One of my favorite collections of short stories is the Super Hugos collection from 1992. (Um, it's better than its cover might seem to indicate.) It's a collection of some of the most popular Hugo Award winners, and it's got all kinds of classic sci-fi short stories: Bicentennial Man, Flowers for Algernon, Enemy Mine (all significantly better than the movies that were made of them), Neutron Star, Sandkings, and others.
It possibly includes Heinlein's All You Zombies, but my copy seems to have wandered away, so this is off the top of my head. If All You Zombies isn't in that collection, it's definitely in some Heinlein collection, and worthy a (mind-trippy) read. There's Cool Green Hills of Earth, which is a lot of classic Heinlein, but it might not be in that one. (Still, that's great for some golden age of sci-fi future-history style stories. Even if they're not from the precise Golden Age of Sci-Fi (I'm all fuzzy on my genre chronology).) I'm ambivalent about Heinlein -- in some respects he's one of my favorite authors, he does such a great job of world-building and his ideas are really interesting, but all of the worlds he builds tend to reflect the worldview of a 1950s crusty ol' sea captain, so, um. Not so great on the feminism/believable female characters. But really classic ideas of sci-fi!
If you're looking for something non-sci-fi, um . . . Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" was excellent, and I think we've discussed that one already? Other than that I can only recommend, like, annotated cases and stuff. Or fanfic. :-)
It possibly includes Heinlein's All You Zombies, but my copy seems to have wandered away, so this is off the top of my head. If All You Zombies isn't in that collection, it's definitely in some Heinlein collection, and worthy a (mind-trippy) read. There's Cool Green Hills of Earth, which is a lot of classic Heinlein, but it might not be in that one. (Still, that's great for some golden age of sci-fi future-history style stories. Even if they're not from the precise Golden Age of Sci-Fi (I'm all fuzzy on my genre chronology).) I'm ambivalent about Heinlein -- in some respects he's one of my favorite authors, he does such a great job of world-building and his ideas are really interesting, but all of the worlds he builds tend to reflect the worldview of a 1950s crusty ol' sea captain, so, um. Not so great on the feminism/believable female characters. But really classic ideas of sci-fi!
If you're looking for something non-sci-fi, um . . . Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" was excellent, and I think we've discussed that one already? Other than that I can only recommend, like, annotated cases and stuff. Or fanfic. :-)
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None of the local libraries have that collection. D: I'll have to see if I can look up a few of those stories individually.
Thank you! :D
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