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Stories from F & SF

L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Gift of God (F & SF, Winter 1950)
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L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: Elephas Frumenti (F & SF, Winter 1950)
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L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Better Mousetrap (F & SF, December 1950)
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L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: More Than Skin Deep (F & SF, April 1951)
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Arthur C. Clarke: Superiority (F & SF, August 1951)
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L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: Beasts of Bourbon (F & SF, October 1951)
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Manly Wade Wellman: O Ugly Bird! (F & SF, December 1951)
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Manly Wade Wellman: The Desrick on Yandro (F & SF, June 1952)
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L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: The Ancestral Amethyst (F & SF, August 1952)
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Reginald Bretnor: Cat (F & SF, February 1953)
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Philip K. Dick: Roog (F & SF, February 1953)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Vandy, Vandy (F & SF, March 1953)
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Reginald Bretnor: Maybe Just a Little One (F & SF, April 1953)
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Manly Wade Wellman: One Other (F & SF, August 1953)
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Theodore Sturgeon: The Silken-Swift (F & SF, November 1953)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Call Me From the Valley (F & SF, March 1954)
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Gordon R. Dickson: Miss Prinks (F & SF, June 1954)
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Manly Wade Wellman: The Little Black Train (F & SF, August 1954)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Shiver in the Pines (F & SF, February 1955)
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Poul Anderson: Time Patrol (F & SF, May 1955)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Walk Like a Mountain (F & SF, June 1955)
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Alice Eleanor Jones: Created He Them (F & SF, June 1955)
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Gordon R. Dickson: Our First Death (F & SF, August 1955)
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Manly Wade Wellman: On the Hills and Everywhere (F & SF, January 1956)
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Avram Davidson: King’s Evil (F & SF, October 1956)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Old Devlins Was A-Waiting (F & SF, February 1957)
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Murray Leinster: Anthropological Note (F & SF, April 1957)
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Robert A. Heinlein: The Menace from Earth (F & SF, August 1957)
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Gordon R. Dickson: St. Dragon and the George (F & SF, September 1957)
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Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson: Full Pack (F & SF, October 1957)
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Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (F & SF #4, 1958)
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Robert Sheckley: The Prize of Peril (F & SF, May 1958)
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Carol Emshwiller: Pelt (F & SF, November 1958)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Nine Yards of Other Cloth (F & SF, November 1958)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1959.
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Robert A. Heinlein: "All You Zombies …" (F & SF, March 1959)
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Daniel Keyes: Flowers For Algernon (F & SF, April 1959)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1960.

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Theodore Sturgeon: The Man Who Lost the Sea (F & SF, October 1959)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1960.
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Reginald Bretnor: Bug-Getter (F & SF, January 1960)
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Keith Laumer: Combat Unit (F & SF, November 1960)
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Keith Laumer: Hybrid (F & SF, November 1961)
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Manly Wade Wellman: Wonder as I Wander (F & SF, March 1962)
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Kit Reed: The New You (F & SF, September 1962)
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Jack Vance: Green Magic (F & SF, June 1963)
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Ron Goulart: McNamara’s Fish (F & SF, July 1963)
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Ray Nelson: Eight O’Clock in the Morning (F & SF, November 1963)
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Roger Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes (F & SF, November 1963)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1964.
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Donald E. Westlake: Nackles (F & SF, January 1964)
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Larry Niven: Becalmed in Hell (F & SF, July 1965)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1965.
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Christopher Anvil: Sabotage (F & SF, December 1966)
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Joe L. Hensley: Argent Blood (F & SF, August 1967)
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Keith Laumer: Once There Was a Giant (F & SF, November 1968)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1968.
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Zenna Henderson: The Indelible Kind (F & SF, December 1968)
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Fritz Leiber: Ship of Shadows (F & SF, July 1969)
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Hugo for Best Novella 1970.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1969.
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Larry Niven: The Flight of the Horse [vt Get a Horse] (F & SF, October 1969)
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Philip K. Dick: The Electric Ant (F & SF, October 1969)
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Robert Silverberg: After the Myths Went Home (F & SF, November 1969)
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Robert Silverberg: Ishmael in Love (F & SF, July 1970)
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Christopher Anvil: The Throne and the Usurper (F & SF, November 1970)
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Howard L. Myers: Fit For a Dog (F & SF, September 1971)
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Howard L. Myers: All Around the Universe (F & SF, January 1972)
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James Tiptree, Jr.: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side (F & SF, March 1972)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1973.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1972.
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David Drake: Arclight (F & SF, April 1973)
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Jerry Pournelle: Enforcer (F & SF, June 1974)
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David Drake: Something Had to Be Done (F & SF, February 1975)
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Poul Anderson: Gibraltar Falls (F & SF, October 1975)
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David Drake: Children of the Forest (F & SF, November 1976)
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Harlan Ellison: Working with the Little People (F & SF, July 1977)
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C. J. Cherryh: Cassandra (F & SF, October 1978)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1979.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1978.
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Stephen R. Donaldson: Mythological Beast (F & SF, January 1979)
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Bob Leman: Loob (F & SF, April 1979)
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George Zebrowski: The Word Sweep (F & SF, August 1979)
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Jane Yolen: Angelica (F & SF, December 1979)
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John Kessel: Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso (F & SF, January 1980)
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Lewis Shiner: Stuff of Dreams (F & SF, April 1981)
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’What is more addictive than the inside of our own heads?"
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John Kessel: Not Responsible! Park and Lock It! (F & SF, September 1981)
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Thomas Disch: Understanding Human Behavior (F & SF, February 1982)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1982.
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Charles Sheffield: The Devil of Malkirk (F & SF, June 1982)
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Christopher Anvil: Superbiometalemon (F & SF, July 1982)
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Lewis Shiner: Brujo (F & SF, August 1982)
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’Casteñeda-style magic in 1980s Santa Fe"
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Michael Shea: The Horror on the #33 (F & SF, August 1982)
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John Kessel: Another Orphan (F & SF, September 1982)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1983.
Nebula for Best Novella 1982.
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Rudy Rucker: The Man Who Ate Himself (F & SF, December 1982)
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Black Air (F & SF, March 1983)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1983.
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Joe Haldeman: Manifest Destiny (F & SF, October 1983)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Lewis Shiner: Nine Hard Questions about the Nature of the Universe (F & SF, December 1983)
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’More flying saucers, sex, and quantum physics."
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Ridge Running (F & SF, January 1984)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
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Donald E. Westlake: Hydra (F & SF, March 1984)
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Lucius Shepard: Salvador (F & SF, April 1984)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Lewis Shiner: Till Human Voices Wake Us (F & SF, May 1984)
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’A mad scientist, a Caribbean island, a mermaid."
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Nancy Kress: Explanations, Inc. (F & SF, July 1984)
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Ben Bova: Isolation Area (F & SF, October 1984)
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Lucius Shepard: The Night of White Bhairab (F & SF, October 1984)
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Jack Dann: The Black Horn (F & SF, November 1984)
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Rudy Rucker: Monument to the Third International (F & SF, December 1984)
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Lucius Shepard: The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule (F & SF, December 1984)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 1985.
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Lucius Shepard: The Jaguar Hunter (F & SF, May 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
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Rudy Rucker: Soft Death (F & SF, September 1986)
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Elizabeth Moon: If Nudity Offends You (F & SF, February 1988)
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Nancy Kress: Spillage (F & SF, April 1988)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Second Edition.
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Rudy Rucker & Paul Di Filippo: Instability (F & SF, September 1988)
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Mike Resnick: Kirinyaga (F & SF, November 1988)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1989.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
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Paul J. McAuley: Inheritance (F & SF, November 1988)
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Delia Sherman: Miss Carstairs and the Merman (F & SF, January 1989)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Third Edition.
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Charles Sheffield: Out of Copyright (F & SF, May 1989)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Mike Resnick: For I Have Touched the Sky (F & SF, December 1989)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1990.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Paul Di Filippo: Little Worker (F & SF, December 1989)
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Suzette Haden Elgin: What the EPA Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them (F & SF, March 1990)
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Mike Resnick: Frankie the Spook (F & SF, October 1990)
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John Kessel: Buffalo (F & SF, January 1991)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1992.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1991.
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Kathe Koja: The Neglected Garden (F & SF, April 1991)
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Mike Resnick: Winter Solstice (F & SF, October 1991)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1992.
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Ian R. MacLeod: The Perfect Stranger (F & SF, December 1991)
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Pat Murphy: Going Through Changes (F & SF, April 1992)
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Ray Vukcevich: Mom’s Little Friends (F & SF, April 1992)
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Laurel Winter: Infinity Syrup (F & SF, June 1992)
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Ian Watson: Looking Down on You (F & SF, October 1992)
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Joe Haldeman: Graves (F & SF, October 1992)
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Nebula for Best Short Story 1993.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 1993.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Sixth Edition.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Tenth Edition.
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Gene Wolfe: The Legend of Xi Cygnus (F & SF, October 1992)
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G. David Nordley: Barriers (F & SF, October 1992)
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Lawrence Watt-Evans: Spirit Dump (F & SF, October 1992)
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Harlan Ellison: Susan (F & SF, December 1993)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Seventh Edition.
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Dean Wesley Smith: Jukebox Gifts (F & SF, January 1994)
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Kelley Eskridge: Strings (F & SF, February 1994)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Eighth Edition.
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Ben Bova: Inspiration (F & SF, April 1994)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1994.
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Ray Vukcevich: No Comet (F & SF, July 1994)
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Nathan Ballingrud: She Found Heaven (F & SF, January 1995)
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Michael F. Flynn: The Promise of God (F & SF, March 1995)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirteenth Edition.
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Maureen F. McHugh: The Lincoln Train (F & SF, April 1995)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1996.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1995.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirteenth Edition.
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Key Signatures (F & SF, April 1996)
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Gary Couzens: Half-Life (F & SF, August 1996)
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Ben Bova: The Great Moon Hoax, or, A Princess of Mars (F & SF, September 1996)
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Marc Laidlaw: Catamounts (F & SF, September 1996)
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Mike Resnick: The Gefilte Fish Girl (F & SF, April 1997)
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Brian Stableford: The Pipes of Pan (F & SF, June 1997)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifteenth Edition.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 3’.
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Linda Nagata: Hooks, Nets, and Time (F & SF, August 1997)
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Jonathan Lethem & Angus MacDonald: The Edge of the Bed of Forever (F & SF, August 1997)
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Ben Jeapes: Pages Out of Order (F & SF, September 1997)
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Harry Turtledove: The Seventh Chapter (F & SF, September 1997)
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K. D. Wentworth: ’Tis the Season (F & SF, December 1997)
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Bruce Sterling: Maneki Neko (F & SF, May 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 4’.
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John Kessel: Every Angel is Terrifying (F & SF, October 1998)
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World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Twelfth Edition.
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Mary Rosenblum: The Rainmaker (F & SF, October 1998)
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Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Twelfth Edition.
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Rachel Pollack: The Fool, the Stick, and the Princess (F & SF, October 1998)
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Paolo Bacigalupi: Pocketful of Dharma (F & SF, February 1999)
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Lewis Shiner: Lizard Men of Los Angeles (F & SF, July 1999)
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’A tribute to H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard."
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M. John Harrison: Suicide Coast (F & SF, July 1999)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventeenth Edition.
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David Langford: Different Kinds of Darkness (F & SF, January 2000)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2001.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 6’.
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Alex Irvine: Rossetti Song (F & SF, March 2000)
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Charles Coleman Finlay: Footnotes (F & SF, April 2000)
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William Browning Spencer: The Foster Child (F & SF, June 2000)
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Tananarive Due: Patient Zero (F & SF, August 2000)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Eighteenth Edition.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 6’.
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Ray Vukcevich: Whisper (F & SF, January 2001)
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Geoff Ryman: Have Not Have (F & SF, April 2001)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Nineteenth Edition.
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Benjamin Rosenbaum: The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale (F & SF, July 2001)
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Laird Barron: Shiva, Open Your Eye (F & SF, September 2001)
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Michael Blumlein: Know How, Can Do (F & SF, December 2001)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Nineteenth Edition.
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Carol Emshwiller: Grandma (F & SF, March 2002)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 8’.
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Maureen F. McHugh: Presence (F & SF, March 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
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James Patrick Kelly: The Pyramid of Amirah (F & SF, March 2002)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 3’.
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Jeffrey Ford: Creation (F & SF, May 2002)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2003.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Sixteenth Edition.
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Greg van Eekhout: Will You Be an Astronaut? (F & SF, September 2002)
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Laird Barron: Old Virginia (F & SF, February 2003)
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Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Seventeenth Edition.
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Dale Bailey: Hunger: A Confession (F & SF, March 2003)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Seventeenth Edition.
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M. Rickert: Bread and Bombs (F & SF, April 2003)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Seventeenth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 9’.
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Ron Goulart: The Incredible Steam Man (F & SF, May 2003)
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D. D. Levine: The Tale of the Golden Eagle (F & SF, June 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2003 Edition.
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Paolo Bacigalupi: The Fluted Girl (F & SF, June 2003)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Seventeenth Edition.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-First Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2003 Edition.
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Joe Haldeman: Four Short Novels (F & SF, October 2003)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2004.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 9’.
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Daryl Gregory: Free, and Clear (F & SF, February 2004)
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Paolo Bacigalupi: The People of Sand and Slag (F & SF, February 2004)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2005.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Second Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2004 Edition.
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Matthew Hughes: Mastermindless (F & SF, March 2004)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 10’.
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Charles Coleman Finlay: Pervert (F & SF, March 2004)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 10’.
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James Patrick Kelly: Serpent (F & SF, May 2004)
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Daryl Gregory: The Continuing Adventures of Rocket Boy (F & SF, July 2004)
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James Stoddard: The Battle of York (F & SF, July 2004)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 10’.
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Matthew Hughes: Relics of the Thim (F & SF, August 2004)
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Benjamin Rosenbaum: Start the Clock (F & SF, August 2004)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Second Edition.
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Bradley Denton: Sergeant Chip (F & SF, September 2004)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2005.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 10’.
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Matthew Hughes: Falberoth’s Ruin (F & SF, September 2004)
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M. Rickert: Cold Fires (F & SF, October 2004)
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Eighteenth Edition.
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Dale Bailey: The End of the World as We Know It (F & SF, October 2004)
Available as part of this magazine.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2005.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 5’.
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Michael Bishop: The Angst of God (F & SF, October 2004)
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John G. McDaid: Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with two manuals (F & SF, January 2005)
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On the 2005 Nebula Preliminary Ballot.

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Matthew Hughes: Finding Sajessarian (F & SF, April 2005)
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Bruce McAllister: Hero, The Movie (F & SF, July 2005)
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Gene Wolfe: The Gunner’s Mate (F & SF, October 2005)
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Jeffrey Ford: Boatman’s Holiday (F & SF, October 2005)
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Bruce McAllister: The Boy in Zaquitos (F & SF, January 2006)
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M. Rickert: Journey into the Kingdom (F & SF, May 2006)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2006.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2007.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Twentieth Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007’.
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Heather Lindsley: Just Do It (F & SF, July 2006)
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Christopher Rowe: Another Word for Map is Faith (F & SF, August 2006)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2007.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Twentieth Edition.
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Daryl Gregory: Damascus (F & SF, December 2006)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fourth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 12’.
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Bruce Sterling: Kiosk (F & SF, January 2007)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2007.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fifth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Two.
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S. L. Gilbow: Red Card (F & SF, February 2007)
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D. D. Levine: Titanium Mike Saves the Day (F & SF, April 2007)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2007.
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Alex Irvine: Wizard’s Six (F & SF, June 2007)
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Marta Randall: Lázaro y Antonio (F & SF, June 2007)
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Gwyneth Jones: The Tomb Wife (F & SF, August 2007)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 13’.
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Daryl Gregory: Unpossible (F & SF, October 2007)
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Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 8’.
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John Kessel: Pride and Prometheus (F & SF, January 2008)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2009.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2008.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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Ruth Nestvold: Mars: A Traveler’s Guide (F & SF, January 2008)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
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K. D. Wentworth: Exit Strategy (F & SF, March 2008)
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Robert Reed: Five Thrillers (F & SF, April 2008)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Sixth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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Ted Kosmatka: The Art of Alchemy (F & SF, June 2008)
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Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009’.
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Robert Reed: Character Flu (F & SF, June 2008)
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M. Rickert: Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account (F & SF, October 2008)
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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On the 2008 BSFA Awards Shortlist.

Daniel Abraham: The Curandero and the Swede (F & SF, March 2009)
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Jack Skillingstead: The Avenger of Love (F & SF, April 2009)
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Joe Haldeman: Never Blood Enough (F & SF, October 2009)
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Geoff Ryman: Blocked (F & SF, October 2009)
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Kate Wilhelm: The Bird Cage (F & SF, January 2011)
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Chris Lawson: Canterbury Hollow (F & SF, January 2011)
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Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie (F & SF, March 2011)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 2012.
Nebula for Best Short Story 2011.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2012.
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Karl Bunker: Overtaken (F & SF, September 2011)
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Ken Liu: Maxwell’s Demon (F & SF, January 2012)
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Ted Kosmatka: The Color Least Used by Nature (F & SF, January 2012)
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Lewis Shiner: Canto MCML (F & SF, January 2012)
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Richard Bowes: The Queen and The Cambion (F & SF, March 2012)
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Eleanor Arnason: The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times (F & SF, July 2012)
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Jeffrey Ford: A Natural History of Autumn (F & SF, July 2012)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2013.
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Chris Willrich: Waiting for a Me Like You (F & SF, November 2012)
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Alan Dean Foster: Claim Blame (F & SF, November 2012)
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Desmond Warzel: The Blue Celeb (F & SF, January 2013)
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Oliver Buckram: Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside An Enormous Sentient Slug (F & SF, July 2013)
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M. K. Hobson: Baba Makosh (F & SF, November 2013)
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James Patrick Kelly: Sing, Pilgrim! (F & SF, November 2013)
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Sarah Pinsker: A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide (F & SF, March 2014)
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Oliver Buckram: A Struggle Between Rivals Ends Surprisingly (F & SF, March 2014)
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Ian Tregillis: Testimony of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events upon His Majesty’s Ship Confidence, 14-22 June, 1818, with Diagrams (F & SF, July 2014)
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Sandra McDonald: End of the World Community College (F & SF, July 2014)
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Paul M. Berger: Subduction (F & SF, July 2014)
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Alaya Dawn Johnson: A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i (F & SF, July 2014)
Nebula for Best Novelette 2014.
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K. J. Kabza: The Bomb Thing (F & SF, November 2014)
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Caroline M. Yoachim: Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind (F & SF, May 2015)
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Bo Balder: A House of Her Own (F & SF, September 2015)
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E. Lily Yu: Braid of Days and Wake of Nights (F & SF, January 2016)
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Cat Rambo: Red in Tooth and Cog (F & SF, March 2016)
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Leah Cypess: Cupid’s Compass (F & SF, September 2016)
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G. V. Anderson: I Am Not I (F & SF, July 2017)
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William Ledbetter: In A Wide Sky, Hidden (F & SF, July 2017)
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Tina Connolly: The Two-Choice Foxtrot of Chapham County (F & SF, September 2017)
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Wole Talabi: The Harmonic Resonance of Ejiro Anaborhi (F & SF, March 2018)
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Dominica Phetteplace: Nice For What? (F & SF, July 2019)
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Leah Cypess: Stepsister (F & SF, May 2020)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2020.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2021.
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Lavie Tidhar: Wild Geese (F & SF, December 2020)
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Molly Tanzer: In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi (F & SF, March 2021)
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Lauren Ring: (emet) (F & SF, July 2021)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2021.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2022.
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L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt: More Than Skin Deep (F & SF, April 1951)

Arthur C. Clarke: Superiority (F & SF, August 1951)

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Poul Anderson: Time Patrol (F & SF, May 1955)

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Gordon R. Dickson: Our First Death (F & SF, August 1955)

Manly Wade Wellman: On the Hills and Everywhere (F & SF, January 1956)

Avram Davidson: King’s Evil (F & SF, October 1956)

Manly Wade Wellman: Old Devlins Was A-Waiting (F & SF, February 1957)

Murray Leinster: Anthropological Note (F & SF, April 1957)

Robert A. Heinlein: The Menace from Earth (F & SF, August 1957)

Gordon R. Dickson: St. Dragon and the George (F & SF, September 1957)

Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson: Full Pack (F & SF, October 1957)

Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (F & SF #4, 1958)

Robert Sheckley: The Prize of Peril (F & SF, May 1958)

Carol Emshwiller: Pelt (F & SF, November 1958)

Manly Wade Wellman: Nine Yards of Other Cloth (F & SF, November 1958)

Robert A. Heinlein: "All You Zombies …" (F & SF, March 1959)

Daniel Keyes: Flowers For Algernon (F & SF, April 1959)

Theodore Sturgeon: The Man Who Lost the Sea (F & SF, October 1959)

Reginald Bretnor: Bug-Getter (F & SF, January 1960)

Keith Laumer: Combat Unit (F & SF, November 1960)

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Manly Wade Wellman: Wonder as I Wander (F & SF, March 1962)

Kit Reed: The New You (F & SF, September 1962)

Jack Vance: Green Magic (F & SF, June 1963)

Ron Goulart: McNamara’s Fish (F & SF, July 1963)

Ray Nelson: Eight O’Clock in the Morning (F & SF, November 1963)

Roger Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes (F & SF, November 1963)

Donald E. Westlake: Nackles (F & SF, January 1964)

Larry Niven: Becalmed in Hell (F & SF, July 1965)

Christopher Anvil: Sabotage (F & SF, December 1966)

Joe L. Hensley: Argent Blood (F & SF, August 1967)

Keith Laumer: Once There Was a Giant (F & SF, November 1968)

Zenna Henderson: The Indelible Kind (F & SF, December 1968)

Fritz Leiber: Ship of Shadows (F & SF, July 1969)

Larry Niven: The Flight of the Horse [vt Get a Horse] (F & SF, October 1969)

Philip K. Dick: The Electric Ant (F & SF, October 1969)

Robert Silverberg: After the Myths Went Home (F & SF, November 1969)

Robert Silverberg: Ishmael in Love (F & SF, July 1970)

Christopher Anvil: The Throne and the Usurper (F & SF, November 1970)

Howard L. Myers: Fit For a Dog (F & SF, September 1971)

Howard L. Myers: All Around the Universe (F & SF, January 1972)

James Tiptree, Jr.: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side (F & SF, March 1972)

David Drake: Arclight (F & SF, April 1973)

Jerry Pournelle: Enforcer (F & SF, June 1974)

David Drake: Something Had to Be Done (F & SF, February 1975)

Poul Anderson: Gibraltar Falls (F & SF, October 1975)

David Drake: Children of the Forest (F & SF, November 1976)

Harlan Ellison: Working with the Little People (F & SF, July 1977)

C. J. Cherryh: Cassandra (F & SF, October 1978)

Stephen R. Donaldson: Mythological Beast (F & SF, January 1979)

Bob Leman: Loob (F & SF, April 1979)

George Zebrowski: The Word Sweep (F & SF, August 1979)

Jane Yolen: Angelica (F & SF, December 1979)

John Kessel: Herman Melville: Space Opera Virtuoso (F & SF, January 1980)

Lewis Shiner: Stuff of Dreams (F & SF, April 1981)

John Kessel: Not Responsible! Park and Lock It! (F & SF, September 1981)

Thomas Disch: Understanding Human Behavior (F & SF, February 1982)

Charles Sheffield: The Devil of Malkirk (F & SF, June 1982)

Christopher Anvil: Superbiometalemon (F & SF, July 1982)