favorite science fiction short stories
Explore the best favorite science fiction short stories with our curated list of must-read books. Discover top picks from classic to modern sci-fi tales that will captivate any fan.
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A Woman's Liberation
by Connie Willis
These ten classic stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female characters, have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction.
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Past Lives, Present Tense
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Download the dead in this provocative new collection of original stories by the finest names in sci-fi, including Carole Nelson Douglas, Tom Knowles, Elizabeth Moon, and Jerry Oltion.
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Axiomatic
by Greg Egan
A dazzling collection of short fiction, filled with invention and hard-science speculation, by the popular author of QUARANTINE, PERMUTATION CITY, and DISTRESS. Growing in reputation and sales with every book, Greg Egan, has filled this volume with the best of his short fiction work, that his growing audience is sure to appreciate.
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Beaker's Dozen
by Nancy Kress
Kress's best short stories of the decade are collected for the first time in this substantial anthology that includes many Nebula Award nominees.
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Year's Best SF 6
by David G. Hartwell
Get Ready To Expand Your Mind... Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction. Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul. Here are stories from: Brian W. Aldiss Stephen Baxter David Brin Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Silverberg and many more...
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Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories
by James Patrick Kelly
Stories in futuristic settings. In Pogrom, social tensions between the old and the young who are obliged to support them leads to armed conflict, while Faith is on a human who can talk to plants.
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Isaac Asimov's Christmas
by Isaac Asimov
We know Christmas present. We know Christmas past. Now, in extraordinary stories culled from the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", today's favorite writers hurtle the holiday centuries forward! Contributors include Isaac Asimov, Connie Willis, Jack McDevitt, Alexander Jablokov, Robert Frazier and James Patrick Kelly, Michael Swanwick, Cynthia Felice, Leslie What, Sharon N. Farber and Janet Kagan.