Isaac Asimov: Nightfall
(Analog (Astounding), September 1941)
Isaac Asimov: The Last Question
(SF Quarterly, November 1956)
. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Paolo Bacigalupi: The People of Sand and Slag (F & SF, February 2004).
Notes: 
Neal Barrett, Jr.: Perpetuity Blues (Asimov's, May 1987)
Stephen Baxter: The Gravity Mine (Asimov's, April 2000)
Terry Bisson: England Underway (Omni, July 1993)
Terry Bisson: They're Made Out of Meat (Omni, April 1991). Alternate link.
Kent Brewster: In the Pound, Near Breaktime (Tomorrow SF, October 1995)
David Brin: The Giving Plague (Interzone #23, Spring 1988). Alternate link.
Ted Chiang: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (F & SF, July 2007) Notes:
Ted Chiang: Understand (Asimov's, August 1991)
Tony Daniel: Life on the Moon (Asimov's, April 1995)
Jack Dann: Da Vinci Rising (Asimov's, May 1995)
Colin P. Davies: Tall Tales on the Iron Horse (Spectrum SF #8, March 2002).
Andy Duncan: Fortitude (Realms of Fantasy, June 1999)
Greg Egan: Oracle (Asimov's, July 2000)
Notes:
Greg Egan: The Planck Dive (Asimov's, February 1998)
Michael F. Flynn: The Clapping Hands of God (Analog, July 2004). Notes:
Jeffrey Ford: The Empire of Ice Cream (SciFiction, February 2003)
. Available as part of this magazine.
Karen Joy Fowler: Standing Room Only (Asimov's, August 1997).
Neil Gaiman: How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Fragile Things Collection, 2006).
Tom Godwin: The Cold Equations (Analog (Astounding), August 1954). Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Dominic Green: The Clockwork Atom Bomb (Interzone #198, May 2005). Available as part of this magazine. Notes:
Joe Haldeman: Four Short Novels (F & SF, October 2003) Notes:
Joe Haldeman: None So Blind (Asimov's, November 1994)
Robert A. Heinlein: The Menace from Earth (F & SF, August 1957). Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Kij Johnson: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (Asimov's, July 2008). Notes:
Kelly Link: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (Fence, 1998).
Kelly Link: Flying Lessons (Asimov's, October 1996).
Kelly Link: Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water. Alternate link.
Kelly Link: The Faery Handbag (The Faery Reel Anthology, 2004)
Kelly Link: The Specialist's Hat (Event Horizon, November 1998).
Kelly Link: Travels with the Snow Queen (LCRW #1, 1996).
Daniel Pearlman: The Heart of the Overchild
Kim Stanley Robinson: A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (Asimov's, April 1991)
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Lucky Strike (Universe Anthology #14, 1984)
Benjamin Rosenbaum: Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum (All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories Anthology, 2004). Alternate link.
Benjamin Rosenbaum: Start the Clock (F & SF, August 2004). Alternate link. Notes:
Eric Frank Russell: And Then There Were None (Analog (Astounding), June 1951)
Carter Scholz: Bad Pennies (Flurb #8, Fall 2009) Notes:
Bob Shaw: Light of Other Days (Analog, August 1966). Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Lucius Shepard: The Jaguar Hunter (F & SF, May 1985)
William Shunn: The Practical Ramifications of Interstellar Packet Loss (SF Age, September 1998)
Cordwainer Smith: The Game of Rat and Dragon (Galaxy, October 1955). Alternate link.
Greg van Eekhout: In the Late December (Strange Horizons, December 2003).
Jack Vance: The Moon Moth (Galaxy, August 1961).
Ray Vukcevich: Whisper (F & SF, January 2001) Notes:
Richard Wadholm: From Here You Can See the Sunquists (Asimov's, December 2000) Notes:
Peter Watts: Blindsight (Tor, 2006)
Connie Willis: Fire Watch (Asimov's, February 1982)
George Zebrowski: The Word Sweep (F & SF, August 1979)
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