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  1980

  ALPHA CENTAURI A NINE - L.A.P. Moore

  SCORCHED SUPPER ON NEW NIGER - Suzy McKee Charnas

  THE LAST ONE LEFT - Bill Pronzini

  TRAVELS - Carter Scholz

  THE NOBEL LAUREATE - Robert H. Curtis

  THE TOUCH IN THEIR EYES - Steven Gould

  1981

  INCREDIBILITY GAP - Ian Stewart

  JOHNNY MNEMONIC - William Gibson

  VENICE DROWNED - Kim Stanley Robinson

  MAKING LIGHT - James P. Hogan

  FILED TEETH - Glenn Cook

  1982

  THE TICK TOCK THIEF - Nick Mancuso

  GREEN-EYED LADY - Alison Tellure

  BROTHERS - Richard Cowper

  . . . OLD . . . AS A GARMENT - Zenna Henderson

  A CAPELLA BLUES - Steve Popkes

  TRICERATOPS - Kono Tensei

  1983

  SOMETHING COMING THROUGH - Cherry Wilder

  BLOOD MUSIC - Greg Bear

  CYBERPUNK - Bruce Bethke

  1984

  TISSUE ABLATION AND VARIANT REGENERATION: A Case Report - Michael Blumlein

  BEACHWORLD - Stephen King

  THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPACESHIP - Richard Wilson

  LAZULI - Elissa Malcohn

  1985

  A TOUCH BEYOND - Stephen L. Burns

  ROADSIDE RESCUE - Pat Cadigan

  SNOW - John Crowley

  1986

  CHIMERA DREAMS - Gregg Keizer

  LOVE OF LIFE - Ray Brown

  1987

  OUT OF DARKNESS - Lillian Stewart Carl

  THE FINAGLE FIASCO - Don Sakers

  1988

  TWO MINUTES FORTY-FIVE SECONDS - Dan Simmons

  WELL-CONNECTED - T.E.D. Klein

  MANNEQUINS - Charles Oberndorf

  GHOST SHIP - Walton Simons

  1989

  ATTITUDE OF THE EARTH TOWARD OTHER BODIES - James Sallis

  FRANKENSTEIN GOES HOME - Alan Rodgers

  THE GENTLE SEDUCTION - Marc Stiegler

  ADRENOTROPIC MAN - Keith Brooke

  1990

  NO PRISONERS - George Alec Effinger

  VRM-547 - W.R. Thompson

  THE DATE - Larry Tritten

  LEARNING TO BE ME - Greg Egan

  A NICHE - Peter Watts

  COGITO - Pat Cadigan

  1991

  THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT - Terry Bisson

  VOICES - Jack Dann

  BAD TIMING - Molly Brown

  1992

  BOOSTRAP ENTERPRISE - Victor Koman

  LANDFALL - Alexis Glynn Latner

  DOUBLE YEAR LOST - Peter Hamilton

  FURIOUS WEATHERS - Robert Frazier

  ALIEN PLOT - Piers Anthony

  BLACK VELVET - Maggie Flinn

  EINSTEIN’S BRAIN - Keith Allen Daniels

  1993

  NIAGARA FALLS - Dieter Carra

  EMBODIED IN ITS OPPOSITE - John M. Landsberg

  BURNING BRIGHT - Fergus Bannon

  DEAD GODS - Robert Sampson

  THE STARDRIFTER GROUNDED - Bruce Boston

  RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS - Daniel Marcus

  1994

  CRYSTAL CITY BLUES - Gene KoKayKo

  THE DISEASE - David J. Adams

  TAKEOVER - Dwight V. Swain

  TOO CLEAN TO BE DEAD - Wesley Herbert

  FULL CIRCLE - John Alfred Taylor

  DOWN ON THE 01 LEVEL - Gene O’Neill

  SWEAR NOT BY THE MOON - Lawrence Schimel

  1995

  CHOCOLATE - John Scalzi

  MORTIMER GRAY’S HISTORY OF DEATH - Brian Stableford

  THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER - Neal Stephenson

  ALIEN RADIO - Mike Resnick

  1996

  RECORDING ANGEL - Ian McDonald

  THE MONITORS - W. Gregory Stewart

  1997

  ALL OUR YESTERDAYS - Brian A. Hopkins

  WAITING FOR THE RIDDLERS - Charles Sheffield

  THE SAUCER MAN - Jeff Hecht

  1998

  ALIENS ATE MY PICKUP - Mercedes Lackey

  THE ROAD TO WEALTH - J.I. Greco

  THE PRESIDENT’S CHANNEL - John Kessell

  STORY OF YOUR LIFE - Ted Chiang

  1999

  TRAVELLERS - Robert Silverberg

  PEOPLE CAME FROM EARTH - Stephen Baxter

  A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS - Gardner Dozois

  2000

  THE COMPANY OF FOUR - Elizabeth Bear

  HAVE NOT HAVE - Geoff Ryman

  2001

  CLEVER PEOPLE - Mary Soon Lee

  2002

  THE LONG CHASE - Geoffrey A. Landis

  DROPLET - Benjamin Rosenbaum

  THEY GO BUMP - David Barr Kirtley

  2003

  ALIENS LOVE ORANGES - Sue Burke

  THE ONLY KNOWN JUMP ACROSS TIME - Eugene Mirabelli

  2004

  THE OCEAN OF THE BLIND - James L. Cambias

  CARETAKER - Richard A. Lovett

  SMALL MOMENTS IN TIME - John Hemry

  2005

  THE SHOAL - Liz Williams

  YOU - Stephen Leigh

  THE DAY OF THE RFIDS - Edward M. Lerner

  HOTEL SECURITY - Carl Frederick

  REVOLUTION TIME - Lavie Tidhar

  2006

  THE ’84 REGRESS - Douglas Lain

  BRIDGE O’ DOOM - Ken Rand

  THE MUSE OF EMPIRES LOST - Paul Berger

  2007

  THE FOUNTAIN OF AGE - Nancy Kress

  THE HUM - Rick Hautala

  VISITNG THE MILLIONAIRE - George Anthony

  THE TREASURE - Michael Davis

  GOOD GENES - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

  2008

  THE AWAKENING - Eugen M. Bacon

  STRANGE TALE OF DR RAVI MOHAN - S.D. Dharkar

  2009

  THE EARTH SHIP - Graham Storrs

  ZEPPELIN CITY - Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn

  THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. SALAD MONDAY - GD Falksen

  2010

  YOUR LIFE SENTENCE - C.C Finlay

  THE EINSTEIN GUN - Pierre Gévart

  FUTURES IN THE MEMORY MARKET - Nina Kiriki Hoffman

  THE LAST ROCKET - A.F. Allen

  2011

  CITIZEN-ASTRONAUT - David D. Levine

  FAITHFUL CITY - Michael Pevzner

  2012

  BODIES - Juanfran Jiménez

  WHAT JERRY KNOWS - Shane D. Rhinewald

  FROM OUT OF THE SUN, ENDLESSLY SINGING - Simon R. Green

  A TALL TAIL - Charles Stross

  2013

  THE EXCHANGE OFFICERS - Brad R. Torgersen

  THE FAMILY ROCKET - James Van Pelt

  THE SOUNDS OF OLD EARTH - Matthew Kressel

  THE REMNANT - Cassie Beasley

  THE WAITING STARS - Aliette de Bodard

  THE SUN AND I - K.J. Parker

  ROCKET SHIP TO HELL - Jeffrey Ford

  2014

  AND WASH OUT BY TIDES OF WAR - An Owomoyela

  HEAVENLY HORIZON - Ricky L. Brown

  SLEEPER - Jo Walton

  A BOX, A POCKET, A SPACEMAN - E. Catherine Tobler

  SECURITY CHECK - Han Song

  DOPPLER SHIFT - Matthew S. Rotundo

  AS GOOD AS NEW - Charlie Jane Anders

  WHERE THE TRAINS TURN - Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

  THE ANOMALY - C.W. Johnson

  UNDELETED - Aidan Doyle

  2015

  GOD HAS LEFT THE BUILDING - Todd Colby

  ETERNITY IS 20 SECONDS LONG - Paul Trembling

  TIME, AGAIN - Tim Maly

  ALTER EGO - Russ Linton

  THE ALGEBRA OF EVENTS - Elizabeth Bourne

  EIGHT SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES - Paul Simms

  LOOKING FOR GORDO - Robert J. Sawyer

  MORRIGAN IN SHADOW - Seth Dickinson

  2016

  NUMBER NINE MOON - Alex Irvine

  THE TREATY BREAKER - Brendan DuBoisr />
  BINARIES - S.B. Divya

  GREEN GIRL BLUES - Martin L. Shoemaker

  PARABLES OF INFINITY - Robert Reed

  THIS IS AS I WISH TO BE RESTORED - Christie Yant

  2017

  THE REGRESSION TEST - Wole Talabi

  AN ACCOUNT OF THE SKY WHALES - A Que

  DIGITAL COMMANDER - JS Morin

  SMALL CHANGES OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME - K.M. Szpara

  FELDSPAR - Philip A. Kramer

  IF YOU BUILD A ROBOT - Lawrence Allan Pontius

  DNR - Gabriela Lee

  I MET A TRAVELLER IN AN ANTIQUE LAND - Connie Willis

  VANGUARD 2.0 - Carter Scholz

  2018

  THE EQUALIZERS - Ian Casey

  “WHAT MAKES THE DESERT BEAUTIFUL” - John P. Carr

  THE PORTAL - Anthony Engebretson

  IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER - Rich Larson

  HAIL TO THE VICTORS - Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

  SUNSET - Tobias S. Buckell

  CLOUDSONG - Nick Wolven

  WARSHIP MECHANIC - Ralph Roberts

  WHEN YOU’RE READY - M. Ian Bell

  THE MEMORYBOX VULTURES - Brian Trent

  NINE LAST DAYS ON EARTH - Daryl Gregory

  2019

  SURVEY - Adam-Troy Castro

  A CATALOG OF STORMS - Fran Wilde

  RED SHIFT - R.S. Belcher

  COLD SLEEP - C.J. Cherryh

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHRONOLOGICAL

  1800s

  The Sandman (E.T.A. Hoffmann), The Night Pieces, 1817

  Glimpses of Other Worlds (Sir Thomas Charles Morgan), The Metropolitan Magazine, July 1835

  The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Edgar Allan Poe), The Broadway Journal, December 20, 1845

  The Signalman (Charles Dickens), All the Year Round, December 1866

  The Moonstone Mass (Harriet Prescott Spofford), Harper’s Monthly, October 1868

  A Glance into the Future; Or, the World in the Twenty-Ninth Century (Elizabeth T. Corbett), Godey’s Lady’s Book, March 1879

  Professor Vehr’s Electrical Experiment (Robert Duncan Milne), The Argonaut, January 24, 1885

  Kasper Craig (Maud Mowe), Two Tales, May 7, 1892

  A Wife Manufactured to Order (Alice W. Fuller), The Arena, July 1895

  An Express of the Future (Jules Verne), The Strand Magazine, December 1895

  The Star (H.G. Wells), The Graphic, December 1897

  Moxon’s Master (Ambrose Bierce), San Francisco Examiner, April 16, 1899

  The Master of the Octopus (Edward Olin Weeks), Pearson’s Magazine, October 1899

  1900s

  The Lady Automaton (E.E. Kellett), Pearson’s Magazine, June 1901

  The Last Days of Earth (George C. Wallis), The Harmsworth Magazine, July 1901

  A Dream of the the Twenty-First Century (Mary Wilkins Freeman), The Arena, November 1902

  The Shadow and the Flash (Jack London), The Bookman, June 1903

  The Skyscraper in B Flat (Frank Lillie Pollock), The Black Cat, June 1904

  A Star Fell (L.J. Beeston), Cassell’s Magazine, September 1904

  The Sultana’s Dream (Roquia Sakhawat Hossein), The Indian Ladies’ Magazine, 1905

  The Spider (Hanns Heinz Ewers), Die Besessenen, 1908

  The Earthquake of the Year 2300 (Ivan Strannik), Transatlantic Tales, March 1908

  The Five Senses (Edith Nesbit), London Magazine, December 1909

  The New Humans (B. Vallance), Pearson’s Magazine, December 1909

  Friend Island (Francis Stevens), All-Story Weekly, September 7, 1918

  1920

  The Mad Planet (Murray Leinster), Argosy, June 12, 1920

  The Light Machine (Ray Cummings), All-Story Weekly, June 19, 1920

  The Sky Woman (Charles B. Stilson), Argosy All-Story Weekly, September 25, 1920

  1923

  The Thing from—“Outside” (George Allan England), Science and Invention, April 1923

  The Man Who Owned the World (Frank Owen), Weird Tales, October 1923

  An Adventure in the Fourth Dimension (Farnsworth Wright), Weird Tales, October 1923

  Solander’s Radio Tomb (Ellis Parker Butler), Radio News, December 1923

  1926

  The Talking Brain (A. Merritt), Amazing Stories, August 1926

  The Last Séance (Agatha Christie), Ghost Stories, November 1926

  1927

  The Colour Out of Space (H.P. Lovecraft), Amazing Stories, September 1927

  The Invading Horde (Arthur J. Burks), Weird Tales, November 1927

  1928

  War No. 81-Q (Cordwainer Smith), The Adjutant, June 1928

  Out of the Sub-Universe (R.F. Starzl), Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer, July 1928

  The Head (Joe Kleier), Amazing Stories, August 1928

  1929

  The Monoglian’s Ray (Volney G. Mathison), Amazing Stories, June 1929

  The Threat of the Robot (David H. Keller, M.D.), Science Wonder Stories, June 1929

  Islands in the Air (Lowell Howard Morrow), Air Wonder Stories, July 1929

  The Artificial Man (Clare Winger Harris), Science Wonder Quarterly, Fall 1929

  In Two Worlds (Edward E. Chappelow), Science Wonder Stories, October 1929

  When Space Ripped Open (Ralph W. Wilkins), Air Wonder Stories, November 1929

  Zapt’s Repulsive Paste (J.U. Giesy), All-Story, November 19, 1929

  1930

  The Stolen Mind (M.L. Staley), Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930

  The Vapor Intelligence (Jack Barnette), Science Wonder Stories, January 1930

  Into Space (S.P. Meek), Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930

  The World of a Hundred Men (Walter Kateley), Science Wonder Stories, February 1930

  The Relics From the Earth (John R. Pierce), Science Wonder Stories, March 1930

  Via the Hewitt Ray (M.F. Rupert), Science Wonder Quarterly, Spring, March 15, 1930

  The Day of the Beast (D.D. Sharp), Science Wonder Stories, May 1930

  The Synthetic Men (Ed Earl Repp), Wonder Stories, December 1930

  1931

  The Man Who Annexed the Moon (Bob Olsen), Amazing Stories, February 1931

  Extra-Galactic Invaders (J. Schlossel), Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring, April 1931

  Out Around Rigel (Robert H. Wilson), Astounding Stories, December 1931

  The Reign of the Robots (Edmond Hamilton), Wonder Stories, December 1931

  1932

  The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst), Astounding Stories, January 1932

  The Resistant Ray (Francis Flagg), Amazing Stories, July 1930

  Spacewrecked on Venus (Neil R. Jones), Wonder Stories Quarterly, Winter 1932

  A Scientist Rises (Harry Bates), Astounding Stories, November 1932

  1933

  Dweller in Martian Depths (Clark Ashton Smith), Wonder Stories, March 1933

  Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson), Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933

  The Orange God (Walter Glamis), Astounding Stories, October 1933

  1934

  Scandal in the 4th Dimension (Amelia Reynolds Long), Astounding Stories, February 1934

  The Long Night (Charles W. Diffin), Astounding Stories, May 1934

  Shot into Space (Isaac R. Nathanson), Amazing Stories, August 1934

  The Brain of Ali Khan (Lloyd Eshbach), Wonder Stories, October 1934

  1935

  The Tale of the Atom (Philip Dennis Chamberlain), Amazing Stories, January 1935

  The Prophetic Voice (Laurence Manning), Wonder Stories, April 1935

  The Music of the Spheres (Stuart J. Byrne), Amazing Stories, August 1935

  1936

  The Mad World (A.L. Burkholder), Wonder Stories, February 1936

  Entropy (Nathan Schachner), Astounding Stories, March 1936

  Liquid Life (Ralph Milne Farley), Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1936

  The Brain Stealers of Mars (John W. Campbell, Jr.), Thrilling Wonder Storie
s, December 1936

  1937

  Monsters of the Moon (Festus Pragnell), Tales of Wonder, #1, 1937

  The Seeing Ear (John Scott Campbell), Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1937

  Zero as a Limit (Robert Moore Williams), Astounding Stories, July 1937

  1938

  The Voice Out of Space (Clifton B. Kruse), Astounding Stories, January 1938

  Jane Brown’s Body (Cornell Woolrich), All-American Fiction, March/April, March 1938

  Vibratory (Warner Van Lorne), Astounding Stories, March 1938

  Via Death (Otto Binder), Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1938

  Tidal Moon (Stanley G. Weinbaum), Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1938

  1939

  Vast Beyond Concept (Hal Remson), Marvel Science Stories, February 1939

  The Machine that Thought (Raymond Z. Gallun), Science Fiction, March 1939

  Death Time (D.M. Bricker), Unknown, April 1939

  The Lost Hour (Alexander Samalman), Startling Stories, May 1939

  Heavy Planet (Lee Gregor), Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1939

  Spawn (P. Schuyler Miller), Weird Tales, August 1939

  Rust (Joesph E. Kelleam), Astounding Science-Fiction, October 1939

  The Missing Year (Eando Binder), Amazing Stories, October 1939

  War-Lords of the Moon (Linton Davies), Planet Stories, Winter, November 1939

  1940

  The Intruder (Emil Petaja), Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940

  Philtered Power (Malcolm Jameson), Unknown Fantasy Fiction, March 1940

  The Test-Tube Monster (George E. Clark), Marvel Tales, May 1940

  A Miracle in Time (Henry Hasse), Astonishing Stories, June 1940

  Emergency Landing (Ralph Williams), Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940

  Gravity Off! (Leslie F. Stone), Future Fiction, July 1940

  The Machine Brain (David V. Reed), Thrilling Wonder Stories, July 1940

  The Ray that Failed (Albert Bernstein), Fantastic Adventures, August 1940

  Equation for Time (R.R. Winterbotham), Comet, December 1940

  1941

  Lunar Gun (John L. Chapman), Stirring Science Stories, February 1941

  The Planet of Illusion (Millard V. Gordon), Comet, March 1941

  Star of Blue (Milton Kaltesky), Science Fiction, March 1941

  The Fate of Asteroid 13 (William P. McGivern), Amazing Stories, May 1941

  The Devil’s Asteroid (Manly Wade Wellman), Comet, July 1941

  Appointment in Space (John Broome), Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1941

  Solar Plexus (James Blish), Astonishing Stories, September 1941

  Test of the Gods (Raymond F. Jones), Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1941

  The Biped, Reegan (Alfred Bester), Super Science Stories, November 1941

  1942

  Voice in the Void (Walter Kubilius), Astonishing Stories, March 1942

  Proof (Hal Clement), Astounding Science Fiction, June 1942