Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 2008

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Title	Type	Authors
1	233	Pride and Prometheus	SHORTFICTION	John Kessel
2	224	26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss	SHORTFICTION	Kij Johnson
3	200	Exhalation	SHORTFICTION	Ted Chiang
4	180	The Ray-Gun: A Love Story	SHORTFICTION	James Alan Gardner
5	141	The Gambler	SHORTFICTION	Paolo Bacigalupi
6	114	The Erdmann Nexus	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
7	105	Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account	SHORTFICTION	M. Rickert
8	103	If Angels Fight	SHORTFICTION	Richard Bowes
9	100	Painlessness	SHORTFICTION	Kirstyn McDermott
10	94	Truth	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
11	93	From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled ...	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
12	91	The Tear	SHORTFICTION	Ian McDonald
13	86	The Spacetime Pool	SHORTFICTION	Catherine Asaro
14	85	Shoggoths In Bloom	SHORTFICTION	Elizabeth Bear
15	85	Weg mit Stella Maris	SHORTFICTION	Karla Schmidt
16	85	Distances	SHORTFICTION	Vandana Singh
17	85	Sammarynda Deep	SHORTFICTION	Cat Sparks
18	85	This Is Not My Story	SHORTFICTION	Dirk Flinthart
19	84	The Political Prisoner	SHORTFICTION	Charles Coleman Finlay
20	75	Memory Dog	SHORTFICTION	Kathleen Ann Goonan
21	70	The Goosle	SHORTFICTION	Margo Lanagan
22	70	Night Heron's Curse	SHORTFICTION	Thoraiya Dyer
23	70	Pale Dark Soldier	SHORTFICTION	Deborah Biancotti
24	70	N.	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
25	70	Her Collection of Intimacy	SHORTFICTION	Paul Haines
26	70	Divining Light	SHORTFICTION	Ted Kosmatka
27	68	Tenbrook of Mars	SHORTFICTION	Dean McLaughlin
28	65	Harey	SHORTFICTION	Matthias Falke
29	64	Eine Studie in Null und Eins	SHORTFICTION	Desirée Hoese and Frank Hoese
30	63	Côte Noir^?Cote Noir	SHORTFICTION	Frank Hebben
31	63	Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders	SHORTFICTION	Mike Resnick
32	61	Crystal Nights	SHORTFICTION	Greg Egan
33	58	True Names	SHORTFICTION	Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum
34	58	A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica	SHORTFICTION	Catherynne M. Valente
35	57	Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel	SHORTFICTION	Peter S. Beagle
36	54	The Philosopher's Stone	SHORTFICTION	Brian Stableford
37	53	The Hob Carpet	SHORTFICTION	Ian R. MacLeod
38	53	Arkfall	SHORTFICTION	Carolyn Ives Gilman
39	52	Ass-Hat Magic Spider	SHORTFICTION	Scott Westerfeld
40	52	Evil Robot Monkey	SHORTFICTION	Mary Robinette Kowal
41	51	The Overseer	SHORTFICTION	Albert E. Cowdrey
42	50	The Faces of My Friends	SHORTFICTION	Jennifer Harwood-Smith
43	50	Disquiet	SHORTFICTION	Julia Leigh
44	50	The Claws of Native Ghosts	SHORTFICTION	Lee Battersby
45	50	Empire	SHORTFICTION	Simon Brown
46	50	The Man in the Mirror	SHORTFICTION	Geoffrey A. Landis
47	50	Survival-Training	SHORTFICTION	Andreas Eschbach
48	50	Pretty Monsters	SHORTFICTION	Kelly Link
49	50	The Room of Lost Souls	SHORTFICTION	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
50	50	The Pile	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
51	50	Ghost Summer	SHORTFICTION	Tananarive Due
52	50	Cuarenta siglos os contemplan	SHORTFICTION	Sergio Mars
53	50	Do You See?	SHORTFICTION	Sarah Pinborough
54	50	Under Waves and Over	SHORTFICTION	Grant Stone
55	50	Le dôme de Saint-Macaire	SHORTFICTION	Jean-Louis Trudel
56	50	The Reach of Children	SHORTFICTION	Tim Lebbon
57	50	Pump Six	SHORTFICTION	Paolo Bacigalupi
58	50	The Lost	SHORTFICTION	Sarah Langan
59	50	Ein Geschäft wie jedes andere	SHORTFICTION	Heidrun Jänchen^?Heidrun Jaenchen
60	50	Miranda	SHORTFICTION	John R. Little
61	50	Trophy Wives	SHORTFICTION	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
62	50	Starship Down	SHORTFICTION	Tracy Canfield
63	50	Stroke of Enticement	SHORTFICTION	Nalini Singh
64	50	Lluvia sangrienta	SHORTFICTION	Roberto Malo
65	50	La vieille Anglaise et le continent	SHORTFICTION	Jeanne-A Debats
66	50	Ringing the Changes in Okotoks Alberta	SHORTFICTION	Randy McCharles
67	50	Sacrifice	SHORTFICTION	Mary Rosenblum
68	36	A Brief Guide to Other Histories	SHORTFICTION	Paul J. McAuley
69	36	Night Bird Soaring	SHORTFICTION	T. L. Morganfield
70	36	The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross	SHORTFICTION	Margo Lanagan
71	36	Gunpowder	SHORTFICTION	Joe Hill
72	35	Invasion of the Pattern Snatchers	SHORTFICTION	David W. Goldman
73	35	Heads	SHORTFICTION	Gary McMahon
74	35	Poison Victory	SHORTFICTION	Albert E. Cowdrey
75	35	Pinholes in Black Muslin	SHORTFICTION	Simon Strantzas
76	35	Soft Viscosity	SHORTFICTION	David Conyers
77	35	G-Men	SHORTFICTION	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
78	35	Fleshy	SHORTFICTION	Tansy Rayner Roberts
79	35	Caverns of Mystery	SHORTFICTION	Kage Baker
80	35	Little Lost Robot	SHORTFICTION	Paul J. McAuley
81	35	After the Coup	SHORTFICTION	John Scalzi
82	35	Moments of Dying	SHORTFICTION	Robert Hood
83	35	The Shallow End of the Pool	SHORTFICTION	Adam-Troy Castro
84	35	The People's Machine	SHORTFICTION	Tobias S. Buckell
85	35	Photosolaris	SHORTFICTION	Nadine Boos
86	35	An Alien Heresy	SHORTFICTION	S. P. Somtow
87	35	Odd and the Frost Giants	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
88	35	Our Man in the Sudan	SHORTFICTION	Sarah Pinborough
89	35	The Derby	SHORTFICTION	Regina Patton
90	35	Rick Gets a Job	SHORTFICTION	Jason Fischer
91	35	Penguins of the Apocalypse	SHORTFICTION	William Browning Spencer
92	35	Redemption Roadshow	SHORTFICTION	Weston Ochse
93	35	Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
94	35	Noware	SHORTFICTION	Uwe Post
95	35	Omajova	SHORTFICTION	Nadine Boos
96	35	Back	SHORTFICTION	Susan Forest
97	35	Angel Rising	SHORTFICTION	Dirk Flinthart
98	35	The Oath	SHORTFICTION	Lynne Jamneck
99	35	The Night of the RFIDs	SHORTFICTION	Edward M. Lerner
100	35	Waiting Tables and Time	SHORTFICTION	Lyn McConchie
101	35	The Duke in His Castle	SHORTFICTION	Vera Nazarian
102	35	The Confessions of St. Zach	SHORTFICTION	Gene O'Neill
103	35	Petrified	SHORTFICTION	Scott Edelman
104	35	The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft	SHORTFICTION	Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt
105	35	The Jackal's Waltz	SHORTFICTION	Douglas A. Van Belle
106	35	The Situation	SHORTFICTION	Jeff VanderMeer
107	35	The Narrows	SHORTFICTION	Simon Bestwick
108	35	The Inner City	SHORTFICTION	Karen Heuler
109	35	L'île close	SHORTFICTION	Lionel Davoust
110	35	Au nord-nord-ouest d'Éden	SHORTFICTION	Gabriel Eugène Kopp^?Gabriel Eugene Kopp
111	35	Delivery	SHORTFICTION	Trent Jamieson
112	35	The Last Deflowerer	SHORTFICTION	Karen Maric
113	35	Dresses, Three	SHORTFICTION	Angela Slatter
114	35	Turtle	SHORTFICTION	Lee Thomas
115	35	The Lagerstätte	SHORTFICTION	Laird Barron
116	35	Winter Journey	SHORTFICTION	Joel Lane
117	35	68° 07′ 15″ N, 31° 36′ 44″ W^?68 Degrees 07 Minutes 15 Seconds N, 31 degrees 36 Minutes 44 Seconds W	SHORTFICTION	Conrad Williams
118	35	Ballade sur Pallide	SHORTFICTION	Michèle Laframboise^?Michele Laframboise
119	35	La révolte des gilets-malins	SHORTFICTION	Michèle Laframboise^?Michele Laframboise
120	35	Jos Montferrand et le grand brigand des routes	SHORTFICTION	Alain Ducharme
121	35	All Mouth	SHORTFICTION	Paul Meloy
122	35	The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Graham Jones
123	35	Good Boy	SHORTFICTION	Nisi Shawl
124	35	Hunger-Moon	SHORTFICTION	Deborah Noyes
125	35	The Dinner Party	SHORTFICTION	Joshua Ferris
126	35	Outside the Box	SHORTFICTION	Lynne Jamneck
127	35	The Caul Bearer	SHORTFICTION	Allyson Bird
128	35	The Tobacconist's Concession	SHORTFICTION	John Travis
129	35	Creeping in Reptile Flesh	SHORTFICTION	Robert Hood
130	35	Intertropical Convergence Zone	SHORTFICTION	Nadia Bulkin
131	35	Mars: A Traveler's Guide	SHORTFICTION	Ruth Nestvold
132	35	El rayo verde en el ocaso	SHORTFICTION	Sergio Mars
133	35	Doorways	SHORTFICTION	Douglas Smith
134	35	Nightship	SHORTFICTION	Kim Westwood
135	35	Night Wind	SHORTFICTION	Mary Rosenblum
136	35	Eye of the Beholder	SHORTFICTION	Kevin G. Maclean
137	35	I Remember the Future	SHORTFICTION	Michael A. Burstein
138	35	Lakeside	SHORTFICTION	Christopher Green
139	35	This Way to the Exit	SHORTFICTION	Sara Douglass
140	35	Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by Van Gogh	SHORTFICTION	Douglas Smith
141	35	All In	SHORTFICTION	Peter Atwood
142	35	The Economy of Light	SHORTFICTION	Jack Dann
143	35	Bitter Dreams	SHORTFICTION	Ian McHugh
144	35	The Tailor of Time	SHORTFICTION	Deborah Biancotti
145	35	The Vague	SHORTFICTION	Paul Meloy
146	35	Rückkehr nach Nomori	SHORTFICTION	Helmut Hirsch
147	35	In from the Snow	SHORTFICTION	Lee Battersby
148	31	Brittney's Labyrinth	SHORTFICTION	Richard A. Lovett
149	31	The Purloined Labradoodle	SHORTFICTION	Barry B. Longyear
150	30	Let the Word Take Me	SHORTFICTION	Juliette Wade
151	30	In Concert	SHORTFICTION	Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
152	30	Volver al sol	SHORTFICTION	Juan Carlos Planells
153	30	Horse Racing	SHORTFICTION	Mary Rosenblum
154	30	Boojum	SHORTFICTION	Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
155	30	The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away	SHORTFICTION	Cory Doctorow
156	30	The Ice War	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Baxter
157	30	Down on the Farm	SHORTFICTION	Charles Stross
158	30	Spider the Artist	SHORTFICTION	Nnedi Okorafor
159	29	Beneath Sunlit Shallows	SHORTFICTION	Derek Künsken^?Derek Kunsken Derek Kuensken
160	29	El círculo de Krisky	SHORTFICTION	Miguel Puente Molins
161	29	Once Upon a Time in the North	SHORTFICTION	Philip Pullman
162	29	The Kindness of Strangers	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
163	29	A Very Special Girl	SHORTFICTION	Mike Resnick
164	29	De ram en de wijsgeer	SHORTFICTION	Jaap Boekestein
165	29	Test Signals	SHORTFICTION	David Bartell
166	29	Forever Mommy	SHORTFICTION	David M. Alexander
167	29	Moby Digital	SHORTFICTION	Joe Schembrie
168	29	El experimento que nos dio fama y fortuna	SHORTFICTION	Ramón San Miguel Coca
169	29	Albedo cero	SHORTFICTION	Víctor Conde^?Victor Conde
170	28	King Pelles the Sure	SHORTFICTION	Peter S. Beagle
171	28	De Kronieken van een Weduwnaar	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
172	28	Article of Faith	SHORTFICTION	Mike Resnick
173	28	The Late Sam Boone	SHORTFICTION	Bud Sparhawk
174	28	Lo más dulce	SHORTFICTION	Santiago Eximeno
175	28	A New Generation	SHORTFICTION	Jerry Oltion
176	28	El mercado de las sombras	SHORTFICTION	Roberto Bayeto
177	28	Listening for Submarines	SHORTFICTION	Peter Higgins
178	27	Imperium Germanicum	SHORTFICTION	Frank Hebben
179	27	The Rabbi's Hobby	SHORTFICTION	Peter S. Beagle
180	26	Private Eye	SHORTFICTION	Terry Bisson
181	25	The Scarecrow's Boy	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
182	24	Turing's Apples	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Baxter
183	24	The Surfer	SHORTFICTION	Kelly Link
184	23	Five Thrillers	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
185	21	The Man with the Golden Balloon	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
186	21	The Hour of Babel	SHORTFICTION	Tim Powers
187	21	The Thought War	SHORTFICTION	Paul J. McAuley
188	20	The Star Surgeon's Apprentice	SHORTFICTION	Alastair Reynolds
189	19	Mystery Hill	SHORTFICTION	Alex Irvine
190	19	Fixing Hanover	SHORTFICTION	Jeff VanderMeer
191	19	Lost Continent	SHORTFICTION	Greg Egan
192	18	The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black	SHORTFICTION	Jay Lake
193	18	Days of Wonder	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
194	16	The Dream of Reason	SHORTFICTION	Jeffrey Ford
195	16	Conversation Hearts	SHORTFICTION	John Crowley
196	15	Invisible Empire of Ascending Light	SHORTFICTION	Ken Scholes
197	14	The Tale of Junko and Sayuri	SHORTFICTION	Peter S. Beagle
198	14	The Film-Makers of Mars	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
199	13	The House Left Empty	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
200	13	Fury	SHORTFICTION	Alastair Reynolds
201	12	Reader's Guide	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Goldstein
202	11	Fifty Dinosaurs	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
203	11	Radio Station St. Jack	SHORTFICTION	Neal Barrett, Jr.
204	11	Machine Maid	SHORTFICTION	Margo Lanagan
205	10	Goblin Music	SHORTFICTION	Joan Aiken
206	10	Special Economics	SHORTFICTION	Maureen F. McHugh
207	9	The Dust Assassin	SHORTFICTION	Ian McDonald
208	9	The Seventh Expression of the Robot General	SHORTFICTION	Jeffrey Ford
209	8	Snatch Me Another	SHORTFICTION	Mercurio D. Rivera
210	7	An Eligible Boy	SHORTFICTION	Ian McDonald
211	6	Kulain de Voetvechter	SHORTFICTION	W. J. Maryson
212	5	Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe	SHORTFICTION	Garth Nix
213	4	Following the Pharmers	SHORTFICTION	Brian Stableford
214	2	His Master's Voice	SHORTFICTION	Hannu Rajaniemi
215	1	Den grønne jakke	SHORTFICTION	Gudrun Østergaard^?Gudrun Oestergaard
216	1	The Magician's House	SHORTFICTION	Meghan McCarron
217	1	After This Life	SHORTFICTION	Janna Silverstein
218	1	The Fantasy Jumper	SHORTFICTION	Will McIntosh
219	1	The English Mutiny	SHORTFICTION	Ian R. MacLeod
220	1	Kemistry	SHORTFICTION	Terry Grimwood
221	1	Judgment Passed	SHORTFICTION	Jerry Oltion
222	1	Static	SHORTFICTION	Marly Youmans
223	1	Elementals	SHORTFICTION	Ian R. MacLeod
224	1	Petrolpunk	SHORTFICTION	Adam Roberts
225	1	Historiens korte arm	SHORTFICTION	Kenneth Krabat
226	1	Pseudo Tokyo	SHORTFICTION	Jennifer Linnaea
227	1	The Moth	SHORTFICTION	Neil Williamson
228	1	Greenland	SHORTFICTION	Chris Beckett
229	1	Emptier Than Void	SHORTFICTION	John Meaney
230	1	Rat Island	SHORTFICTION	Chris Beckett
231	1	Sense and Sensibility	SHORTFICTION	Benjamin Rosenbaum
232	1	I Can't Look at the City	SHORTFICTION	Jim Stewart
233	1	The Ecologist and the Avon Lady	SHORTFICTION	Tricia Sullivan
234	1	TouchMe™: Keeping in Touch	SHORTFICTION	Heather Bradshaw
235	1	And Their Blood Will Be Prescient to Fire	SHORTFICTION	Freda Warrington
236	1	The God Particle	SHORTFICTION	Steve Longworth
237	1	Salad for Two	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
238	1	The Scent of Their Arrival	SHORTFICTION	Mercurio D. Rivera
239	1	Captain Ordinary	SHORTFICTION	Terry Bisson
240	1	Infestation	SHORTFICTION	Garth Nix
241	1	An Honest Day's Work	SHORTFICTION	Margo Lanagan
242	1	Orange	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
243	1	We Love Deena	SHORTFICTION	Alice Sola Kim
244	1	The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain	SHORTFICTION	Jason Sanford
245	1	When Thorns are the Tips of Trees	SHORTFICTION	Jason Sanford
246	1	They Left the City at Night	SHORTFICTION	Sarah Singleton
247	1	Seaborne	SHORTFICTION	Kari Sperring
248	1	Owl Speak	SHORTFICTION	Storm Constantine
249	1	How to Make Paper Airplanes	SHORTFICTION	Lavie Tidhar
250	1	Talk Is Cheap	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
251	1	Ki Do (The Way of the Trees)	SHORTFICTION	Sarah Thomas
252	1	Day Boy	SHORTFICTION	Trent Jamieson
253	1	Avatar on the Belts	SHORTFICTION	William J. Piovano
254	1	Thirstlands	SHORTFICTION	Nick Wood
255	1	Graveyard of the Cloud Gods	SHORTFICTION	David Seigler
256	1	The Rising River	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Kaysen
257	1	The Sum of the Past	SHORTFICTION	Ian Whates
258	1	Your Collar	SHORTFICTION	Elizabeth Bear
259	1	City of the Dead	SHORTFICTION	Paul J. McAuley
260	1	The Imitation Game	SHORTFICTION	Rudy Rucker
261	1	The Best of Both Worlds	SHORTFICTION	Brian Stableford
262	1	[A Ghost Samba]	SHORTFICTION	Ian McDonald
263	1	Legolas Does the Dishes	SHORTFICTION	Justina Robson
264	1	Jimmy's Roadside Cafe	SHORTFICTION	Ramsey Shehadeh
265	1	The Disemboweler	SHORTFICTION	Ekaterina Sedia
266	1	The Stamp	SHORTFICTION	Terry Bisson
267	1	Butterfly, Falling at Dawn	SHORTFICTION	Aliette de Bodard
268	1	iCity	SHORTFICTION	Paul Di Filippo
269	1	Les villes invisibles	SHORTFICTION	Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg

Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 2008

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