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Best "Space SF" Story (1961 to now)


MODERN "SPACE SCIENCE FICTION" STORY
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FIRST PLACE Best "Space SF" Story (1961 to now)

Michael Swanwick "Slow Life"

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SECOND PLACE Best "Space SF" Story (1961 to now)

Greg Bear "A Martian Ricorso"
Larry Niven "Known Space" stories:
"At the Core"; "The Coldest Place"; "The Ethics of Madness"
"Flatlander"; "Neutron Star"; "A Relic of Empire"
Alastair Reynolds "Galactic North"

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THIRD PLACE Best "Space SF" Story (1961 to now)

J. G. Ballard "The Message From Mars"
Stephen Baxter "Gossamer"
Barrington J. Bayley "The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor"
Gregory Benford "A Worm in the Well"
Tony Daniel "Life On The Moon"
Dmitry DeSpiller "Udivitelnaya Igvi"
Samuel R. Delany "Cage of Brass"
Paul Di Filippo "A Martian Theodicy"
Geoffrey A. Landis "Approaching Perimelasma"
Judith Ann Lawrence "This Is My Beloved"
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat"
Stanislaw Lem "On Patrol"; "Terminus"; "The Test"
Kelly Link "Two Houses"
George R. R. Martin "Fast-Friend"; The Plague Star"
Alastair Reynolds"A Spy in Europa", "Weather"
Ted Reynolds "Can These Bones Live?"; "Trial Sample"
"What Mad Diversion?"
Cordwainer Smith "On the Gem Planet"; "On the Sand Planet"
"On the Storm Planet"
Bruce Sterling "Spider Rose"; "Sunken Gardens"
A. & B. Strugatskie "Strashnaya Bolshaya Planeta"
Michael Swanwick "The Very Pulse of the Machine"
James Tiptree, Jr. "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side"
John Varley "Lollipop and the Tar Lady"; "The Pusher"
John C. Wright "Guest Law"
Askold Yakubowski "Na Dalekoi Planete"
Roger Zelazny "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"

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FOURTH PLACE Best "Space SF" Story (1961 to now)

Poul Anderson "Kyrie"; "Sunjammer"
A. Balazh "Vstrecha"
Iain M. Banks "Odd Attachment"
Sydney J. Bounds "The Animators"
J. G. Ballard "Report on an Unidentified Space Station"
Stephen Baxter "The Gravity Mine"; "Planck Zero"
"Sheena 5"
Barrington J. Bayley "The Ship That Sailed the Ocean of Space"
Gregory Benford "In Alien Flesh"
Dmitry Bilenkin "Nebo V Almazah"; "Nichego Krome Lda"
"Ten Sovershenstva"; "Ukhodyaschikh - Prosti!"
"Proverka Na Razumnost"
Eric Brown "Myths Of The Martian Future"
Robert L. Davis "Teratohippus"
Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois "Gods Of Mars"
Dmitry DeSpiller "Kosmoplan Kotory Nigde"
"Obmanchivaya Vneshnost"; "Planeta Kaleidoskopov"
"Poyuschie Skaly"; "Raundy Planety Ksenos"
Andrei Dmitruk "Skolzyaschi Po Moryu Kosmosa"
M. Emtzev & E. Parnov "Zheltye Ochi"
Dennis Etchinson "Damechild"
Yury Glazkov "Polyot "Svytogo Patrulya"
Phillip C. Jennings "Teddy Bug and the Hot Purple Snowball"
Victor Komarov "Perevorot Otkladyvaetsya"
Vladislav Ksionzhek "Polyubi Menya"
Geoffrey A. Landis "At Dorado"; "Impact Parameter"
"The Long Chase"; "Outsider's Chance"; "Sundancer Falling"
Boris Lapin "Pervy Shag"; "Pod Schastlivoy Zvezdoi"
Fritz Leiber "Moon Duel"
Stanislaw Lem "The Accident"; "The Albatross"
"The Conditioned Reflex"
C. C. MacApp "For Every Action"
K. Malinovski "Tretia Planeta Prociona"
Robert E. Margroff "Caterpillar Express"
Vyacheslav Morochko "Tam, Gde Vechno Dremlet Taina"
George R. R. Martin "A Beast for Norn"; "Guardians"
"Loaves and Fishes"; "Nor The Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring"
"Second Helpings"; "Starlady"; "The Way of Cross and Dragon"
Vladimir Mikhailov "Chernye Zhuravli"; "Odisseya Valgusa"
"Ruchei Na Yapete"; "Svistok, Kotorogo Ne Slyshish"
Vladimir Mikhanovski "Put Karavelly"; "Strela I Koloss"
Larry Niven "At the Bottom of a Hole"; "Becalmed in Hell"
"The Hole Man"
Sergei Pavlov "Ploskogorie Ognennykh Zmei"
Mikhail Puhov "Kartinnaya Galereya"; "Spasenie Zhizni"
Marta Randall "The Captain And The Kid"
"The State Of The Art On Alyssum"
Robert Reed "Night Of Time"
Victor Savchenko "Roza Vetrov"
Svyatoslav Slavchev "Golos, Kotory Tebya Zovyot"
Fred Saberhagen "Berserker' Prey" ("Pressure"); "The Face of the Deep"
"Fortress Ship" ("Without A Thought"); "The Lifehater" ("The Peacemaker")
"Period Of Totality"; "Sign Of The Wolf"
Bob Shaw "Appointment on Prila"; "Retroactive"
Allen Steele "The Return of Weird Frank"; "Zwarte Piet's Tale"
V. Tzyganov "Marsianskie Rasskazy"
Yury Tupitzyn "Khodovye Ispytaniya"
Richard Wadholm "The Ice Forest"
Vladlen Yufryakov "Tikhaya Planeta"
Askold Yakubowski "Iskatel"; "Schastie"
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "Fugitive Colors"; "The Meaning Of The Word"
Sarah Zettel "Kinds Of Strangers"
Timothy Zahn "Pawn's Gambit"
Roger Zelazny "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Avi,

I added this link to one of my posts here. I hope you don't mind. Have a good one!

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thanks for the link... As for recommendations (I can not post a comment on your blog, your scripts do not run properly in my Safari) - J. G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick would be my picks in SF. As for fantasy - I'd recommend Jeff Vandermeer's recent "City of Saints and Madmen"... Judging by the fact that you like Lovecraft, this is one skewed crazy and brilliant mind candy to suck on. They sell it as a novel, but it is really a collection of short fiction, some won World Fantasy award etc. I've read only half so far, but got hooked on the whole thing...

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