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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang · 288 pages

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now, col

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Three Moments of an Explosion

China Mieville · 406 pages

A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.

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Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges · 178 pages

A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W)

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 368 pages

AXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including; THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go

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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 211 pages

The Prime of Life [poem] Feminine Intuition Waterclap That Thou Art Mindful of Him Stranger in Paradise The Life and Times of Multivac The Winnowing The Bicentennial Man Marching In Old-Fashioned The Tercentenary Incident Birth of a Notion

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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge · 464 pages

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Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories

Samuel R. Delany · 383 pages

"A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice, an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A while southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction - but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred and fifty years from now. Men and women have been given gills to labor under t

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Collected Fiction

Hannu Rajaniemi · 240 pages

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Burning Chrome

William Gibson · 220 pages

Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a hologram rose -- The belonging kind / by John Shirley and William Gibson -- Hinterlands -- Red star, winter orbit / by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson -- New Rose Hotel -- The winter market -- Do

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Nine Hundred Grandmothers

R.A. Lafferty · 318 pages

"Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: a man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world; a race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements; a speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night; a friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God ... In all, twenty-one immensely enjoyabl

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Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories

Terry Bisson · 254 pages

From the gentle fantasies that include the wry title story—winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards—to ecological allegories; a horrific novelette about experimental excursions into the realm of death; and a first-contact mini-epic, this anthology showcases the wide range of Bisson's powerful talent. In every piece, Bisson's characters are just as absurd as their fantastic landscape, yet thorough

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Galactic North

Alastair Reynolds · 384 pages

The first short story collection by "ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S BEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS NOVELISTS"(SFX).With eight short stories and novellas, Galactic North imparts the centuriesspanning events that have produced this dark and turbulent world.Centuries from now, solidarity stretches thin as humanity spreads past the solar system and to the nearest stars. Technology has produced powerful new tools,

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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu · 464 pages

Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select S

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Ellison Wonderland

Harlan Ellison · 186 pages

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The Complete Short Stories

H.G. Wells · 352 pages

"Wells envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H.G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch." "Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbeli

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Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card · 560 pages

THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD brings together nearly all of Card's stories, from his first publications in 1977 to work as recent as last year. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well. For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is

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Get Off the Unicorn

Anne McCaffrey · 318 pages

This is a collection of several short stories by Anne McCaffrey covering sciece fiction, fantasy and other areas. Each story is precluded by her into what her motivation was for the story and a bit about it. For a McCaffrey fan, this is solid entertainment.

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Flux: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Vol 2

Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki, Arte Johnson, Paul Boehmer · 274 pages

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The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury · 884 pages

The Night Homecoming Uncle Einar The Traveler The Lake The Coffin The Crowd The Scythe There Was an Old Woman There Will Come Soft Rains Mars is Heaven The Silent Towns The Earth Men The Off Season The Million-Year Picnic The Fox and the Forest Kaleidoscope The Rocket Man Marionettes, Inc. No Particular Night or Morning The City

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The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

Connie Willis · 600 pages

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E Pluribus Unicorn

Theodore Sturgeon · 211 pages

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