Index to Science Fiction
Anthologies and Collections,
Combined Edition

by William G. Contento


Last Updated: March 18, 2015
Copyright © 2015 by William G. Contento


An index to 4,260 SF anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984, containing over 46,000 stories by 4,200 authors.


Table of Contents:


For books and stories published after 1983 see The Locus Index

This index, combined with The Locus Index to Science Fiction, is available on CD-ROM from Locus Press.

Top Twenty Authors with the Most Entries:

  1. (799) Clark Ashton Smith
  2. (449) Ray Bradbury
  3. (412) Robert E. Howard
  4. (337) Isaac Asimov
  5. (292) de Camp, L. Sprague
  6. (258) Harlan Ellison™
  7. (257) H.P. Lovecraft
  8. (245) Poul Anderson
  9. (221) Robert Bloch
  10. (219) Brian W. Aldiss
  11. (200) August Derleth
  12. (192) Robert Silverberg
  13. (187) Fritz Leiber
  14. (180) Lafcadio Hearn
  15. (170) Barry N. Malzberg
  16. (157) R. A. Lafferty
  17. (156) Fredric Brown
  18. (155) Edgar Allan Poe
  19. (153) Theodore Sturgeon
  20. (146) Robert Sheckley

Top Ten Most Reprinted Stories:

  1. 29 Bradbury, Ray - The Sound of Thunder

  2. 27 Aldiss, Brian W. - But Who Can Replace a Man?
    27 Asimov, Isaac - Nightfall
    27 Wells, H.G. - The Star

  3. 26 Ellison™, Harlan - "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

  4. 23 Bradbury, Ray - There Will Come Soft Rains
    23 Clarke, Arthur C. - The Nine Billion Names of God
    23 Clarke, Arthur C. - The Sentinel of Eternity
    23 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
    23 Simak, Clifford D. - Desertion

  5. 22 Godwin, Tom - The Cold Equations
    22 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum

  6. 21 Clarke, Arthur C. - The Star
    21 Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
    21 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell-Tale Heart

  7. 20 Ballard, J.G. - Billenium
    20 Leinster, Murray - First Contact
    20 Shiel, M.P. - Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War

  8. 19 Wells, H.G. - The Man Who Could Work Miracles
    19 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado
    19 Lovecraft, H.P. - The Colour Out of Space

  9. 18 Bixby, Jerome - It's a Good Life
    18 del Rey, Lester - Helen O'Loy
    18 Ellison, Harlan - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
    18 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Black Cat

  10. 17 Blish, James - Common Time
    17 Brown, Fredric - "Arena"
    17 Clarke, Arthur C. - History Lesson
    17 Forster, E.M. - The Machine Stops
    17 Merril, Judith - That Only a Mother
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Fall of the House of Usher
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Masque of the Red Death
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
    17 van Vogt, A.E. - The Monster


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