Top Sci-Fi Stories

Top 100 SF Short Stories

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Old	Rank	Title	Author	*	Year
1	1	Nightfall	Isaac Asimov	nv	1941
2	2	The Bicentennial Man	Isaac Asimov	nv	1976
3	3	The Nine Billion Names Of God	Arthur C Clarke	ss	1953
6	4	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	nv	1977
5	5	Flowers For Algernon	Daniel Keyes	nv	1959
4	6	The Last Question	Isaac Asimov	ss	1956
7	7	The Man Who Sold the Moon	Robert A Heinlein	na	1950
8	8	I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	ss	1967
10	9	A Sound Of Thunder	Ray Bradbury	ss	1952
9	10	'Repent Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman	Harlan Ellison	ss	1965
13	11	A Boy and His Dog	Harlan Ellison	nv	1969
14	12	The Green Hills Of Earth	Robert A Heinlein	ss	1947
15	13	A Rose For Ecclesiastes	Roger Zelazny	nv	1963
11	14	Sandkings	George R R Martin	nv	1979
12	15	The Star	Arthur C Clarke	ss	1955
16	16	Johnny Mnemonic	William Gibson	ss	1981
20	17	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M Miller	na	1955
18	18	There Will Come Soft Rains	Ray Bradbury	ss	1950
19	19	Blood Music	Greg Bear	nv	1983
38	20	Robbie	Isaac Asimov	ss	1940
29	21	Burning Chrome	William Gibson	nv	1982
17	22	Who Goes There?	John W Campbell	na	1938
30	23	The Roads Must Roll	Robert A Heinlein	nv	1940
27	24	All You Zombies	Robert A Heinlein	ss	1959
21	25	Unaccompanied Sonata	Orson Scott Card	ss	1979
22	26	Jeffty Is Five	Harlan Ellison	ss	1977
23	27	PRESS ENTER [ ]	John Varley	na	1985
24	28	The Persistence of Vision	John Varley	na	1978
25	29	Microcosmic God	Theodore Sturgeon	nv	1941
26	30	The Word for World is Forest	Ursula K Le Guin	na	1972
28	31	Fondly Fahrenheit	Alfred Bester	nv	1954
32	32	Houston, Houston, Do You Read?	James Tiptree Jr	na	1976
40	33	The Deathbird	Harlan Ellison	nv	1973
41	34	The Veldt	Ray Bradbury	ss	1950
54	35	We Can Remember It For You Wholesale	Philip K Dick	nv	1966
37	36	The Cold Equations	Tom Godwin	nv	1954
45	37	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	Ursula K Le Guin	ss	1973
34	38	The Star	H G Wells	ss	1897
43	39	For a Breath I Tarry	Roger Zelazny	nv	1966
31	40	Rachel In Love	Pat Murphy	nv	1987
36	41	Bears Discover Fire	Terry Bisson	ss	1990
33	42	Death On the Nile	Connie Willis	nv	1993
39	43	...Where Angels Fear to Tread	Allen Steele	na	1997
55	44	Neutron Star	Larry Niven	nv	1966
35	45	Forgiveness Day	Ursula K Le Guin	na	1994
48	46	Harrison Bergeron	Kurt Vonnegut	ss	1961
44	47	Enemy Mine	Barry Longyear	na	1979
52	48	And He Built a Crooked House	Robert A Heinlein	nv	1941
42	49	A Martian Odyssey	Stanley Weinbaum	nv	1934
46	50	The Fifth Head Of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe	nv	1972
47	51	Think Like a Dinosaur	James Patrick Kelly	nv	1995
49	52	None So Blind	Joe Haldeman	ss	1994
53	53	By His Bootstraps	Robert A Heinlein	na	1941
58	54	The Dead Past	Isaac Asimov	nv	1956
50	55	Even the Queen	Connie Willis	ss	1992
51	56	Vintage Season	Moore & Kuttner	na	1976
56	57	The Mountains Of Mourning	Lois M Bujold	na	1989
59	58	It's a Good Life	Jerome Bixby	ss	1953
60	59	Day Million	Frederik Pohl	ss	1966
67	60	Inconstant Moon	Larry Niven	nv	1971
57	61	The Game Of Rat and Dragon	Cordwainer Smith	ss	1955
64	62	Paladin Of the Lost Hour	Harlan Ellison	nv	1985
65	63	The Big Front Yard	Clifford D Simak	na	1958
66	64	Home Is the Hangman	Roger Zelazny	na	1975
69	65	He Who Shapes	Roger Zelazny	na	1965
61	66	Of Mist, Grass and Sand	Vonda N McIntyre	nv	1973
68	67	Requiem	Robert A Heinlein	ss	1940
62	68	The Last Of the Winnebagos	Connie Willis	na	1988
63	69	Beggars In Spain	Nancy Kress	na	1991
70	70	The Moon Moth	Jack Vance	na	1961
71	71	The Lottery	Shirley Jackson	ss	1948
73	72	Aye, and Gomorrah�	Samuel Delany	ss	1967
77	73	Mimsy Were the Borogoves	Kuttner & Moore	nv	1943
80	74	The Ugly Little Boy	Isaac Asimov	nv	1958
72	75	Light of Other Days	Bob Shaw	ss	1966
78	76	The Women Men Don't See	James Tiptree Jr	nv	1973
74	77	Time Considered as a Helix�	Samuel Delany	nv	1968
75	78	Kirinyaga	Mike Resnick	nv	1988
76	79	Scanners Live In Vain	Cordwainer Smith	nv	1950
82	80	That Hell-Bound Train	Robert Bloch	ss	1958
79	81	The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr	nv	1977
89	82	Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock	na	1966
81	83	Seven Views Of Olduvai Gorge	Mike Resnick	na	1994
85	84	Fire Watch	Connie Willis	nv	1982
87	85	Green Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson	na	1985
83	86	Schrodinger's Kitten	George Effinger	nv	1988
88	87	The Country Of the Kind	Damon Knight	ss	1956
84	88	Air Raid	John Varley	ss	1977
90	89	Bloodchild	Octavia Butler	nv	1984
86	90	The Gallery Of His Dreams	Kristine Rusch	na	1991
91	91	Born With the Dead	Robert Silverberg	na	1974
151	92	The Martian Way	Isaac Asimov	na	1952
102	93	The Long Watch	Robert A Heinlein	ss	1949
96	94	Passengers	Robert Silverberg	ss	1968
100	95	The Little Black Bag	C M Kornbluth	nv	1950
93	96	Eye for Eye	Orson Scott Card	na	1987
92	97	Mars Is Heaven! (The Third Expediton)	Ray Bradbury	ss	1948
94	98	The Hemingway Hoax	Joe Haldeman	na	1990
95	99	Seven American Nights	Gene Wolfe	na	1978
99	100	The Liberation of Earth	William Tenn	ss	1953