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Ask HN: What's a favorite short story of yours?
- rzzzwilson 8y agoAsimov's "The Last Question". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.html https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm... Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who... google the title and find a PDF on https://philosophy.as.uky.edu https://philosophy.as.uky.edu And I'd better stop before I remember another.
- new_guy 8y agoThe Egg: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html Also Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" from the answer below, not read that in years, or any of Clarke's/Asimov's.
- oblomovshchina 8y agoHemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Pynchon's Entropy
- tjalfi 8y agoEveryone should read Saki’s The Open Window[0]. [0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html
- masonic 8y agoFrederick Forsythe's "The Shepherd". Look for the podcast with Alan Maitland's reading on CBC.ca or YouTube. It's become tradition for CBC to broadcast it every year on the last weekday before Christmas.
- DrScump 8y ago"The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" by Robert Arthur. I first read it in maybe 7th grade, and I still remember.
- yesenadam 8y agoTerry Bisson's THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html (Well, as xkcd says, someone will read this classic today for the first time)