Darth Richard II Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Ooo KJ Parker's Blue and Gold was fantastic. Very Wolfe like, in face. And really, you need an explanation on why Elminster stories are bad? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoshi Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 The Drover's Wife by Henry LawsonUnto Dust by Herman Charles BosmanLearning to Fly [forgot the author's name. But this story is amazing] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 but in case is not thesame book you mentioned, "historias de cronopios y de famas". In English it's called simply Cronopios and Famas, and it is an absolutely bizarre book. A little outside the scope of this topic, but everyone should really read everything by Cortazar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I always really liked Asimov's Nightfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 There's always Hemingway's six word story:For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellus Explorer Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I wonder if I missed it? But why hasn't anyone mentioned Fitzgerald yet?I thought Scott's work was wonderful!The offshore pirateThe curious cases of Benjamin Button and even The great Gatsby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I forgot to add to my list "I have no mouth and I must scream" by Harlan Ellison... Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" and still more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Can someone recommend a good anthology of "classic" genre (mostly SciFi I guess) short stories? I have several anthologies of the English language non-genre classics as well as (I think) the whole Poe, Flannery O'connor and also some older genre stuff (M.R. James, A. Blackwood, Lovecraft, Doyle...) but, except for Asimov's "Robot" stories only a little shortish SciFi (I knew "The 9 billion names of God", though, and another one of Clarke's(?) with a continent sized alien "god" devastating earth). I sometimes think that the best literary pieces of the Sci-Fi and horror genre may be short stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom Dubh Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 And really, you need an explanation on why Elminster stories are bad? :P Yeah, fair enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubies & Jade Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Most of my favs have been mentioned (Nightfall and I Have No Mouth... were the first that came to mind) but I also really love Zelazny's A Rose for Ecclesiastes.Ellison wrote a lot of great short stories beyond I Have No Mouth. Just read bunches of them.Delany wrote some great short stories, but no particular title is coming to mind right now. He had a collection of them called Driftglass that was great generally.Also Octavia Butler's Bloodchild (the original short I think was better than the lengthened version). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellus Explorer Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 OMG where have you been hiding :o :grouphug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 There's always Hemingway's six word story: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.that's baldrick's novel: "Once upon a time, there was a lovely little sausage called Baldrick and it lived happily ever after." best novel ever or best work of art ever?ETA:jo--you might try the series of hugo winner short form anthologies that asimov edited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebenstone Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Short stories, right? Not novellas or novelettes? I'm a little confused by some of the responses. Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut. A Sound of Thunder by Bradbury. Speaking of Courage by Tim O'Brien. The Most Dangerous Game. To Build A Fire. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. Speaking of Courage might be the single greatest thing I've ever read in my life. Seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubies & Jade Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 OMG where have you been hiding :o :grouphug:was this for me? :kiss: I hope so! took me a minute to figure out who you were (new name, new avatar!) but its nice to see you! I've just been offline more often than not lately, its been a busy winter. But I do love me some short stories so I thought I'd come out of the shadows to pimp Zelazny and my other favs. :hat: :grouphug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fallen Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I haven't read a short story in a while, but the first one that stands out to me is 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellus Explorer Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 was this for me? :kiss: I hope so! took me a minute to figure out who you were (new name, new avatar!) but its nice to see you! I've just been offline more often than not lately, its been a busy winter. But I do love me some short stories so I thought I'd come out of the shadows to pimp Zelazny and my other favs. :hat: :grouphug:Lol yes I see and of course it was for you!! :wub: I miss you around! I hope that's a good busy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I haven't read a short story in a while, but the first one that stands out to me is 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin. Love that one. I was trying to find it when this topic came out but I kept thinking it was Willa Cather. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I can never remember which Philip K Dick stories are short stories and which are novels, but they're all good. Minority Report always stood out for me, until they made that...film. Also that Howard guy had some short stories about some Conan guy. Heard those were OK. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Minority Report always stood out for me, until they made that...film. Minority Report > Blade Runner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Most of my favs have been mentioned (Nightfall and I Have No Mouth... were the first that came to mind) but I also really love Zelazny's A Rose for Ecclesiastes. Ellison wrote a lot of great short stories beyond I Have No Mouth. Just read bunches of them. Delany wrote some great short stories, but no particular title is coming to mind right now. He had a collection of them called Driftglass that was great generally. Also Octavia Butler's Bloodchild (the original short I think was better than the lengthened version). Time Considered As A Helix Of Semiprecious Stones by Delaney The Doors Of His Face The Lamps Of His Mouth by Zelazny The World As Will And Wallpaper by R.A. Lafferty All You Zombies by Heinlein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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