(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best science fiction short stories
We found 47 Reddit comments discussing the best science fiction short stories. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 33 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Nine Tomorrows
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22. Science Fiction Tales: Invaders, Creatures and Alien Worlds
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23. The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective
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24. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
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25. Eye
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28. Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories. Vol. 2
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29. Car Sinister
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30. Warhammer 40.000: Deathwing (Warhammer 40,000)
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🎓 Reddit experts on science fiction short stories
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Two more gems worth keeping in mind: FH's short story (actually a pilgrimage manual, taking place around Children of Dune) "The Road to Dune" in eye and the famous Dune Encyclopedia. While neither is a full substitute for the mastery of the actual books, they both offer complementing (and in the latter's case, exhaustive) insights into the original Duneiverse that feels authentic and in the spirit of the books. Far superior, IMO, to any fanfic that followed...
And that was the story that made the biggest impact on me as a kid reading GW novels in Sweden. Just read it again for the first time in 20+ years, still hits the gut.
http://www.amazon.com/Warhammer-40-000-Deathwing-40-000/dp/B000R9T04Q/
So, therefore I'm gonna have to say I'd love to see some native-ish feathers/tribal decorations. But either case you're 10x the painter I ever was. (Oh god the days of trying to do Tiger Claws, twenty years ago...)
I have a big-ass volume of Harlan Ellison stories.
I love it. I guess it's out of print, maybe that explains the price tag.
It's almost 2011 and you've never read Dune? What are you waiting for. Jump in. Might as well lay on some John Brunner and Harlan Ellison while you're at it.
Not as relevant to the thread discussion but this is a short story from Nine Tomorrows http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Tomorrows-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0345346041 . They are all worth a read.
The only text which is readable in that picture is the title which you have already mentioned. Without author names and publishing information it is almost an impossible task to find out any information about a book with such a generic title.
Edit: Nvm, reverse image search was able to identify it. You can buy it on amazon for $5.
I found it on Amazon fairly easily. I don't know if it's out of print, but Amazon's got "new" options for it, so I dunno.
Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is what you want.
this might be it: http://www.amazon.com/Car-Sinister-Robert-Silverberg/dp/0380453932
There is Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories which is a three volume set. Vol 1. Vol 2. But I haven't been able to find Vol 3 anywhere yet.
This one? According to Google Books, both stories you mention are included here.
Sandkings available online here
Edit: link updated
The first story sounds like "The Plastic Horror," found in The Shadow and Other Strange Tales: https://www.amazon.com/shadow-other-strange-tales/dp/B0006YD886
However, I don't think the other stories are in that anthology. Also, I'm pretty sure the kid who gets her face messed up because it's plastic is a girl, but I could be wrong.
Not a novel, but a collection of short stories:
Greg Egan, Axiomatic
But it is always difficult what other people would call "obscure".
Sci-fi:
Axiomatic by Greg Egan
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061052655?ie=UTF8&tag=myblog0f-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061052655
Selected Stories by PK Dick
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375421513?ie=UTF8&tag=myblog0f-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0375421513
What the hell :D There it is : https://www.amazon.ca/Nine-Tomorrows-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0330201719/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526592549&sr=8-2&keywords=isaac+asimov+nine
Frank Herbert (Dune) had a series of short stories in the book Eye, one of which was very similar to this. I believe the story was called "The Coming of the Sword". Basically, mankind has been involved in a war for a long time when some guy on the front lines thinks of a way to make an energy field that detonates all explosives at range. His commanding officer pins him to a wall by his throat and snarls, "You stupid asshole. You haven't ended war! You've just made it personal!" Turns out that the entire scene is from a history book called The Coming of the Sword and it took place about five centuries earlier-- mankind has been fighting with hand weapons ever since.
This probably isn't the story you were looking for, but it might be in similar a genre.
Edited to provide link to book. (Sorry, no Kindle version, apparently.)
http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/deathwing-short-story-ebook.html
>THE STORY
Dark Angels Sergeant Ezekiel returns to his home world to recruit new battle-brothers for the Chapter, but finds his people dead and their villages burned. Discovering an insidious alien threat behind the destruction, Ezekiel reclaims his birth-name of Cloud Runner and undergoes the Rite of the Deathwing, beginning a crusade that will leave a mark on the history of the Dark Angels Chapter.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Deathwing
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Deathwing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18493044-deathwing
https://www.amazon.com/Warhammer-40-000-Deathwing-40-000/dp/B000R9T04Q/
That was the story back in 1993 that really got me hooked. 20 years later I came back after war and injuries and blood and broken things.