SF & fantasy collections & anthologies

Here’s an update to this list.

Collections

Best of the best

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

Runner ups

Honourable mentions

Anthologies

Best of the best

  • Seeds of Change edited by John Joseph Adams
  • Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
  • One Million A. D. edited by Gardner Dozois
  • Foundation’s Friends edited by Martin H. Greenberg
  • Give Me Liberty edited by Martin Harry Greenberg & Mark Tier
  • The Road to Science Fiction Volume 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn
  • The Savage Humanists edited by Fiona Kelleghan
  • The Bakka Anthology edited by Kristen Pederson Chew
  • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl

Runner ups

  • The Best of Crank! edited by Brian Cholfin
  • Isaac Asimov’s Utopias edited by Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams
  • Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
  • Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future edited by Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer
  • Space Opera edited by Rich Horton
  • Crossing the Line edited by Robert J. Sawyer & David Skene-Melvin
  • Welcome to the Greenhouse edited by Gordon Van Gelder

Honourable mentions

  • Shine edited by Jetse de Vries
  • Dinosaur Fantastic edited by Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg

Shorts

These are short stories, novelettes, and novellas published as separate books.

Best of the best

Runner ups

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