/lit/ - Literature

>>8480405

I haven't read many short stories. However an anon suggested "Second Variety" by P.K. Dick the other day and I enjoyed it. Someone else suggested "Arena" by Frederic Brown and it was okay. I might as well shill a Jack Vance story as well: "The Moon Moth".

>>8480375

"The Boat of a Million Years" by Poul Anderson.

>>8480455

>The coat couldn’t help but rattle as he adjusted it, as it was ornamented with hundreds of tiny metal and plastic shapes.

>The cloak hung heavy, rattling as he adjusted the weight on his shoulders. From a distance, the material seemed to shift oddly, as if pixellated, breaking up the wearer's outline like digital camouflage. Drawing close, the shapes resolved into various small memory storage devices, dangling and clacking as he moved.

My 2¢.

>Only part I'm happy with is the idea.

That's the hard part.