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Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#2Asimov's "The Last Question".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God
https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...
google the title and find a PDF on https://philosophy.as.uky.edu
And I'd better stop before I remember another.
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#3The Egg: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Also Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" from the answer below, not read that in years, or any of Clarke's/Asimov's.
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#4Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Pynchon's Entropy
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#5Everyone should read Saki’s The Open Window[0].
[0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#6Frederick Forsythe's "The Shepherd".
Look for the podcast with Alan Maitland's reading on CBC.ca or YouTube. It's become tradition for CBC to broadcast it every year on the last weekday before Christmas.
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#7"The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" by Robert Arthur. I first read it in maybe 7th grade, and I still remember.
Re: Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
#8Terry Bisson's THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
(Well, as xkcd says, someone will read this classic today for the first time)