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Collections

Best of the best

• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
• Nightfall – Isaac Asimov
• Virtual Unrealities – Alfred Bester
• The Golden Apples of the Sun – Ray Bradbury
• Keeper of Dreams – Orson Scott Card
• Maps in a Mirror – Orson Scott Card
• Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
• Expedition to Earth – Arthur C. Clarke
• The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C. Clarke
• Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick – Philip K. Dick
• Daughter of Regals & Other Tales – Stephen R. Donaldson
• Gravity Wells – James Alan Gardner
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories – Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – Ursula K. Le Guin
• Identity Theft and Other Stories – Robert J. Sawyer
• Iterations – Robert J. Sawyer
• Over the River & Through the Woods – Clifford D. Simak
• The Perseids and Other Stories – Robert Charles Wilson

Runner ups

• Gold — Isaac Asimov
• Redemolished — Alfred Bester
• First Meetings — Orson Scott Card
• Eye — Frank Herbert
• The Other Wind — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Counting Tadpoles — Uncle River
• The Dying Earth — Jack Vance
• This is the Year Zero — Andrew Weiner
• The Aliens Among Us — James White
• Impossible Things — Connie Willis

Honourable mentions

• Burning Chrome — William Gibson
• Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon — Spider Robinson

Anthologies

Best of the best

• Seeds of Change – ed. John Joseph Adams
• Masterpieces – ed. Orson Scott Card
• One Million A. D. — ed. Gardner Dozois
• Give Me Liberty – ed. Martin Harry Greenberg & Mark Tier
• The Road to Science Fiction Volume 4: From Here to Forever – ed. James Gunn
• The Savage Humanists – ed. Fiona Kelleghan
• The Bakka Anthology – ed. Kristen Pederson Chew

Runner ups

• The Best of Crank! — ed. Brian Cholfin
• Isaac Asimov’s Utopias — ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams
• Dangerous Visions — ed. Harlan Ellison
• Crossing the Line — ed. Robert J. Sawyer & David Skene-Melvin
• Welcome to the Greenhouse — ed. Gordon Van Gelder

Honourable mentions

• Shine — ed. Jetse de Vries
• Dinosaur Fantastic — ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg