None So Blind

Not to be confused with None So Blind (film)

Short story by Joe Haldeman

"None So Blind"
Short story by Joe Haldeman
Genre(s)	Science fiction
Publication
Published in	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Publication type	Magazine
Publication date	November 1994

"None So Blind" is a science fiction short story by Joe Haldeman. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Locus Award for Short Story in 1995, was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1994.

Plot summary

A nerd falls in love with a blind musician, and wonders, “Why aren't all blind people geniuses?” This leads him to develop an experimental procedure to repurpose the visual areas of his own brain to amplify intelligence.

Sources, references, external links, quotations

None So Blind title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Text of the story at JoeHaldeman.com

Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1981–2000)

"Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981)
"The Pusher" by John Varley (1982)
"Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson (1983)
"Speech Sounds" by Octavia E. Butler (1984)
"The Crystal Spheres" by David Brin (1985)
"Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl (1986)
"Tangents" by Greg Bear (1987)
"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans (1988)
"Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick (1989)
"Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas (1990)
"Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991)
"A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey A. Landis (1992)
"Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993)
"Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis (1994)
"None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman (1995)
"The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh (1996)
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society" by Connie Willis (1997)
"The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick (1998)
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" by Michael Swanwick (1999)
"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick (2000)

Complete list
Retro
1955–1960
1961–1980
1981–2000
2001–2020
2021–present

v t e Locus Award for Best Short Story
1971–1980	"The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison (1971) "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson (1972) "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973) "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (1974) "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975) "Croatoan" by Harlan Ellison (1976) "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman (1977) "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison (1978) "Count the Clock that Tells the Time" by Harlan Ellison (1979) "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George R. R. Martin (1980)
1981–2000	"Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981) "The Pusher" by John Varley (1982) "Sur" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1983) "Beyond the Dead Reef" by James Tiptree Jr. (1984) "Salvador" by Lucius Shepard (1985) "With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole" by Harlan Ellison (1986) "Robot Dreams" by Isaac Asimov (1987) "Angel" by Pat Cadigan (1988) "Eidolons" by Harlan Ellison (1989) "Lost Boys" by Orson Scott Card (1990) "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991) "Buffalo" by John Kessel (1992) "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993) "Close Encounter" by Connie Willis (1994) "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman (1995) "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh (1996) "Gone" by John Crowley (1997) "Itsy Bitsy Spider" by James Patrick Kelly (1998) "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling (1999) "macs" by Terry Bisson (2000)
2001–present	"The Missing Mass" by Larry Niven (2001) "The Bones of the Earth" by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002) "October in the Chair" by Neil Gaiman (2003) "Closing Time" by Neil Gaiman (2004) "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Neil Gaiman (2005) "Sunbird" by Neil Gaiman (2006) "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" by Neil Gaiman (2007) "A Small Room in Koboldtown" by Michael Swanwick (2008) "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (2009) "An Invocation of Incuriosity" by Neil Gaiman (2010) "The Thing About Cassandra" by Neil Gaiman (2011) "The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman (2012) "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (2013) "The Road of Needles" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014) "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar (2015) "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer (2016) "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar (2017) "The Martian Obelisk" by Linda Nagata (2018) "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" by P. Djèlí Clark (2019) "The Bookstore at the End of America" by Charlie Jane Anders (2020) "Little Free Library" by Naomi Kritzer (2021) "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" by Sarah Pinsker (2022) "Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills (2023)
Best Novel (1971–1981) Best SF Novel (1980–present) Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present) Best First Novel (1981–present) Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present) Best Young Adult Book (2003–present) Best Novella (1973–present) Best Novelette (1975–present) Best Short Story (1971–present)