Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daisy in the Sun | 1979 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 2 | Chance | 1986 | Connie Willis | N/A |
| 3 | Spice Pogrom (in Asimov’s) | 1986 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 4 | The Last of the Winnebagos (in Asimov’s) | 1988 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 5 | At the Rialto (in Nebula Awards 25) | 1989 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 6 | Time Out (in Asimov’s) | 1989 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 7 | Cibola (in Asimov’s) | 1990 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 8 | In the Late Cretaceous (in Asimov’s) | 1991 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 9 | Even the Queen (in Asimov’s) | 1992 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 10 | Death on the Nile (in The Best of Connie Willis) | 1993 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 11 | The Soul Selects Her Own Society (in Asimov’s) | 1996 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 12 | Just Like the Ones We Used to Know | 2003 | Connie Willis | N/A |
| 13 | Inside Job | 2005 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 14 | D.A. | 2007 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 15 | All Seated on the Ground | 2007 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 16 | All About Emily | 2011 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 17 | I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land | 2018 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 18 | Jack | 2020 | Connie Willis | Buy |
| 19 | Take a Look at the Five and Ten | 2020 | Connie Willis | Buy |
Connie Willis’s short fiction spans from 1979 to 2020 and includes some of the most celebrated stories in science fiction. Her novellas and short stories have won more Hugo and Nebula Awards than those of almost any other writer in the field, with individual works ranging from time travel drama to workplace comedy to Christmas stories.
The nineteen individual stories listed here represent her standalone short fiction published outside of collections. Many were first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction and later gathered into her collections. They cover the same range as her novels: funny, sad, historically grounded, and consistently interested in the gap between what people expect and what they get.