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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...
For an anthology-only list (multiple-author collections only) see: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
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The Martian Chronicles
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
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Bruce Sterling (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 9,162 ratings
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
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Robert Silverberg (Editor)
4.31 avg rating — 6,439 ratings
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Dangerous Visions
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Harlan Ellison (Editor, Contributor)
4.14 avg rating — 9,948 ratings
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The Illustrated Man
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4.13 avg rating — 106,062 ratings
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Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
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4.06 avg rating — 42,107 ratings
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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4.26 avg rating — 4,143 ratings
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, #2A)
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Ben Bova (Editor)
4.31 avg rating — 4,307 ratings
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Again, Dangerous Visions
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Harlan Ellison (Editor)
4.15 avg rating — 4,291 ratings
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 10,596 ratings
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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century
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Orson Scott Card (Editor)
4.21 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s
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Isaac Asimov (Editor/Contributor)
4.17 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Past Through Tomorrow (Future History, #1-21)
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4.16 avg rating — 16,735 ratings
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The Hugo Winners 1955-1961
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Isaac Asimov (Editor)
4.24 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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3.89 avg rating — 49,571 ratings
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The Hugo Winners Vol 1 and 2 1955-1970
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4.36 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Convergence Problems
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Wole Talabi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 273 ratings
score: 900,
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The October Country: Stories
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4.10 avg rating — 20,685 ratings
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
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4.18 avg rating — 4,635 ratings
score: 684,
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The Cyberiad
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4.14 avg rating — 13,897 ratings
score: 673,
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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
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4.08 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
score: 663,
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The Best of Cordwainer Smith
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4.13 avg rating — 3,554 ratings
score: 654,
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The Callahan Chronicals (Callahan's, #1-3)
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4.30 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
score: 644,
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters
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4.06 avg rating — 7,687 ratings
score: 642,
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The Persistence of Vision
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4.13 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
score: 636,
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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
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Harry Turtledove (Editor)
3.79 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
score: 619,
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No Way Home
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Lucas Bale (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 96 ratings
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6 people voted
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Wyrd Worlds
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3.43 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 597,
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Axiomatic
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4.27 avg rating — 6,290 ratings
score: 590,
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
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4.43 avg rating — 5,437 ratings
score: 576,
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The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
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4.33 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
score: 573,
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6 people voted
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N-Space
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3.93 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
score: 568,
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Wild Cards
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3.69 avg rating — 14,019 ratings
score: 557,
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Shatterday
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4.15 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
score: 544,
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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
4.14 avg rating — 934 ratings
score: 525,
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6 people voted
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The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
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David G. Hartwell (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 248 ratings
score: 509,
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6 people voted
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2013: A Stellar Collection
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 500,
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Dreamsongs, Volume I
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3.97 avg rating — 5,118 ratings
score: 494,
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Pump Six and Other Stories
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 8,747 ratings
score: 488,
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AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
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3.94 avg rating — 297 ratings
score: 486,
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Aye, and Gomorrah
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3.98 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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The Draco Tavern
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3.92 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
score: 471,
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Driftglass
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3.85 avg rating — 874 ratings
score: 470,
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Wireless
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,129 ratings
score: 469,
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Vermilion Sands
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3.88 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
score: 467,
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TNT: Telzey Amberdon & Trigger Argee Together
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4.01 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
score: 453,
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Orsinian Tales
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3.66 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
score: 417,
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Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell
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4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 403,
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The Prometheus Saga: A Science Fiction Anthology
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Elle Andrews Patt (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 400,
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Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space
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Raymond J. Healy (Editor)
4.20 avg rating — 310 ratings
score: 393,
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The Super Hugos
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Isaac Asimov (Editor/ contributor)
4.40 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 388,
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I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories
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4.04 avg rating — 12,943 ratings
score: 384,
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Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
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3.81 avg rating — 986 ratings
score: 356,
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The New Space Opera
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
score: 355,
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4 people voted
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The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VI: Baby Is Three
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4.31 avg rating — 191 ratings
score: 349,
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A Touch of Strange
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3.81 avg rating — 318 ratings
score: 348,
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Expanded Universe
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3.92 avg rating — 4,374 ratings
score: 346,
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Telzey Amberdon
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The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God
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4.20 avg rating — 429 ratings
score: 342,
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Untouched by Human Hands
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4.16 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
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The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
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4.15 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
score: 329,
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The New Weird
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor)
3.75 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
score: 296,
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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle, #9)
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4.32 avg rating — 6,075 ratings
score: 293,
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Exhalation
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4.27 avg rating — 107,770 ratings
score: 289,
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Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women
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3.95 avg rating — 362 ratings
score: 288,
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3 people voted
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The Best Science Fiction Stories
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Michael Stapleton (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 284,
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3 people voted
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The Seeds of Time
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3.81 avg rating — 2,723 ratings
score: 284,
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The Best of Eric Frank Russell
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3.96 avg rating — 209 ratings
score: 283,
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About Time: 12 Short Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
score: 282,
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The Barbie Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 676 ratings
score: 282,
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The Menace from Earth (Future History, #18)
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3.89 avg rating — 6,410 ratings
score: 281,
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Fall and Rise: Post-Apocalyptic Stories Challenging the Paradigm: "Survival of the Fittest"...
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
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3.96 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
score: 272,
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The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
4.10 avg rating — 97 ratings
score: 269,
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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
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Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
score: 267,
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
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4.16 avg rating — 9,502 ratings
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
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4.22 avg rating — 11,666 ratings
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Unconquered Countries
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3.93 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
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John L. Apostolou (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Distant Stars
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3.86 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Men, Martians and Machines
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3.80 avg rating — 272 ratings
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A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One
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Anthony Boucher (Editor)
4.28 avg rating — 207 ratings
score: 249,
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The Golden Helix
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3.91 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The New Space Opera 2
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
3.79 avg rating — 951 ratings
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The Adventures of Alyx
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The Good Stuff
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Gardner Dozois (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Compass Rose
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The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum
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City
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, #2B)
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Ben Bova (Editor)
4.27 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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Wanderers of Time
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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A Science Fiction Omnibus
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A is for Alien
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The Dragon's Rocketship Presents: The Ship's Log
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The Year's Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020
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Beyond the Latch and Lever
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A Mosque Among the Stars
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Can someone please remove Ringworld?
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Single author collections are not anthologies.
Tomhl wrote: "Single author collections are not anthologies."I totally agree.
I've removed Ringworld because it's a novel!
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?
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.
The first two Callahan books, at least, are collections of short stories.
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