Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by RKoutnik » Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

It's a lovely Sunday here and I'm on the hunt for some short-form reading. I assume this crowd will lean towards scifi but that's not a requirement for this thread.

I'll start with AutoFac, a Phillip K. Dick story about living in a post-scarcity world where things get thoroughly pizzled: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1955-11/Galaxy_1955_11#page/n71/mode/2up

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by tjalfi » Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 6:48 PM UTC

Here a couple of my favorites.

http://ficly.com/stories/1456 - be careful what you wish for

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/The_O...

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by StClaire » Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 7:26 PM UTC

I like Salman Rushdie's "East-West," "9 June 2015“ about people who never die from Alan Lightmans Einstein's Dreams, if you like ghost stories I recommend JS Le Fanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street."

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by thorin » Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by romanhn » Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 11:36 PM UTC

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov is a classic one - http://multivax.com/last_question.html

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by willstepp » Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 11:56 PM UTC

The Swimmer by John Cheever and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LaGuin are my favorite short stories. So much depth and feeling packed into such tiny packages!

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by wazanator » Mon, Feb 27, 2017, 12:20 AM UTC

The Burning Chrome collection by William Gibson is always worth a read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_co...

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by bradcomp » Mon, Feb 27, 2017, 2:54 AM UTC

I really like Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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Post by DrScump » Mon, Feb 27, 2017, 5:22 AM UTC

Robert Arthur - "The Marvelous Stamps of El Dorado"

Frederick Forsyth - "The Shepherd"[0]

[0] A great live reading from Al Maitland (aired nationwide across Canada on CBC every Christmas):

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/fireside-al-maitland-rea...

Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?

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