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Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
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
- tjalfi 10y agoHere a couple of my favorites. http://ficly.com/stories/1456 http://ficly.com/stories/1456 - be careful what you wish for https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/The_Open_Window https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/The_O...
- StClaire 10y agoI 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."
- thorin 10y agohttps://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
- romanhn 10y agoThe Last Question by Isaac Asimov is a classic one - http://multivax.com/last_question.html http://multivax.com/last_question.html
- willstepp 10y agoThe 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!
- wazanator 10y agoThe Burning Chrome collection by William Gibson is always worth a read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_collection) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_co...
- bradcomp 10y agoI really like Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of-darkness/ http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...
- DrScump 10y agoRobert 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-reads-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.2472038 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/fireside-al-maitland-rea...
- DrScump 10y agoCorrection: Frederick Forsythe
- theresapat 10y agoI don't mean to sound mushy and emotional but cheating is painful and women always know(that guy feeling) I was in that position some years back after I had my second son ,my husband was keeping late nights and I thought he was seeing another woman so I had him hacked by an old buddy and I was saved from a stupid mistake because my husband was just keeping late night cause he didn't know how to act around babies...packer hacked his mail for me and socia media account and he was clean.he saved my marriage.he may save yours!You can reach him via his gmail: 1hackerpacker@gmail.com
- andrei_says_ 10y agoEight O'clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson which was the basis for the movie They Live. Read it here: http://www.whale.to/b/eight_o.html http://www.whale.to/b/eight_o.html The Egg by Andy Weir http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
- gbarnes 10y agoThe Euphio Question by Vonnegut is quite fun.
- blairbeckwith 10y ago"They're Made Out Of Meat" by Terry Bisson: http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html "Scroogled" by Cory Doctorow: http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html
- bottlerocket 10y ago"The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/o.aspx http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/o.aspx
- JSeymourATL 10y agoThe Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway >http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625.The_Complete_Short_Stories http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4625.The_Complete_Short_S...
- saluki 10y agoZen Shorts is one of my favorites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Shorts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Shorts
- mod 10y agoThe A&P by John Updike http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/ http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
- jelliclesfarm 10y agoIt's Monday but if I have think of a non sci-fi short story for a lovely Sunday, it will have to be anything from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G.Wodehouse for me.
- pcmaffey 10y agoBorges All of them. But one of my favorites: A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
- alashley 10y agoI like Who Moved my Cheese - Dr. Spencer Johnson http://jef.mentalis.org/hersenspinsels/downloads/WhoMovedMyCheese_DrSpencerJohnson.pdf http://jef.mentalis.org/hersenspinsels/downloads/WhoMovedMyC...
- jfaucett 10y agomuch of O. Henry, "The gift of the Magi", and "The Last Leaf" are really good. Also virtually anything by Borges, "The Library of Babel" is a nice place to start.
- Nadya 10y agoYou're probably already familiar with it - but for those who are not. A form of the Library of Babel exists online [0]. Also includes an image form of every image that has ever existed and ever will exist (at a specific size/resolution). Mostly noise. :) [0] https://libraryofbabel.info https://libraryofbabel.info