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. • Who Can Replace a Man? • [1958]
• Aldiss, Brian W. • Poor Little Warrior! • [1958]
• Aldiss, Brian W. • Old Hundredth • [1960]
• Anderson, Poul • Kyrie • [1968]
• Asimov, Isaac • Robbie • [1940]
• Asimov, Isaac • Green Patches • [1950]
• Asimov, Isaac • The Fun They Had • [1951]
• Asimov, Isaac • Dreaming Is a Private Thing • [1955]
• Asimov, Isaac • The Last Question • [1956]
• Asimov, Isaac • Robot Dreams • [1986]
• Ballard, J. G. • Billenium • [1961]
• Ballard, J. G. • Souvenir ["The Drowned Giant"] • [1964]
• Bear, Greg • Tangents • [1986]
• Benford, Gregory • Doing Lennon • [1975]
• Bester, Alfred • The Men Who Murdered Mohammed • [1958]
• Bierce, Ambrose • Moxon's Master • [1910]
• Bixby, Jerome • It's a Good Life • [1953]
• Blish, James • Common Time • [1953]
• Bloch, Robert • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • [1943]
• Bloch, Robert • That Hell-Bound Train • [1958]
• Bradbury, Ray • The Million Year Picnic • [1946]
• Bradbury, Ray • The Homecoming • [1946]
• Bradbury, Ray • Zero Hour • [1947]
• Bradbury, Ray • The Third Expedition ["Mars Is Heaven!"] • [1948]
• Bradbury, Ray • Kaleidoscope • [1949]
• Bradbury, Ray • There Will Come Soft Rains • [1950]
• Bradbury, Ray • The Fog Horn • [1951]
• Bradbury, Ray • A Sound of Thunder • [1952]
• Brin, David • The Crystal Spheres • [1984]
• Brown, Fredric • The Weapon • [1951]
• Bryant, Edward • giANTS • [1979]
• Bryant, Edward • Stone • [1978]
• Budrys, Algis • Nobody Bothers Gus • [1955]
• Butler, Octavia E. • Speech Sounds • [1983]
• Cadigan, Pat • Angel • [1987]
• Campbell, John W., Jr. • Twilight • [1934]
• Card, Orson Scott • Lost Boys • [1989]
• Charnas, Suzy McKee • Boobs • [1989]
• Cherryh, C. J. • Cassandra • [1978]
• Clarke, Arthur C. • History Lesson • [1949]
• Clarke, Arthur C. • The Sentinel • [1951]
• Clarke, Arthur C. • The Nine Billion Names of God • [1953]
• Clarke, Arthur C. • The Star • [1955]
• Clarke, Arthur C. • Before Eden • [1961]
• Davidson, Avram • The Golem • [1955]
• Davidson, Avram • Or All the Seas with Oysters • [1958]
• Del Rey, Lester • Helen O'Loy • [1938]
• Delany, Samuel R. • Aye, and Gomorrah... • [1967]
• Dick, Philip K. • Impostor • [1953]
• Dick, Philip K. • The Father-Thing • [1954]
• Dickson, Gordon R. • Computers Don't Argue • [1965]
• Dozois, Gardner • Morning Child • [1984]
• Dozois, Gardner • The Peacemaker • [1983]
• Ellison, Harlan • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • [1965]
• Ellison, Harlan • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • [1967]
• Ellison, Harlan • Jeffty Is Five • [1977]
• Ellison, Harlan • Count the Clock That Tells the Time • [1978]
• Ellison, Harlan • Croatoan • [1975]
• Ellison, Harlan • Eidolons • [1988]
• Ellison, Harlan • The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World • [1968]
• Ellison, Harlan • With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole • [1985]
• Farmer, Philip José • Sail On! Sail On! • [1952]
• Finney, Jack • The Third Level • [1950]
• Gold, Horace L. • Trouble with Water • [1939]
• Grant, Charles L. • A Crowd of Shadows • [1976]
• Haldeman, Joe W. • Tricentennial • [1976]
• Harrison, Harry • The Streets of Ashkelon • [1962]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • Requiem • [1940]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • They • [1941]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • The Green Hills of Earth • [1947]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • The Long Watch • [1949]
• Heinlein, Robert A. • "All You Zombies—" • [1959]
• Jackson, Shirley • One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts • [1955]
• Jacobs, W. W. • The Monkey's Paw • [1902]
• Knight, Damon • The Country of the Kind • [1956]
• Knight, Damon • Masks • [1968]
• Kornbluth, C. M. • The Mindworm • [1950]
• Kress, Nancy • Out of All Them Bright Stars • [1985]
• Lafferty, R. A. • Narrow Valley • [1966]
• Lafferty, R. A. • Eurema's Dam • [1972]
• Landis, Geoffrey A. • Ripples in the Dirac Sea • [1988]
• Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • [1973]
• Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Day Before the Revolution • [1974]
• Le Guin, Ursula K. • Sur • [1982]
• Leiber, Fritz • Coming Attraction • [1950]
• Leiber, Fritz • A Bad Day for Sales • [1953]
• Leiber, Fritz • Space-Time for Springers • [1958]
• Leiber, Fritz • Catch That Zeppelin! • [1975]
• Lovecraft, H. P. • The Rats in the Walls • [1924]
• Martin, George R. R. • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [1979]
• McKenna, Richard M. • The Secret Place • [1966]
• Merril, Judith • That Only a Mother • [1948]
• Miller, Walter M., Jr. • Crucifixus Etiam • [1953]
• Morrow, James • Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge • [1988]
• Niven, Larry • Not Long Before the End • [1969]
• Niven, Larry • The Hole Man • [1974]
• Plauger, P. J. • Child of All Ages • [1975]
• Poe, Edgar Allan • The Tell-Tale Heart • [1843]
• Poe, Edgar Allan • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • [1845]
• Pohl, Frederik • Day Million • [1966]
• Pohl, Frederik • Fermi and Frost • [1985]
• Pohl, Frederik • The Meeting (with C. M. Kornbluth) • [1972]
• Robinson, Spider • Melancholy Elephants • [1982]
• Russ, Joanna • When It Changed • [1972]
• Russ, Joanna • Nobody's Home • [1972]
• Russell, Eric Frank • Allamagoosa • [1955]
• Shaw, Bob • Light of Other Days • [1966]
• Shepard, Lucius • Salvador • [1984]
• Silverberg, Robert • Passengers • [1968]
• Silverberg, Robert • Sundance • [1969]
• Silverberg, Robert • Good News from the Vatican • [1971]
• Simak, Clifford D. • Desertion • [1944]
• Simak, Clifford D. • Grotto of the Dancing Deer • [1980]
• Smith, Cordwainer • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [1955]
• Springer, Nancy • The Boy Who Plaited Manes • [1986]
• St. Clair, Margaret • The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • [1951]
• Sturgeon, Theodore • Thunder and Roses • [1947]
• Sturgeon, Theodore • The Man Who Lost the Sea • [1959]
• Tenn, William • The Liberation of Earth • [1953]
• Tiptree, James, Jr. • Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death • [1973]
• Tiptree, James, Jr. • Beyond the Dead Reef • [1983]
• Tuttle, Lisa • The Bone Flute • [1981]
• Van Vogt, A. E. • Enchanted Village • [1950]
• Varley, John • Air Raid • [1977]
• Varley, John • The Pusher • [1981]
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. • Harrison Bergeron • [1961]
• Watt-Evans, Lawrence • Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers • [1987]
• Wells, H. G. • The Star • [1897]
• Wells, H. G. • The Crystal Egg • [1897]
• Wells, H. G. • The Man Who Could Work Miracles • [1898]
• Wells, H. G. • The New Accelerator • [1901]
• Wilhelm, Kate • Forever Yours, Anna • [1987]
• Wilhelm, Kate • The Planners • [1968]
• Willis, Connie • A Letter from the Clearys • [1982]