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I am working my way through all of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short fiction. Rather than go through it year by year, I randomized the list. You can download the list I’m working from in Excel format by clicking here, or you can see it below. I randomized the list on April 5, 2007, so any award winners after that will be added to the bottom.

I started this project once before, then stopped. Here, about 6 months later, I find that I miss it enough to start up again. It was FUN. Though I have all the original posts from SFFreader 1.0, I don’t want to post them all again here. Instead, I randomized the whole list again, and will post those I’ve already written about when they come up, using the original post (unless I don’t like what I wrote or how I wrote it). I hope this will help me maintain a good pace - I’ve been through about 79 of the 226 stories on the list (as of April 5, 2007), and, not surprisingly, I’ve found something interesting in nearly all of them.

So you can track my progress, here is the list I’m working from:

posted, Novella, Nebula, 1969, A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
posted, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1979, Sandkings by George R.R. Martin
posted, Short Story, Hugo, 1965, Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson
posted, Novella, Hugo, 2004, The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
posted, Novelette, Hugo, 1991, The Manamouki by Mike Resnick
posted, Short Story, Hugo, 1995, None So Blind by Joe Haldeman
posted, Short Story, Hugo, 1964, No Truce with Kings by Poul Anderson
posted, Novella, Hugo, 1986, Twenty-Four Views of Mt. Fuji, By Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
posted, Short Story, Hugo, 1955, Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
posted, Novelette, Hugo, 1993, The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan
posted, Short Story, Nebula, 2003, What I Didn’t See by Karen Joy Fowler
12, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1984, Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
13, Novelette, Nebula, 1978, A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn’s Eye by Charles L. Grant
14, Short Story, Hugo, 2004, A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
15, Short Story, Nebula, 1976, A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant
16, Novelette, Hugo, 1981, The Cloak and the Staff by Gordon R. Dickson
17, Novelette, Nebula, 2000, Daddy’s World by Walter Jon Williams
18, Novelette, Nebula, 2003, The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
19, Novella, Nebula, 1972, A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke
posted, Short Story, Hugo, 1989, Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
21, Short Story, Hugo, 1959, That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch
22, Novelette, Hugo, 1979, Hunter’s Moon by Poul Anderson
23, Novella, Hugo, 1973, The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
24, Short Story, Nebula, 1989, Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
25, Novelette, Hugo, 1969, The Sharing of Flesh by Poul Anderson
26, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1967, Gonna Roll Them Bones by Fritz Leiber
27, Novelette, Hugo, 1988, Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin
28, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 2001, The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson
29, Short Story, Hugo, 1994, Death on the Nile by Connie Willis
30, Novelette, Nebula, 1971, The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson
31, Novelette, Hugo, 2003, Slow Life by Michael Swanwick
32, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1976, Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny
33, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1978, Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson
34, Novella, Nebula, 1986, R&R by Lucius Shepard
35, Novella, Nebula, 1999, Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
36, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1982, Fire Watch by Connie Willis
37, Short Story, Hugo, 1990, Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
38, Novella, Hugo, 1994, Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove
39, Short Story, Hugo, 1960, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
40, Novelette, Hugo, 1992, Gold by Isaac Asimov
41, Novella, Nebula, 1968, Dragonrider by Anne McCaffrey
42, Novelette, Nebula, 2004, Coming to Terms by Eileen Gunn
43, Novella, Hugo, 1987, Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg
44, Novella, Nebula, 1985, Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
45, Short Story, Hugo, 1967, Neutron Star by Larry Niven
46, Novella, Hugo, 1977, By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson
47, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1970, Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon
48, Short Story, Nebula, 1993, Graves by Joe Haldeman
49, Short Story, Nebula, 1967, Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany
50, Novella, Hugo, 1968, Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer
51, Short Story, Hugo, 1972, Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
52, Novelette, Hugo, 1951, The Little Black Bag by C.M. Kornbluth
53, Novella, Nebula, 1982, Another Orphan by John Kessel
54, Short Story, Hugo and Nebula, 1965, “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison
55, Novelette, Hugo, 1990, Enter a Soldier. Later Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
56, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1995, Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick
57, Novelette, Nebula, 1975, San Diego Lightfoot Sue by Tom Reamy
58, Short Story, Hugo, 1961, The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson
59, Short Story, Hugo, 1992, A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis
60, Novella, Nebula, 1973, The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe
61, Novelette, Nebula, 1999, Mars is No Place for Children by Mary A. Turzillo
62, Short Story, Hugo, 1984, Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
63, Short Story, Nebula, 2000, macs by Terry Bisson
64, Novella, Hugo, 1975, A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin
65, Short Story, Nebula, 1973, Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death by James Tiptree, Jr.
66, Novella, Hugo, 1970, Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber
67, Novelette, Hugo, 1975, Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans by Harlan Ellison
68, Novella, Hugo, 2006, Inside Job by Connie Willis
69, Short Story, Hugo, 1973, Eurema’s Dam by R.A. Lafferty
70, Short Story, Nebula, 1980, Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak
71, Novella, Nebula, 2002, Bronte’s Egg by Richard Chwedyk
72, Novelette, Hugo, 1959, The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak
73, Novelette, Hugo, 1956, Exploration Team by Murray Leinster
74, Novelette, Nebula, 1977, The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon
75, Novella, Hugo, 1955, A Case of Conscience by James Blish
76, Short Story, Nebula, 1983, The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois
77, Short Story, Hugo and Nebula, 1992, Even the Queen by Connie Willis
78, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1969, Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany
79, Short Story, Nebula, 1978, Stone by Edward Bryant
80, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 2006, Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
81, Short Story, Hugo, 1969, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
82, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1971, Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
83, Novelette, Hugo, 1978, Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge
84, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1985, Press Enter by John Varley
85, Novelette, Nebula, 1985, Portraits of His Children by George R.R. Martin
86, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1989, Schrödinger’s Kitten by George Alec Effinger
87, Novella, Nebula, 1983, Hardfought by Greg Bear
88, Short Story, Nebula, 1968, The Planners by Kate Wilhelm
89, Novelette, Hugo, 1986, Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
90, Novelette, Nebula, 1998, Lost Girls by Jane Yolen
91, Novelette, Hugo, 1987, Permafrost by Roger Zelazny
92, Novelette, Nebula, 2001, Louise’s Ghost by Kelly Link
93, Novella, Nebula, 2004, The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams
94, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1983, Blood Music by Greg Bear
95, Novella, Nebula, 2005, Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
96, Novella, Hugo, 1968, Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey
97, Novelette, Hugo, 1946, First Contact (1996) by Murray Leinster
98, Short Story, Hugo, 1968, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
99, Short Story, Nebula, 2004, Basement Magic by Ellen Klages
100, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1990, The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
101, Short Story, Hugo, 1985, The Crystal Spheres by David Brin
102, Short Story, Nebula, 1969, Passengers by Robert Silverberg
103, Novella, Hugo, 1993, Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard
104, Short Story, Hugo, 1979, Cassandra by C.J. Cherryh
105, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1976, The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
106, Short Story, Hugo, 1963, The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance
107, Short Story, Hugo and Nebula, 1986, Tangents by Greg Bear
108, Short Story, Nebula, 1971, Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg
109, Novelette, Hugo, 1955, The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
110, Short Story, Hugo, 1986, Fermi and Frost by Frederick Pohl
111, Novella, Nebula, 1971, The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean
112, Novelette, Hugo, 2004, Legions in Time by Michael Swanwick
113, Short Story, Nebula, 1982, A Letter from the Clearys by Connie Willis
114, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1977, Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr.
115, Short Story, Hugo, 1980, The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin
116, Novella, Hugo, 1974, The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.
117, Short Story, Nebula, 1994, A Defense of the Social Contracts by Martha Soukop
118, Short Story, Hugo, 1973, The Meeting by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
119, Short Story, Hugo and Nebula, 1978, Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
120, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1980, Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear
121, Short Story, Nebula, 1999, The Cost of Doing Business by Leslie What
122, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1989, The Last of the Winnebagoes by Connie Willis
123, Novelette, Nebula, 1965, The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny
124, Short Story, Hugo, 1975, The Hole Man by Larry Niven
125, Novella, Hugo, 1988, Eye for Eye by Orson Scott Card
126, Novelette, Nebula, 1986, The Girl Who Fell into the Sky by Kate Wilhelm
127, Short Story, Hugo, 1983, Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
128, Novelette, Hugo, 1974, The Deathbird by Harlan Ellison
129, Novella, Nebula, 1967, Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
130, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1992, Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
131, Short Story, Hugo, 2002, The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick
132, Short Story, Hugo, 1977, Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman
133, Novelette, Hugo, 1967, The Last Castle by Jack Vance
134, Short Story, Hugo, 1962, the “Hothouse” series by Brian W. Aldiss
135, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1972, Goat Song by Poul Anderson
136, Novelette, Nebula, 1987, Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy
137, Short Story, Hugo and Nebula, 1976, Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber
138, Short Story, Nebula, 1996, A Birthday by Esther Friesner
139, Novelette, Hugo, 1976, The Borderland of Sol by Larry Niven
140, Short Story, Nebula, 1995, Death and the Librarian by Esther Friesner
141, Short Story, Hugo and Nebula, 1990, Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
142, Short Story, Hugo, 1946, Uncommon Sense (1996) by Hal Clement
143, Novelette, Nebula, 1992, Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent
144, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1993, Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield
145, Novella, Hugo, 1969, Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
146, Novella, Hugo, 1981, Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson
147, Short Story, Nebula, 1972, When It Changed by Joanna Russ
148, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1982, The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson
149, Short Story, Hugo, 1958, Or All the Seas With Oysters by Avram Davidson
150, Novelette, Nebula, 1990, Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
151, Short Story, Nebula, 2001, The Cure for Everything by Severna Park
152, Novelette, Hugo, 1982, Unicorn Variation by Roger Zelazny
153, Novella, Hugo, 1983, Souls by Joanna Russ
154, Short Story, Hugo, 1956, The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
155, Short Story, Hugo, 1974, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
156, Novella, Hugo, 1984, Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn
157, Short Story, Nebula, 1979, giANTS by Edward Bryant
158, Novelette, Nebula, 1973, Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand by Vonda N. McIntyre
159, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1991, The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
160, Novella, Nebula, 2000, Goddesses by Linda Nagata
161, Novelette, Hugo, 1996, Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly
162, Short Story, Hugo, 1988, Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans
163, Short Story, Nebula, 1974, The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin
164, Novella, Nebula, 1965, He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny
165, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 2002, Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang
166, Novelette, Nebula, 1989, At the Rialto by Connie Willis
167, Novelette, Hugo, 1999, Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling
168, Novella, Nebula, 1996, Da Vinci Rising by Jack Dann
169, Short Story, Nebula, 1981, The Bone Flute by Lisa Tuttle
170, Novella, Nebula, 1997, Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion
171, Novella, Nebula, 1974, Born With the Dead by Robert Silverberg
172, Novella, Nebula, 1993, The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady
173, Novella, Nebula, 1992, City of Truth by James Morrow
174, Short Story, Nebula, 1991, Ma Qui by Alan Brennert
175, Short Story, Hugo, 1951, To Serve Man (2001) by Damon Knight
176, Novella, Nebula, 1980, Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
177, Novella, Nebula, 1965, The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss
178, Novella, Nebula, 1995, Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand
179, Novelette, Nebula, 1968, Mother to the World by Richard Wilson
180, Short Story, Nebula, 1997, Sister Emily’s Lightship by Jane Yolen
181, Short Story, Nebula, 1966, Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow
182, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 2003, Coraline by Neil Gaiman
183, Novelette, Nebula, 1981, The Quickening by Michael Bishop
184, Short Story, Hugo, 2001, Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford
185, Short Story, Hugo, 1996, The Lincoln Train by Maureen F. McHugh
186, Novella, Hugo, 1998, …Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele
187, Novella, Hugo, 2000, The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis
188, Short Story, Hugo, 1997, The Soul Selects Her Own Society… by Connie Willis
189, Novelette, Hugo, 2001, Millennium Babies by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
190, Novelette, Nebula and WFA, 1980, The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop
191, Novella, Hugo, 1997, Blood of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin
192, Short Story, Hugo, 2003, Falling Onto Mars by Geoffrey A. Landis
193, Short Story, Nebula, 1984, Morning Child by Gardner Dozois
194, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 2005, The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
195, Short Story, Nebula, 1987, Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
196, Novella, Hugo, 1951, The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein
197, Novelette, Nebula, 1996, Lifeboat on a Burning Sea by Bruce Holland Rogers
198, Novella, Nebula, 1998, Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch
199, Novelette, Hugo, 1997, Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling
200, Novella, Hugo, 1996, The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele
201, Novelette, Hugo, 2000, 10 16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly
202, Novella, Hugo, 1946, The Mule by Isaac Asimov
203, Novelette, Hugo, 1998, We Will Drink A Fish Together by Bill Johnson
204, Novelette, Nebula, 1974, If the Stars Are Gods by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
205, Short Story, Nebula, 1998, Thirteen Ways to Water by Bruce Holland Rogers
206, Novelette, Nebula, 1995, Solitude by Ursula K. Le Guin
207, Novella, Hugo and Nebula, 1979, The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
208, Novella, Hugo, 2005, The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross
209, Novelette, Hugo and Nebula, 1994, The Martian Child by David Gerrold
210, Short Story, Nebula, 1985, Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress
211, Novelette, Nebula, 1997, The Flowers of Aulit Prison by Nancy Kress
212, Short Story, Hugo, 1999, The Very Pulse of the Machine by Michael Swanwick
213, Novella, Nebula, 1987, The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
214, Short Story, Nebula, 2005, I Live With You by Carol Emshwiller
215, Short Story, Hugo, 2006, Tk’tk’tk by David D. Levine
216, Novelette, Hugo, 1958, The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
217, Short Story, Nebula, 2002, Creature by Carol Emshwiller
218, Short Story, Hugo, 2005, Travels With My Cats by Mike Resnick
219, Novelette, Nebula, 1991, Guide Dog by Mike Conner
220, Short Story, Nebula, 1966, The Secret Place by Richard McKenna
221, Novella, Hugo, 2002, Fast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge
222, Novelette, Nebula, 1966, Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson
223, Novella, Hugo, 1999, Oceanic by Greg Egan
224, Short Story, Hugo, 1982, The Pusher by John Varley
225, Short Story, Hugo, 2000, Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick
226, Short Story, Hugo, 1998, The 43 Antarean Dynasties by Mike Resnick
227, Novella, Nebula, 2006, Burn by James Patrick Kelly
228, Short Story, Nebula, 2006, Echo by Elizabeth Hand