Sometimes you might find yourself sitting at a computer, wanting to read something. But you don't want something long. You're thinking, what about a short story, and possibly something in the fantasy or sci-fi realms? You're in luck! Here are four collections, for your reading pleasure:
Apex Magazine short fiction |
Baen Ebooks Free Library, which includes some short story collections |
Eclipse Online, from Nightshade Books |
Strange Horizons fiction archive, including podcasts of many stories. If this is overwhelming,
io9 has a pick of 5 short stories from January, with synopses. [Previously:
Plane of the Ecliptic, on the Eclipse series |
This isn't your grandfather's science fiction, where "Exhalation" is from the Eclipse series]
posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 5, 2013 -
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Ted Chiang is perhaps the finest author in contemporary science fiction -- and the most rarefied.
A technical writer by trade and a graduate of the distinguished
Clarion Writers Workshop, Chiang has published only twelve short stories in the last twenty years, one dozen masterpieces of the genre whose insightful, precise, often poetic language confronts fundamental ideas -- intelligence, consciousness, the nature of God -- and thrusts them into a dazzling new light.
Click inside for a complete listing of Chiang's work, with links to online reprints or audio recordings where available, as well as a collection of one-on-one interviews, links to his nonfiction essays, and a few other related sites and articles.
[more inside]
posted by Rhaomi
on Dec 27, 2010 -
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