Ask HN: Whats your favorite Sci-Fi short story?

Forster is better known for writing period romances like A Room with a View. The Machine Stops, written in 1909, deals with issues of isolation and alienation that come with advances in communication technology, and it sort of kind of predicts the internet.

lappet• 9 years ago

The truth of fact, the truth of feeling by Ted Chiang https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_o...

This story changed the way I saw writing with the way it portrays it as a tool that can be used or misused just like any other.

FiatLuxDave• 9 years ago

I'm a huge fan of this format for sci-fi, so it's a hard choice. Probably "Goodnight Mr. James" by Clifford Simak.

Honorable mentions to:

"Microcosmic God" and "If all men were brothers would you let one marry your sister?" by Ted Sturgeon

"Bordered in Black" and "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven

"Blood Music" by Greg Bear

"Special Delivery" by George O. Smith

"The Gold at the Starbow's End" by Fredrick Pohl

adityar• 9 years ago

March Hare Mission by Ford McCormack

J-dawg• 9 years ago

They're made out of meat

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

RUG3Y• 9 years ago

"The Feeling of Power", by Isaac Asimov. In this story, humans have forgotten how to do basic math, except for one man, who regards it as a hobby.

edit: http://john.regehr.org/reading_list/power.html

thisone• 9 years ago

Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester: http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/books/Fondly-Fahrenheit.h...

Ask HN: Whats your favorite Sci-Fi short story?

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