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| • "Game of Rat and Dragon"•"Getting Real" •"Girl Who Fell Into the Sky" • "Girl Who Was Plugged In" • "Glassblower's Dragon •"Goat Song" • God Emperor of Dune • "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" •The Golden Compass • "Gonna Roll the Bones" • "Good News from the Vatican" •"The Gostak and the Doshes" • "Great Work of Time" • Greenwitch • The Grey King • "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" • "Guide Dog" • |
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| "The Game of Rat and Dragon" |
| by Cordwainer Smith First published in Galaxy, October 1955 |
| Preview: To traverse space, ships must employ telepaths who work in partnership with cats t destroy entities that attack the ships. |
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| "Getting Real" |
| by Susan Shwartz First published in Newer York, 1991 |
| Preview: A temporary person in New York City takes a job at a caring corporation and gradually becomes real. |
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| "The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky" |
| by Kate Wilhelm First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette |
| Preview: Laura Shields comes early to a house on the prairie where she is scheduled to meet her sister and brother-in-law who is heir to the house and grounds. John McLaren, son and grandson of men long-connected to the property, encounters her there; they attempt to figure out the strange goings-on in the house and in the valley below. |
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| "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" |
| by James Tiptree, Jr. See Reading Guide |
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| by Lucius Shepard First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1987 |
| Preview: When fifty-year-old glassblower Carter McCrae decides to give a farewell gift to his much younger lover, he creates a magical dragon. |
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| "Goat Song" |
| by Poul Anderson See the Reading Guide to "Goat Song" |
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| God Emperor of Dune |
| by Frank Herbert See the Reading Guide to the Dune Novels |
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| "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" |
| by Sonya Dorman First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
| Preview: In a time of famine when the strong kill and eat the weak, an unusual woman runs for her life with food in her mouth for her family. |
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| The Golden Compass |
| by Philip Pullman See the General Guide to the His Dark Materials Trilogy |
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| "Gonna Roll the Bones" |
| by Fritz Leiber First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette |
| Preview: Joe Slatternell goes to the Boneyard, a new gambling establishment in Ironmine, to play craps. Though Joe can control the dice with ease, he allows the dice to pass around to a Big Gambler who proceeds robotically to win all of the money at the table. Then Joe finds himself playing for his life. |
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| "Good News from the Vatican" |
| by Robert Silverberg See the Reading Guide to "Good News from the Vatican" |
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| "The Gostak and the Doshes" |
| by Miles J. Bereuer, M.D. Originally published in Amazing, March 1930 Collected in Science Fiction, Stories and Contexts |
| Preview: A scientist finds his way into an alternate reality where he meaningless phrase "The gostak distims the doshes" incites the populace to wage world war. |
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| "Great Work of Time" |
| by John Crowley |
| Preview: An organization that exists outside of time tinkers with the past until the existence of the future is threatened. |
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| Greenwitch |
| by Susan Cooper See the General Guide to the Dark is Rising sequence |
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| The Grey King |
| by Susan Cooper See the General Guide to the Dark is Rising sequence |
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| "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" |
| by Clifford D. Simak First published in Analog, April 1980 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story Winner of a Nebula for Best Short Story |
| Preview: Boyd, an archeologist, makes one last visit to the cave paintings at his most recent dig and discovers a hidden grotto decorated with frolicking animals--"Stone Age Disney"-- and also a pipe identical to the pipe played by Luis, a local Basque who helps with the dig. |
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| "Guide Dog" |
| by Mike Conner First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1991 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette |
| Preview: A human is sold into service as a "guide dog" for a blind alien who is a famous artist among his people. As human and alien work together, the human must try to control his addition to the approval of his client. Then the human violates the alien's trust and is demoted, but the human is desperate to see the alien again. |
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