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Wanted: short stories

Posted 24 Mar, 2005 at 09:19 by matt in /Books | Permanent link

I'm feeling like there's not enough short fiction in my life at present. What collections of short stories would folks commend to my attention?

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Most good short fiction that I've read has been in single-author collections. One exception that I'll point out, if you like SF, is a collection called The Super Hugos - a collection of the best short fiction ever to win Hugo awards, up until about 1990. Well worth the read. Other suggestions: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Spider Robinson. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison. Hammer's Slammers, David Drake. A Song For Lya, George R. R. Martin.
Posted 2005/3/24 08:00:25 by RobRoy
I've got the Callahan omnibus collection; the short stories are pretty fun, but I've tried reading one of the later novels and found it pretty not great. It's the SNL Syndrome: one of the charms of short humour is that it's short. Four-minute sketches stretched out into movies -- or twenty-page stories stretched out into novels -- don't seem to work too well.
Posted 2005/3/24 10:00:53 by matt
The Twilight Zone has a book series of short stories, and there is also Tales of Madness and the Macabre which was an interesting read.
Posted 2005/3/28 07:43:25 by Brent
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