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Old 09-07-2009, 12:23 PM   #16
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Hey, here's one I found, downloaded and read just yesterday - it just won the 2009 Nebula award.

Science Fiction -- Ted Chiang "Exhalation"

http://www.nightshadebooks.com/downloads
or http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downl...d%20Chiang.rtf

from Nightshade books.

Great story.
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Old 09-07-2009, 04:18 PM   #17
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The best anthology I've read which actually is ebook'd is Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century, selected and edited by Orson Scott Card. Widely available as an ebook.
I bought this on your recommendation - it is truly fantastic - I've discovered/re-discovered so many gems in short form. Wow! Esp. the Sturgeon entry!
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The Game of Rat and Dragon, by Cordwainer Smith. Available on Project Gutenberg. All the other S/F stories written by the author are available at Baen books (in 2 volumes) for $12 US.
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The Game of Rat and Dragon, by Cordwainer Smith. Available on Project Gutenberg. All the other S/F stories written by the author are available at Baen books (in 2 volumes) for $12 US.
And they're good too I've got a book of (all?) of his short stories published by NESFA a long time ago. I think they're all set in his universe called "Instrumentality of Man"? Probably the same stories - the book I've got was a limited run just published by that sci/con association. Anyway, The Game of Rat and Dragon is classic military sci-fi, it's in this other very good anthology
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century. I'd forgotten about that one.
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