Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
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Terry Bisson's THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
(Well, as xkcd says, someone will read this classic today for the first time)
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
(Well, as xkcd says, someone will read this classic today for the first time)
The Egg: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Also Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" from the answer below, not read that in years, or any of Clarke's/Asimov's.
Also Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" from the answer below, not read that in years, or any of Clarke's/Asimov's.
Everyone should read Saki’s The Open Window[0].
[0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html
[0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html
Frederick Forsythe's "The Shepherd".
Look for the podcast with Alan Maitland's reading on CBC.ca or YouTube. It's become tradition for CBC to broadcast it every year on the last weekday before Christmas.
Look for the podcast with Alan Maitland's reading on CBC.ca or YouTube. It's become tradition for CBC to broadcast it every year on the last weekday before Christmas.
"The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" by Robert Arthur. I first read it in maybe 7th grade, and I still remember.
Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Pynchon's Entropy
Pynchon's Entropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God
https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...
google the title and find a PDF on https://philosophy.as.uky.edu
And I'd better stop before I remember another.