Short stories and novelettes (including re-reads)

Forrest Aguirre, 'Zaar'  (THE JOURNAL OF UNLIKELY ENTOMOLOGY, 2011)
Nina Allan, 'The Silver Wind'  (INTERZONE 233, MARCH-APRIL 2011)
Rachel Ayers, 'Coyote at the Crossing'  (CHIZINE, 2011)
Sybil Baker, 'The Spiritual Age of Machines'  (PRIME NUMBER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2011)
K.C. Ball, ' ( Read more... )

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Luay Hamza Abbas, 'Closing His Eyes'  (KIKAH.COM, AUGUST 2006)
Chinua Achebe, 'Dead Men's Path'  (1953)
ChImamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'A Private Experience'  (THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK, 2009)
José Eduardo Agualusa, 'If Nothing Else Helps, Read Clarice'  (WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, JANUARY 2010)
Amin Ahmad, 'Catfish'  ( ( Read more... )

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2011
Best of 2011
S. Hutson Blount, 'The Elgin Age'  (GIGANOTOSAURUS, APRIL 2011)
Colin Cotterill, 'Halfhead'  (CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE, ed., BANGKOK NOIR, 2011)
China Miéville, 'Covehithe'  (THE GUARDIAN, 22 APRIL 2011)
Bud Sparhawk, 'Astronomic Distance, Geologic Time'  (ANALOG, MARCH 2011)
E. Lily Yu, 'The Cartographer ( Read more... )

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2006
Best of 2006
Ken MacLeod, 'The Highway Men'  (SANDSTONE PRESS, 2006)
Ian McDonald, 'The Djinn's Wife'  (ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION, JULY 2006; 2006 BSFA AWARD, 2007 HUGO AWARD)
Lon Prater, 'You Do Not Know What Slipstream Is'  (LONE STAR STORIES 18, 1 DECEMBER 2006)
Geoff Ryman, 'Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter' (pdf) ( Read more... )

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1980
Best of 1980
Christopher Priest, 'The Miraculous Cairn'  (RAMSEY CAMPBELL, ed., NEW TERRORS 2, 1980)
Honourable mentions
Bob Shaw, 'Love Me Tender'  (RAMSEY CAMPBELL, ed., NEW TERRORS 1, 1980)
Charles Sheffield, 'Moment of Inertia'  (ANALOG, OCTOBER 1980)
All stories
Lee Correy (G. Harry Stine), 'Industrial ( Read more... )

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2000
Best of 2000
Honourable mentions
Stephen Baxter, 'Sheena 5'  (ANALOG, MAY 2000; 2000 ANALOG AWARD, 2000 ANLAB AWARD)
Alan Wall, Richard Dadd in Bedlam'  (RICHARD DADD IN BEDLAM AND OTHER STORIES, 2000)
All stories
Allan Ahlberg, 'My Brother's Ghost'  (VIKING, 2000)
Elizabeth Bear, 'The Company of Four'  (ELIZABETH ( Read more... )

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1950
Best of 1950
Damon Knight, 'To Serve Man'  (GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, NOVEMBER 1950; 2001 RETRO HUGO AWARD)
Cyril M. Kornbluth, 'The Little Black Bag'  (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION, JULY 1950)
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger), 'Scanners Live in Vain'  (FANTASY BOOK No. 6, 1950)
Ian Williamson, 'Chemical Plant'  ( ( Read more... )

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pre-19th Century
Best of pre-19th Century
Voltaire, 'Cuckoldage'  (c. 1715)
Voltaire, 'Micromégas'  (1752)
Honourable mentions
Voltaire, 'Plato's Dream'  (1756)
All stories
William Blake, 'An Island in the Moon'  (1784)
Sung-Ling P'u, 'The Boatmen of Lao-Lung'  (STRANGE STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO, 1679)
Lucian of ( Read more... )