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These audio productions vary greatly, from professional narrators, amateur readings, author readings, dramatic performed readings, radio plays, and so on. Some narrators are so good they enhance the story, while others might detract.

We present these links to encourage you to get into short stories.

[16] “Bloodchild” (1984) by Octavia E. Butler
[14] “Day Million” (1966) by Frederik Pohl (read by Fred Pohl)
[14] “The Game of Rat and Dragon” (1955) by Cordwainer Smith
[14] “The Star” (1955) by Arthur C. Clarke
[14] “When It Changed” (1972) by Joanna Russ
[13] “Blood Music” (1983) by Greg Bear
[13] “Fondly Fahrenheit” (1954) by Alfred Bester
[13] “Light of Other Days” (1966) by Bob Shaw
[13] “A Martian Odyssey” (1934) by Stanley G. Weinbaum
[13] “Nightfall” (1941) by Isaac Asimov
[13] ““Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman” (1965) by Harlan Ellison
[12] “Bears Discover Fire” (1990) by Terry Bisson
[12] “Flowers for Algernon” (1959) by Daniel Keyes
[12] “The Nine Billion Names of God” (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke
[12] “The Persistence of Vision” (1978) by John Varley
[12] “Rachel in Love” (1987) by Pat Murphy
[12] “Story of Your Life” (1998) by Ted Chiang
[11] “All You Zombies—” (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
[11] “Arena” (1944) by Fredric Brown
[11] “The Cold Equations” (1954) by Tom Godwin
[11] “The Country of the Kind” (1956) by Damon Knight
[11] “Sandkings” (1979) by George R. R. Martin
[11] “That Only a Mother” (1948) by Judith Merril
[11] “The Ugly Chickens” (1980) by Howard Waldrop
[11] “Who Goes There?” (1938) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
[10] “Aye, and Gomorrah …” (1967) by Samuel R. Delany
[10] “Burning Chrome” (1982) by William Gibson
[10] “Coming Attraction” (1950) by Fritz Leiber
[10] “Desertion” (1944) by Clifford D. Simak
[10] “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967) by Harlan Ellison
[10] “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (1943) by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
[10] “Nine Lives” (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[10] “Or All the Seas with Oysters” (1958) by Avram Davidson
[10] “Sailing to Byzantium” (1985) by Robert Silverberg
[10] “The Screwfly Solution” (1977) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[10] “The Sentinel” (1951) by Arthur C. Clarke
[10] “Swarm” (1982) by Bruce Sterling
[10] “Vintage Season” (1946) by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
[ 9] “The Bicentennial Man” (1976) by Isaac Asimov
[ 9] “Born with the Dead” (1974) by Robert Silverberg
[ 9] “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight” (1987) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[ 9] “First Contact” (1945) by Murray Leinster
[ 9] “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[ 9] “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (1976) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[ 9] “Jeffty Is Five” (1977) by Harlan Ellison
[ 9] “The Little Black Bag” (1950) by C. M. Kornbluth
[ 9] “The Moon Moth” (1961) by Jack Vance
[ 9] “Passengers” (1968) by Robert Silverberg
[ 9] “Press ENTER ■” (1984) by John Varley
[ 9] “The Queen of Air and Darkness” (1971) by Poul Anderson
[ 9] “R & R” (1986) by Lucius Shepard
[ 9] “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” (1963) by Roger Zelazny
[ 9] “Scanners Live in Vain” (1950) by Cordwainer Smith
[ 9] “Souls” (1982) by Joanna Russ
[ 9] “Surface Tension” (1952) by James Blish
[ 9] “Think Like a Dinosaur” (1995) by James Patrick Kelly
[ 9] “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[ 9] “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966) by Philip K. Dick
[ 9] “The Women Men Don’t See” (1973) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[ 8] “Black Destroyer” (1939) by A. E. van Vogt (first story in the collection)
[ 8] “By His Bootstraps” (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 8] “The Death of Doctor Island” (1973) by Gene Wolfe
[ 8] “The Fifth Head of Cerberus” (1972) by Gene Wolfe
[ 8] “Fire Watch” (1982) by Connie Willis
[ 8] “For a Breath I Tarry” (1966) by Roger Zelazny
[ 8] “Great Work of Time” (1989) by John Crowley
[ 8] “Hardfought” (1983) by Greg Bear
[ 8] “Harrison Bergeron” (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
[ 8] “Hell Is the Absence of God” (2001) by Ted Chiang
[ 8] “The Last of the Winnebagos” (1988) by Connie Willis
[ 8] “The Last Question” (1956) by Isaac Asimov
[ 8] “The Lucky Strike” (1984) by Kim Stanley Robinson
[ 8] “A Meeting with Medusa” (1971) by Arthur C. Clarke
[ 8] “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” (2007) by Ted Chiang
[ 8] “Microcosmic God” (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
[ 8] “The Mountains of Mourning” (1989) by Lois McMaster Bujold
[ 8] “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” (1973) by Vonda N. McIntyre
[ 8] “Seven American Nights” (1978) by Gene Wolfe
[ 8] “A Song for Lya” (1974) by George R. R. Martin
[ 8] “The Star Pit” (1967) by Samuel R. Delany
[ 8] “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950) by Ray Bradbury (read by Lenard Nimoy)
[ 8] “Thunder and Roses” (1947) by Theodore Sturgeon
[ 8] “The Weapon Shop” (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
[ 8] “Weyr Search” (1967) by Anne McCaffrey
[ 7] “Air Raid” (1977) by John Varley
[ 7] “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” (1972) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[ 7] “At the Rialto” (1989) by Connie Willis
[ 7] “Beggars in Spain” (1991) by Nancy Kress
[ 7] “The Big Front Yard” (1958) by Clifford D. Simak
[ 7] “Born of Man and Woman” (1950) by Richard Matheson
[ 7] “A Boy and His Dog” (1969) by Harlan Ellison
[ 7] “Call Me Joe” (1957) by Poul Anderson
[ 7] “The Deathbird” (1973) by Harlan Ellison
[ 7] “The Dog Said Bow-Wow” (2001) by Michael Swanwick
[ 7] “Driftglass” (1967) by Samuel R. Delany
[ 7] “E for Effort” (1947) by T. L. Sherred
[ 7] “Enemy Mine” (1979) by Barry B. Longyear
[ 7] “Even the Queen” (1992) by Connie Willis
[ 7] “Forever Yours, Anna” (1987) by Kate Wilhelm
[ 7] “Inconstant Moon” (1971) by Larry Niven
[ 7] “The Island” (2009) by Peter Watts
[ 7] “The Liberation of Earth” (1953) by William Tenn
[ 7] “Lobsters” (2001) by Charles Stross
[ 7] “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” (2011) by Kij Johnson
[ 7] “The Man Who Lost the Sea” (1959) by Theodore Sturgeon
[ 7] “The Marching Morons” (1951) by C. M. Kornbluth
[ 7] “Mars Is Heaven!” (1948) by Ray Bradbury
[ 7] “The Martian Way” (1952) by Isaac Asimov
[ 7] “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” (1958) by Alfred Bester
[ 7] “Neutron Star” (1966) by Larry Niven
[ 7] “No Woman Born” (1944) by C. L. Moore
[ 7] “Nobody Bothers Gus” (1955) by Algis Budrys
[ 7] “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[ 7] “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986) by Pat Cadigan
[ 7] “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[ 7] “Reason” (1941) by Isaac Asimov
[ 7] “Requiem” (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 7] “Robbie” (1940) by Isaac Asimov
[ 7] “Second Variety” (1953) by Philip K. Dick
[ 7] “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge” (1994) by Mike Resnick
[ 7] “The Ship Who Sang” (1961) by Anne McCaffrey
[ 7] “Snow” (1985) by John Crowley
[ 7] “Speech Sounds” (1983) by Octavia E. Butler
[ 7] “The Star” (1897) by H. G. Wells
[ 7] “The Terminal Beach” (1964) by J. G. Ballard
[ 7] “The Things” (2010) by Peter Watts
[ 7] “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” (1968) by Samuel R. Delany
[ 7] “Undone” (2001) by James Patrick Kelly
[ 7] “The Voices of Time” (1960) by J. G. Ballard
[ 7] “The Way of Cross and Dragon” (1979) by George R. R. Martin
[ 7] “The Word for World Is Forest” (1972) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[ 6] “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” (2008) by Kij Johnson
[ 6] “Allamagoosa” (1955) by Eric Frank Russell
[ 6] “… And He Built a Crooked House” (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 6] “Angel” (1987) by Pat Cadigan
[ 6] “Baby Is Three” (1952) by Theodore Sturgeon
[ 6] “The Calorie Man” (2005) by Paolo Bacigalupi
[ 6] “Cassandra” (1978) by C. J. Cherryh
[ 6] “The Colour Out of Space” (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft
[ 6] “The Conquest of Gola” (1931) by Leslie F. Stone
[ 6] “The Cookie Monster” (2003) by Vernor Vinge
[ 6] “The Day Before the Revolution” (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[ 6] “Dori Bangs” (1989) by Bruce Sterling
[ 6] “The Dragon Masters” (1962) by Jack Vance
[ 6] “The Empress of Mars” (2003) by Kage Baker
[ 6] “Ender’s Game” (1977) by Orson Scott Card
[ 6] “Exhalation” (2008) by Ted Chiang
[ 6] “Faith of Our Fathers” (1967) by Philip K. Dick
[ 6] “Forgiveness Day” (1994) by Ursula K. Le Guin
[ 6] “Goat Song” (1972) by Poul Anderson
[ 6] “The Gold at the Starbow’s End” (1972) by Frederik Pohl
[ 6] “The Green Hills of Earth” (1947) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 6] “The Grotto of the Dancing Deer” (1980) by Clifford D. Simak
[ 6] “Hawksbill Station” (1967) by Robert Silverberg
[ 6] “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967) by Pamela Zoline
[ 6] “The Hemingway Hoax” (1990) by Joe Haldeman
[ 6] “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories” (1970) by Gene Wolfe
[ 6] “It’s a Good Life” (1953) by Jerome Bixby
[ 6] “Kirinyaga” (1988) by Mike Resnick
[ 6] “The Last Castle” (1966) by Jack Vance
[ 6] “The Machine Stops” (1909) by E. M. Forster
[ 6] “Magic for Beginners” (2005) by Kelly Link
[ 6] “The Man Who Came Early” (1956) by Poul Anderson
[ 6] “The Man Who Sold the Moon” (1950) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 6] “The Martian Obelisk” (2017) by Linda Nagata
[ 6] “Nerves” (1942) by Lester del Rey
[ 6] “Nightwings” (1968) by Robert Silverberg
[ 6] “The Only Neat Thing to Do” (1985) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[ 6] “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) by Ken Liu
[ 6] “Particle Theory” (1977) by Edward Bryant
[ 6] “The People of Sand and Slag” (2004) by Paolo Bacigalupi
[ 6] “The Pusher” (1981) by John Varley
[ 6] “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” (2008) by James Alan Gardner
[ 6] “Rescue Party” (1946) by Arthur C. Clarke
[ 6] “The Roads Must Roll” (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 6] “A Saucer of Loneliness” (1953) by Theodore Sturgeon
[ 6] “Schrödinger’s Kitten” (1988) by George Alec Effinger
[ 6] “A Series of Steaks” (2017) by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
[ 6] “Soldier, Ask Not” (1964) by Gordon R. Dickson
[ 6] “A Sound of Thunder” (1952) by Ray Bradbury
[ 6] “The Sultan of the Clouds” (2010) by Geoffrey A. Landis
[ 6] “Sundance” (1969) by Robert Silverberg
[ 6] “Things with Beards” (2016) by Sam J. Miller
[ 6] “Total Environment” (1968) by Brian W. Aldiss
[ 6] “True Names” (1981) by Vernor Vinge
[ 6] “The Tunnel Under the World” (1955) by Frederik Pohl
[ 6] “Twilight” (1934) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
[ 6] “With Folded Hands …” (1947) by Jack Williamson
[ 5] “24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai” (1985) by Roger Zelazny
[ 5] “… And Then There Were None” (1951) by Eric Frank Russell
[ 5] “Baby, You Were Great” (1967) by Kate Wilhelm
[ 5] “A Bad Day for Sales” (1953) by Fritz Leiber
[ 5] “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” (1962) by Cordwainer Smith
[ 5] “Behold the Man” (1966) by Michael Moorcock
[ 5] “Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan” (2015) by Ian McDonald
[ 5] “The Brave Little Toaster” (1980) by Thomas M. Disch
[ 5] “Breathmoss” (2002) by Ian R. MacLeod
[ 5] “Child of All Ages” (1975) by P. J. Plauger
[ 5] “Close Encounters” (2012) by Andy Duncan
[ 5] “The Dance of the Changer and the Three” (1968) by Terry Carr
[ 5] “Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?” (1988) by Howard Waldrop
[ 5] “Doing Lennon” (1975) by Gregory Benford
[ 5] “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” (1965) by Roger Zelazny
[ 5] “The Edge of the World” (1989) by Michael Swanwick
[ 5] “The Empire of Ice Cream” (2003) by Jeffrey Ford
[ 5] “Eros, Philia, Agape” (2009) by Rachel Swirsky
[ 5] “Farewell to the Master” (1940) by Harry Bates
[ 5] “The Father-Thing” (1954) by Philip K. Dick
[ 5] “The Gambler” (2008) by Paolo Bacigalupi
[ 5] “The Game of Smash and Recovery” (2015) by Kelly Link
[ 5] “Gonna Roll the Bones” (1967) by Fritz Leiber
[ 5] “Hatrack River” (1986) by Orson Scott Card
[ 5] “He Who Shapes” (1965) by Roger Zelazny
[ 5] “Hero” (1972) by Joe Haldeman
[ 5] “The Hole Man” (1974) by Larry Niven
[ 5] “Home Is the Hangman” (1975) by Roger Zelazny
[ 5] “The House Beyond Your Sky” (2006) by Benjamin Rosenbaum
[ 5] “In Hiding” (1948) by Wilmar H. Shiras
[ 5] “Itsy Bitsy Spider” (1997) by James Patrick Kelly
[ 5] “The Keys to December” (1966) by Roger Zelazny
[ 5] “Killdozer!” (1944) by Theodore Sturgeon
[ 5] “Kyrie” (1968) by Poul Anderson
[ 5] “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” (2010) by Rachel Swirsky
[ 5] “Liar!” (1941) by Isaac Asimov
[ 5] “The Lincoln Train” (1995) by Maureen F. McHugh
[ 5] “Little Faces” (2005) by Vonda N. McIntyre
[ 5] “The Little Goddess” (2005) by Ian McDonald
[ 5] “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death” (1973) by James Tiptree, Jr.
[ 5] “macs” (1999) by Terry Bisson
[ 5] “Masks” (1968) by Damon Knight
[ 5] “The Million-Year Picnic” (1946) by Ray Bradbury
[ 5] “Mr. Boy” (1990) by James Patrick Kelly
[ 5] “Nightflyers” (1980) by George R. R. Martin
[ 5] “Nobody’s Home” (1972) by Joanna Russ
[ 5] “Options” (1979) by John Varley
[ 5] “Out of All Them Bright Stars” (1985) by Nancy Kress
[ 5] “A Pail of Air” (1951) by Fritz Leiber
[ 5] “Peaches for Mad Molly” (1988) by Steven Gould
[ 5] “The Pedestrian” (1951) by Ray Bradbury
[ 5] “The Pi Man” (1959) by Alfred Bester
[ 5] “A Planet Named Shayol” (1961) by Cordwainer Smith
[ 5] “Private Eye” (1949) by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
[ 5] “The Proud Robot” (1943) by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
[ 5] “Radiant Green Star” (2000) by Lucius Shepard
[ 5] “Robot Dreams” (1986) by Isaac Asimov
[ 5] “Salvador” (1984) by Lucius Shepard
[ 5] “The Saturn Game” (1981) by Poul Anderson
[ 5] “Seasons of Glass and Iron” (2016) by Amal El-Mohtar
[ 5] “The Secret Life of Bots” (2017) by Suzanne Palmer
[ 5] “Seventy-Two Letters” (2000) by Ted Chiang
[ 5] “Shambleau” (1933) by C. L. Moore (read by C. L. Moore)
[ 5] “Singing My Sister Down” (2004) by Margo Lanagan
[ 5] “Spar” (2009) by Kij Johnson
[ 5] “Stardance” (1977) by Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson
[ 5] “Stranger Station” (1956) by Damon Knight
[ 5] “Tangents” (1986) by Greg Bear
[ 5] “Tiny Tango” (1989) by Judith Moffett
[ 5] “Touring with the Alien” (2016) by Carolyn Ives Gilman
[ 5] “Tower of Babylon” (1990) by Ted Chiang
[ 5] “Trinity” (1984) by Nancy Kress
[ 5] “The Ugly Little Boy” (1958) by Isaac Asimov
[ 5] “Unaccompanied Sonata” (1979) by Orson Scott Card
[ 5] “Under the Moons of Venus” (2010) by Damien Broderick
[ 5] “Universe” (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein
[ 5] “View from a Height” (1978) by Joan D. Vinge
[ 5] “The Visitor from Taured” (2016) by Ian R. MacLeod
[ 5] “The Voluntary State” (2004) by Christopher Rowe
[ 5] “Wall, Stone, Craft” (1993) by Walter Jon Williams
[ 5] “What’s It Like Out There?” (1952) by Edmond Hamilton
[ 5] “When I Was Miss Dow” (1966) by Sonya Dorman
[ 5] “When We Went to See the End of the World” (1972) by Robert Silverberg
[ 5] “Who Can Replace a Man?” (1958) by Brian W. Aldiss
[ 5] “The Winter Market” (1985) by William Gibson
[ 5] “With Morning Comes Mistfall” (1973) by George R. R. Martin
[ 5] “Yellow Card Man” (2006) by Paolo Bacigalupi