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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 Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
• 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

• Anthonology by Piers Anthony
• Gold by Isaac Asimov
• Redemolished by Alfred Bester
• First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
• Elements by Suzanne Church
• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
• Eye by Frank Herbert
• The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Smothered Dolls by A. R. Morlan
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• Federation by H. Beam Piper
• Counting Tadpoles by Uncle River
• The Engine of Recall by Karl Schroeder
• Starlings by Jo Walton
• This is the Year Zero by Andrew Weiner
• The Aliens Among Us by James White
• Impossible Things by Connie Willis
• The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe

Honourable mentions

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

Anthologies

Best of the best

• Seeds of Change edited by John Joseph Adams
• Masterpieces edited by Orson Scott Card
• Once Upon a Time edited by Lester del Rey & Rita Kessler
• 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
• Aurora Awards: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Science Fiction edited by Edo van Belkom

Runner ups

• Microcosmic Tales edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander
• The Best of Crank! edited by Bryan 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
• Otherwere: Stories of Transformation edited by Laura Anne Gilman, Keith R. A. DeCandido & Craig Shaw Gardner
• Space Opera edited by Rich Horton
• Invisible Planets edited by Ken Liu
• Other Worlds, Other Gods edited by Mayo Mohs
• Space Opera edited by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• 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

• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
• Hard Reboot by Django Wexler

Runner ups

• A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
• 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
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• The Million by Karl Schroeder
• Atmosphaera Incognita by Neal Stephenson
• Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh