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1998 Categories | All-time categories: Short fiction writer | Anthology | Collection | Novella | Novelette | Short Story |

(This was the Poll and Survey form)

  All-time Short Story
Pts
Vts
1sts
1)
''Jeffty Is Five'', Harlan Ellison (1977)
117
18
7
2)
'' 'Repent, Harlequin,' Said the Ticktockman'', Harlan Ellison (1965)
115
17
6
3)
''The Star'', Arthur C. Clarke (1955)
114
17
9
4)
''I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream'', Harlan Ellison (1967)
93
16
3
5)
''All You Zombies—'', Robert A. Heinlein (1959)
81
12
4
6)
''The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'', Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
80
12
3
7)
''The Game of Rat and Dragon'', Cordwainer Smith (1955)
78
11
6
8)
''The Sound of Thunder'', Ray Bradbury (1952)
58
9
2
*)
''The Nine Billion Names of God'', Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
58
11
1
10)
''The Green Hills of Earth'', Robert A. Heinlein (1947)
57
10
1
11)
''Day Million'', Frederik Pohl (1966)
55
8
3
12)
''It's a Good Life'', Jerome Bixby (1953)
42
7
2
13)
''Aye, and Gomorrah...'', Samuel R. Delany (1967)
39
6
1
14)
''Light of Other Days'', Bob Shaw (1966)
38
7
0
15)
''The Last Question'', Isaac Asimov (1956)
36
5
3
*)
''There Will Comes Soft Rains'', Ray Bradbury (1950)
36
6
1
17)
''Or All the Seas with Oysters'', Avram Davidson (1958)
35
6
0
*)
''Requiem'', Robert A. Heinlein (1940)
35
5
2
19)
''Air Raid'', John Varley (1977)
34
6
1
20)
''That Hell-Bound Train'', Robert Bloch (1958)
32
5
1
21)
''The Lottery'', Shirley Jackson (1948)
30
5
2
22)
''The Country of the Kind'', Damon Knight (1956)
26
4
2
*)
''The Liberation of Earth'', William Tenn (1953)
26
4
1
24)
''Sundance'', Robert Silverberg (1969)
25
4
0
*)
''Harrison Bergeron'', Kurt Vonnegut (1961)
25
4
1
26)
''When It Changed'', Joanna Russ (1972)
24
4
1
27)
''Mars Is Heaven!'' [''The Third Expedition''], Ray Bradbury (1948)
23
4
1
*)
''Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death'', James Tiptree, Jr. (1973)
23
4
0
29)
''Passengers'', Robert Silverberg (1968)
22
3
2
30)
''Cassandra'', C.J. Cherryh (1978)
21
4
1
*)
''Helen O'Loy'', Lester del Rey (1938)
21
4
0
32)
''The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories'', Gene Wolfe (1970)
20
3
1
33)
''Speech Sounds'', Octavia E. Butler (1983)
19
3
1
*)
''The Long Watch'', Robert A. Heinlein (1949)
19
3
1
*)
''Space-Time for Springers'', Fritz Leiber (1958)
19
3
0
36)
''The Way of Cross and Dragon'', George R.R. Martin (1979)
18
3
1
37)
''Robbie'', Isaac Asimov (1940)
16
3
0
*)
''Out of All Them Bright Stars'', Nancy Kress (1985)
16
3
0
*)
''Corridors'', Barry N. Malzberg (1982)
16
3
0
40)
''Narrow Valley'', R.A. Lafferty (1966)
15
3
0
41)
''That Only a Mother'', Judith Merril (1948)
14
3
0
*)
''The Hole Man'', Larry Niven (1974)
14
3
0
*)
''The Pusher'', John Varley (1981)
14
3
0

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