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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[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Ted Chiang's short story collections (Story of Your Life and Other Stories, and Exhalation)

[-] WindAqueduct@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Seconding this recommendation. Story of Your Life is the best sci fi story I've ever read

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Story of your life is what Arrival was based on. I think there should be a caveat that many of these stories are pretty hard sci-fi. As in going in depth with the science/math as well as theorietic science/math. I enjoy the genre a lot and casually familiar with the concepts from documentaries and stuff so I'm not especially confused by it.. but struggled with this one.

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