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6153736 No.6153736 [Reply] [Original]

It seems to me that for whatever reason most sci fi or fantasy stories are part of a long series. Since I'm a busy man with a fuckhuge backlog, what are some of the best short, standalone speculative fiction stories?
Already reading Borges

>> No.6153741

>sci fi or fantasy stories

You've already lost the /lit/ game.

>> No.6153742

>>6153736
Most of the most well-known ones are. That's not the same as saying all of them are. Especially since so many sf&f fans have shit taste.

Anyway, Gene Wolfe, Ted Chiang, Chip Delany, Ted Sturgeon, Tom Disch. EXTREMELY James Tiptree. Zelazny a bit. Other people too but that's who comes to mind.

>> No.6153745

>>6153736
Burning Chrome.
>>6153741
fuck off.

>> No.6153750

>>6153736
Bradbury. don't listen to what these chucklenut pseudo intellects tell you

>> No.6153768

>>6153741
>implying genre fiction is bad
>implying most people who say that don't just say it to fuel their own ego

>> No.6153790

>>6153736
Strugatskys were very good, if a bit hamhanded for /lit/'s autistically specific tastes.

Roadside Picnic took a couple hours to get through. I was glued to it the entire time.

>> No.6153835

>>6153790
>>6153750
These two