SF & fantasy collections & anthologies
Here’s an update to this list.
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
- Exhalation – Ted Chiang
- 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
- Organisms – James Alan Gardner
- The Birthday of the World and Other Stories – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Four Ways to Forgiveness – Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu
- 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
- Elements – Suzanne Church
- 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 Engine of Recall – Karl Schroeder
- Starlings – Jo Walton
- 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
- Foundation’s Friends – ed. Martin H. Greenberg
- 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
- Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future – ed. Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer
- Space Opera – ed. Rich Horton
- 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
Shorts
These are short stories, novelettes, and novellas published as separate books.
- A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Million by Karl Schroeder
- Atmosphaera Incognita by Neal Stephenson