Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 2003

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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	215	The Cookie Monster	SHORTFICTION	Vernor Vinge
2	185	The Empress of Mars	SHORTFICTION	Kage Baker
3	160	Just Like the Ones We Used to Know	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
4	151	The Empire of Ice Cream	SHORTFICTION	Jeffrey Ford
5	135	La Sentinelle	SHORTFICTION	Lucy Sussex
6	132	The Green Leopard Plague	SHORTFICTION	Walter Jon Williams
7	120	The Wolves in the Walls	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
8	113	Walk in Silence	SHORTFICTION	Catherine Asaro
9	110	Nightfall	SHORTFICTION	Charles Stross
10	100	A Study in Emerald	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
11	100	Legions in Time	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
12	99	Four Short Novels	SHORTFICTION	Joe Haldeman
13	97	Bernardo's House	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
14	86	Louder Echo	SHORTFICTION	Brendan Duffy
15	85	O One	SHORTFICTION	Chris Roberson
16	85	Ich fürchte kein Unglück	SHORTFICTION	Michael K. Iwoleit
17	85	Dancing Men	SHORTFICTION	Glen Hirshberg
18	78	Ariel	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
19	77	June Sixteenth at Anna's	SHORTFICTION	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
20	71	Birth Days	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
21	70	Exorcising Angels	SHORTFICTION	Simon Clark and Tim Lebbon
22	70	Amy's Stars	SHORTFICTION	Sue Isle
23	70	Kijin Tea	SHORTFICTION	Kyla Ward
24	70	Sigmund Freud & the Feral Freeway	SHORTFICTION	Martin Livings
25	70	Paying It Forward	SHORTFICTION	Michael A. Burstein
26	69	The Bellman	SHORTFICTION	John Varley
27	66	A Crowd of Bone	SHORTFICTION	Greer Gilman
28	65	Robots Don't Cry	SHORTFICTION	Mike Resnick
29	64	Palimpsest	SHORTFICTION	Florian F. Marzin
30	62	Looking Through Lace	SHORTFICTION	Ruth Nestvold
31	61	Dear Abbey	SHORTFICTION	Terry Bisson
32	61	The Reign of Terror	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
33	60	Almost Home	SHORTFICTION	Terry Bisson
34	58	The Tale of the Golden Eagle	SHORTFICTION	David D. Levine
35	58	Das Internetz in den Händen der Arbeiterklasse	SHORTFICTION	Angela Steinmüller?Angela Steinmueller and Karlheinz Steinmüller?Karlheinz Steinmueller
36	58	Only Partly Here	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
37	52	Ancestor Money	SHORTFICTION	Maureen F. McHugh
38	51	A Room for Improvement	SHORTFICTION	Trudi Canavan
39	51	Boys	SHORTFICTION	Carol Emshwiller
40	50	Scream Angel	SHORTFICTION	Douglas Smith
41	50	The Census Taker	SHORTFICTION	Dale Bailey
42	50	Slijepe ptice	SHORTFICTION	Aleksandar Žiljak
43	50	Crveno i crno	SHORTFICTION	Tatjana Jambrišak
44	50	Love Is a Stone	SHORTFICTION	Simon Brown
45	50	Duh novog svijeta	SHORTFICTION	Tatjana Jambrišak
46	50	A Plea for Help	SHORTFICTION	Kevin G. Maclean
47	50	Gödel slam?Godel slam	SHORTFICTION	Paul Evenblij
48	50	American Waitress	SHORTFICTION	Christopher Fowler
49	50	Closing Time	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
50	50	Vor der Zeitreise	SHORTFICTION	Angela Steinmüller?Angela Steinmueller and Karlheinz Steinmüller?Karlheinz Steinmueller
51	50	Lavender in Love	SHORTFICTION	Brian Plante
52	50	黄泉びと知らず?Yomi Bitoshirazu	SHORTFICTION	梶尾真治?Shinji Kajio かじおしんじ
53	50	Closing Time	SHORTFICTION	Jack Ketchum
54	50	Duty	SHORTFICTION	Gary A. Braunbeck
55	50	With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu	SHORTFICTION	Brian Hodge
56	50	Basement Magic	SHORTFICTION	Ellen Klages
57	50	Tiny Berries	SHORTFICTION	Richard A. Lovett
58	50	Coyote at the End of History	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
59	50	The Alchemist	SHORTFICTION	Peter Friend
60	50	La course de Kathryn	SHORTFICTION	Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
61	50	Negras águilas	SHORTFICTION	Eduardo Vaquerizo
62	50	Imperio	SHORTFICTION	Ramón Muñoz
63	50	Don Ysidro	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Holland Rogers
64	49	The Hibernators	SHORTFICTION	Brian W. Aldiss
65	49	Curator	SHORTFICTION	Charles Stross
66	48	The Trentino Kid	SHORTFICTION	Jeffrey Ford
67	48	Off on a Starship	SHORTFICTION	William Barton
68	46	The Hortlak	SHORTFICTION	Kelly Link
69	45	Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst	SHORTFICTION	Kage Baker
70	41	Old Virginia	SHORTFICTION	Laird Barron
71	40	Vandoise and the Bone Monster	SHORTFICTION	Alex Irvine
72	36	The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes	SHORTFICTION	Adam-Troy Castro
73	36	Dry Bones	SHORTFICTION	William Sanders
74	36	Hexagons	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
75	36	Big Ugly Mama and the Zk	SHORTFICTION	Eleanor Arnason
76	35	Bush of Ghosts	SHORTFICTION	Geoffrey Maloney
77	35	The Necromancer	SHORTFICTION	Douglas Clegg
78	35	Astralo	SHORTFICTION	Ekkehard Redlin
79	35	The Eyes of America	SHORTFICTION	Geoffrey A. Landis
80	35	The Time That Time Forgot	SHORTFICTION	Jack Cady
81	35	Tireki and the Wind	SHORTFICTION	Lily Chrywenstrom
82	35	Mord an Bord?	SHORTFICTION	Holger Eckhardt
83	35	Hayun	SHORTFICTION	Thorsten Küper?Thorsten Kueper
84	35	Emily Eyefinger and the Balloon Bandits	SHORTFICTION	Duncan Ball
85	35	Prägenesis	SHORTFICTION	Arno Behrend
86	35	Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs	SHORTFICTION	Adam-Troy Castro
87	35	Goodbye to All That	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
88	35	Projekt 38, oder Das Spiel der kleinen Ursachen	SHORTFICTION	Thorsten Küper?Thorsten Kueper
89	35	Blake's Angel	SHORTFICTION	Janeen Webb
90	35	The Wind Sall Blow for Ever Mair	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Dedman
91	35	"The Mezzotint"	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Tuttle
92	35	Frozen Charlottes	SHORTFICTION	Lucy Sussex
93	35	The Brief History of the Dead	SHORTFICTION	Kevin Brockmeier
94	35	Dr Who? (or The Day I Learnt to Love Tom Baker)	SHORTFICTION	Ben Peek
95	35	Rynemonn	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
96	35	In the Late December	SHORTFICTION	Greg van Eekhout
97	35	The Monarch of the Glen	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
98	35	Bildschirmarbeitsplatz	SHORTFICTION	Björn Jagnow?Bjoern Jagnow
99	35	The Lady of the Ice Garden	SHORTFICTION	Kara Dalkey
100	35	Radio Orbit	SHORTFICTION	Thorsten Küper?Thorsten Kueper
101	35	The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill	SHORTFICTION	Sandra McDonald
102	35	A Circle of Cats	SHORTFICTION	Charles de Lint
103	35	Kathleen, Furnished with Bees	SHORTFICTION	Alinta Thornton
104	35	Homo delator	SHORTFICTION	François Rouiller?Francois Rouiller
105	35	Shepherded by Galatea	SHORTFICTION	Alex Irvine
106	35	Acquired Tastes	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Dedman
107	35	The Mark of His Hands	SHORTFICTION	Chuck McKenzie
108	35	Uncharted	SHORTFICTION	Leigh Blackmore
109	35	The Singular Life of Eddy Dovewater	SHORTFICTION	Deborah Biancotti
110	35	Pakettage	SHORTFICTION	Barbara Slawig
111	35	Hope Chest	SHORTFICTION	Garth Nix
112	35	Gus Dreams of Biting the Mail Man	SHORTFICTION	Alex Irvine
113	35	Il morso della massa	SHORTFICTION	Cesare Battisti
114	35	Harvey's Dream	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
115	35	The Last Supper	SHORTFICTION	Scott Edelman
116	35	Cell Call	SHORTFICTION	Marc Laidlaw
117	35	Die letzten Bioform	SHORTFICTION	Mario Moritz
118	35	3rd Corinthians	SHORTFICTION	Michael F. Flynn
119	35	Aloha	SHORTFICTION	Ken Wharton
120	35	Desiree	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Dedman
121	35	State of Oblivion	SHORTFICTION	Kaaron Warren
122	35	Alien Space Nazis Must Die!	SHORTFICTION	Chuck McKenzie
123	35	A Professor at Harvard	SHORTFICTION	David Brin
124	35	The Last Horror Show	SHORTFICTION	David Prill
125	35	The Bereavement Photographer	SHORTFICTION	Steve Rasnic Tem
126	35	The Haunting	SHORTFICTION	Joyce Carol Oates
127	35	Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers	SHORTFICTION	Cory Doctorow
128	35	The Truth About Pug Roberts	SHORTFICTION	Kirstyn McDermott
129	35	Butterfly	SHORTFICTION	Kevin G. Maclean
130	35	Entangled Eyes Are Smiling	SHORTFICTION	John Meaney
131	35	The Red Bow	SHORTFICTION	George Saunders
132	35	Deshacer el mundo	SHORTFICTION	Joaquín Revuelta
133	35	Ñ	SHORTFICTION	David Soriano Giménez
134	35	The Catgirl Manifesto	SHORTFICTION	Richard Calder
135	35	Porter's Progress	SHORTFICTION	Isaac Szpindel
136	35	The Siren Stone	SHORTFICTION	Derwin Mak
137	35	Come All Ye Faithful	SHORTFICTION	Robert J. Sawyer
138	35	The Goddess of Cruelty	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Tessier
139	35	Fear the Dead	SHORTFICTION	Ramsey Campbell
140	35	The White Hands	SHORTFICTION	Mark Samuels
141	35	Lucky Luke	SHORTFICTION	P. J. Plauger
142	35	Señor Volto	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
143	30	It's All True	SHORTFICTION	John Kessel
144	30	Lied van wijsheid en waanzin	SHORTFICTION	Paul Evenblij
145	30	Castaway	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
146	30	The Immortality Plague	SHORTFICTION	Steven Bratman
147	30	La ruta a Trascendencia	SHORTFICTION	Alejandro Alonso
148	30	Dead Worlds	SHORTFICTION	Jack Skillingstead
149	30	The Long Way Home	SHORTFICTION	James Van Pelt
150	30	La hora de la verdad	SHORTFICTION	Santiago Eximeno
151	29	Into the Gardens of Sweet Night	SHORTFICTION	Jay Lake
152	29	The Sworn Sword	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
153	29	Seed of Destiny	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Hatch
154	29	Afterburn	SHORTFICTION	Rajnar Vajra
155	29	A Deadly Medley of Smedley	SHORTFICTION	F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
156	29	Escamas de cristal	SHORTFICTION	Pablo Nauglin
157	29	The Madwoman of Shuttlefield	SHORTFICTION	Allen Steele
158	29	Benjamin the Unbeliever	SHORTFICTION	Allen Steele
159	29	Quién guardará la puerta	SHORTFICTION	José Antonio del Valle
160	28	Cuando las estrellas brillen de nuevo	SHORTFICTION	José Carlos Canalda
161	28	Romanze in e-Moll	SHORTFICTION	Helmuth W. Mommers
162	28	The Spacemice Incident	SHORTFICTION	Carl Frederick
163	28	Still Coming Ashore	SHORTFICTION	Michael F. Flynn
164	28	Breeding Ground	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Baxter
165	28	Suitable for the Orient	SHORTFICTION	Karen Traviss
166	28	Graylord Man's Last Words	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
167	28	El oro del Caudillo	SHORTFICTION	José Antonio del Valle
168	27	A Night on the Barbary Coast	SHORTFICTION	Kage Baker
169	27	Bitter Grounds	SHORTFICTION	Neil Gaiman
170	27	The Bone Witch	SHORTFICTION	R. Garcia y Robertson
171	27	The Study of Ants	SHORTFICTION	Carl Frederick
172	27	Under the Lunchbox Tree	SHORTFICTION	John Kessel
173	27	Sieben Ampullen	SHORTFICTION	Andreas Gruber
174	26	Die wilden Leut	SHORTFICTION	Hugh Walker
175	26	Die weißen Schmetterlinge	SHORTFICTION	Frank W. Haubold
176	26	And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon	SHORTFICTION	Paul Di Filippo
177	26	555	SHORTFICTION	Robert Reed
178	26	The Chop Line	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Baxter
179	24	Rogue Farm	SHORTFICTION	Charles Stross
180	24	Margaux	SHORTFICTION	Walter Jon Williams
181	24	The Man from Somewhere	SHORTFICTION	Jack Williamson
182	24	Tycho and the Stargazer	SHORTFICTION	Liz Williams
183	23	Liar's House	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
184	23	The Fluted Girl	SHORTFICTION	Paolo Bacigalupi
185	23	The Path of the Transgressor	SHORTFICTION	Tom Purdom
186	23	Morlock Chili	SHORTFICTION	Lawrence Person
187	22	Loro liebt Lara	SHORTFICTION	Marc-Ivo Schubert
188	22	Calling Your Name	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
189	21	Jailwise	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
190	21	Flowers from Alice	SHORTFICTION	Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
191	21	The Devil in the Details	SHORTFICTION	James P. Blaylock
192	20	In Fading Suns and Dying Moons	SHORTFICTION	John Varley
193	20	King Dragon	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
194	19	Greetings	SHORTFICTION	Terry Bisson
195	19	Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
196	18	In Springdale Town	SHORTFICTION	Robert Freeman Wexler
197	17	The Door Gunner	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
198	17	The Ice	SHORTFICTION	Steven Popkes
199	16	Amnesty	SHORTFICTION	Octavia E. Butler
200	15	The Albertine Notes	SHORTFICTION	Rick Moody
201	15	D = R x T	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
202	14	Pictures from an Expedition	SHORTFICTION	Alex Irvine
203	14	Joe Steele	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
204	14	Awake in the Night	SHORTFICTION	John C. Wright
205	13	Junk DNA	SHORTFICTION	Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
206	12	Clouds and Cold Fires	SHORTFICTION	Paul Di Filippo
207	12	Fairy Tale	SHORTFICTION	Gardner Dozois
208	12	Deep in the Woods of Grammarie	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
209	10	Dragon's Gate	SHORTFICTION	Pat Murphy
210	10	Onheilige Graal	SHORTFICTION	Frank Roger
211	10	The Apocalypse According to Olaf	SHORTFICTION	Barth Anderson
212	8	Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres	SHORTFICTION	John Kessel
213	8	Catskin	SHORTFICTION	Kelly Link
214	8	Child of the Stones	SHORTFICTION	Paul J. McAuley
215	6	Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull	SHORTFICTION	Andy Duncan
216	5	The Beautiful Gelreesh	SHORTFICTION	Jeffrey Ford
217	4	Mother	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
218	3	Wild Thing	SHORTFICTION	Charles Coleman Finlay
219	3	Anomalous Structures of My Dreams	SHORTFICTION	M. Shayne Bell
220	3	Grey Star	SHORTFICTION	Albert E. Cowdrey
221	1	Ej-Es	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
222	1	The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain	SHORTFICTION	William Shunn
223	1	Storm in a Chandelier	SHORTFICTION	Tracey Rolfe
224	1	The Earth Equation	SHORTFICTION	Shane M. Brown
225	1	She Is Elizabeth Lynn Rhodea	SHORTFICTION	Karina Sumner-Smith
226	1	Clockwork	SHORTFICTION	Trent Jamieson
227	1	The Wall	SHORTFICTION	Grace Dugan
228	1	'Cross the Nullarbor to the Sea	SHORTFICTION	Cat Sparks

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