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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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[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I like the short stories set in the Revelation Space universe by Alastair Reynolds. They tend to be a bit bleak and have elements of horror in them. A few of his stories became episodes of love death and robots so you can give the episodes a watch to see if his stories do it for you.