Big fan of short fiction here. I tend towards silver age sci-fi and fantasy, but I also dig a good whodunit. I think the main reason why we see less of them t

Big fan of short fiction here. I tend towards silver age sci-fi and fantasy, but I also dig a good whodunit. I think the main reason why we see less of them these days is because of the lack of popular serial format magazines. Some favorites that come to mind at the moment: "Goodnight Mr. James" in 'All the traps of Earth' by Clifford Simak "Neutron Star" and "What good is a glass dagger?" by Larry Niven "Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn" by various authors The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series by Fritz Leiber (successive short stories) "If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister?" and "The world well lost" by Ted Sturgeon "The Tactful Saboteur" by Frank Herbert "The Gold at the end of the Starbow" and "The Engineer" by Frederick Pohl It seems to me that the best aspect of a short story is that the story can present an idea or twist without long characterization and world building, so that you get the idea in a purer form.