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5⭑

Amazing. Award worthy

• Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper
• Options by John Varley
• Solidity by Greg Egan
• The Algorithms for Love by Ken Liu
• The Monsters by Robert Sheckley
• Vouch For Me by Greg Egan

4⭑

Very good. Best of the year material

• A Flaw in the Works Julie Nováková
• And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress
• Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
• Death Game by David Gerrold
• Death and the Gorgon by Greg Egan
• Embot's Lament by James Patrick Kelly
• Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
• Falling Off the Edge of the World by Suzanne Palmer
• Forty-Eight Minutes at the Trainview Café by M. Bennardo
• Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles by Yang Wanqing
• I'm Waiting for You by Kim Bo-Young
• Kill That Groundhog by Fu Qiang
• Music to Me by Richard A. Lovett
• Neighborhood Watch by H.G. Stratmann
• Saving Galileo by Sean McMullen
• Susan Rose Sees Mars as the First Frontier by Charles Velasquez-Witosky
• Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo by John Varley
• The Rattler by Leonid Kaganov
• The Time Capsule by Alice Towey
• The World in a Ramen Cup by Jayde Holmes
• Time Out by Edward M. Lerner
• Turning Point by Poul Anderson
• Upstart by Lu Ban
• Vaccine Season by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Vinland the Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

3⭑

Good story. Worth reading

• A Family Matter by Robert Morrell Jr.
• Act One by Nancy Kress
• Apollo in Retrograde by Rosemary Claire Smith
• Buddha Nature by Amy Thomson
• Cryptonic by Aurelien Gayet
• Descartes’s Stepchildren by Robert Scherrer
• Direct Message by Tom R. Pike
• First Words by Michael Randle
• Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene by Paul McAuley
• Hull Run by David Goodman
• If It Ain't Broke by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
• Immune Response by Robert R. Chase
• Jazz Age by Mark Tiedemann
• Last Thursday by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Let the Games Begin by Robert Friedman & Barry N. Malzberg
• Live Update by Lettie Prell
• Lonely Hill by James Maxey
• Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness by S.L. Huang
• One Night Stand by Eileen Gunn
• Out in the Dark by Linda Nagata
• Peer Review by Andrew Sullivan
• Piggyback Girl by M. H. Ayinde
• Prompt Injection by Tom R. Pike
• Qiankun and Alex by Hao Jingfang
• Ray of Light by Brad R. Torgersen
• Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke
• Sacrificial Drones by John Shirley
• Seen by Lisa C. Herbert
• Silo, Sweet Silo by James Castles
• Skin Job by Gregor Hartmann
• Spark of Genius by Michael F. Flynn
• Sparrows by Susan Palwick
• The Impossibles by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Last Command by Keith Laumer
• The Matthews Conundrum by Edward M. Lerner
• The Nameless Dead by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Repair by Mark D. Jacobsen
• The Snack by Bud Spurhawk
• The Trolley Solution by Shiv Ramdas
• The Woman Who Destroyed Us by S.L. Huang
• This Good Lesson Keep by James Van Pelt
• Timothy: An Oral History by Michael Swanwick
• Uncle Roy's Computer Repairs and Used Robot Parts by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Undertow by Gregor Hartmann
• Une Time Machine, S’il Vous Plait by Peter Wood
• Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone by Carrie Vaughn
• Wasted Potential by David Lee Zweifler

2⭑

Just okay

• A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp
• Alphas by Gregory Benford
• Cheaper to Replace by Marie Vibbert
• Fermi's Silence by Jay Werkheiser
• In Translation by Lisa Tuttle
• Machine Learning by Nancy Kress
• Off the Map by Dane Kuttler
• Shepherd Moons by Jerry Oltion
• The Area Under the Curve by Matt McHugh
• The Compromise by Tom R. Pike
• The Plus One by Marie Vibbert
• Things to Do in Deimos When You’re Dead by Alastair Reynolds
• What We Call Science, They Call Treason by Dominica Phetteplace
• What Would You Pay For A Second Chance? by Chris Kulp
• When the Signal is the Noise by Rajan Khanna
• Work Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

1⭑

Not recommended

• Code Three by Rick Raphael
• The Last Man by Eric Leif Davin
• Up and Out by Norman Spinrad

Stories by decade

1940s

• Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke

1950s

• A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp
• Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper
• The Monsters by Robert Sheckley

1960s

• Code Three by Rick Raphael
• The Last Command by Keith Laumer
• Turning Point by Poul Anderson

1970s

• Options by John Varley

1980s

• Alphas by Gregory Benford
• In Translation by Lisa Tuttle
• Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo by John Varley

1990s

• And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress
• If It Ain't Broke by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
• Spark of Genius by Michael F. Flynn
• Vinland the Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson

2000s

• Act One by Nancy Kress
• Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
• The Algorithms for Love by Ken Liu

2010s

• Buddha Nature by Amy Thomson
• Descartes’s Stepchildren by Robert Scherrer
• Machine Learning by Nancy Kress
• Music to Me by Richard A. Lovett
• Neighborhood Watch by H.G. Stratmann
• Out in the Dark by Linda Nagata
• Ray of Light by Brad R. Torgersen
• The Impossibles by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Matthews Conundrum by Edward M. Lerner
• The Snack by Bud Spurhawk
• Time Out by Edward M. Lerner

2020s

• A Family Matter by Robert Morrell Jr.
• A Flaw in the Works Julie Nováková
• Apollo in Retrograde by Rosemary Claire Smith
• Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
• Cheaper to Replace by Marie Vibbert
• Cryptonic by Aurelien Gayet
• Death Game by David Gerrold
• Death and the Gorgon by Greg Egan
• Direct Message by Tom R. Pike
• Embot's Lament by James Patrick Kelly
• Falling Off the Edge of the World by Suzanne Palmer
• Fermi's Silence by Jay Werkheiser
• First Words by Michael Randle
• Forty-Eight Minutes at the Trainview Café by M. Bennardo
• Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene by Paul McAuley
• Hull Run by David Goodman
• Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles by Yang Wanqing
• I'm Waiting for You by Kim Bo-Young
• Immune Response by Robert R. Chase
• Jazz Age by Mark Tiedemann
• Kill That Groundhog by Fu Qiang
• Last Thursday by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Let the Games Begin by Robert Friedman & Barry N. Malzberg
• Live Update by Lettie Prell
• Lonely Hill by James Maxey
• Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness by S.L. Huang
• Off the Map by Dane Kuttler
• One Night Stand by Eileen Gunn
• Peer Review by Andrew Sullivan
• Piggyback Girl by M. H. Ayinde
• Prompt Injection by Tom R. Pike
• Qiankun and Alex by Hao Jingfang
• Sacrificial Drones by John Shirley
• Saving Galileo by Sean McMullen
• Seen by Lisa C. Herbert
• Shepherd Moons by Jerry Oltion
• Silo, Sweet Silo by James Castles
• Skin Job by Gregor Hartmann
• Solidity by Greg Egan
• Sparrows by Susan Palwick
• Susan Rose Sees Mars as the First Frontier by Charles Velasquez-Witosky
• The Area Under the Curve by Matt McHugh
• The Compromise by Tom R. Pike
• The Last Man by Eric Leif Davin
• The Nameless Dead by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Plus One by Marie Vibbert
• The Rattler by Leonid Kaganov
• The Repair by Mark D. Jacobsen
• The Time Capsule by Alice Towey
• The Trolley Solution by Shiv Ramdas
• The Woman Who Destroyed Us by S.L. Huang
• The World in a Ramen Cup by Jayde Holmes
• Things to Do in Deimos When You’re Dead by Alastair Reynolds
• This Good Lesson Keep by James Van Pelt
• Timothy: An Oral History by Michael Swanwick
• Uncle Roy's Computer Repairs and Used Robot Parts by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Undertow by Gregor Hartmann
• Une Time Machine, S’il Vous Plait by Peter Wood
• Up and Out by Norman Spinrad
• Upstart by Lu Ban
• Vaccine Season by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone by Carrie Vaughn
• Vouch For Me by Greg Egan
• Wasted Potential by David Lee Zweifler
• What We Call Science, They Call Treason by Dominica Phetteplace
• When the Signal is the Noise by Rajan Khanna
• Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
• Window Boy by Thomas Ha
• Work Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

Magazines

Asimov's Science Fiction

• A Family Matter by Robert Morrell Jr.
• Act One by Nancy Kress
• And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress
• Death and the Gorgon by Greg Egan
• Embot's Lament by James Patrick Kelly
• Falling Off the Edge of the World by Suzanne Palmer
• Forty-Eight Minutes at the Trainview Café by M. Bennardo
• Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene by Paul McAuley
• Last Thursday by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Let the Games Begin by Robert Friedman & Barry N. Malzberg
• Lonely Hill by James Maxey
• One Night Stand by Eileen Gunn
• Solidity by Greg Egan
• Sparrows by Susan Palwick
• The Nameless Dead by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Rattler by Leonid Kaganov
• The Repair by Mark D. Jacobsen
• Things to Do in Deimos When You’re Dead by Alastair Reynolds
• This Good Lesson Keep by James Van Pelt
• Une Time Machine, S’il Vous Plait by Peter Wood
• Up and Out by Norman Spinrad
• Vinland the Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
• What We Call Science, They Call Treason by Dominica Phetteplace
• When the Signal is the Noise by Rajan Khanna
• Work Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

Analog Science Fiction & Fact

• Apollo in Retrograde by Rosemary Claire Smith
• Buddha Nature by Amy Thomson
• Cryptonic by Aurelien Gayet
• Descartes’s Stepchildren by Robert Scherrer
• Direct Message by Tom R. Pike
• Fermi's Silence by Jay Werkheiser
• First Words by Michael Randle
• Hull Run by David Goodman
• If It Ain't Broke by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
• Immune Response by Robert R. Chase
• Jazz Age by Mark Tiedemann
• Music to Me by Richard A. Lovett
• Neighborhood Watch by H.G. Stratmann
• Out in the Dark by Linda Nagata
• Peer Review by Andrew Sullivan
• Prompt Injection by Tom R. Pike
• Ray of Light by Brad R. Torgersen
• Saving Galileo by Sean McMullen
• Seen by Lisa C. Herbert
• Shepherd Moons by Jerry Oltion
• Skin Job by Gregor Hartmann
• Spark of Genius by Michael F. Flynn
• Susan Rose Sees Mars as the First Frontier by Charles Velasquez-Witosky
• The Area Under the Curve by Matt McHugh
• The Compromise by Tom R. Pike
• The Impossibles by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Matthews Conundrum by Edward M. Lerner
• The Snack by Bud Spurhawk
• The World in a Ramen Cup by Jayde Holmes
• Time Out by Edward M. Lerner
• Uncle Roy's Computer Repairs and Used Robot Parts by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Undertow by Gregor Hartmann
• Vouch For Me by Greg Egan
• Wasted Potential by David Lee Zweifler

Clarkesworld

• Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
• Cheaper to Replace by Marie Vibbert
• Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles by Yang Wanqing
• Kill That Groundhog by Fu Qiang
• Live Update by Lettie Prell
• Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness by S.L. Huang
• Silo, Sweet Silo by James Castles
• The Time Capsule by Alice Towey
• Timothy: An Oral History by Michael Swanwick
• Upstart by Lu Ban
• Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone by Carrie Vaughn
• Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
• Window Boy by Thomas Ha

Fantasy & Science Fiction

• Off the Map by Dane Kuttler
• Piggyback Girl by M. H. Ayinde
• Sacrificial Drones by John Shirley
• The Plus One by Marie Vibbert

Anthologies

• Robots Through The Ages
• The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
• The John Varley Reader
• The World Turned Upside Down