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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Karl@programming.dev to c/books@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Karl@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Horror for example, a genre that I think thrives in the short story format but is sadly under-appreciated

Any good recs? Except Stephen King?

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Patricia Highsmith has a delicious short story book. I wouldn't call it horror even though some pieces are a bit gory, more like a thriller, jut it was great and flawlessly written IMO. I also enjoy her more lengthy works.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

Anytime!

[–] Karl@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks