(Part 2) Best science fiction short stories according to redditors
We found 47 Reddit comments discussing the best science fiction short stories. We ranked the 33 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Sandkings available online here
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Nightfall and Other Stories. Great collection of shorts. Great introduction to Asimov. This is the cover I have: https://www.amazon.com/Nightfall-Other-Stories-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0385081049/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=1YVBFPPH4Y2Z7&keywords=nightfall+and+other+stories+asimov&qid=1557369917&s=gateway&sprefix=nightfall+and+%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
The only text which is readable in that picture is the title which you have already mentioned. Without author names and publishing information it is almost an impossible task to find out any information about a book with such a generic title.
Edit: Nvm, reverse image search was able to identify it. You can buy it on amazon for $5.
John Varley is one my favorite authors I keep coming back to him time and again.
The following are my favorites. He also has a nice website [Varley.net](http://Varley.net "Varley.net") . You can actually get a decent feel for who he is on the site. He puts up what he wants and the hell with what anyone thinks. I think thats why I like him. lol
Mammoth is on my too be read list. I have it just not gotten to it.
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This one? According to Google Books, both stories you mention are included here.
Some 80's cyberpunk-ish stuff. This is far from the best SF I've read, but it's obscure. Stuff I liked when I was a teenager-twentyager.
The Glass Hammer by K.W. Jeter. An odd, cyberpunk thing that I liked when I came out in 1985. Now out of print. I'm having it scanned and will post when it's ready.
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger. (and sequels) Great adventure in an Islamic environment.
The Man Who Never Missed (and sequels) by Steve Perry.
The Skyway Series by John DeChancie. (Starrigger, Red Limit Freeway, Paradox Alley) Silly, adolescent adventure, driving across space and time.
Kindred by Octavia Butler. Actually, EVERYTHING by Octavia Butler is great.
Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler. Short stories.
Blue Champagne by John Valey. Short stories.
Did you honestly not try Google?
Amazon and Barnes and Noble come up right away…
All I did was search "isaac asimov's history of i-botics".
If you like space operas, you can't go wrong with The New Space Opera volume 1 and Volume 2. A variety of awesome stories in both books - and they're both cheap paperbacks.
What the hell :D There it is : https://www.amazon.ca/Nine-Tomorrows-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0330201719/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526592549&sr=8-2&keywords=isaac+asimov+nine
this might be it: http://www.amazon.com/Car-Sinister-Robert-Silverberg/dp/0380453932
Not as relevant to the thread discussion but this is a short story from Nine Tomorrows http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Tomorrows-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0345346041 . They are all worth a read.
There is Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories which is a three volume set. Vol 1. Vol 2. But I haven't been able to find Vol 3 anywhere yet.
> i hope that your tinder match comes through. she sounds like a satisfying time in many ways
We talked for a half hour on the phone tonight. We kind of let our hair down, each behaving with a bit of abandon, not fearing the other's inner criticism. Amazingly she cursed a lot, but in a dignified fashion somehow. I'm still unsure what she thinks of me, but I think it was good that neither of us was on pins and needles. A good sign; a basis of trust.
> you & i are likely in same age bracket, 40s?
I'm in my 50s but look 5-10 years younger. I listen to metal and post-rock and live in Bushwick, the so-called Brooklyn "cutting edge slacker hipster art world center" haha (though they think I'm an oldster and call me sir, which I hate). But OTOH, I don't really "belong" in the social milieus where most of my high school and college peers ended up (variously, country clubs, gated communities, upper echelon urban professional circles, farms in the middle of the nowhere). But in any case, you and I do seem similar in outlook.
>My mentality is likely different from other women my/our age. once i divorce, i won't eagerly seek an 'ultimate partner' (already found it, but alas, unavailable). is there such a thing?
I think that's smart. I could discuss the query "is there such a thing?" for hours—but not here, not now. It's something I've thought a great deal about, starting around 1977.
>the secrecy is difficult for me, too, though SO and I practice polyamory of sorts, we're not out about it. one of our rules is 'the child knows nothing, meets nobody', and i'd like that to change simply because i hate lying to her about who i'm spending time with or talking to via phone. and lying to her caregivers about why i'm going out of town for a week for work, when actually i'm meeting AP. and my APs/Bfs don't seem real or authentic if i'm keeping them secret.
Yes, all those issues together, ouch, that's complicated and burdensome. I can understand why it's beginning to wear on you.
> how is it that you've practiced poly previously but not in this relationship? and that's not an option? i didn't go through to look at your comment history and don't know if this is something you've touched on before.
I just don't have the time for poly anymore; that was a bit of sea change when I turned 40 and became a more committed artist. As far as my SO, when I met her, she had half a dozen sex partners. For awhile there was a discussion of joining another couple for a weekend of fun, but we determined that I might potentially get jealous to the point of feeling hurt. (It didn't help that the woman I was in love with was banging seven other guys and that it was taking months for her to see how much I loved her.) I don't like my jealous side, but sometimes it's there.
I think a more interesting question would be to challenge me on something I wrote earlier: "QuirkyGuy, just what the hell did you mean by meta-poly?"
In the late 70s I lived in a small west coast town among a tight social circle committed to the polyamory tenets of the short story "The Persistence of Vision" in the book of the same name by John Varley. Although the novella is ostensibly about navigating the transcendent, as well as exploring the question of whether physical disabilities can free people, the setup is that the protagonist of the story visits a community of completely polygamous/polyamorous people to learn more about how they live.
They have "transcended" jealousy by instituting the following practice: whenever someone gets jealous for some reason, feeling that they're not getting enough sex (or love), the rest of the community descends upon the person, usually most of them naked, and the group makes love to the jealous person until the jealousy just melts away. There are some other very sexual details to the story that make it quite the enjoyable romp, but I don't want to give the whole thing away.
In this town that I lived in, we were committed to these tenets—if not completely in practice, then certainly in theory as well as in the spirit of things. For example, if a woman came to visit me and I didn't have time for her because I had to study, my roommate was usually there to make love to her. If I was feeling extremely lonely on a particular night, TWO women would come to visit me and stay the night. But the circle has to be very tight, and all the members well versed in the basic tenets and intents of this lifestyle, for it to work. When a new member joined the circle, we usually initiated them by having a slumber party and reading the entire novella aloud to them during the night while we cuddled and caressed them.
I've always believed that this was in some way philosophically and ultimately different (i.e., more supportive and healing) from the way most groups (I have known about) practice polyamory, and especially different from the lais·sez-faire, free-wheeling practices of NYC sex clubs like Trapeze.