John M. Ford was, in his lifetime, a favorite author of many writers better known than he was, including Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan. He won World Fantasy Awards for both his novel The Dragon Waiting and his poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station," and he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel, Growing Up Weightless. His Star Trek novel, The Final Reflection, essentially created the nuanced Klingon culture seen later in the feature films, and his other novel in that universe, How Much For The Planet?, was a Star Trek tale told as a Gilbert & Sullivan musical, complete with songs. He was a genius. He died in 2006.
Anthology containing almost all his short stories:
1 1952 Monon Freightyard Blues
2 Afterword - Encounters with Paarfi and the Gods by Ivan Sekély (Sethra Lavode)
3 Alternities, Inc. 1 - Mandalay
4 Alternities, Inc. 2 - Out of Service
5 Alternities, Inc 3 - Slowly By, Lorena
6 Alternities, Inc 4 - Intersections
7 Amy, at The Bottom of The Stairs
8 As Above, So Below
9 Boundary Echoes
10 Chain Home, Low
11 Dateline: Colonus
12 Double in Brass
13 Erase/Record/Play, A Drama for Print
14 Fugue State (short story)
15 Heat of Fusion
16 Hot Pursuit
17 In the Days of the Comet
18 L'Envoi
19 Marsport 1 - The Sapphire As Big As the Marsport Hilton
20 Marsport 2 - The Wheel of Dreams
21 Preflash
22 Shelter from The Storm
23 Stone Crucible
24 Strabble with God
25 Street of Dreams
26 Tales from the Original Gothic
27 The Adventure of The Solitary Engineer
28 The Dark Companion
29 The Hemstitch Notebooks
30 The Persecutor's Tale
31 The Sixth Finger
32 There Will Be a Sign
33 This, Too, We Reconcile
34 Waiting for The Morning Bird
35 Walkaway Clause
36 Whats Wrong with This Picture?