The table below (incomplete, work in progress) contains the 1943 fiction eligible for the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards. If you wish to vote, join the 2019 Worldcon.

Collaborations appear twice, in first+second contributor name order as published, and in second+first name order (this latter form is asterisked).

The columns are sortable by Author (first/surname order), Title, Story Length (L), Publication (P), and Rating (R) (there are other recommendations below the table).
There is a search box at the top right of the table and at the bottom of each column.
Click on the story title for a copy (NL indicates no link); click on SF for my review.

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n=novel, na=novella, nv=novelette, ss=short story (check the ISFDB lengths if in doubt).

AMZ=Amazing Stories; ARG=Argosy; ASO=Astonishing Stories; AST=Astounding Science-Fiction; CAP=Captain Future; FAN=Fantastic Adventures; FFM, Famous Fantastic Mysteries; FUT=Future Science Fiction and Fantasy (see also SFS=Science Fiction Stories); PLA=Planet Stories; SFS=Science Fiction Stories (see also FUT=Future Science Fiction and Fantasy); SFQ=Science Fiction Quarterly; SSS=Super Science Stories; STA=Startling Stories; TWS, Thrilling Wonder Stories, UNK=Unknown Worlds; WET=Weird Tales.

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Recommendations

Apart from my ratings column above (which you can order to see what I rate highly), there is one ‘Best of the Year’ volume for 1943, The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW Books, 1981), and a list at Classics of Science Fiction.

The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 5 contains the following:

• 7 • Introduction (The Great SF Stories 5 (1943)) • (1981) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 11 • The Cave • (1943) • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• 30 • The Halfling • [Earth (Brackett)] • (1943) • novelette by Leigh Brackett
• 57 • Mimsy Were the Borogoves • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 91 • Q. U. R. • (1943) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 113 • Clash by Night • [Keeps • 1] • (1943) • novella by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O’Donnell]
• 172 • Exile • (1943) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 178 • Daymare • (1943) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 219 • Doorway Into Time • (1943) • short story by C. L. Moore
• 238 • The Storm • [Mixed Men] • (1943) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 271 • The Proud Robot • [Gallegher (Henry Kuttner)] • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 306 • Symbiotica • [Jay Score / Marathon • 3] • (1943) • novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• 352 • The Iron Standard • (1943) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]

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The Classics of Science Fiction website has a list of classic stories published in a number of reference anthologies or which appear in various polls (the sources are listed here). The list gives the following 1943 stories with at least one citation (the number after the year is the number of anthologies or lists the story appears in):

+ “Backfire” Ross Rocklynne 1943 (1)
+ “Clash By Night” Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore 1943 (1)
+ “Daymare” Fredric Brown 1943 (2)
+ “Doorway Into Time” C. L. Moore 1943 (2)
+ “Exile” Edmond Hamilton 1943 (1)
+ “Expedition” Anthony Boucher 1943 (1)
+ “Flight into Darkness” J. Francis McComas 1943 (1)
+ “Frontier Planet” Manly Wade Wellman 1943 (1)
+ “Lost Art” George O. Smith 1943 (1)
+ “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore 1943 (10)
+ “Q. U. R.” Anthony Boucher 1943 (2)
+ “Symbiotica” Eric Frank Russell 1943 (2)
+ “The Cave” P. Schuyler Miller 1943 (1)
+ “The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath” H. P. Lovecraft 1943 (1)
+ “The Halfling” Leigh Brackett 1943 (2)
+ “The Iron Standard” Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore 1943 (1)
+ “The Proud Robot” Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore 1943 (5)
+ “The Search” A. E. van Vogt 1943 (1)
+ “The Storm” A. E. van Vogt 1943 (1)
+ “Time Locker” Henry Kuttner 1943 (1)

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The Hugo Award Book Club have a suggested reading list on their website.

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