You may have stuck to novels then, Fredric Brown was a big name in SF short stories. Most anthologies of the time have at least one of his stories. He was one

You may have stuck to novels then, Fredric Brown was a big name in SF short stories. Most anthologies of the time have at least one of his stories. He was one of my favorites as a kid, for his humor and his mastery of the very short format (which is in an art in itself).