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Quite a lot of those who were huge in the earlies survive today on the strength of one or two great stories.
Some of my favourite short sf stories:
Jerome Bixby: The Holes around Mars (scientifically very unsound, but fun, with a pun as a punchline)
Eric Frank Russell: Men Martians and Machines (1955: a short story collection)
Asimov: the Dead Past (if that doesn't make you pause to think nothing will)
Asimov: The Billiard Ball (who else could make a short story out of Relativity?)
Heinlein: And he Built a Crooked House
C M Kornbluth: The Little Black Bag
Pohl: The Tunnel Under the World (you don't want to find the answer to your question)
Asimov: Lenny
A Bertram Chandler: Giant Killer (unfortunately the illustration in the magazine gave away the punchline)
James Blish: Beep!
Mildred Clingerman: Letters from Laura (about as risque as you get get in an sf in 1954)
John W Campbell: Who goes There?
Arthur C Clarke: A Walk in the Dark (wonderfully scary)
John W Campbell, Forgetfulness
Van Vogt: Black Destroyer
Henry Hasse: He Who Shrank
Frederick Pohl: Day Million
Jeerome Bixby: It's a good life
Lots of others
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