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Awards 1953-1989
Eric Frank Russell
:
Allamagoosa
(
Analog (Astounding)
, May 1955)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1955.
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Arthur C. Clarke
:
The Star
(
Infinity
, November 1955)
Available as part of this magazine
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1956.
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Murray Leinster
:
Exploration Team [vt Combat Team]
(
Analog (Astounding)
, March 1956)
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Hugo for Best Novelette 1956.
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Fritz Leiber
:
The Big Time
(
Galaxy
, March 1958)
Hugo for Best Novel 1958.
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Manly Wade Wellman
:
Nine Yards of Other Cloth
(
F & SF
, November 1958)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1959.
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Murray Leinster
:
The Pirates of Zan [vt The Pirates of Ersatz]
(
Analog (Astounding)
, February 1959)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1960.
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Daniel Keyes
:
Flowers For Algernon
(
F & SF
, April 1959)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1960.
Ralph Williams
:
Cat and Mouse
(
Analog (Astounding)
, June 1959)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1960.
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Randall Garrett &
Laurence M. Janifer
:
That Sweet Little Old Lady
(
Analog (Astounding)
, September 1959)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1960.
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Theodore Sturgeon
:
The Man Who Lost the Sea
(
F & SF
, October 1959)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1960.
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Harry Harrison
:
Deathworld
(
Analog (Astounding)
, January 1960)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1961.
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Pauline Ashwell
:
The Lost Kafoozalum
(
Analog
, October 1960)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1961.
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Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
:
Monument
(
Analog
, June 1961)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1962.
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Mack Reynolds
:
Status Quo
(
Analog
, August 1961)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1962.
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James H. Schmitz
:
Lion Loose
(
Analog
, October 1961)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1962.
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H. Beam Piper
:
Little Fuzzy
(
Avon
, 1962)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1963.
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Rick Raphael
:
Code Three
(
Analog
, February 1963)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1964.
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Roger Zelazny
:
A Rose for Ecclesiastes
(
F & SF
, November 1963)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1964.
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Keith Laumer
:
A Plague of Demons
(
Berkley
, 1965)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1965.
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James H. Schmitz
:
Planet of Forgetting
(
Galaxy
, February 1965)
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1965.
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James H. Schmitz
:
Balanced Ecology
(
Analog
, March 1965)
Available as part of this collection
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1965.
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R. A. Lafferty
:
Slow Tuesday Night
(
Galaxy
, April 1965)
A sample from
this collection
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1965.
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Larry Niven
:
Becalmed in Hell
(
F & SF
, July 1965)
A sample from
this anthology
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Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1965.
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James H. Schmitz
:
The Witches of Karres
(
Chilton
, 1966)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1967.
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Fred Saberhagen
:
Mr. Jester
(
If
, January 1966)
A sample from
this collection
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1967.
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Bob Shaw
:
Light of Other Days
(
Analog
, August 1966)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1967.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1966.
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Kate Wilhelm
:
Baby, You Were Great!
(
Orbit
Anthology #2, 1967)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1967.
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Samuel R. Delany
:
Aye, and Gomorrah
(
Dangerous Visions
Anthology, 1967)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1968.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1967.
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Robert Silverberg
:
Hawksbill Station
(
Galaxy
, August 1967)
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1968.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1967.
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Robert Silverberg
:
Passengers
(
Orbit
Anthology #4, 1968)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1969.
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Keith Laumer
:
Once There Was a Giant
(
F & SF
, November 1968)
Available as part of this collection
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1968.
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Fritz Leiber
:
Ship of Shadows
(
F & SF
, July 1969)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo for Best Novella 1970.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1969.
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Gene Wolfe
:
The Island of Doctor Death and other Stories
(
Orbit
Anthology #7, 1970)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
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Mistakenly announced as Nebula winner - In fact no award was given for Best Short Story in 1970.
Keith Laumer
:
In the Queue
(
Orbit
Anthology #7, 1970)
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1971.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
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Harry Harrison
:
By the Falls
(
If
, January 1970)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
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Gardner Dozois
:
A Special Kind of Morning
(
New Dimensions
Anthology #1, 1971)
A sample from
this collection
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1972.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1971.
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Joanna Russ
:
When It Changed
(
Again, Dangerous Visions
Anthology, 1972)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1973.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1972.
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Robert Silverberg
:
When We Went to See the End of the World
(
Universe
Anthology #2, 1972)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1973.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1972.
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James Tiptree, Jr.
:
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side
(
F & SF
, March 1972)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1973.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1972.
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James Tiptree, Jr.
:
Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death
(
The Alien Condition
Anthology, 1973)
Alternate link
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1974.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1973.
Robert Silverberg
:
Schwartz Between the Galaxies
(
Stellar
#1, 1974)
Alternate link
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1975.
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Jerry Pournelle
:
Extreme Prejudice
(
Analog
, July 1974)
A sample from
this collection
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1975.
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Roger Zelazny
:
The Engine at Heartspring’s Center
(
Analog
, July 1974)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1974.
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David Drake
:
The Barrow Troll
(
Whispers
#8, December 1975)
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World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
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Jake Saunders
:
Back to the Stone Age
(
Lone Star Universe
Anthology, 1976)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
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Howard Waldrop
:
Mary Margaret Road-Grader
(
Orbit
Anthology #18, 1976)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
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Ramsey Campbell
:
The Companion
(
Frights
Anthology, 1976)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1977.
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Joe Haldeman
:
Tricentennial
(
Analog
, July 1976)
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1977.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
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John Varley
:
Air Raid
(
Asimov's
, Spring 1977)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1978.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1977.
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As by ‘Herb Boehm’. Expanded into the novel ‘Millennium’.
C. L. Grant
:
When All the Children Call My Name
(
The Year's Best Horror Stories
Anthology #5, 1977)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1978.
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Edward Bryant
:
Particle Theory
(
Analog
, February 1977)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1977.
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Joan D. Vinge
:
View from a Height
(
Analog
, June 1978)
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1979.
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C. J. Cherryh
:
Cassandra
(
F & SF
, October 1978)
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1979.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1978.
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George R. R. Martin
:
The Way of Cross and Dragon
(
Omni
, June 1979)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1980.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1979.
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Howard Waldrop
:
The Ugly Chickens
(
Universe
Anthology #10, 1980)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1981.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1980.
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 1981.
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Michael Swanwick
:
Ginungagap
(
TriQuarterly
#49, Fall 1980)
A sample from
this collection
.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
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Michael Swanwick
:
The Feast of Saint Janis
(
New Dimensions
Anthology #11, 1980)
A sample from
this collection
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
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Clifford D. Simak
:
Grotto of the Dancing Deer
(
Analog
, April 1980)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1981.
Nebula for Best Short Story 1980.
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Jeff Duntemann
:
Guardian
(
Asimov's
, September 1980)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1981.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
:
Venice Drowned
(
Universe
Anthology #11, 1981)
Alternate link
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Alternate link
.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1981.
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Poul Anderson
:
The Saturn Game
(
Analog
, February 1981)
A sample from
this collection
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Hugo for Best Novella 1982.
Nebula for Best Novella 1981.
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Tanith Lee
:
The Gorgon
(
Shadows
Anthology #5, 1982)
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 1983.
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Connie Willis
:
Fire Watch
(
Asimov's
, February 1982)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1983.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1982.
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Thomas Disch
:
Understanding Human Behavior
(
F & SF
, February 1982)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1982.
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Spider Robinson
:
Melancholy Elephants
(
Analog
, June 1982)
A sample from
this collection
.
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1983.
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William Gibson
:
Burning Chrome
(
Omni
, July 1982)
A sample from
this anthology
.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1982.
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John Kessel
:
Another Orphan
(
F & SF
, September 1982)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1983.
Nebula for Best Novella 1982.
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Lewis Shiner
:
Frontera
(
Baen
, 1983)
Alternate link
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Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1984.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
:
Black Air
(
F & SF
, March 1983)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1983.
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Jack McDevitt
:
Cryptic
(
Asimov's
, April 1983)
A sample from
this collection
.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Greg Bear
:
Blood Music
(
Analog
, June 1983)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo for Best Novelette 1984.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1983.
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Leigh Kennedy
:
Her Furry Face
(
Asimov's
, December 1983)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, First Edition.
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Robert R. McCammon
:
Nightcrawlers
(
Masques
Anthology #1, 1984)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
:
The Lucky Strike
(
Universe
Anthology #14, 1984)
Alternate link
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Finished below "No Award" in the Hugo voting.
David Brin
:
The Crystal Spheres
(
Analog
, January 1984)
Alternate link
.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1985.
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Gardner Dozois
:
Morning Child
(
Omni
, January 1984)
Alternate link
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this collection
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Nebula for Best Short Story 1984.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
:
Ridge Running
(
F & SF
, January 1984)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
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Lucius Shepard
:
Salvador
(
F & SF
, April 1984)
A sample from
this anthology
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Octavia E. Butler
:
Bloodchild
(
Asimov's
, June 1984)
A sample from
this anthology
.
Alternate link
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Hugo for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Lucius Shepard
:
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule
(
F & SF
, December 1984)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 1985.
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Michael Swanwick
:
Trojan Horse
(
Omni
, December 1984)
A sample from
this collection
.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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Harlan Ellison
:
Paladin of the Lost Hour
(
Universe
Anthology #15, 1985)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1986.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
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Frederik Pohl
:
Fermi and Frost
(
Asimov's
, January 1985)
A sample from
this anthology
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1986.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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William F. Wu
:
Hong’s Bluff
(
Omni
, March 1985)
Available as part of this magazine
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
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Joe Haldeman
:
More Than the Sum of His Parts
(
Playboy
, May 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Bruce Sterling
:
Dinner in Audoghast
(
Asimov's
, May 1985)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Lucius Shepard
:
The Jaguar Hunter
(
F & SF
, May 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
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John Crowley
:
Snow
(
Omni
, November 1985)
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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Michael Blumlein
:
The Brains of Rats
(
Interzone
#16, Summer 1986)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1987.
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Joe R. Lansdale
:
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back
(
Nukes
, April 1986)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1987.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
:
Escape from Kathmandu
(
Asimov's
, September 1986)
Available as part of this magazine
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1987.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1986.
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A serialized podcast.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Robert R. McCammon
:
Best Friends
(
Night Visions
Anthology #4, 1987)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 1988.
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Pat Murphy
:
Rachel in Love
(
Asimov's
, April 1987)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1987.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Howard Waldrop
:
Night of the Cooters
(
Omni
, April 1987)
Alternate link
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
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Pat Cadigan
:
Angel
(
Asimov's
, May 1987)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1987.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Octavia E. Butler
:
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
(
Omni
, May 1987)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1987.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fifth Edition.
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Lawrence Watt-Evans
:
Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers
(
Asimov's
, July 1987)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1988.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1987.
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Jack McDevitt
:
The Fort Moxie Branch
(
Full Spectrum
Anthology #1, 1988)
A sample from
this collection
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Available as part of this magazine
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Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
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David Brin
:
The Giving Plague
(
Interzone
#23, Spring 1988)
Alternate link
.
Alternate link
.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
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Lewis Shiner
:
Deserted Cities of the Heart
(
Doubleday
, 1988)
Alternate link
.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1988.
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Joe R. Lansdale
:
Night They Missed the Horror Show
(
Silver Scream
Anthology, 1988)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Second Edition.
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Mike Resnick
:
Kirinyaga
(
F & SF
, November 1988)
A sample from
this collection
.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1989.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
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Greg Bear
:
Sisters
(
Tangents
Collection, 1989)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
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Robert Silverberg
:
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
(
Asimov's
, June 1989)
A sample from
this anthology
.
Hugo for Best Novelette 1990.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Connie Willis
:
At the Rialto
(
Omni
, October 1989)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1990.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1989.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Mike Resnick
:
For I Have Touched the Sky
(
F & SF
, December 1989)
A sample from
this collection
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Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1990.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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