04-02-2011, 11:48 PM | #61 |
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Some of my favs are:
Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity by David Morrell At My Back I Always Hear by David Morrell The Ehrengraph Defense by Lawrence Block Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco by Seth Lindberg Baby Cakes by Neil Gaiman Mezzotint by MR James The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacob Triangle by Jeffrey Deaver Without Jonathan by Jeffrey Deaver The Weekend by Jeffrey Deaver Some Things Don't Wash Off by Joel Arnold 1408 by Stephen King |
04-03-2011, 04:38 PM | #62 |
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Fritz Leiber. SELECTED STORIES is available at Baen's Webscriptions site and also at Amazon's Kindle store.
Harlan Ellison. Check out his collections GENTLEMAN JUNKIE and SHATTERDAY in particular. Joseph Epstein's collections THE GOLDIN BOYS and FABULOUS SMALL JEWS (the latter available for Kindle) are well worth a look. There's not nearly enough of it available as ebooks, but the short fiction of Roger Zelazny, Theodore Sturgeon, Gerald Kersh, and Jorge Luis Borges. Several volumes of Robert Silverberg's collected stories are available for Kindle. Ditto Richard Matheson's work. To my knowledge none of Jack Finney's short fiction has been published in ebook formats, but if you enjoy good Twilight Zone-style fantasy you'll want to check out his collections THE THIRD LEVEL and I LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRINGTIME, both long out of print; the paperback collection ABOUT TIME includes selected stories from both these collections. Bests to all, Tony Rabig [edit of self-promotion by moderation] Last edited by dreams; 10-04-2011 at 03:17 PM. Reason: [edit of self-promotion by moderation] |
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04-03-2011, 05:03 PM | #63 |
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Yeah, they just released those Silverberg volumes.
Ooooh! Just ran across this. The best of Fantasy and SF 60th anniversary anthology: http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Fant...1864794&sr=1-2 Last edited by kennyc; 04-03-2011 at 05:09 PM. |
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Thanks for mentioning Saki! I hadn't heard of him before; I really like his stuff. Anybody know how many short stories he's done? I'm currently compiling 170 of his stories into epub and mobi formats. I want to make sure I get as many as I can.
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I bought his "complete works" on Books on Board and they mention 125 short stories, 3 novels and 3 plays. Either you have duplicates, or my "complete" works are not as complete as they claim.
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04-05-2011, 03:59 PM | #66 |
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Look at haytom.us. There are 170 on the stories page, if I'm counting right. One is in several chapters, though.
EDIT: Okay, before I had used a download manager to get all the stories, and I had judged by the number of files. After actually counting, I got 139. Last edited by Mario1up; 04-05-2011 at 04:12 PM. |
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O Henry. His works should be public domain by now. I couldn't find them on the MR book list though.
I especially liked: -Last Leaf -The Ransom of Red Chief (This was my mother's favorite! I have no idea why.) -A Retrieved Reformation -Gift Of The Magi Most his short stories are available online. |
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Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
OMG -- it's available online from Robinson's website. "Copyright is a hot-button topic these days. Does information want to be free…or just reasonably priced? I discussed copyright at some length 25 years ago—a year before the first TCP/IP wide area network in the world went operational—two years before the first Macintosh went on sale!—in the following story. It won the 1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and I hope you’ll still find it illuminating today." Last edited by hrynkiw; 04-07-2011 at 03:37 PM. |
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Here are a few of my favorite short stories.
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov The 9 Billion Names Of God - Arthur C Clarke The Star - Arthur C Clarke The Possessed - Arthur C Clarke I Remember Babylon - Arthur C Clarke Green Hills of Earth - Robert A Heinlein What Good is a Glass Dagger? - Larry Niven Not Long Before The End - Larry Niven Inconstant Moon - Larry Niven All The Myriad Ways - - Larry Niven Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex - Larry Niven Home is the Hangman - Roger Zelazny Horseman - Roger Zelazny Last Defender of Camelot - Roger Zelazny |
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Great set there! ebusinesstutor
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With the 25th anniversary of Stand by ME out on Blue Ray, I would like to add The Body by Stenphen King
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Google Books has a preview of Modern Classics of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois. Pages are randomly missing but Samuel Delany's Driftglass seems to be intact.
http://books.google.com/books?id=usY...page&q&f=false |
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Let's not let this thread languish. Here's Bridesicle a fun read from Asimovs:
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_1003/art/bridesicle.pdf |
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I have that hardback as well. Last edited by kennyc; 09-30-2011 at 01:57 PM. |
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