Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Short Stories - For Fun!

In case you're looking to continue your exploration into science fiction, I thought I'd post a few links to some short stories online which we weren't able to get to in class:

This first one I discussed with Jessi, Larry, John, and Warren in class today (it's sort of, though not completely, along the lines of if the whole world was a computer program):
"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
I may have been getting the above story confused with E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," which has similar motifs (Wall-e fans may want to check this second story out; unfortunately I don't have a link to an online copy).

Here is a story by James Tiptree, Jr. which goes well with Joanna Russ' "When It Changed" (which we read before beginning The Handmaid's Tale):
"The Women Men Don't See" - James Tiptree, Jr.


Last, "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson is a classic (he wrote the book Neuromancer and the short story "Johnny Mnemonic" which was turned into a film with Keanu Reeves).

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