If you’ve ever wondered what life was like in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, then look no further. The fifteen short stories in this collection form a vivid image of traditional Irish middle-class life at the height of Irish nationalism, and these middle-class citizens’ des...
We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results
Why we love it: It really freaks out the kids when the grandmother meets her match in a twist that we see coming just in time to really feel the horror. If you’re looking for short stories that are engaging and rich for character study, this is the one for middle schoolers. 51. ...
Literature Novels & Short Stories Cover of the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction “Flowers for Algernon” was first published in the magazine as a short story. Daniel Keyes expanded his short story into a novel in 1966. (more) ...
darkly humorous stories where anything can happen, you’ll probably like Dahl. I also have to mentionAlice Munro. She doesn’t have a complete story collection yet, but there are many others to choose from. I find her short stories very hard to classify because they’re just about life—...
The Twilight Zonetended to set its audience up for a surprise ending, often ignoring logic, or even other possibilities for how the story might go. Rod Serling wanted us to get involve and then surprise or shock us – but do it quickly. He treated his stories like a magic trick, and ...
Malzberg often relies on satire, but his stories were never fun like the satires of Kurt Vonnegut. Malzberg wrote dark, edgy, and psychological fiction like Philip K. Dick, but he never developed a cult following.Recently, Bookpilled on YouTube declared that Malazberg was his new favorite ...
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