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

Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 2008

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