Timeline of Stories
| Story | Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973) | Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975) | Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978) | Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions (1981) | Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories (1985) | Tales of the Quintana Roo (1986) (linked stories) | The Starry Rift (1986) (linked stories) | Crown of Stars (1988) | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (omnibus collection) (1990) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | |||||||||
| 'The Mother Ship' (later retitled 'Mamma Come Home') (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Pupa Knows Best' (later retitled 'Help') (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Birth of a Salesman' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Fault' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1969 | |||||||||
| 'Beam Us Home' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'The Last Flight of Doctor Ain' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Your Haploid Heart' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Parimutuel Planet' (later retitled 'Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion') (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||
| 'Last Night and Every Night' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Man Doors Said Hello To' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'I’m Too Big But I Love to Play' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Nightblooming Saurian' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1971 | |||||||||
| 'The Peacefulness of Vivyan' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'I’ll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'And So On, And So On' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Mother in the Sky with Diamonds' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1972 | |||||||||
| 'The Man Who Walked Home' (short story) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| 'And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways' (novelette) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'On the Last Afternoon' (novella) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Painwise' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Filomena & Greg & Rikki-Tikki & Barlow & the Alien' (later retitled 'All the Kinds of Yes') (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Milk of Paradise' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Amberjack' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Through a Lass Darkly' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1973 | |||||||||
| 'Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death' (short story) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| 'The Women Men Don't See' (novelette) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In' (novelette) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 1974 | |||||||||
| 'Her Smoke Rose Up Forever' (novelette) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Angel Fix' (novelette, under the name 'Raccoona Sheldon') | Yes | ||||||||
| 1975 | |||||||||
| 'A Momentary Taste of Being' (novella) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 1976 | |||||||||
| 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!' (short story, under the name Raccoona Sheldon) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| 'Beaver Tears' (short story, under the name Raccoona Sheldon) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'She Waits for All Men Born' (short story) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Houston, Houston, Do You Read?' (novella) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rats' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1977 | |||||||||
| 'The Screwfly Solution' (novelette, under the name Raccoona Sheldon) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Time-Sharing Angel' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||
| 'We Who Stole the Dream' (novelette) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'Up the Walls of the World' (novel) | |||||||||
| 1980 | |||||||||
| 'Slow Music' (novella) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| 'A Source of Innocent Merriment' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1981 | |||||||||
| 'Excursion Fare' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo' (later retitled 'What Came Ashore at Lirios') (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Out of the Everywhere' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'With Delicate Mad Hands' (novella) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||
| 'The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1983 | |||||||||
| 'Beyond the Dead Reef' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
| 'Morality Meat' (novelette, under the name Racoona Sheldon) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Only Neat Thing to Do' (novella) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'All This and Heaven Too' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||
| 'Our Resident Djinn' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| ' In the Great Central Library of Deneb University' (short story) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Good Night, Sweethearts' (novella) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Collision' (novella) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||
| 'Second Going' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Yanqui Doodle' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'In Midst of Life' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 1988 | |||||||||
| 'Backward, Turn Backward' (novella) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew' (novellette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'The Color of Neanderthal Eyes' (novella) | Yes | ||||||||
| 'Come Live with Me' (novelette) | Yes | ||||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||
| 'The Trouble Is Not in Your Set' (short story) | |||||||||
| 'Trey of Hearts' (short story) |
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