Short Speculative Fiction Worth Reading
Discover the best short speculative fiction books worth reading. Explore captivating tales of sci-fi, fantasy, and the uncanny in this curated list of must-read stories.
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Is It Now Yet?
by William Sanders
Here is a new collection from a veteran SF storyteller. In thirteen deceptively simple-seeming tales William Sanders examines such matters as time, mortality, military folly, …
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The Fate of Mice
by Susan Palwick
A collection spanning the past twenty years of the author's career offers eight previously published and three new stories.
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Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead
by Mort Castle
The Gypsy fables called Darane swature seek to explain the everyday mysteries of the world. In Mort Castle's Nations of the Living, Nations of the …
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Things Will Never be the Same
by Howard Waldrop
The only problem with THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME is that it's not nearly long enough. Sure, sure, it's chock full of great stories …
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Prayers to Broken Stones
by Dan Simmons
From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story …
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Leavings
by P. D. Cacek
From the hilarious post-PMS future in "Even the Queen" to love and quantum physics exposed in "At the Rialto" or the eerie experience of "Death …
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The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
by Thomas Ligotti
A collection of favorite horror works includes the title story, in which the author introduces a small town under the siege of an existential darkness; …