Best Science Fiction Anthologies/Collections

What are your top science fiction anthologies and collections? Forget the novels: which science fiction collections blew you away?

For an anthology-only list (multiple-author collections only) see: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
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3.64 avg rating — 975 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 6,452 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 386 ratings
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3.64 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 314 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 52 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 3,063 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 292 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
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3.45 avg rating — 51 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 6,633 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 54 ratings
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3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 19,268 ratings
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3.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 20,610 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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4.19 avg rating — 6,523 ratings
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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525

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4.56 avg rating — 25,248 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 220 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 888 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 107 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 183 ratings
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message 1: by useFOSS (last edited Sep 18, 2010 03:56PM) (new)

useFOSS Can someone please remove Ringworld?


message 2: by Tomislav (new)

Tomislav Single author collections are not anthologies.


message 3: by useFOSS (last edited Sep 18, 2010 03:59PM) (new)

useFOSS Tomhl wrote: "Single author collections are not anthologies."

I totally agree.

I've removed Ringworld because it's a novel!


message 4: by Bryan (new)

Bryan This list needs serious maintenance.

As mentioned above, single author collections should not be included here. But it seems like nearly half of the books on the list are just that. Things like "Wireless" by Charles Stross, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison, or "The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum" do not meet the criteria.

An anthology is a group of stories by various authors.

Also, there's at least one book on here that is an omnibus of novels. "The Callahan Chronicals" by Spider Robinson, collects three of his novels in the Callahan series. Not even close to an anthology.

Does the list owner want to remove books that are not true anthologies, or should different instructions be posted at the top of the list?


message 5: by useFOSS (last edited Mar 03, 2011 10:46AM) (new)

useFOSS Apparently, Rob changed the list name and description to include single-author collections as well. However, that would still exclude omnibuses like The Callahan Chronicals which remains here...

I've created a more restrictive list here for science fiction anthologies only.


message 6: by Xenophon (new)

Xenophon Hendrix The first two Callahan books, at least, are collections of short stories.


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