100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
A loint of paw / Isaac Asimov --
The advent on Channel Twelve / C.M. Kornbluth --
Plaything / Larry Niven --
The misfortune cookie / Charles E. Fritch --
I wish I may, I wish I might / Bill Pronzini --
FTA / George R.R. Martin --
Trace / Jerome Bixby --
The ingenious patriot / Ambrose Bierce --
Zoo / Edward D. Hoch --
The destiny of Milton Gomrath / Alexei Panshin --
The devil and the trombone / Martin Gardner --
Upstart / Steven Utley --
How it all went / Gregory Benford --
Harry Protagonist, brain-drainer / Richard Wilson --
Peeping Tommy / Robert F. Young --
Starting from scratch / Robert Sheckley --
Corrida / Roger Zelazny --
Shall the dust praise thee? / Damon Knight --
Bug-getter / R. Bretnor --
The deadly mission of Phineas Snodgrass / Frederik Pohl --
Fire sale / Laurence M. Janifer --
Safe at any speed / Larry Niven --
The masks / James Blish --
Innocence / Joanna Russ --
Kin / Richard Wilson --
The long night / Ray Russell --
Sanity clause / Edward Wellen --
If at first you don't succeed, to hell with it! / Charles E. Fritch --
The question / Laurence M. Janifer and Donald E. Westlake --
The perfect woman / Robert Sheckley --
The system / Ben Bova --
Exile to hell / Isaac Asimov --
Inaugural / Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini --
Martha / Fred Saberhagen --
Kindergarten / Fritz Leiber --
Landscape with sphinxes / Karen Anderson --
The happiest day of your life / Bob Shaw --
The worlds of Monty Willson / William F. Nolan --
Punch / Frederik Pohl --
Doctor / Henry Slesar --
The man from when / Dannie Plachta --
Crying willow / Edward Rager --
January 1975 / Barry N. Malzberg --
Mail supremacy / Hayford Peirce --
Mistake / Larry Niven --
Half-baked publisher's delight / Jeffrey S. Hudson and Issac Asimov --
Far from home / Walter S. Tevis
Swords of Ifthan / James Sutherland --
Argent blood / Joe L. Hensley --
Collector's fever / Roger Zelazny --
Sign at the end of the universe / Duane Ackerson --
Stubborn / Stephen Goldin --
The re-creation / Robert E. Toomey, Jr. --
The better man / Ray Russell --
Oom / Martin Gardner --
Merchant / Henry Slesar --
Don't fence me in / Richard Wilson --
The die-hard / Alfred Bester --
The first / Anthony Boucher --
Eripmav / Damon Knight --
Feeding time / Robert Sheckley --
The voice from the curious cube / Nelson Bond --
I'm going to get you / F.M. Busby --
The room / Ray Russell --
Dry spell / Bill Pronzini --
Bohassian learns / William Rotsler --
Star bride / Anthony Boucher --
Latest feature / Maggie Nadler --
Chief / Henry Slesar --
After you've stood on the log at the centre of the universe, what is there left to do? / Grant Carrington --
Maid to measure / Damon Knight --
Eyes do more than see / Isaac Asimov --
Thang / Martin Gardner --
How now purple cow / Bill Pronzini --
Revival meeting / Dannie Plachta --
Prototaph / Keith Laumer --
The rocket of 1955 / C.M. Kornbluth --
Science fiction for telepaths / E. Michael Blake --
Kindergarten / James E. Gunn --
A little knowledge / Paul Dellinger --
A cup of hemlock / Lee Killough --
Present perfect / Thomas F. Monteleone --
A lot to learn / Robert T. Kurosaka --
The amphibious cavalry gap / James E. Thompson --
Not counting bridges / Robert L. Fish --
The man inside / Bruce McAllister --
The Mars stone / Paul Bond --
Source material / Mildred Downey Broxon --
The compleat consummators / Alan E. Nourse --
Examination day / Henry Slesar --
The sky's an oyster; the stars are pearls / Dave Bischoff --
The man who could turn back the clock / Ralph Milne Farley --
Patent rights / Daniel A. Darlington --
Alien cornucopia / Walt Liebscher --
The last paradox / Edward D. Hoch --
Course of empire / Richard Wilson --
Synchronicity / James E. Thompson --
Sweet dreams, Melissa / Stephen Goldin --
The man on top / R. Bretnor --
Rejection slip / K.W. MacAnn.
American Science fiction, English Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter S. Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. || Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. He was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Greenberg was also an expert in terrorism and the Middle East. He was a longtime friend, colleague and business partner of Isaac Asimov. || Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.

Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic.

Source: Wikipedia || George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing *A Song of Ice and Fire* series of epic fantasy novels.

Critics have described Martin's work as dark and cynical. His first novel, Dying of the Light, set the tone for most of his future work; it is set on a mostly abandoned planet that is slowly becoming uninhabitable as it moves away from its sun. This story, and many of Martin's others, have a strong sense of melancholy. His characters are often unhappy, or at least unsatisfied - trying to stay idealistic in a ruthless world. Many have elements of tragic heroes in them. Reviewer T. M. Wagner writes, "Let it never be said Martin doesn't share Shakespeare's fondness for the senselessly tragic." This gloominess can be an obstacle for some readers. The Inchoatus Group writes, "If this absence of joy is going to trouble you, or you’re looking for something more affirming, then you should probably seek elsewhere."

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin || Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. || Longtime mystery writer and editor Edward Dentinger Hoch was practically an institution in the field. Born in 1930, he published over eight hundred mystery stories including one in every issue of *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine* from 1973 to 1981. His TV writing credits include episodes of "MacMillan and Wife", "Night Gallery", the "Alfred Hitchcock Show", and "Tales of the Unexpected". Mr. Hoch served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote mysteries under the pseudonyms Anthony Circus, R.E. Porter and R.L. Stevens. Mr. Hoch died January 17, 2008.
- Source: http://histmyst.org/profiles.html || Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. *-- Wikipedia* || Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.  He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.  Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life.

Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed by his Masters and then his Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.  Having published more than 200 scientific papers, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics.

Greg is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the Lord Foundation Prize, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.  

Source: Secular Policy Institute || Richard Wilson was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer. || Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.

Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. || Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon.  He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City.  His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.  In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60.  He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954.  In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference.  Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism.  In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000.  He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer. || Reginald Bretnor is a pseudonym of Alfred Reginald Kahn.

"Reginald Bretnor was a science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist." Wikipedia || Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York.  His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven.  He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family.  As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians.  His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old.  In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact.  In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them.  He married his first wife in 1940.  In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent.  During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945.  He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945.  In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf.

In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine.  In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines.  In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books.  He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978.  He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984.  He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois. || Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. He married literary agent Virginia Kidd in 1947. He worked for the Tobacco Institute from 1962-1968.  In 1968, he emigrated to England. Between 1967 and his death in 1975, he became the first author to write short story collections based on the TV series Star Trek. In total, he wrote 11 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the series, as well as an original novel, Spock Must Die! in 1970. He died midway through writing Star Trek 12; his second wife, J. A. Lawrence, completed the book, and later completed the adaptations in the volume Mudd's Angels. || Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit, writing under at least 20 pseudonyms. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction or other genres. He was a three-time Edgar Award winner and in 1993, the Mystery Writers of America named Westlake a Grand Master, the highest honor bestowed by the society.             Source: wikipedia || Benjamin William Bova is an American science-fiction author and editor.

Bova has drawn on his experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists.

As of 2010 Bova has written over 115 books - non-fiction as well as science fiction. In 2000, he attended the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000) as the Author Guest of Honor.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova || Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term. 

**Source**: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia. || Karen Anderson is a pseudonym of June Millichamp "Karen" Kruse Anderson. She is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear. - Wikipedia || A science fiction writer and fan from Northern Ireland, noted for his originality and wit. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1979 and 1980. His short story "Light of Other Days" was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel *The Ragged Astronauts* in 1987. || About the Author
William F. Nolan is best known as the creator and coauthor of Logan's Run, a bestselling science fiction classic that was made into a hit film, a television series, and a sequence of comic books. He is the author of 13 novels and scores of short stories, and is the editor of more than two dozen books in the fields of science fiction, horror, western, and suspense. He is a two-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was voted the Living Legend for 2002 by the International Horror Guild. He lives in West Hills, California.

Info added Nov2012, from amazon & wiki: 
* http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Galaxy-Selected-Science-Fiction/dp/1930846312/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Nolan || Henry Slesar was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He is famous for his use of irony and twist endings. - Wikipedia || Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. || Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953. - Wikipedia || Anthony Boucher (born William Anthony Parker White) was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. - Wikipedia || Nelson Slade Bond was an American author who wrote extensively for books, magazines, radio, television and the stage. - Wikipedia || Francis Marion Busby was a science fiction writer and science fiction fan. During 1960 he was a co-winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine. - Wikipedia || Robert Lloyd Fish was an American writer of crime fiction. His first novel, The Fugitive, gained him the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel in 1962, and his short story "Moonlight Gardener" was awarded the Edgar for best short story in 1972. His 1963 novel Mute Witness, written under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike, was filmed in 1968 as Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen. - Wikipedia || American writer and physician