Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 SF Short Fiction

*na: Novella (46-100 pages, 17,500-39,999 words); *nv: Novelette (21-45 pages, 7,500-17,499 words);
*sa: Story adaptation of a play/screenplay; *ss: Short story (4-20 pages, 1,000-7,499 words)

Top 100 SF Short Fiction

The Top 100 sci-fi short stories, novelettes, and novellas

1	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	nv	1959
2	Nightfall	Isaac Asimov	nv	1941
3	Story of Your Life	Ted Chiang	na	1998
4	The Nine Billion Names of God	Arthur C. Clarke	ss	1953
5	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	Ursula K. Le Guin	ss	1973
6	Exhalation	Ted Chiang	ss	2008
7	'Repent Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman	Harlan Ellison	ss	1965
8	Hell is the Absence of God	Ted Chiang	nv	2001
9	A Rose For Ecclesiastes	Roger Zelazny	nv	1963
10	I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	ss	1967
11	The Bicentennial Man	Isaac Asimov	nv	1976
12	The Star	Arthur C. Clarke	ss	1955
13	The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate	Ted Chiang	nv	2007
14	Sandkings	George R. R. Martin	nv	1979
15	Houston, Houston, Do You Read?	James Tiptree, Jr.	na	1976
16	Who Goes There?	John W. Campbell	na	1938
17	The Persistence of Vision	John Varley	na	1978
18	Fondly Fahrenheit	Alfred Bester	nv	1954
19	A Boy and His Dog	Harlan Ellison	nv	1969
20	The Fifth Head of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe	nv	1972
21	The Man Who Sold the Moon	Robert A. Heinlein	na	1950
22	A Sound of Thunder	Ray Bradbury	ss	1952
23	Blood Music	Greg Bear	nv	1983
24	All Systems Red	Martha Wells	na	2017
25	The Only Harmless Great Thing	Brooke Bolander	nv	2018
26	Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler	nv	1984
27	Beggars in Spain	Nancy Kress	na	1991
28	The Cold Equations	Tom Godwin	nv	1954
29	All You Zombies	Robert A. Heinlein	ss	1959
30	Johnny Mnemonic	William Gibson	ss	1981
31	The Women Men Don't See	James Tiptree, Jr.	nv	1973
32	The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree, Jr.	nv	1977
33	And Then There Were (N-One)	Sarah Pinsker	na	2017
34	Vintage Season	Kuttner & Moore	na	1946
35	The Lottery	Shirley Jackson	ss	1948
36	The Girl Who Was Plugged In	James Tiptree, Jr.	nv	1973
37	The Mountains of Mourning	Lois M Bujold	na	1989
38	There Will Come Soft Rains	Ray Bradbury	ss	1950
39	A Song for Lya	George R. R. Martin	na	1974
40	Artificial Condition	Martha Wells	na	2018
41	The Last Question	Isaac Asimov	ss	1956
42	Tower of Babylon	Ted Chiang	nv	1990
43	Light of Other Days	Bob Shaw	ss	1966
44	It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning	Ted Chiang	ss	2019
45	Harrison Bergeron	Kurt Vonnegut	ss	1961
46	Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience	Rebecca Roanhorse	ss	2017
47	A Martian Odyssey	Stanley Weinbaum	nv	1934
48	Time Considered as a Helix…	Samuel R. Delany	nv	1968
49	We Can Remember It for You Wholesale	Philip K Dick	nv	1966
50	Burning Chrome	William Gibson	nv	1982
51	The Man Who Ended History	Ken Liu	na	2011
52	After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall	Nancy Kress	na	2012
53	By His Bootstraps	Robert A. Heinlein	na	1941
54	Cat Pictures Please	Naomi Kritzer	ss	2015
55	The Big Front Yard	Clifford D. Simak	na	1958
56	The Calorie Man	Paolo Bacigalupi	ss	2005
57	Baby is Three	Theodore Sturgeon	na	1952
58	Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock	na	1966
59	PRESS ENTER [ ]	John Varley	na	1985
60	The Pill	Meg Elison	nv	2020
61	How to Talk to Girls at Parties	Neil Gaiman	ss	2006
62	The Last of the Winnebagos	Connie Willis	na	1988
63	True Names	Vernor Vinge	na	1981
64	Arena	Fredric Brown	ss	1944
65	Surface Tension	James Blish	nv	1952
66	Lest We Forget	Elizabeth Bear	ss	2019
67	Fire Watch	Connie Willis	nv	1982
68	Silently and Very Fast	Catherynne M. Valente	na	2011
69	The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi	Pat Cadigan	nv	2012
70	The Deathbird	Harlan Ellison	nv	1973
71	The Game of Rat and Dragon	Cordwainer Smith	ss	1955
72	Day Million	Frederik Pohl	ss	1966
73	The Last Castle	Jack Vance	na	1966
74	The People of Sand and Slag	Paolo Bacigalupi	nv	2004
75	24 Views of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai	Roger Zelazny	na	1985
76	Great Work of Time	John Crowley	na	1989
77	The Green Hills of Earth	Robert A. Heinlein	ss	1947
78	The Dragon Masters	Jack Vance	na	1962
79	The Moon Moth	Jack Vance	na	1961
80	The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag	Robert A. Heinlein	na	1942
81	Palimpsest	Charles Stross	na	2009
82	Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach	Kelly Robson	na	2018
83	New Light on the Drake Equation	Ian R. MacLeod	na	2001
84	Jeffty is Five	Harlan Ellison	ss	1977
85	The Sentinel	Arthur C. Clarke	ss	1951
86	Liking What You See: A Documentary	Ted Chiang	na	2002
87	The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth	Roger Zelazny	nv	1965
88	Inconstant Moon	Larry Niven	nv	1971
89	The Ballad of Lost C'Mell	Cordwainer Smith	nv	1962
90	Lobsters	Charles Stross	nv	2001
91	Touring with the Alien	Carolyn Ives Gilman	nv	2016
92	Kiss Me Twice	Mary Robinette Kowal	na	2011
93	Wind Will Rove	Sarah Pinsker	nv	2017
94	When It Changed	Joanna Russ	ss	1972
95	Enemy Mine	Barry B. Longyear	na	1979
96	The Martian Way	Isaac Asimov	na	1952
97	Proof by Induction	José Pablo Iriarte	ss	2021
98	Riders of the Purple Wage	Philip Jose Farmer	na	1967
99	Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death	James Tiptree, Jr.	ss	1973
100	Fast Times At Fairmont High	Vernor Vinge	na	2001