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Baen Books has a collection of classic SF shorts that include many of my favorites.
The World Turned Upside Down table of contents My personal faves: Rescue Party Code Three Black Destroyer A Pail of Air The Only Thing We Learn The Aliens The Last Command The Last Question The Cold Equations Shambleau Heavy Planet Omnilingual |
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I don't know if this has been mentioned, but really anything by Philip K Dick, his short stories are better than his novels in my opinion.
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Shambleau is one of Moore's stories about Northwest Smith. He's an interplanetary rogue, part Han Solo, part Indiana Jones. He is always stumbling over some extraterrestrial gothic horror somewhere. The Northwest Smith stories are collected in Northwest of Earth. http://paizo.com/store/paizo/planetS.../v5748btpy7zdo review: http://www.sfsite.com/04a/ne293.htm |
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You can read The Foghorn by Ray Bradbury at The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen website:
http://members.fortunecity.com/ymir1/beastfro9.html Also Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear at http://www.elizabethbear.com/shoggoths.html The Star by Arthur C. Clarke at http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl510/star.htm Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut at http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=825 'Tis the Season (Christmas has been privatized and trademarked) by China Mieville at http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/ar...clenumber=9150 All Seated on the Ground (one of my favorites) by Connie Willis at http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0805/allseated.shtml A Woman's Best Friend ( a SF version of It's A Wonderful Life) by Robert Reed at http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_12_08/ Somewhere along the way this turned into a list of SF Christmas stories. The Star, All Seated on the Ground, 'Tis the Season and A Woman's Best Friend are all good Christmas reads. |
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Thanks for those Ben!
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Not 100% guaranteed SF, but an incredible story I just read by Tobias Wolff - Bullet in the Brain (available on line as pdf): https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/Lit...304/bullet.pdf
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And Nancy Kress just released a new collection:
http://www.amazon.com/Fountain-of-Ag...5952053&sr=1-9 Unfortunataly, I was not very impressed with the lead story....will continue reading, but on 'simmer' for now. Last edited by kennyc; 05-07-2012 at 07:22 AM. |
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The new two volume collection of Ursula LeGuin 's short stories is available for the Kindle.
The Tor.com review: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/sub...where-on-earth The Slate review: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/b..._reviewed.html Amazon links: http://www.amazon.com/Unreal-Selecte...d_sim_kstore_1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1286228011 Last edited by BenG; 01-03-2013 at 11:37 AM. |
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oh and excellent again! Volume II leads off with "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas" one of my favorite short stories of all time! linky: http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt Last edited by kennyc; 01-04-2013 at 07:28 AM. |
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