SF shorts

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One of the panels in the up-coming Redemption '11 is on SF shorts: The 'short form' has a revered position in SF history, in magazines and anthologies. We look back at our favorites, and consider why they work so well. Come share the love..

Una recently had a discussion relating to good SF short stories, and in the process, she collected quite a good list of story titles. For a number of them, she also managed to find the text on-line, so I've reproduced that subset here. If you feel like reading some of these in the coming week, there's more chance of the room not consisting of entirely non-overlapping experiences.


Isaac Asimov

• Nightfall [Podcast from EscapePod]
• The Last Question

Jerome Bixby

• It’s A Good Life

Ray Bradbury

• A Sound of Thunder

Octavia E. Butler

• Bloodchild

Arthur C. Clarke

• The Nine Billion Names of God
• The Star

Robert Heinlein

• By His Bootstraps

William Gibson

• The Gernsback Continuum

Tom Godwin

• The Cold Equations

Kij Johnson

• Spar

Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
• The Author of the Acacia Seeds

H.P. Lovecraft

• The Call of Cthulhu

Will McIntosh

• Bridesicle [PDF]

Larry Niven

• Neutron Star

Bob Shaw

• Light of Other Days

James Tiptree, Jr.

• The Women Men Don’t See

Kurt Vonnegut

• Harrison Bergeron

Connie Willis

• At the Rialto

Roger Zelazny

• A Rose for Ecclesiastes

Pamela Zoline

• The Heat Death of the Universe

And I'd also like to throw in:

Desmond Warzel

• Wikihistory