Short Stories

Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang

First published 2002. Picador paperback, 2020, pp 338, c.95,000 words. This is a collection of eight fantasy short stories. It includes Chiang’s first published story Tower of Babylon, Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the very successful film Arrival, starring Amy Adams, and Liking What You See: A Documentary for which Chiang tuned […]

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Best SF Six — Edmund Crispin

First published 1966. Faber paperback, 1975, pp 252, c.85,000 words. The sixth volume of science fiction stories edited by Crispin contains work by some of the masters of the genre: names like Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, James Blish, Fredrick Pohl. There are fourteen stories here, each by a different author, and there

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