List Of Science Fiction Short Stories

• Defined a sub-genre of science fiction.
• Founded an important science fiction series.
• Been the first to introduce a science fiction concept.
• Won major science fiction or general fiction awards.
• Topped a major bestseller list.
• Been important to the field of science fiction in another way.

Humans colonizing other planets

Weyr Search (1968) by Anne McCaffrey

Founding story of the Pern series. Won a Hugo in 1968.

Intelligent animals

Genius of the Species (1956) by R. Brentor

First use of technology to induce intelligence in cats

Sheena 5 (2003) by Stephen Baxter

About a genetically modified squid

Large Artificial Worlds

see also Big Dumb Object

Orbitsville (1975) by Bob Shaw

Huge artificial sphere enclosing a star (known as a Dyson Sphere)

Non 3-Dimensional Space

Flatland (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott

A classic tale of a two-dimensional being meeting 'A Sphere'

...And He Built a Crooked House (1941) by Robert Heinlein

Story of a house that extends into the fourth dimension, much to the puzzlement of its occupants

Robot Stories

Robbie (1939) by Isaac Asimov

First Robot story by Isaac Asimov, published in the September 1940 issue of Super Science Stories.

Run Around (1942) by Isaac Asimov

First story to list the Three Laws of Robotics, published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding.

Time Travel

The Chronic Argonauts (1895) by H.G. Wells

Probably the very first significant time travel story ever.

All You Zombies... (1959) by Robert Heinlein

A story featuring a neatly tangled set of time travel paradoxes.

Ripples in the Dirac Sea (1988) by Geoffrey A. Landis

The affecting story of a scientist seesawing inescapably through time, this brilliant work effectively deconstructs most time-travel stories that came before. Winner of the 1989 Nebula Award for best short story.

Cyberpunk

True Names (1981) by Vernor Vinge

One of the first stories to flesh out the idea of cyberspace.

Award winning short stories

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