indicates a single-author volume
indicates a multi-author volume
indicates a single-story e-book file[hugo] indicates that the story was nominated for an award
A bit of effort is needed to keep track of short stories, as the good ones tend to be buried in the same volume as a bunch of not-so-good ones, and can easily be forgotten. These are from my own collection; they are mostly sf, and mostly rather old by sf standards.
indicates a single-author volume
indicates a multi-author volume
indicates a single-story e-book file
[hugo] indicates that the story was nominated for an award
| Author | Title | Date | Volume/Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S M Stirling | A slip in time | 2014 | Multiverse: Exploring the worlds of Poul Anderson |
| Ken MacLeod | Sidewinders | 2010 | The mammoth book of alternate histories |
| John Varley | In the hall of the Martian kings | 1977 | Magazine of F and SF Feb 1977 |
| Arthur Jean Cox | An occurrence at the Owl Creek Rest Home | 1976 | Science fiction discoveries |
| Joan D & Vernor Vinge | The peddler’s apprentice | 1975 | The collected stories of Vernor Vinge |
| P J Plauger | Child of all ages [hugo, nebula] | 1975 | Nebula Award stories 11 The best science fiction of the year #5 Child of all ages |
| Joanna Russ | The experimenter | 1975 | The best from Galaxy vol. IV |
| Harry Harrison | Run from the fire | 1975 | Epoch |
| F M Busby | If this is Winnetka, you must be Judy | 1974 | Best science fiction stories of the year #4 |
| Larry Niven | The fourth profession | 1971 | A hole in space |
| Larry Niven | For a foggy night | 1971 | All the myriad ways |
| Harry Harrison | The wicked flee | 1970 | The best of Harry Harrison |
| Larry Niven | Not long before the end [hugo, nebula] | 1969 | All the myriad ways Nebula Award stories 5 |
| J F Bone | On the fourth planet | 1963 | The best of science fiction 9 (Project Gutenberg) |
| Walt & Leigh Richmond | Poppa needs shorts | 1963 | The best of science fiction 9 (Project Gutenberg) |
| Colin Kapp | Lambda I | 1962 | Lambda 1 and other stories |
| Philip E High | Routine exercise | 1961 | Lambda 1 and other stories |
| John Wyndham | Odd | 1961 | Consider her ways and others |
| John Wyndham | Stitch in time | 1961 | Consider her ways and others |
| John Wyndham | Random quest | 1961 | Consider her ways and others |
| Colin Kapp | The railways up on Cannis | 1959 | The unorthodox engineers The best of New Worlds |
| Alfred Bester | The pi man | 1959 | The dark side of the Earth |
| Damon Knight | What rough beast | 1958 | Off centre |
| Robert Sheckley | Ghost V | 1957 | The Robert Sheckley omnibus |
| Mack Reynolds | Compounded interest | 1956 | SF the best of the best part one |
| Robert Sheckley | Bad medicine | 1956 | The Robert Sheckley omnibus Pilgrimage to Earth (Project Gutenberg) |
| Eric Frank Russell | Diabologic | 1955 | Connoisseur’s science fiction |
| Poul Anderson | Delenda est | 1955 | Time patrol |
| Poul Anderson | Time patrol | 1955 | Time patrol |
| Philip K Dick | War veteran | 1955 | The preserving machine and other stories |
| Eric Frank Russell | The Waitabits | 1955 | The time traveler’s almanac |
| Robert Sheckley | A ticket to Tranai | 1955 | The Robert Sheckley omnibus |
| Robert Abernathy | Pyramid | 1954 | The Penguin science fiction omnibus (1973) |
| Damon Knight | Babel II | 1953 | The best of Damon Knight |
| Damon Knight | Four in one | 1953 | In deep |
| Philip K Dick | Beyond lies the wub | 1952 | The preserving machine and other stories (Project Gutenberg) |
| Eric Frank Russell | And then there were none | 1951 | The great explosion |
| H B Fyfe | Protected species | 1951 | The Penguin science fiction omnibus (1973, 2007) |
| Anthony Boucher | The quest for St Aquin | 1951 | The golden age of science fiction |
| Alfred Bester | Of time and Third Avenue | 1951 | Starburst A century of science fiction |
| Arthur C Clarke | Second dawn | 1951 | The best of Arthur C Clarke |
| A E van Vogt | Enchanted village | 1950 | Monsters |
| Howard Schoenfeld | Build up logically | 1950 | The Penguin science fiction omnibus (1973) |
| James H Schmitz | The second night of summer | 1950 | Agent of Vega and other stories |
| James H Schmitz | The witches of Karres | 1949 | Toward infinity |
| H Beam Piper | He walked around the horses | 1948 | Paratime The golden age of science fiction (Project Gutenberg) |
| A E van Vogt | Resurrection | 1948 | Monsters Toward infinity |
| Fredric Brown | Placet is a crazy place | 1946 | The Analog anthology #1 |
| Fredric Brown | The waveries [hugo] | 1945 | Connoisseur’s science fiction |
| Saki | Sredni Vashtar | 1911 | Sredni Vashtar and other stories The best of Saki |
| Rudyard Kipling | The brushwood boy | 1895 | The day’s work |