Ask HN: What are your favorite (sort) sci-fi stories with twists?
I am compiling short sci-fi stories to read for the next 4 months. Any recommendation?
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I think all the short stories in Ray Bradbury's collection "The Illustrated Man" have twists. Strong recommend, if you've never read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man
The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke, certainly has a twist. But it doesn't come as a surprise nowadays, because everyone's seen 2001.
Hmmm. Many of Kurt Vonnegut's stories have astonishing twists, but I can't think of any that are short (although I guess most of the early ones were initially magazine serials).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man
The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke, certainly has a twist. But it doesn't come as a surprise nowadays, because everyone's seen 2001.
Hmmm. Many of Kurt Vonnegut's stories have astonishing twists, but I can't think of any that are short (although I guess most of the early ones were initially magazine serials).
Wikihistory - https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/
A sound of thunder - http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.p...
The last question - https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
A sound of thunder - http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.p...
The last question - https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
William Gibson's "Burning Chrome".
(Provided the rough skeleton for the movie "Johnny Mnemonic".) Appears in a collection of Gibson stories also titled Burning Chrome.
(Provided the rough skeleton for the movie "Johnny Mnemonic".) Appears in a collection of Gibson stories also titled Burning Chrome.
Older stuff, Man-Kzin Wars, Stainless Steel Rat
Newer stuff, We Are Bob, Undying Mercenaries. Expeditionary Force, Old Man Wars
Risky Stuff, Forbidden Thoughts
All kinds of twists in the stories.
Newer stuff, We Are Bob, Undying Mercenaries. Expeditionary Force, Old Man Wars
Risky Stuff, Forbidden Thoughts
All kinds of twists in the stories.
Emergency Skin - N. K. Jemisin
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