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Old 01-04-2012, 09:18 AM   #31
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Here's some for 1 am this morning then


Brackett, Leigh - Black Amazon Of Mars - [science fiction]
Chiang, Ted - Exhalation - [science fiction]
Denton, Bradley - Sergeant Chip - [science fiction]
Dowling, Terry - Colouring the Captains - [science fiction]
Egan, Greg - Border Guards - [science fiction]
Smith, Cordwainer - Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons - [science fiction]
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Williams, Walter Jon - Green Leopard Plague,The - [science fiction]
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Old 01-04-2012, 09:22 AM   #32
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Maybe, but it might be different each day. Have read tens of thousands of 'em.
Then in that case I would say, you really don't have any favorites.
and are more interested in making lists and tallying things up than experiencing the stories, eh? A collector or a marketeer.


This thread is supposed to be about your FAVORITE short stories, not a just a list of them.
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Old 01-04-2012, 11:30 PM   #33
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These are a few of my favorites that come to mind that I don't think have been mentioned here yet.

Manna, Peter Phillips
Colony, Philip K. Dick
The Persistence of Vision, John Varley
The Safe-Deposit Box, Greg Egan
Journey's End, Poul Anderson
Computers Don't Argue, Gordon R. Dickson
Sandkings, George R. R. Martin
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Old 01-05-2012, 12:21 AM   #34
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Then in that case I would say, you really don't have any favorites.
and are more interested in making lists and tallying things up than experiencing the stories, eh? A collector or a marketeer.


This thread is supposed to be about your FAVORITE short stories, not a just a list of them.
Yeah, just like someone who has read thousands of novels or seen thousands or movies or thousands of tv shows or thousands of football games has no interest in them....
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Old 01-05-2012, 08:06 AM   #35
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Still cannot find any where that sells Vernor Vinge's 'Longshot', nor can I flipping find Arthur C Clarkes 'The Star'.

Does anyone know of anywhere to get them?
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Old 01-05-2012, 09:18 AM   #36
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The Star appears to be available to read online here:
http://web.archive.org/web/200807180...ar_clarke.html
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Old 01-05-2012, 01:21 PM   #37
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The Star appears to be available to read online here:
http://web.archive.org/web/200807180...ar_clarke.html

Excellent, thanks for this.

I have downloaded, copied to Word and made into a PDF. Then sent to my Kindle 4.

I'd share it but I don't think the people on the forums would be best please (even though I did source it on the pdf of the website).
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Old 01-05-2012, 06:18 PM   #38
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Then in that case I would say, you really don't have any favorites.
and are more interested in making lists and tallying things up than experiencing the stories, eh? A collector or a marketeer.


This thread is supposed to be about your FAVORITE short stories, not a just a list of them.
Kenny, 100 short stories would fit in the space of 10 fat novels. I've got that many favorites short length stories. (Of course I prefer short length to novels anyway...)

Favorites not on the thread.

Masterpieces.

On The Sand Planet - Cordwainer Smith (My personal favorite of all stories, any type, anywhere)

Thunder and Roses - Theodore Sturgeon

A Saucer Full Of Loneliness - Theodore Sturgeon

The Man Who Lost the Sea - Theodore Sturgeon (too many Sturgeons? Which one should I leave out?)

The Ballad of Lost C'Mell - Cordwainer Smith

The Deathbird - Harlan Ellison

The Wall - Arthur C. Clarke

It's A Beautiful Day - Issac Asimov

The Ugly Little Boy - Issac Asimov

Daemon - Catherine L. Moore


Good time favorites.

Who Needs Insurance? - Robin Scott

The Little Black Bag - C.M. Kornbluth

The Proud Robot - Henry Kuttner

Nuisance Value - Eric Frank Russell

If This Goes On- - Robert A. Heinlein

Lost Paradise - Catherine L. Moore

Try And Change The Past - Fritz Lieber

Brain Wave (Novella version) - Poul Anderson

Rumfuddle - Jack Vance

The Streets of Ashkelon - Harry Harrison

Riders Of The Purple Wage - Philip Jose' Farmer

Surface Tension - James Blish


and I could have added 50 more, all old favs I read every 5-10 years....
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Old 01-08-2012, 02:20 PM   #39
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Turns out Vernor Vinge's Long Shot is only available in the US in a collected format.

Does anyone have the publisher or even better V.V. email so I can pester them/him about a UK release?
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Old 01-08-2012, 02:50 PM   #40
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I'll just chime in with some very recently read personal stand-outs:

"Staying Behind" - Ken Liu (Clarkesworld #61, Oct 2011)
"Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage" - Seanan McGuire (Fantasy Magazine/Lightspeed, Dec 2011)
"The Smell of Orange Groves" - Lavie Tidhar (Clarkesworld #62, Nov 2011)
"The King of Meteortown" - Andy Henion (Raygun Revival, Dec 2011)
"Scattered Along the River of Heaven" - Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #64. Jan 2012)
"Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin" - Adam Calloway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #73 Jul 2011)
"The Sighted Watchmaker" - Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed, Dec 2011)
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These are a few of my favorites that come to mind that I don't think have been mentioned here yet.

Manna, Peter Phillips
Colony, Philip K. Dick
The Persistence of Vision, John Varley
The Safe-Deposit Box, Greg Egan
Journey's End, Poul Anderson
Computers Don't Argue, Gordon R. Dickson
Sandkings, George R. R. Martin
I forgot about "Sandkings." It was a great episode on "The Outer Limits."
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Some more love for GRRM:
He wrote an entertaining collection of interrelated short stories called Tuf Voyaging


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Not available as ebooks, I'm afraid.
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A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster; an uncannily prophetic story of home computers and the internet — written in 1946!

In the Baen Free Libary.

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-253-a-logic-named-joe.aspx

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