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October 1978
Valley of the Kilns - James B. Hall
Invisible Stripes - Ron Goulart
Time Warp - Theodore Sturgeon
Found! - Isaac Asimov
November 1978
The Weariest River - Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Whale Song - Leigh Kennedy
The Chessmen - William G. Shepherd
Controlled Experiment - Rick Conley
December 1978
Count the Clock that Tells the Time - Harlan Ellison
Body Game - Robert Sheckley
A Hiss of Dragon - Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
A Thousand Deaths - Orson Scott Card
January 1979
Newton’s Gift - Paul J. Nahin
New is Beautiful - Tony Holkham
To Race the Wind - Jack C. Haldeman II
The Hole Thing - Dean R. Lambe
And Whether Pigs Have Wings - Nancy Kress
February 1979
The Ancient Mind at Work - Suzy McKee Charnas
Lobotomy Shoals - Juleen Brantingham
The Signing Diamond - Dr. Robert L. Forward
The Blizzard Machine - Dean Ing
March 1979
Unaccompanied Sonata - Orson Scott Card
The Great Moveway Jam - John Keefauver
Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - Dean Ing
The Eyes on Butterflies’ Wings - Patrice Duvic
Hell Creatures of the Third Planet - Stephen Robinett
April 1979
Galatea Galante - Alfred Bester
Iceback Invasion - Hayford Peirce
No Future in It - Joe Haldeman
Oil is Not Gold - Sam Nicholson
May 1979
Dark Sanctuary - Gregory Benford
God is an Iron - Spider Robinson
Self-Discovery - Vladimir Savchenko
The Language Clarifier - Paul J. Nahin
June 1979
The Mickey Mouse Olympics - Tom Sullivan
Halfjack - Roger Zelazny
The Way of Cross and Dragon - George R.R. Martin
The Madagascar Event - Robert Haisty
July 1979
Fivesight - Spider Robinson
Deep-Breathing Exercises - Orson Scott Card
The Empath and the Savages - John Morressy
The Rocks that Moved - John Keefauver
August 1979
Sandkings - George R.R. Martin
Quietus - Orson Scott Card
The Fox and the Hedgehog - John Anthony West
September 1979
Kinsman - Ben Bova
Graveside Watch - Edward H. Gandy
The Vacuum-Packed Picnic - Ric Gauger
October 1979
The Number of the Beast - Robert A. Heinlein
The Test - Stansilaw Lem
Rent Control - Walter Tevis
November 1979
The Number of the Beast - Robert A. Heinlein
Malthus’s Day - Jayge Carr
December 1979
Soul Search - Spider Robinson
War Beneath the Tree - Gene Wolfe
Sam and the Dirty Mudder - Dean Ing
January 1980
Adventure of the Metal Murderer - Fred Saberhagen
Lesson One - James Randi
The Box - Paul J. Nahin
Fat Farm - Orson Scott Card
February 1980
Message from Earth - Ian Stewart
Why Dolphins Don’t Bite - Theodore Sturgeon
The President’s Image - Stephen Robinett
March 1980
The Emperor’s New Clothes - John Anthony West
Why Dolphins Don’t Bite - Theodore Sturgeon
X-Hero - John Brunner
The Longest Story Ever Told - Hugh Downs
April 1980
Giant on the Beach - John Keefauver
The Last Jerry Fagin Show - John Morressy
Why Dolphins Don’t Bite - Theodore Sturgeon
May 1980
Josie and the Elevator - Thomas M. Disch
Men Like Us - David Drake
Some of My Best Friends are Americans - François Camoin
June 1980
Return from the Stars - Stanislaw Lem
Marchianna - Kevin O’Donnell, Jr.
July 1980
Firestarter - Stephen King
Sigmund in Space - Barry N. Malzberg
August 1980
Firestarter - Stephen King
A Father’s Gift - Paul J. Nahin
The Future Lost - Robert Sheckley
September 1980
Our Lady of the Sauropods - Robert Silverberg
In the Hereafter Hilton - Bob Shaw
The Curio Shop - William Kotzwinkle
Only You Fanzy - Sherwood Springer
October 1980
The Marching Morons - C.M. Kornbluth
Prairie Sun - Edward Bryant
Rautavaara’s Case - Philip K. Dick
Easy Points - Kathleen V. Westfall
November 1980
Out of Luck - Walter Tevis
Prime Time - Norman Spinrad
December 1980
The Hunting of Hewlish - Sam Nicholson
St. Amy’s Tale - Orson Scott Card
January 1981
Body Ball - John Keefauver
A Cage for Death - Ian Watson
February 1981
Standing Woman - Tsutsui Yasutaka
Where No Man Goes - Bob Buckley
March 1981
Last of the Wild Ones - Roger Zelazny
Serpent’s Teeth - Spider Robinson
Icons - Barry N. Malzberg
April 1981
The Hitmaker - Cynthia Morgan
Last Waltz - Warren Brown
The Infinite Plane - Paul J. Nahn
May 1981
Johnny Mnemonic - William Gibson
Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy - Ray Bradbury
June 1981
Angel at the Gate - Russell M. Griffin
A Sepulcher of Songs - Orson Scott Card
July 1981
The Palace at Midnight - Robert Silverberg
Blind Spot - Jayge Carr
August 1981
Voyagers - Ben Bova
The Microbotic Revolution - Ian Stewart
September 1981
The Fighter - Wayne Wightman
Going Under - Jack Dann
Mr. Mouse - Frank L. Calloway
October 1981
On the Slab - Harlan Ellison
Oath of Fealty - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Soft Ions - Racter
Hinterlands - William Gibson
November 1981
Executive Clemency - Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman II
The Soul Painter and the Shapeshifter - Robert Silverberg
Forever - Damon Knight
December 1981
Ringtime - Thomas M. Disch
Ashes - Ian Stewart
Vox Olympica - Michael Bishop
January 1982
Elephant Song - Barry B. Longyear
Triggering - John Shirley
February 1982
Petra - Greg Bear
March 1982
The Audubon Effect - Scott Sanders
The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped curve - Robert Silverberg
April 1982
And Also Much Cattle - Connie Willis
When Auld’s Acquaintance is Forgot - Harlan Ellison
May 1982
With the Original Cast - Nancy Kress
I am the Burning Bush - Gregg Keizer
June 1982
The Accident - Stanislaw Lem
Ike at the Mike - Howard Waldrop
July 1982
The White Plague - Frank Herbert
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
August 1982
The White Plague - Frank Herbert
Triceratops - Kono Tensei
September 1982
The Man Who Met Picasso - Michael Swanwick
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams - Dan Simmons
October 1982
Foundation’s Edge - Isaac Asimov
A Matter of Fact - Rudyard Kipling
Farmer on the Dole - Frederik Pohl
November 1982
Augenblick - Steve Perry
Number 13 - Stephen Robinett
December 1982
Returning Home - Ian Watson
The Changed Man and the King of Words - Orson Scott Card
January 1983
The Mind of Medea - Kate Wilhelm
February 1983
The Best of Both Worlds - Lois Metzger
Saul’s Death - Joe Haldeman
March 1983
The Last Child into the Mountain - Michael Bishop and Lee Ellis
The End of the World News - Anthony Burgess
The Shirt’s Tale, The Shorts Story - Thomas M. Disch
April 1983
Blind Shemmy - Jack Dann
The End of the World News - Anthony Burgess
May 1983
Amanda and the Alien - Robert Silverberg
Vengeance is Yours - Pat Cadigan
June 1983
Edges - Gregg Keizer
A Teardrop Falls - Larry Niven
July 1983
Kaleidoscope - Cherry Wilder
Red Star, Winter Orbit - Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
August 1983
Wired - David Bischoff
September 1983
Man-Mountain Gentian - Howard Waldrop
Boundary Echoes - John M. Ford
Seventh Sense - Robert Haisty
Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
October 1983
Multiples - Robert Silverberg
Borovsky’s Hollow Woman - John Duntemann and Nancy Kress
During the Jurassic - John Updike
The Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov
Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
November 1983
Sister Angel - Kate Wilhelm
400 Boys - Marc Laidlaw
Amor y Pesestas - Stephen Robinett
Double Treble - Harlan Ellison, Pat Cadigan, Thomas M. Disch, Edward Bryant, Gene Wolfe and Frederik Pohl
December 1983
The Circus Animal - Scott Russell Sanders
Track of a Legend - Cynthia Felice
Monolyth - Jayge Carr
The Lurking Duck - Scott Baker
January 1984
Variation on a Man - Pat Cadigan
Morning Child - Gardner Dozois
February 1984
Deserted Cities of the Heart - Lewis Shiner
March 1984
Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
April 1984
Fire - Jere Cunningham
May 1984
My Rose and My Glove - Harvey Jacobs
Transit of Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
June 1984
Sunken Gardens - Bruce Sterling
At the Embassy - Elizabeth A. Lynn
July 1984
New Rose Hotel - William Gibson
August 1984
Itself Surprised - Roger Zelazny
September 1984
Adagio - Barry B. Longyear
Tooth Fairy - Carol Carr
October 1984
I Suppose You are Wondering Why We are Here - Ray Bradbury
The Visonary - Ursula K. Le Guin
November 1984
Poli-Sci-Fi - Robert Silverberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Maria Randall, Jim Aikin, Isaac Asimov, and Norman Spinrad
Out of Time - Ben Bova
December 1984
The Serrated Edge - Edward Bryant
Trojan Horse - Michael Swanwick
Robotgnomics - Robert Sheckley
January 1985
With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole - Harlan Ellison
Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - Howard Waldrop
February 1985
A Man Who Knew His Birds - William Kotzwinkle
Sea of Tranquillity - Marc Laidlaw
March 1985
The Gods of Mars - Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Minor Surgery and a Poker Game - M.G. Jacobs
Hong’s Bluff - William F. Wu
April 1985
Trapdoor - Ray Bradbury
Immortal Night - Gregory Benford
Dead Run - Greg Bear
May 1985
Reason Seven - Barry N. Malzberg
Dreams Unwind - Karl Hansen
O Homo, O Femina, O Tempora - Kate Wilhelm
June 1985
The Mind Like a Strange Balloon - Tom Maddox
The Man Who Always Wanted to Travel - Edward Bryant
July 1985
Dogfight - Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
Roadside Rescue - Pat Cadigan
August 1985
The Kite Man - Robert Dunn
September 1985
The Ark - Bruce McAllister
Mozart in Mirrorshades - Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
October 1985
Quicktime - Harlan Ellison
Under Siege - George R.R. Martin
November 1985
Snow - John Crowley
The Most Profound Caress - Julio Cortazar
December 1985
The Dragon Seed - Kate Wilhelm
Travels in the Interior - Scott Russell Sanders
January 1986
Tangents - Greg Bear
Sam and the Banzai Runner - Dean Ing
February 1986
The Man Who Wasn’t There - William Kotzwinkle
Robotvendor Rex - Robert Sheckley
March 1986
Sarah Runs the Weasel - Walter Jon Williams
April 1986
Snake Eyes - Tom Maddox
Permafrost - Roger Zelazny
Sarah Runs the Weasel - Walter Jon Williams
May 1986
The Book of Blood - Clive Barker
Against Babylon - Robert Silverberg
June 1986
Chimera Dreams - Gregg Keizer
July 1986
Rock Garden - Kevin O’Donnell, Jr.
August 1986
The Lions are Asleep this Night - Howard Waldrop
Fire Catcher - Richard Kadrey
September 1986
Listening to Brahms - Suzy McKee Charnas
October 1986
The End of the Whole Mess - Stephen King
Pig Thieves on Ptolemy: A Tale of the Tricentennial - Leo Daugherty
November 1986
Tatoos - Jack Dann
Our Town - Kim Stanley Robinson
December 1986
The Girl with the Vita-Gel Hair - Thomas M. Disch
Covenant of Souls - Michael Swanwick
January 1987
Daddy’s Big Girl - Ursula K. Le Guin
Paper Moon - Garry Kilworth
February 1987
Kingdom Come - Bruce McAllister
The Circular Library of Stones - Carol Emshwiller
March 1987
Babel’s Children - Clive Barker
April 1987
The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar - William S. Burroughs
Night of the Cooters - Howard Waldrop
May 1987
The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Octavia E. Butler
On Golden Seas - Arthur C. Clarke
June 1987
The Visitation and Other Divine Encounters - Greg Bear, Gérard Klein, Michael Bishop, Roger Zelazny, Connie Willis, John Brunner, Jack Dann and Jeanne Van Buren Dann, and Damien Broderick
July 1987
Forever Yours, Anna - Kate Wilhelm
August 1987
Stardust - Harvey Jacobs
Patterns - Pat Cadigan
September 1987
Palindrome - Thomas M. Disch
Pictures Made of Stone - Lucius Shepard
October 1987
Pear-Shaped Man - George R.R. Martin
Hardware - Robert Silverberg
November 1987
Rebels - Lewis Shiner
Diner - Neal Barrett, Jr.
E Ticket to Namland - Dan Simmons
December 1987
Adestes Fideles - Frederik Pohl
Arachne - Lisa Mason
January 1988
The Avenger of Death - Harlan Ellison
Headset - Pat Cadigan
February 1988
The Gulf Wars - Bruce Sterling
March 1988
The Robot and the One You Love - Tom Maddox
The Looking-Glass Man - Garry Kilworth
April 1988
A Handful of Horror - Edward Bryant, Patricia Highsmith, Pat Cadigan, Michael Swanwick, and Dan Simmons
Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods - William Kotzwinkle
May 1988
Life of Buddha - Lucius Shepard
The Girl Who Loved Animals - Bruce McAllister
June 1988
The Domino Master - Michael Blumlein
Wild, Wild Horses - Howard Waldrop
July 1988
The Dream of the Wolf - Scott Bradfield
August 1988
Bruno’s Shadow - Marc Laidlaw
September 1988
Schrödinger’s Kitten - George Alec Effinger
October 1988
Hannibal’s Elephants - Robert Silverberg
Six Flights of Fantasy - Joyce Carol Oates, K.W. Jeter, Barry N. Malzberg, Daniel Pinkwater, T. Coraghessan Boyle and Howard Waldrop
In a World Like This - Nancy Kress
November 1988
Shoo Fly - Richard Matheson
Youthful Folly - Lucius Shepard
December 1988
On the Edge - Sharon N. Farber
Fledged - Carol Emshwiller
January 1989
The Gulag on the Rue des Grande Augustins - Gregg Keizer
February 1989
Solace - Gardner Dozois
Mr. Fiddlehead - Jonathan Carroll
March 1989
Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of “Fitzcarraldo” - Garry Kilworth
Snow Angels - Michael Swanwick
April 1989
Finders Keepers - Gahan Wilson, Richard Christian Matheson, Michaelene Pendleton, and Pat Murphy
Baby Strange - Tom Maddox
May 1989
The Gates of Babel - J.R. Dunn
To the Promised Land - Robert Silverberg
June 1989
Little Boy Blue - Bruce McAllister
July 1989
Shoot the Moon - Pat Cadigan
Unidentified Objects - James R. Blaylock
August 1989
Reading the Silks - Michael Bishop
September 1989
His Powder’d Wig, His Crown of Thornes - Marc Laidlaw
Becoming Cindy - Richard Kadrey
October 1989
At the Rialto - Connie Willis
November 1989
Man’s Best Friend - Thomas M. Disch, Gregory Benford, Edward Bryant, Tom Dworetzky, and Karen Joy Fowler
December 1989
Family - Joyce Carol Oates
Tomorrow’s Child - Lisa Mason
January 1990
Looking Down - Carol Emshwiller
February 1990
The Sadness of Detail - Jonathan Carroll
March 1990
The Power and the Passion - Pat Cadigan
April 1990
The Chill of it All - Gahan Wilson, Whitely Strieber, John Skipp and Craig Spector, and Pat Cadigan
May 1990
And the Angels Sing - Kate Wilhelm
June 1990
Over Flat Mountain - Terry Bisson
July 1990
Einstein’s Law - Ben Bova
Latter-Day Martian Chronicles - Isaac Asimov, Pat Murphy, Bruce Sterling, Joan D. Vinge, and Gregory Benford
Mosquito - Richard Calder
August 1990
The Catch - Robert Silverberg
September 1990
In the Country of the Tattooed Men - Garry Kilworth
October 1990
Dancing in Dreamtime - Scott Russell Sanders
Something About a Death, Something About a Fire - Peter Straub
November 1990
Tower of Babylon - Ted Chiang
Après Moi - Gardner Dozois
December 1990
Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague - Michael Bishop
The Dead Love You - Jonathan Carroll
January 1991
The Sons of Noah - Jack Cady
February 1991
Dream Cargoes - J.G. Ballard
Peter - Pat Murphy
March 1991
The Last Surviving Veteran of the War of San Francisco - Robert Silverberg
April 1991
Alien/Nation - Barry N. Malzberg, William Relling, Jr., and Terry Bisson
May 1991
A Kiss, A Wink, A Grassy Knoll - Jack Womack
June 1991
Johnny Come Home - Pat Cadigan
July 1991
Stigmata - Robert Frazier
August 1991
Voices - Jack Dann
September 1991
Life regarded as a Jigsaw of Highly Lustrous Cats - Michael Bishop
October 1991
Hunters in the Forest - Robert Silverberg
November 1991
Skinner’s Room - William Gibson
The Vampire State - W.E. Gutman
December 1991
The Other Shore - J.R. Dunn
January 1992
The First Contact with the Gorgonids - Ursula K. Le Guin
Carl’s Lawn & Garden - Terry Bisson
February 1992
The Life of My Crime - Jonathan Carroll
March 1992
A Little Night Music - Lucius Shepard
April 1992
Ship Full of Jews - Barry N. Malzberg
May 1992
The Eye of the Beholder - Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Leigh Kennedy and Samuel R. Delany
June 1992
The Effects of Alienation - Howard Waldrop
July 1992
The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore - Harlan Ellison
August 1992
Two Guys from the Future - Terry Bison
September 1992
Overtures - J.R. Dunn
October 1992
Venus is Hell - Jack Williamson
November 1992
Gravity’s Angel - Tom Maddox
December 1992
In Memoriam - Poul Anderson
January 1993
Sacred Cow - Bruce Sterling
February 1993
The Battle of Long Island - Nancy Kress
April 1993
Like My Dress - Sandra Hendler
May 1993
The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio - Marc Laidlaw
June 1993
Grand Prix - Simon D. Ings
July 1993
England Underway - Terry Bisson
August 1993
Mrs. Jones - Carol Emshwiller
September 1993
Art Appreciation - Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
October 1993
Mefisto in Onyx - Harlan Ellison
November1993
Thanksgiving - Joyce Carol Oates
December 1993
The Relativity of Chaos - Michaela Roessner, Connie Willis, and John Kessel
January 1994
A Man on Crutches - Paul Park
February 1994
Assassin - Bruce McAllister
March 1994
A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on some Swings - Jonathan Carroll
April 1994
Fire, Ice - Joe Haldeman
Why Did? - Howard Waldrop
May 1994
Black Drongo - Garry Kilworth
June 1994
Bloodletting - Kate Wilhelm
July 1994
Queen of Angels - Kathe Koja
August 1994
See Rock City - Allen Steele
September 1994
Paris in June - Pat Cadigan
October 1994
Margin of Error - Nancy Kress
The Fire that Scours - Edward Bryant
November 1994
Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring - M. John Harrison
December 1994
Dying - Michael Marshall Smith
January 1995
There are No Dead - Terry Bisson
February 1995
Occam’s Ducks - Howard Waldrop
March 1995
Volatile - Simon Ings
April 1995
Resolve and Resistance - S.N. Dyer
Fall 1995
Some Like it Cold - John Kessel
Once More, Legato - Ray Bradbury
Three Portraits from Heisenberg - Kathe Kotja and Barry N. Malzberg
Winter 1995
Olders - Ursula K. Le Guin
Chromo - Ernie Colon and A.J. Gamble
Feigenbaum Number - Nancy Kress
Online Fiction
1995
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life - Michaela Roessner
Death in the Promised Land - Pat Cadigan
Hot Times in Magma City - Robert Silverberg
Jubilee - Jack Dann
The Day the Dam Broke - Kathleen Ann Goonan
1996
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich - Fritz Leiber
The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James - Robert Silverberg
Solitaire - Kathleen Ann Goonan
Thirteen Phantasms - James P. Blaylock
Dr. Tilmann’s Consultant - Cherry Wilder
Death Do Us Part - Robert Silverberg
1997
Making Good Time - James Patrick Kelly and Rachel Pollack and Pat Cadigan and Nancy Kress
Get a Grip - Paul Park
Open Veins - Simon Ings
Cyril Berganske - Michael Bishop
The Reef Builders - Rosaleen Love, Terry Bisson, Maureen McHugh, and Karen Joy Fowler
Space Opera - Michael Kandel
Coming to Terms with the Great Plague - Brian Stableford
1998
The Darcy Bee - Kathleen Ann Goonan, John Clute and Elizabeth Hand, Kim Newman, Jonathan Lethem
Mr. Goober’s Show - Howard Waldrop
Round Robin: Group Story Telling - Kelley Eskridge, Graham Joyce, Edward Bryant, and Kathe Koja
2017
Queen of Angels - Kathe Koja
The Cave Painting - Garry Kilworth
Thirteen Phantasms - James P. Blaylock
Mr. Goober’s Show - Howard Waldrop
Against Babylon - Robert Silverberg
Sidewalks - Maureen McHugh
Verweile Doch (But Linger) - Rich Larson
2018
Amanda and the Alien - Robert Silverberg