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Originally Posted by stonetools
What's a good way to discover SF short stories?
1.There are the various annual best-of round ups. Which is the best?
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Neither is the best. It all depends on taste.
Right now the only one doing a "pure" SF is Gardner Dozois. Honestly not my type.
Combinations of SF & Fantasy are Jonathan Strahan and Rich Horton. Each of them (they're both reviewers for Locus) have different aesthetics though, so their anthologies aren't duplicates.
More conservative, I'd lean towards Strahan. More literary, probably Horton.
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3. There are a bunch of sites that offer original sf, but they come and they go. Can anyone frecommend their favorite sites for discovering sf stories?
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For free magazines, I'd go Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Daily SF, Apex Magazine, etc.
There's also podcasts-only sites like Escape Pod and Sofanauts.
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4. Any other way I missed?
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Purchase editor's anthologies and authors's short story collections.
There's a Kij Johnson collection coming out this year from Small Beer Press for example...