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- time travel, time paradoxes, etc _________________________________ FIRST PLACE Best "Time SF" Novella / Story Malcolm Jameson "Train For Flushing" _____________________________________________________ SECOND PLACE Best "Time SF" Novella / Story J. G. Ballard "Escapement" Stanislaw Lem "Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Seventh Voyage" Robert F. Young "When Time Was New" _____________________________________________________ THIRD PLACE Best "Time SF" Novella / Story Molly Brown "Bad Timing" J. G. Ballard "Time Of Passage" Alfred Bester "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"; "Time Is the Traitor" Jerome Bixby "One Way Street" Ray Bradbury "A Sound of Thunder" Clifford Simak "No Life Of Their Own" Charles Stross "Missile Gap" Ray Cummings "Bandits Of Time" Philip K. Dick "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday" Thomas M. Disch "Now Is Forever" Greg Egan "The Infinite Assassin'' Gordon Eklund "The Retro Man" Sharon Farber (as S. N. Dyer) "The Nostalginauts" Robert A. Heinlein "All You Zombies...''; "By His Bootstraps" Malcolm Jameson "Double And Redoubled" Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore (as Lawrence O'Donnel) "Vintage Season" _____________________________________________________ FOURTH PLACE Best "Time SF" Novella / Story Poul Anderson "Gibraltar Falls"; "The Longest Voyage"; "Time Patrol" Beth Bernobich "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" A. W. Burkholder "Dimensional Fate" Alfred Bester "The Pi Man"; "Will You Wait?" Terry Bisson "Incident At Oak Ridge" Samuel Delany "The Desert Of Time" Philip K. Dick "Explorers We" "The Golden Man"; "Paycheck" Harlan Ellison "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" Paul Ernst "The 32nd of May" Philip Jose Farmer "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesdays World" Gregor Hartmann "O Time Your Pyramids" Otis Adelbert Kline "Stolen Centuries" Victor Kolupaev "Bilet V Detstvo" R. A. Lafferty "The Six Fingers Of Time"; "Slow Tuesday Night" Fritz Leiber "Space-Time for Springers" Murray Leinster "The Runaway Skyscraper"; "Sidewise in Time" William P. McGivern "Sidetrack In Time" P. Schuyler Miller "The Sands of Time" C. L. Moore "Doorway Into Time" Larry Niven "Bird in the Hand" Edwin K. Sloat "The World Without A Name" Lucius Shepard "A Spanish Lesson" Clifford Simak "The Birch Clump Cylinder" "Grotto Of The Dancing Deer"; "The Marathon Photograph" Norman Spinrad "The Weed Of Time" Theodore Sturgeon "Yesterday was Monday" Robert E. Toomey, Jr. "A Skip in Time" Russell Winterbotham "The Fourth Dynasty" John Wyndham "And The Walls Came Tumbling Down" A. E. Van Vogt "The SeeSaw" H. G. Wells "The New Accelerator" Robert F. Young "Romance In An 11th Century Recharging Station" ------------ Also see: (full navigation tree) BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: Best SF Novel (General Themes) Best Space SF Novel Best Time SF Novel Best Apocalyptic SF Novel BEST SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTIONS BEST SCIENCE FICTION SERIES: Best SF Series (general themes) Best Space SF Series BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA: Best SF Novella 1920-1960 (general themes) Best SF Novella 1961-now (general themes) Best Space SF Novella 1920-1960 Best Space SF Novella 1961-now Best Time SF Novella Best Apocalyptic SF Novella BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORY: Best SF Story 1920-1960 (general themes) Best SF Story 1961-now (general themes) Best Space SF Story 1920-1960 Best Space SF Story 1961-now Best Time SF Story Best Apocalyptic SF Story BEST FANTASY NOVEL BEST FANTASY COLLECTION BEST FANTASY SERIES BEST FANTASY NOVELLA BEST FANTASY STORY: Best Fantasy Story 1920-1960 Best Fantasy Story 1961-now --------------------- RETURN TO MAIN PAGE |
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