Short Story Collection Point

[Farrowlesparrow]

Here is a thread for posting other people's short stories. They can be from well-known writers, not so well-known writers, deadbeat hacks and even your Aunt Fanny.


I realise that, by their nature, short stories can usually go without a summary. But perhaps giving a sentence, to lure in the reader, might be advised, so that we don't end up with list of boring looking links that nobody wants to click.


1,2,3 that I'm sure you're familiar with.


Life's a bitch and God is hilarious in;
The Star
Arthur C. Clarke

Like computers? Like questions? Like big? How about big computers asking big questions? This is the story for you;
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov

Humans are all meat. Head to toe, there's no denying it;
Meat Beings
Terry Bisson




I make this thread for the betterment of mankind.
I also don't know of that many short stories myself, and so I'd like to see more.
Post away, my friends.

 

[kineaesth]

BLIT, by David Langford. Killer fractals, intrigue, vodka, science.

 

[Skaadi]

The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke

Most awesome closing sentence ever

http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html

 

[Ennui]

I am going to avoid flooding this thread with 20 suggestions right now so I'll just do them one at a time.

First up, Alexander the God by Isaac Asimov. I've always loved this simple story. It's in his collection Gold. You can read it here (or search Google Books for Alexander the God).

Luring sentence: kid builds computer, names it Bucephalus, takes over world

 

[Sheepo]

The Changed Man and the King of Words by Orson Scott Card.

That's probably the best one in the bunch, but there are quite a few others worth a read.

 

[Solaris]

I am going to avoid flooding this thread with 20 suggestions right now so I'll just do them one at a time.

First up, Alexander the God by Isaac Asimov. I've always loved this simple story. It's in his collection Gold. You can read it here (or search Google Books for Alexander the God).

Luring sentence: kid builds computer, names it Bucephalus, takes over world

Got a link that works? Dunno if it's just I'm in the UK but i can't read it there.