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"Abyss" (coll)
© Doubleday books, 1971
--/ cool sf collection
--/ style award

"And The Angels Sing"
© OMNI, May 1990
And The Angels Sing, 1992
--novelette : 1991 Locus /5
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ style award

"The Clewiston Test" (nv)
© 1976, Doubleday Books
--novel : 1977 Locus /15
--retrospective Tiptree short list : 1996 Tiptree


"The Encounter"
© Orbit # 8, 1970
Somerset Dreams, 1978

"Forever Yours, Anna"
© OMNI, Apr 1987
And The Angels Sing, 1992
--short story : 1988 Hugo
--short story : 1988 Nebula W
--short story : 1988 Locus /8
--novelette : 1988 SF Chronicle /2

--/ cool sf story

"Forget Luck"
(Tony Manetti )
© F&SF, Apr 1996
--short story : 1997 Locus /6

"The Funeral"
© Again, Dangerous Visions, 1972
The Infinity Box, 1975
--novelette : 1973 Nebula
--short fiction : 1973 Locus /10

--/ cool sf story
--/ emotion award

"The Hounds"
© A Shocking Thing, ed. D. Knight, 1974
Somerset Dreams, 1978

"Juniper Time" (nv)
© 1979, Harper & Row
--novel : 1980 Nebula
--sf novel : 1980 Locus /11
--1981 Apollo W

--/ cool sf novel

"Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis"
© Orbit # 18, 1976
Somerset Dreams, 1978
--/ cool sf story

"The Man Without a Planet"
© F&SF, Jul 1962
The Mile-Long Spaceship, 1963

"The Mile-Long Spaceship"
© Astounding, Apr 1957
The Mile-Long Spaceship, 1963
--/ cool sf story
--/ idea award

"Mrs. Bagley Goes to Mars"
© Somerset Dreams, 1978

"The Nevermore Affair" (nv)
© 1966, Doubleday Books

"Perchance To Dream"
(russ. as "Bez Emotzii")
© The Downstairs Room and Others, 1968
Rovesnik, 1980
--/ cool sf story

"Planet Story"
© Epoch, ed. R. Elwood, 1975
Somerset Dreams, 1978

"The Plastic Abyss" (nv)
© Abyss, 1971
--/ cool sf novella
--/ style award

"Somerset Dreams"
© Orbit # 5, 1969
Somerset Dreams, 1978

"Somerset Dreams And Other Stories" (coll)
© Harper & Row, 1978
--single author collection : 1979 Locus /9
--/ style award

"A State Of Grace"
© Orbit # 19, 1977
Somerset Dreams, 1978

"Stranger In The House"
© F&SF, Feb 1968
Abyss, 1971
--/ third place sf novella
--/ wonder award
--/ style award
--/ emotion award


"Symbiosis"
© Cosmopolitan, Jun 1972
Somerset Dreams, 1978

"Welcome, Chaos" (nv)
© 1983, Gollancz
--sf novel : 1984 Locus /12

"With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope"
© IASFM, Nov 1981
Listen, Listen, 1981
--novella : 1982 Hugo
--novella : 1982 Locus /10

--/ cool sf novella


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