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Ask HN: What are your favorite (sort) sci-fi stories with twists?
I am compiling short sci-fi stories to read for the next 4 months. Any recommendation?
- IronWolve 5y agoOlder stuff, Man-Kzin Wars, Stainless Steel Rat Newer stuff, We Are Bob, Undying Mercenaries. Expeditionary Force, Old Man Wars Risky Stuff, Forbidden Thoughts All kinds of twists in the stories.
- mathematically 5y agoEmergency Skin - N. K. Jemisin
- MilnerRoute 5y agoWilliam Gibson's "Burning Chrome". (Provided the rough skeleton for the movie "Johnny Mnemonic".) Appears in a collection of Gibson stories also titled Burning Chrome.
- mikewarot 5y agoWikihistory - https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/ https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/ A sound of thunder - http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.pdf http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.p... The last question - https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
- andrei_says_ 5y ago8 o’clock in the morning is great.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI think all the short stories in Ray Bradbury's collection "The Illustrated Man" have twists. Strong recommend, if you've never read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke, certainly has a twist. But it doesn't come as a surprise nowadays, because everyone's seen 2001. Hmmm. Many of Kurt Vonnegut's stories have astonishing twists, but I can't think of any that are short (although I guess most of the early ones were initially magazine serials).
- timonoko 5y agohttps://www.scribd.com/doc/100964572/Larry-Niven-Bordered-in-Black https://www.scribd.com/doc/100964572/Larry-Niven-Bordered-in...