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Here are my criteria for this 'best of science fiction short stories' list. I based inclusion on whether or not many of these factors were to the story's credit:. I read the story (with one exception). I loved the story. The story was fun to read. It wasn't depressing (with one exception).
The story stayed with me - I thought about it for a long time - either in my nightmares or giggling about it spontaneously at work. The story was well-written.
I was either not aware of any major writing flaws or I got a shiver of delight at the way the words are written. The story gripped me and didn't let go.
I never thought, 'I've got to go get my laundry out of the dryer' in the middle of it. The story made me feel a sense of wonder.
Even decades after it was written, in the age of the iPad and Android and suchlike. The story is important. It did something new that changed the way science fiction was written afterward, or it changed society. These are the best science fiction stories of all time, according tosomebody who spent much of her life thinking that science fictionsucked.You see, it was only a few years ago that I admittedthat I don't like modern science fiction short stories. I much preferthe fantastic science fiction shorts of the Golden Age that firstappeared in science fiction short story pulp magazines in the 1920s,1930s and 1940s, like, and the.To misquote the late: That'swhen stories were real stories.
Plots were real plots. And smallfurry creatures from Alpha Centauri were vivid, exotic, fantastic andall too possible.As hokey as they may seem today, the oldsci-fi short stories stand the test of time for good, solid fiction, ifnot for scientific accuracy. This might be obvious, but these are ten of the best science fiction stories ever in my own opinion. It was anxiety-producing to narrow it down this much, as the body of work is so huge. They are in no particular order - except the first one.
That one really is the best.What you'll find: Short reviews of the stories and why I Iiked them.What you won't find: Detailed plot summaries. What I personally like about top 10 lists is the reviewer's opinions. So that's what I've put here. Plot summaries can be found in the Wikipedia articles linked to here. So when I compiled this reader's list of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century (which is the same as 'all time,' as the genre became full-fledged only in the 1900s), I noticed I was markedly favoring stories published from the 1940s through the 1960s. I tried to like modern speculative fiction, I really did. And I will again, when writers and publishers once again start turning out science fiction stories that actually give me the same sense of wonder as those old tales from the Golden Age did.
Alfred Bester won a 1953 Hugo for his novel, The Demolished Man. Besides being a true personality and a novelist, he was a rare beast amongst Golden Age science fiction writers.
He didn't only tell a great tale - he could write.Many Golden Age writers, including one of the best-known, Robert Heinlein, were far better storytellers than they were writers. They had vision; words, not so much.Bester wrote with a deep understanding of the psychology of language. He knew English well enough to play with it, mangle it, do impossible things with it.
With, the writing didn't just tell the story - it become the story. Which I suspect is why Fondly Fahrenheit was not ultimately dismissed as just another science fiction horror story.Though the story's disturbing premise - that a servile android-robot could turn on its human superiors and commit murder - was probably radical at the time, without Bester's way with words, Fondly Fahrenheit wouldn't have become the classic science fiction short story that it is today, still cited as one of the best sci fi stories ever.Fondly Fahrenheit isn't 'literary' or prosy, like Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder. It's just beautifully written, with a suspenseful mystery and a catchy song you won't forget (but will want to). It's a story you have to keep reading.And the end.the end changes everything and makes it, in my book, the undisdputed best science fiction short story of all time. (But feel free to dispute it if you like.)Warning: As it is about a serial killer, Fondly Fahrenheit is a fairly dark story and may not be suitable for kids. (Note: Don't confuse the short story Time in Advance with the title of the volume of four stories that contains it, called.)William Tenn is one of those science fiction writers who are well-known by dedicated fans and hardly known by casual readers. When asked to choose a favorite William Tenn science fiction short story, many would name The Brooklyn Project.
And The Brooklyn Project is almost a perfect short story - satirical, ironic, with cut-throat social commentary and deftly drawn archetypes.But maybe because it's a linear, straight-shot fable-like morality tale, The Brooklyn Project is almost too perfect. I like character-driven stories, lighthearted humor and a twist that sneaks up on you, and science fiction author William Tenn delivered truly wicked humor and characterization in Time in Advance.Time in Advance is the story of a man who's about to commit a lethal crime - a crime for which he's already paid his debt to society.
Far from being a dark story of a vicious criminal secretly planning a covert murder, Tenn's tale takes a light approach. In this world, society views the crime as perfectly legal, if something of a novelty. The hero is aiming to commit a vile crime, and not only is nobody about to stop him.his criminal intentions make him a celebrity. Cool concept, huh?How many times have you read a story that starts off with a good idea, but has poor execution? This is not one of those times. Time in Advance has almost perfect execution.
The 'what if' in this case is 'What if people paid for the crime of murder before they committed it, and the penury was so heinous that nobody ever survived to commit the crime.until now?' Tenn takes this premise and develops its permutations with complete and utter mastery.Tenn excels at twist endings - hilarious 'aha' endings, such as in The Brooklyn Project.
Time in Advance not only has that, it also has a 'feel good' ending, something sorely lacking in science fiction today, as if a happy ending would signify the end of speculative fiction as we know it. Yes, the ending somewhat dulls the cutting edge of the social commentary. But it works. I consider Time in Advance truly one of the best science fiction stories of all time. Connie Willis, speculative fiction novelist and author of tragic science fiction ( Passage) and comic science fiction ( To Say Nothing of the Dog), is one of the most popular modern science fiction authors writing today.
A story she published back in 1979, Daisy, In the Sun, appearing in the short story collection, is one of the few (ironically) dark stories I love. And though it's not from the Golden Age, it is a real card-carrying, sense-of-wonder-bringing 'what if' story.Though other readers rave about Fire Watch, and I'm a sucker for romance and would have loved to choose Blued Moon for this list, as it honestly is one of my favorite sci fi stories ever, I kept coming back to Daisy, In the Sun.Daisy is disturbing, far more disturbing in its way than the devastating turn Wilis takes in A Letter from the Clearys. Not anywhere as gritty or extreme as the long and chilling All My Darling Daughters. And its scientific logic leaves.well, everything to be desired, mixed up as it is with spiritual fantasy and strange allegorical illogic.
Surreal.It does have the usual Connie Willis twist, however. And despite being told as a kind of dreamy teen angst story, it's one of those stories you think about again and again.
It's less character-driven than most of her stories. Kind of.And, as inadequate as that is, that's all I can say about it, without giving it away, because the describing of the story is the telling of it, which I suppose is one reason it's on this top 10 list. And his wife, produced an amazing body of work, both in quantity and quality. These were mostly short stories, written both individually and co-authored under several pseudonyms in the 1940s and 1950s.
One major pen name was Lewis Padgett.As Lewis Padgett, this writing team wrote marvelous science fiction and fantasy stories with great characterization - yes, you read me right, the stories featured that rare animal in science fiction, honestly likable characters. And each story really is a gem.If asked to cite a favorite science fiction short story by Lewis Padgett, many readers would pick the complex and interesting Mimsy Were the Borogoves, on which the 2007 movie The Last Mimsy was based.
Others might pick the hilarious The Proud Robot or the now-not-so-new-and-different, but radical-at-the-time The Twonky about a robot that goes wonky.Me - I'm a sucker for time travel. The kind of time travel many critics scoff at as cliched.
Time travel in which the attempt to break the Second Law of Thermodynamics and betray Nature's linear preference causes a shocking paradox. Time travel used as a vehicle to teach bad people the good lesson that enterprise driven by self-serving greed has a price.
It's old-fashioned. That's a good story.
And that's what's missing from today's fiction.So my choice for one of the 10 best science fiction stories of all time is the 1943 piece, The Time Locker. It's satisfying. It's not new rocket science. But it's creative, and funny, and it's one of the very best. If a bit disgustingly squishy. I'll probably be lambasted for not putting this one in the number 1 spot. Nightfall, published first in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941, is a classic science fiction short story, no doubt about it.
Asimov made it into a novel, too. I haven't read the novel.
But this story really is mind-blowing. But in a good way.It's not the writing. Nightfall is easy and enjoyable to read. But typical of Isaac Asimov, the writing is not as tight as it could be, and the dialogue wanders a bit. It's a tad long for what it is.
The characters, though well-defined, lack that spark that would make them truly likable.But all that doesn't matter. Because the ending is really unexpected - or it was, for me - and has a mind-blowing effect, even now. It's just not what you expect, and you're led to expect a lot of different things.Since Nightfall, other stories and films have been written using the premise of a world that never sees night except once in a rare aeon. Nightfall is probably the reason why.
I saw one such movie, and it was so forgettable, I forget the title. Nightfall is not forgettable. Nightfall is an example of how wonderful a 'what if' story can be if handled by a born storyteller. I'll just say it - I'm not a big Robert Heinlein fan. Yes, I'm possibly the only science fiction fan who doesn't like Robert Heinlein. I've read a couple of his books, including Stranger in a Strange Land, and several short stories.
While I found his ideas interesting - occasionally - his characters and writing never thrilled me. I'm told I haven't given him enough of a chance. That's probably true.But I loved, loved, loved, which Heinlein wrote as Anson MacDonald. It's another time travel story.
I still didn't like the main character. Heinlein's characters just don't do it for me. But at least this story is about a character, and not a society that doesn't seem real (which is one of my complaints about Heinlein's stories).Reading the story is pure fun. The paradoxical logic was terribly clever. And as the story unfolded, it became obvious that it was perhaps the best time travel story I'd ever read.As a bonus, it's re-readable, despite the fact that the ending is not exactly forgettable. It's like re-reading an Agatha Christie novel. You remember whodunnit, but you want to see how you were tricked.But why is it in the top 10 science fiction short stories?
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Because it was one of the first science fiction stories to explore the time travel paradox. Because it did so to extremes. The story is a flawless, step-by-step execution of the. Under the pen name Cordwainer Smith, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger wrote a series of related short stories taking place in a futuristic world that is drawn with an eerie combination of cool, clinical precision and fairy tale lyricism. Scanners Live in Vain, a story clearly inspired by Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and one of the first ever featuring a half-man, half-machine protagonist, was published in 1945 and remains his most famous short work.I've read a few, though, and the one that stands the test of time for me is The Lady Who Sailed the Soul. Written with an almost poetical quality, The Lady who Sailed the Soul is a dark romance, a psychological study, a haunting space opera, a wildly inventive science and, in the end, a fairy tale. And one of the best sci fi stories ever.
Farewell to the Master, published in 1940, is the only story I've read by Henry Bates, and it's the basis for the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Wasn't just any Golden Age writer. He was the founding editor of the magazine that became Astounding Stories. His fiction went beyond the usual space operas of the time.Farewell to the Master was an important story, while in some senses it was typical of what made Golden Age science fiction great. But it did it so well. It was ahead of its time, delivering a postmodern lesson in the harm of self-importance that eventually became cliched, but at the time must have been awe-inspiring.
And in truth, it inspired awe in me reading it from the timeframe of the new millennium, cynic though I am.Like so many others on this list, the suspense of the story would be compromised with too much revelation of plot. So if you're looking for a summary, I'm afraid you'll have to look elsewhere.
But suffice it to say a man and a robot come to Earth. Something bad happens. The robot begins to do something scary. And in the end, something good happens. Which is bittersweet. And powerful. In his day, author Will Jenkins, pen name Murray Leinster, wrote some incredible stories - in the good sense, not the bad sense - not the least of which was his most famous, First Contact, and arguably his most fun,.
If you love creative, entertaining and fascinating stories about early computers and their effects on society, then you might think A Logic Named Joe belongs on this list instead of Pipeline to Pluto, and you'd be right. It should be here.But I chose Pipeline to Pluto, because while more understated, it's more of a human story, with a larger-than-life lesson, and - are you sensing a trend - it's got a grand old twist. It's simply a more impressive literary feat.Pipeline to Pluto is a highly detailed and convincing tale of space travel. It's anything but a space opera filled with glamour and adventure, though. The story describes a prosaic world of blue-collar transportation - freight, in fact.Like much Golden Age science fiction, the story, told through fast-paced narrative and dialogue, isn't concerned with conveying a political viewpoint or defending a special interest group.
It's concerned with ideas: the concepts, possibilities, and ironies of a newly technological world unfolding for human beings possessed of universal flaws and compromised value systems.It's the good-guys vs. Bad-guys in a universe that doesn't care. It's essentially modern and optimistically heroic. It's righteous (in a good way).
It's better than. And all of this won't make any sense to you unless you read it.Suffice it to say that if stories like Pipeline to Pluto were written today, I'd be out there reading them instead of writing this. And it's not just because there's a spoiler alert: do not read on if you don't want to know how it ends happy ending. This list wouldn't be complete without Flowers for Algernon, but I almost left it out. This Hugo-award-winning short story and literary classic is simply amazing.Unfortunately, it almost didn't make it onto my list of best science fiction short stories of all time, because I couldn't read it. I have no spine when it comes to Nazi stories, stories about human lab experiments, and stories about mental disability. This one is not a Nazi story, but it has two out of three, and that's enough for me.But my husband insisted that if I wouldn't read it, at least it should go on this list.
And so here it is. If you're stronger than me, and if you didn't already read it in school, read Flowers for Algernon. It's one of the few science fiction stories that have become famous in the mainstream, and with good reason.
Do you like the science fiction short stories published today?. I love the science fiction short stories being published today. The sci fi short stories of today are all right, I guess. I read 'em, anyway. I dislike the short stories published in the science fiction genre these days. I'll be happy if I never read another vampire story again!. I dislike the stories today: There aren't ENOUGH vampire stories to suit me!.
What are you talking about? What vampire stories?
Vampire stories aren't science fiction. But anyway, yeah, the stories these days suck. Here's what I think about modern short speculative fiction: The writing's good, but the stories are bad. No, actually, the stories are good, but the writing's awful. I hate the short stories of today.
Story, writing, characters, setting - everything. Furthermore, virtually nothing good's been published in the genre for forty years. I don't like science fiction, actually. I don't like short stories, actually. Other. Let me share my favorite SF short stories (and 3 novels) with you.
I've input, formatted, and uploaded them into PRESCIENCE, it's poorly formatted - sorry about that, i'm only an egg - but i'm sure you can manage. The novels are THE DEMOLISHED MAN (Bester), THE SPACE MERCHANTS (Kornbluth & Pohl), and LEST DARKNESS FALL (L.
Sprague de Camp) - that last one being MY fave time-travel novella. My fave author is Clifford Simak, and many of his short stories are included, the best of which IMO is THE BIG FRONT YARD (a true classic), IMMIGRANT, DESERTION, and NEW FOLKS 'HOME - i'd have a hard time keeping those off a 'best of' list. However, i also love Kuttner & Moore, and VINTAGE SEASON & MIMSY are included, as well as Moore's THE BRIGHT ILLUSION, which always gets to me. The weirdest SF i've ever read is Kornbluth's THE WORDS OF GURU - it's very short but very unsettling. THE MOON MOTH (Jack Vance) is a very creative murder mystery - i'm not a fan of those; this one is very clever. You will probably (i hope!) enjoy CONSIDER HER WAYS (John Wyndham), which was also televised in the early '60s and done quite well (i have it somewhere). Wyndham wrote THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, but i prefer the short stories.
SIDEWISE IN TIME (Murray Leinster) is a crazy time-travel tale, but not your normal back-and-forth kind; this one goes sideways. Unfortunately, i have neither INSTRUCTIONS (Bob Leman) nor ROGUE TOMATO (Michael Bishop), better known for BLOODED ON ARACHNE.
Those two are a real kick, funny as all get-out. Also, John Varley's 1989 JUST ANOTHER PERFECT DAY (not Golden Age but quite nice) might be thought of as the inspiration for the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore film 50 FIRST DATES. I like the short story more. And there are several more stories that i haven't mentioned but that doesn't mean they aren't very good as well! I am pretty sure these - or most of them - will be new to you, so go on, enjoy!. I enjoyed this hub and your selection of short stories.
Of these authors however I only know Asimov and Heinlein. The trouble is I mainly read science fiction novels and not short stories. My favourite Heinlein novel and the first I ever read was 'Glory Road' and I must have read it four times now. I found 'Stranger in a Strange Land' heavy going from about half way through. I do like H G Wells (eg.
Time Machine) and Edgar Rice Burroughs, but my favourite SF short story writer is Robert Silverberg though I can't tell you the names of any of his short stories off hand. One of his novels was Lord Valentine's Castle. Thanks for a great list! While I'm sure many would opt to select different stories, this list is a great jump off point for someone like me who has always cradled an affinity for science fiction but hasn't dabbled in the classics that set the stage for today's storytelling. After stumbling across this list, I read Fondly Fahrenheit and Time in Advance in one sitting! Both incredible stories. Dune initially lured me into the realm of sci-fi, which I re-read every two years or so because of its richness, but branching off into the classics seems all the more intriguing after today.
Thanks again!. Hmm, it's been quiet here for a while, so I thought I'd update with some of my latest reads.
I just read two short stories from the Golden Age: 'Roog' (which I'd read previously) and 'Stability' by Philip K. I sure wanted to like 'em. Haven't read much PK Dick, but I remember liking 'Skull' the first time I read it. 'Stability' didn't strike me as masterful writing by any means, but this is not surprising.apparently, it was written before he was 20 (or had published anything) and wasn't actually set into print till the 1980s. 'Roog' just didn't seem to commit to being any particular kind of story at all, if that makes sense - funny, sad, scary, whatever.and the details didn't corroborate the theme for me (seeing things from a dog's perspective).
Both failed to be sufficiently 'ooh, wow, YEAH!' For me to think of them as classics. Anyone else's thoughts.?. Thank you so much for buying my book, Steel Engineer, and even being the first to review it! Since I've had this book up for quite some time and it's made very few sales, I'd say you're right, my pricing is unrealistic. I hate that Kindle authors get half the royalty for books priced at less than $2.99, so I've been stubborn at keeping my prices at that point.
But you're correct, this is a different economy. I just went and changed the price to be more competitive. (Sorry you just missed the good price.but I suppose it wouldn't have been a good price if you hadn't paid the bad price first.which is kinda how the second law of thermodynamics works, right, and who can fight entropy?
she said guiltily )As for my name.I'm a big one for pen names and have to admit I have quite a few. Indeed, sometimes I think I decided to be a writer because it was the only legit way to have lots of cool pseudonyms! (That was before the Internet, of course!) I do have relatives from way-back in the Ukraine, I believe.:).
I also bought YOUR book, Looping with Quinia. And, this is a very good read. You write science fiction the way it ought to be written. Good sci-fi always has some wit, some theory, and some of the unexpected. You have all. The author name is Karen Kolodenko, not Chris Teldon. Are you pulling an Andre Norton?
(Female writer using male name to bypass gender bias of sci-fi readers.) Either way, very good short story.One business note: I think you will get more sales with a lower price. For $2.99, readers can buy collections of sci-fi short stories. It might bring some sales. Peace and best wishes.PS- -enko is Ukrainian. I'm living in Kiev, so I know all about -enko and -chuk.
The politicians nowadays need good Ukrainian names to win elections. Let me be one of the crowd who will lambaste you for not putting Nightfall in the top spot in SF short stories. It should be there.
It has all the elements including, as you so aptly point out, the wonderful surprise ending. Asimov should have left it at that. He should have resisted the temptation to turn it into a novel. It came out while I was reviewing, and I read it and was disappointed, especially after the nice, tight writing and great plot of the original.I absolutely agree with including By His Bootstraps. An excellent time-travel paradox story.Arthur C. Clark's The Star comes to mind as another story that would have qualified for this list, as does R.U.R.
By Karel Capek and the dystopian classic With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson.And read Flowers for Algernon - the original. It's not gruesome, though it is sad.There is, particularly toward the end, a sensitive sort of reverie, a bittersweetness. In a way, it is a sort of paradigm for Alzheimers disease now, as Charlies watches his gifts slip away from him. For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: Show Details NecessaryHubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized.
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