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*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)
*sa: Story adaptation of a play/screenplay; *ss: Short story (4-20 pages, 1,000-7,499 words)
101 | Mimsy Were the Borogoves | Kuttner & Moore | nv | 1943 |
102 | Aye, and Gomorrah | Samuel R. Delany | ss | 1967 |
103 | The Things | Peter Watts | ss | 2010 |
104 | Neutron Star | Larry Niven | nv | 1966 |
105 | Movement | Nancy Fulda | ss | 2011 |
106 | It's a Good Life | Jerome Bixby | ss | 1953 |
107 | The Dog Said Bow-Wow | Michael Swanwick | ss | 2001 |
108 | He Who Shapes | Roger Zelazny | na | 1965 |
109 | The Veldt | Ray Bradbury | ss | 1950 |
110 | Mono No Aware | Ken Liu | ss | 2012 |
111 | The Martian Obelisk | Linda Nagata | ss | 2017 |
112 | Think Like a Dinosaur | James Patrick Kelly | nv | 1995 |
113 | For a Breath I Tarry | Roger Zelazny | nv | 1966 |
114 | The Island | Peter Watts | nv | 2009 |
115 | Diamond Dogs | Alastair Reynolds | na | 2001 |
116 | Seventy-two Letters | Ted Chiang | na | 2000 |
117 | R&R | Lucius Shepard | na | 1986 |
118 | Time Was | Ian McDonald | na | 2018 |
119 | Microcosmic God | Theodore Sturgeon | nv | 1941 |
120 | The Death of Doctor Island | Gene Wolfe | na | 1973 |
121 | The Ship Who Sang | Anne McCaffrey | nv | 1961 |
122 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | nv | 1942 |
123 | The Lady Astronaut of Mars | Mary Robinette Kowal | nv | 2012 |
124 | Second Variety | Philip K Dick | nv | 1953 |
125 | Scanners Live in Vain | Cordwainer Smith | nv | 1950 |
126 | A Series of Steaks | Vina Jie-Min Prasad | nv | 2017 |
127 | What We Found | Geoff Ryman | nv | 2011 |
128 | Air Raid | John Varley | ss | 1977 |
129 | The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling | Ted Chiang | nv | 2013 |
130 | Beyond the Aquila Rift | Alastair Reynolds | nv | 2005 |
131 | The Star Pit | Samuel R. Delany | na | 1967 |
132 | Yesterday's Kin | Nancy Kress | na | 2014 |
133 | Inside Job | Connie Willis | na | 2005 |
134 | The Day Before the Revolution | Ursula K. Le Guin | ss | 1974 |
135 | And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead | Brooke Bolander | nv | 2015 |
136 | Bears Discover Fire | Terry Bisson | ss | 1990 |
137 | And He Built a Crooked House | Robert A. Heinlein | nv | 1941 |
138 | Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge | Mike Resnick | na | 1994 |
139 | Zima Blue | Alastair Reynolds | ss | 2005 |
140 | The Concrete Jungle | Charles Stross | na | 2004 |
141 | First Contact | Murray Leinster | nv | 1945 |
142 | The Little Black Bag | C. M. Kornbluth | nv | 1950 |
143 | Universe | Robert A. Heinlein | na | 1941 |
144 | The Empress of Mars | Kage Baker | ss | 2003 |
145 | When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth | Cory Doctorow | nv | 2006 |
146 | Hothouse | Brian W. Aldiss | nv | 1961 |
147 | The Roads Must Roll | Robert A. Heinlein | nv | 1940 |
148 | The God Engines | John Scalzi | na | 2009 |
149 | Speech Sounds | Octavia E. Butler | ss | 1983 |
150 | Spar | Kij Johnson | ss | 2009 |
151 | The Cookie Monster | Vernor Vinge | na | 2003 |
152 | The Marching Morons | C. M. Kornbluth | nv | 1951 |
153 | Robbie | Isaac Asimov | ss | 1940 |
154 | Nightwings | Robert Silverberg | na | 1968 |
155 | The Queen of Air and Darkness | Poul Anderson | na | 1971 |
156 | Swarm | Bruce Sterling | nv | 1982 |
157 | Yellow Card Man | Paolo Bacigalupi | nv | 2006 |
158 | The Fluted Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | nv | 2003 |
159 | Second Person, Present Tense | Daryl Gregory | nv | 2005 |
160 | The Ugly Little Boy | Isaac Asimov | nv | 1958 |
161 | Pump Six | Paolo Bacigalupi | nv | 2008 |
162 | Dark Integers | Greg Egan | nv | 2007 |
163 | Even the Queen | Connie Willis | ss | 1992 |
164 | The Million Year Picnic | Ray Bradbury | ss | 1946 |
165 | Sailing to Byzantium | Robert Silverberg | na | 1985 |
166 | The Postman | David Brin | na | 1982 |
167 | Hardfought | Greg Bear | na | 1983 |
168 | And Then There Were None | Eric Frank Russell | na | 1951 |
169 | The Keys to December | Roger Zelazny | nv | 1966 |
170 | The Little Goddess | Ian McDonald | na | 2005 |
171 | Home is the Hangman | Roger Zelazny | na | 1975 |
172 | Gonna Roll the Bones | Fritz Leiber | nv | 1967 |
173 | A Pail of Air | Fritz Leiber | ss | 1951 |
174 | The Hemingway Hoax | Joe Haldeman | na | 1990 |
175 | Seven American Nights | Gene Wolfe | na | 1978 |
176 | Saucer of Loneliness | Theodore Sturgeon | ss | 1953 |
177 | Missile Gap | Charles Stross | na | 2006 |
178 | Understand | Ted Chiang | nv | 1991 |
179 | Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight | Ursula K. Le Guin | nv | 1987 |
180 | The Ugly Chickens | Howard Waldrop | nv | 1980 |
181 | The Lifecycle of Software Objects | Ted Chiang | na | 2010 |
182 | Allamagoosa | Eric Frank Russell | ss | 1955 |
183 | Or All the Seas with Oysters | Avram Davidson | ss | 1954 |
184 | The Ray-Gun: A Love Story | James Alan Gardner | nv | 2008 |
185 | Burn | James Patrick Kelly | na | 2006 |
186 | With Morning Comes Mistfall | George R. R. Martin | ss | 1973 |
187 | Travels With My Cats | Mike Resnick | ss | 2004 |
188 | Bronte's Egg | Richard Chwedyk | na | 2002 |
189 | The Erdmann Nexus | Nancy Kress | na | 2008 |
190 | Tideline | Elizabeth Bear | ss | 2007 |
191 | Emergency Skin | N.K. Jemisin | nv | 2019 |
192 | The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | Alfred Bester | ss | 1958 |
193 | Liar! | Isaac Asimov | ss | 1941 |
194 | Learning To Be Me | Greg Egan | ss | 1990 |
195 | The Island of Doctor Death | Gene Wolfe | ss | 1970 |
196 | Passengers | Robert Silverberg | ss | 1968 |
197 | Coming Attraction | Fritz Leiber | ss | 1950 |
198 | Terminal Beach | J. G. Ballard | ss | 1964 |
199 | All Summer in a Day | Ray Bradbury | ss | 1954 |
200 | The Country of the Kind | Damon Knight | ss | 1956 |
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