These pages contain lists of 100+ prominent stories in each category published before 1990, based on a combination of awards records and anthology reprint records (from Bill Contento's CD ROM Locus Index and Index to Anthologies and Collections), and including all Hugo, Nebula, and Locus winning stories (sometimes recategorized to the story's actual length). The stories are suggestions only; you may vote for anything.

• Aldiss, Brian W. • The Saliva Tree • [1965]
• Anderson, Poul • No Truce with Kings • [1963]
• Anderson, Poul • The Queen of Air and Darkness • [1971]
• Anderson, Poul • The Saturn Game • [1981]
• Asimov, Isaac • The Martian Way • [1952]
• Asimov, Isaac • The Dead Past • [1956]
• Asimov, Isaac • Profession • [1957]
• Bear, Greg • Hardfought • [1983]
• Bishop, Michael • Her Habiline Husband • [1983]
• Bishop, Michael • The Samurai and the Willows • [1976]
• Boucher, Anthony • The Compleat Werewolf • [1942]
• Brackett, Leigh • Lorelei of the Red Mist (with Ray Bradbury) • [1946]
• Bujold, Lois McMaster • The Mountains of Mourning • [1989]
• Campbell, John W., Jr. • Forgetfulness • [1937]
• Campbell, John W., Jr. • Who Goes There? • [1938]
• Campbell, John W., Jr. • Cloak of Aesir • [1939]
• Card, Orson Scott • Eye for Eye • [1987]
• Chandler, A. Bertram • Giant Killer • [1945]
• Charnas, Suzy McKee • Unicorn Tapestry • [1980]
• Clarke, Arthur C. • A Meeting with Medusa • [1971]
• Cogswell, Theodore R. • The Specter General • [1952]
• Cowper, Richard • Piper at the Gates of Dawn • [1976]
• Crowley, John • Great Work of Time • [1989]
• Del Rey, Lester • Nerves • [1942]
• Delany, Samuel R. • The Star Pit • [1967]
• Dickson, Gordon R. • Soldier, Ask Not • [1964]
• Dickson, Gordon R. • Lost Dorsai • [1980]
• Disch, Thomas M. • The Brave Little Toaster • [1980]
• Ellison, Harlan • A Boy and His Dog • [1969]
• Ellison, Harlan • The Region Between • [1970]
• Farmer, Philip José • The Alley Man • [1959]
• Farmer, Philip José • Riders of the Purple Wage • [1967]
• Fast, Howard • The Trap ["The First Men"] • [1960]
• Guin, Wyman • Beyond Bedlam • [1951]
• Haldeman, Joe W. • Hero • [1972]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • Blowups Happen • [1940]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • Coventry • [1940]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • By His Bootstraps • [1941]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • Universe • [1941]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • Logic of Empire • [1941]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • Gulf • [1949]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • The Man Who Sold the Moon • [1950]
• Kessel, John • Another Orphan • [1982]
• Kornbluth, C. M. • Two Dooms • [1958]
• Kress, Nancy • Trinity • [1984]
• Kuttner, Henry • Clash by Night (with C. L. Moore; as by Lawrence O'Donnell) • [1943]
• Kuttner, Henry • Vintage Season (with C. L. Moore; as by Lawrence O'Donnell) • [1946]
• Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Word for World Is Forest • [1972]
• Leiber, Fritz • Ship of Shadows • [1969]
• Leiber, Fritz • Ill Met in Lankhmar • [1970]
• Leinster, Murray • Sidewise in Time • [1934]
• Leinster, Murray • Proxima Centauri • [1935]
• Longyear, Barry B. • Enemy Mine • [1979]
• Lovecraft, H. P. • The Shadow Out of Time • [1936]
• MacLean, Katherine • The Missing Man • [1971]
• Martin, George R. R. • A Song for Lya • [1974]
• Martin, George R. R. • Nightflyers • [1980]
• McCaffrey, Anne • Weyr Search • [1967]
• McCaffrey, Anne • Dragonrider • [1968]
• Miller, P. Schuyler • The Sands of Time • [1937]
• Miller, Walter M., Jr. • Dark Benediction • [1951]
• Miller, Walter M., Jr. • The Darfsteller • [1955]
• Moorcock, Michael • Behold the Man • [1966]
• Pohl, Frederik • The Midas Plague • [1954]
• Pohl, Frederik • The Gold at the Starbow's End • [1972]
• Pohl, Frederik • The Merchants of Venus • [1972]
• Robinson, Kim Stanley • Green Mars • [1985]
• Robinson, Kim Stanley • The Blind Geometer • [1986]
• Robinson, Spider • Stardance (with Jeanne Robinson) • [1977]
• Robinson, Spider • By Any Other Name • [1976]
• Russ, Joanna • Souls • [1982]
• Russell, Eric Frank • ...And Then There Were None • [1951]
• Shepard, Lucius • A Traveler's Tale • [1984]
• Shepard, Lucius • R&R • [1986]
• Shepard, Lucius • The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter • [1988]
• Shepard, Lucius • The Father of Stones • [1989]
• Silverberg, Robert • Hawksbill Station • [1967]
• Silverberg, Robert • Nightwings • [1968]
• Silverberg, Robert • Born With the Dead • [1974]
• Silverberg, Robert • Sailing to Byzantium • [1985]
• Silverberg, Robert • Gilgamesh in the Outback • [1986]
• Silverberg, Robert • The Secret Sharer • [1987]
• Simak, Clifford D. • The Big Front Yard • [1958]
• Smith, Cordwainer • A Planet Named Shayol • [1961]
• Smith, Cordwainer • On the Storm Planet • [1965]
• Spinrad, Norman • Riding the Torch • [1974]
• Stevenson, Robert Louis • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • [1886]
• Sturgeon, Theodore • Killdozer! • [1944]
• Sturgeon, Theodore • The Golden Helix • [1954]
• Swann, Thomas Burnett • The Manor of Roses • [1966]
• Tenn, William • Firewater • [1952]
• Thomas, Theodore L. • The Weather Man • [1962]
• Tiptree, James, Jr. • Houston, Houston, Do You Read? • [1976]
• Tiptree, James, Jr. • The Only Neat Thing to Do • [1985]
• Tuttle, Lisa • The Storms of Windhaven (with George R. R. Martin) • [1975]
• Vance, Jack • The Miracle-Workers • [1958]
• Vance, Jack • The Moon Moth • [1961]
• Vance, Jack • The Last Castle • [1966]
• Vance, Jack • Rumfuddle • [1973]
• Vance, Jack • The Dragon Masters • [1962]
• Varley, John • In the Hall of the Martian Kings • [1977]
• Varley, John • The Persistence of Vision • [1978]
• Varley, John • PRESS ENTER [] • [1984]
• Varley, John • Blue Champagne • [1981]
• Wagner, Karl Edward • Beyond Any Measure • [1982]
• Wells, H. G. • The Time Machine • [1895]
• Wells, H. G. • The Invisible Man • [1897]
• Willis, Connie • The Last of the Winnebagos • [1988]
• Wolfe, Gene • The Fifth Head of Cerberus • [1972]
• Wolfe, Gene • The Death of Dr. Island • [1973]
• Wolfe, Gene • Seven American Nights • [1978]
• Wyndham, John • Consider Her Ways • [1956]
• Zahn, Timothy • Cascade Point • [1983]
• Zelazny, Roger • He Who Shapes • [1965]
• Zelazny, Roger • Home Is the Hangman • [1975]
• Zelazny, Roger • 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai • [1985]