Recommend me some good sci-fi short story collections and anthologies. (programming.dev)

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The Martian Chronicles is the only short story collection I've read. So something like that would be great. But I'm open to other kinds of recs too.

I want books with good enough prose tho. Bad or flat prose is a turn off for me.

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[-] bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

The Illustrated Man, also by Ray Bradbury. Welcome to the Monkey House is a great collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works, many of which are in the vein of sci-fi.

If you want to go weird with it, Harlan Ellison's short stories are great. I'd also recommend Gene Wolfe's The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.

[-] Karl@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

The Illustrated Man, also by Ray Bradbury

Didn't know it was a short-story collection, thanks a bunch.

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