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Next 100 SF Short Fiction

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

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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)

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	Give Me English	Ai Jiang	ss	2022
144	Universe	Robert A. Heinlein	na	1941
145	The Empress of Mars	Kage Baker	ss	2003
146	When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth	Cory Doctorow	nv	2006
147	Hothouse	Brian W. Aldiss	nv	1961
148	The Roads Must Roll	Robert A. Heinlein	nv	1940
149	The God Engines	John Scalzi	na	2009
150	Speech Sounds	Octavia E. Butler	ss	1983
151	Spar	Kij Johnson	ss	2009
152	The Cookie Monster	Vernor Vinge	na	2003
153	The Marching Morons	C. M. Kornbluth	nv	1951
154	Robbie	Isaac Asimov	ss	1940
155	Nightwings	Robert Silverberg	na	1968
156	The Queen of Air and Darkness	Poul Anderson	na	1971
157	Swarm	Bruce Sterling	nv	1982
158	Yellow Card Man	Paolo Bacigalupi	nv	2006
159	The Fluted Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi	nv	2003
160	Second Person, Present Tense	Daryl Gregory	nv	2005
161	The Ugly Little Boy	Isaac Asimov	nv	1958
162	Pump Six	Paolo Bacigalupi	nv	2008
163	Dark Integers	Greg Egan	nv	2007
164	Even the Queen	Connie Willis	ss	1992
165	The Million Year Picnic	Ray Bradbury	ss	1946
166	Sailing to Byzantium	Robert Silverberg	na	1985
167	The Postman	David Brin	na	1982
168	Hardfought	Greg Bear	na	1983
169	…And Then There Were None	Eric Frank Russell	na	1951
170	The Keys to December	Roger Zelazny	nv	1966
171	The Little Goddess	Ian McDonald	na	2005
172	Home is the Hangman	Roger Zelazny	na	1975
173	Gonna Roll the Bones	Fritz Leiber	nv	1967
174	A Pail of Air	Fritz Leiber	ss	1951
175	The Hemingway Hoax	Joe Haldeman	na	1990
176	Seven American Nights	Gene Wolfe	na	1978
177	Saucer of Loneliness	Theodore Sturgeon	ss	1953
178	Missile Gap	Charles Stross	na	2006
179	Understand	Ted Chiang	nv	1991
180	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight	Ursula K. Le Guin	nv	1987
181	The Ugly Chickens	Howard Waldrop	nv	1980
182	The Lifecycle of Software Objects	Ted Chiang	na	2010
183	Allamagoosa	Eric Frank Russell	ss	1955
184	Or All the Seas with Oysters	Avram Davidson	ss	1954
185	The Ray-Gun: A Love Story	James Alan Gardner	nv	2008
186	Burn	James Patrick Kelly	na	2006
187	With Morning Comes Mistfall	George R. R. Martin	ss	1973
188	Travels With My Cats	Mike Resnick	ss	2004
189	Bronte's Egg	Richard Chwedyk	na	2002
190	The Erdmann Nexus	Nancy Kress	na	2008
191	Tideline	Elizabeth Bear	ss	2007
192	Emergency Skin	N.K. Jemisin	nv	2019
193	The Men Who Murdered Mohammed	Alfred Bester	ss	1958
194	Liar!	Isaac Asimov	ss	1941
195	Learning To Be Me	Greg Egan	ss	1990
196	The Island of Doctor Death	Gene Wolfe	ss	1970
197	Passengers	Robert Silverberg	ss	1968
198	Coming Attraction	Fritz Leiber	ss	1950
199	Terminal Beach	J. G. Ballard	ss	1964
200	All Summer in a Day	Ray Bradbury	ss	1954