SantaThingSantaThing Entry #413

LibraryThing member timspalding

Book tastes

This year, let's do short stories. Things I'd love:
1. A manageable book of great science fiction stories
2. A manageable book of great fantasy stories
Don't get me a single author. I have, for instance, all of Philip K. Dick's stories and Chiang. The main criterion is that they should be good, and good absolutely requires that the writing be good. The collection can have a theme—AI, for example. But it shouldn't involve a single shared world (e.g., Lovecraft), or be super-obscure. Ideally, it should have pieces from different decades, but that's not an absolute requirement. I certainly don't think that a collection is only good if it's mostly stuff published in the last three years. I'm sure you'll find some good things—thanks!

Secret Santa

timspalding's Secret Santa was KeithChaffee!

Purchasing Details

Store: Longfellow Books (https://www.longfellowbooks.com)

Gift Amount: $40 (USD)

Comments/suggestions

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kristilabrie: Checked. (Dic 5, 2023, 10:42am)
KallieGrace: Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Ken Liu (Editor, Translator)

I think searching for anthologies will yield more things from a variety of authors. (Dic 4, 2023, 11:51am)
reading_fox: Don't know about manageable but the 'Collected short stories of CJ CHerryh' is a wonderful SF (mostly) short story collection. (Dic 1, 2023, 4:29am)
Daphinie: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Just came out in paperback!) :D (Nov 29, 2023, 9:45pm)
thebookmagpie: New Suns & New Suns 2 (both edited by Nisi Shawl) could fit for this. (Nov 29, 2023, 5:52pm)