft - Dagon (1919)
H P Lovecraft - The Colour Out of Space (1927)
Katherine Maclaine - All Kinds of Reasons (2007)
Ian MacLeod - Starship Day (1995)
Ken MacLeod - Who's Afraid of Wolf 359 (2007)
Barry N Malzberg - A Galaxy Called Rome (1974)
Barry N Malzberg - Corridors (1982)
George R R Martin - Sandkings (1979)
David Marusek - The Wedding Album (1999)
Richard Matheson - Born Of Man and Woman (1950)
Richard Matheson - Mantage (1959)
Paul McAuley - Gene Wars (1991)
Ian McDonald - Tendeleo's Story (2000)
Ian McDonald - The Djinn's Wife (2006)
Maureen F McHugh - The Cost to be Wise (1996)
Vonda N McIntyre - Of Mist, Grass and Sand (1973)
Paul Melko - The Walls of the Universe (2006)
Judith Merril - That Only a Mother (1948)
Abraham Merritt - The People and the Pit (1919)
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1955)
Edward Page Mitchell - The Clock that Went Backwards (1881)
David Moles - Finisterra (2007)
Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man (1966)
C L Moore - Shambleau (1933)
Pat Murphy - Rachel In Love (1987)
Linda Nagata - Godesses (2000)
Kim Newman - Ubermensch! (1991)
Larry Niven - Neutron Star (1966)
Larry Niven - A Relic Of Empire (1966)
Larry Niven - Bordered In Black (1966)
Larry Niven - The Jigsaw Man (1967)
Larry Niven - Inconstant Moon (1971)
Larry Niven - Cloak Of Anarchy (1972)
Larry Niven - The Hole Man (1974)
Jerry Oltion - Abandon in Place (1996)
Alexei Panshin - How Can We Sink If We Can't Fly? (1971)
Severna Park - The Cure for Everything (2000)
H Beam Piper - Omnilingual (1957)
P J Plauger - Child of All Seasons (1975)
Edgar Allan Poe - A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
Edgar Allan Poe - Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Frederik Pohl - The Tunnel Under the World (1955)
Frederik Pohl - Day Million (1966)
Frederik Pohl - The Gold at the Starbow's End (1972)
Frederik Pohl - Fermi and Frost (1985)
Frederik Pohl - Outnumbering the Dead (1991)
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue (1975)
Mike Resnick - Kirinyaga (1988)
Mike Resnick - For I Have Touched the Sky (1989)
Mike Resnick - One Perfect Morning, With Jackals (1991)
Mike Resnick - Seven Views Of Olduvai Gorge (1994)
Mike Resnick - The 43 Antarean Dynasties (1997)
Mike Resnick - Travels With My Cats (2004)
Kim Stanley Robinson - The Lucky Strike (1984)
Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars (1985)
Kim Stanley Robinson - A History Of the Twentieth Century (1991)
Spider Robinson - Melancholy Elephants (1982)
Benjamin Rosenbaum - The House Beyond Your Sky (2006)
Kristine Rusch - The Gallery Of His Dreams (1991)
Joanna Russ - When It Changed (1972)
Joanna Russ - Souls (1982)
Eric Frank Russell - The Ultimate Invader (1953)
Eric Frank Russell - Allamagoosa (1955)
James H Schmitz - Grandpa (1955)
Bob Shaw - Light of Other Days (1966)
Robert Sheckley - The Leech (1952)
Robert Sheckley - Ghost V (1954)
Mary Shelley - The Mortal Immortal (1834)
Lucius Shepard - Barnacle Bill the Spacer (1992)
Lewis Shiner - White City (1990)
Shiner/Sterling - Mozart in Mirrorshades (1985)
William Shunn - Inclination (2006)
Robert Silverberg - Nightwings (1968)
Robert Silverberg - Passengers (1968)
Robert Silverberg - Sundance (1969)
Robert Silverberg - Born With the Dead (1974)
Robert Silverberg - Sailing to Byzantium (1985)
Robert Silverberg - Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another (1989)
Clifford D Simak - Desertion (1944)
Clifford D Simak - Huddling Place (1944)
Clifford D Simak - The Big Front Yard (1958)
Dan Simmons - Carrion Comfort (1983)
Henry Slesar - Examination Day (1958)
Cordwainer Smith - Scanners Live In Vain (1950)
Cordwainer Smith - The Game Of Rat and Dragon (1955)
Cordwainer Smith - Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (1961)
Cordwainer Smith - A Planet Named Shayol (1961)
Cordwainer Smith - The Ballad Of Lost C'Mell (1962)
Norman Spinrad - Carcinoma Angels (1967)
Brian Stableford - The Magic Bullet (1989)
Allen Steele - The Death Of Captain Future (1995)
Allen Steele - ...Where Angels Fear to Tread (1997)
Bruce Sterling - Swarm (1982)
Bruce Sterling - Flowers of Edo (1987)
Bruce Sterling - Bicycle Repairman (1996)
Bruce Sterling - Taklamakan (1998)
Frank R Stockton - A Tale of Negative Gravity (1884)
Charles Stross - The Concrete Jungle (2004)
Charles Stross - Missile Gap (2006)
Theodore Sturgeon - Microcosmic God (1941)
Theodore Sturgeon - Killdozer! (1944)
Theodore Sturgeon - A Saucer of Loneliness (1953)
Theodore Sturgeon - And Now the News… (1956)
Theodore Sturgeon - Slow Sculpture (1970)
Michael Swanwick - The Edge Of the World (1989)
Michael Swanwick - Griffin's Egg (1991)
Michael Swanwick - The Very Pulse of the Machine (1998)
Michael Swanwick - Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (1999)
Michael Swanwick - The Dog Said Bow-Wow (2001)
Michael Swanwick - Slow Life (2002)
Michael Swanwick - Legions in Time (2003)
William Tenn - Brooklyn Project (1948)
William Tenn - The Liberation of Earth (1953)
James Tiptree Jr - And I Awoke and Found Me Here… (1972)
James Tiptree Jr - The Women Men Don't See (1973)
James Tiptree Jr - The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973)
James Tiptree Jr - Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death (1973)
James Tiptree Jr - Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976)
James Tiptree Jr - The Screwfly Solution (1977)
Harry Turtledove - The Road Not Taken (1985)
A E van Vogt - Black Destroyer (1939)
A E van Vogt - The Weapon Shop (1942)
A E van Vogt - The Monster (1948)
Jack Vance - Meet Miss Universe (1955)
Jack Vance - The Moon Moth (1961)
John Varley - Overdrawn At the Memory Bank (1976)
John Varley - The Phantom Of Kansas (1976)
John Varley - Air Raid (1977)
John Varley - In the Hall of the Martian Kings (1977)
John Varley - The Persistence of Vision (1978)
John Varley - The Pusher (1981)
John Varley - PRESS ENTER [ ] (1985)
Jules & Michel Verne - In the Year 2889 (1889)
Vernor Vinge - Fast Times At Fairmont High (2001)
Vernor Vinge - The Cookie Monster (2003)
Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron (1961)
Howard Waldrop - The Ugly Chickens (1980)
Howard Waldrop - Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? (1988)
Lawrence Watt-Evans - Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (1987)
Stanley Weinbaum - A Martian Odyssey (1934)
H G Wells - In the Abyss (1896)
H G Wells - The Star (1897)
H G Wells - The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)
H G Wells - The New Accelerator (1901)
Kate Wilhelm - Forever Yours, Anna (1987)
Walter Jon Williams - Video Star (1986)
Walter Jon Williams - Surfacing (1988)
Walter Jon Williams - Daddy's World (1999)
Walter Jon Williams - The Green Leopard Plague (2003)
Jack Williamson - With Folded Hands (1947)
Jack Williamson - The Ultimate Earth (2000)
Connie Willis - Fire Watch (1982)
Connie Willis - Chance (1986)
Connie Willis - The Last Of the Winnebagos (1988)
Connie Willis - At the Rialto (1989)
Connie Willis - Cibola (1990)
Connie Willis - Jack (1991)
Connie Willis - Even the Queen (1992)
Connie Willis - Death On the Nile (1993)
Connie Willis - The Soul Selects Her Own Society… (1996)
Connie Willis - Newsletter (1997)
Robert Charles Wilson - The Cartesian Theater (2006)
Robert Charles Wilson - Julian: A Christmas Story (2006)
Gene Wolfe - Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories (1970)
Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1972)
Gene Wolfe - The Death of Doctor Island (1973)
Gene Wolfe - Seven American Nights (1978)
John Wyndham - Survival (1952)
Timothy Zahn - Cascade Point (1983)
Roger Zelazny - A Rose For Ecclesiastes (1963)
Roger Zelazny - The Doors Of His Face, the Lamps Of His Mouth (1965)
Roger Zelazny - He Who Shapes (1965)
Roger Zelazny - For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
Roger Zelazny - Home Is the Hangman (1975)
Roger Zelazny - 24 Views Of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai (1985)
Roger Zelazny - Permafrost (1986)
Pamela Zoline - The Heat Death of the Universe (1967)
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