Shopping for short stories

[slaven41]

Hi.

I'm teaching a short course in the science of science fiction right now, and I would like to find some sciency short stories. Last time I taught this, I got some at fictionwise.com, but they no longer exist. This was a nice place to shop for short stories, because you could sort by length.

I've been looking at amazon and barnesandnoble, but they don't seem to want to just give me a list of short stories to browse. Does anyone know of a good place to shop specifically for short stories?

--Dave

[Omphalos]

You are looking for a place the find stories that you can buy in anthologies for your students, or looking for free SF stories to download and give to your students?

If the former, try www.isfdb.org. They list pretty much everything.

If the latter, There is a science fiction bookshelf over at Gutenberg. They have a lot of works there. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Scienc...on_(Bookshelf)

There are also a lot here: http://www.freesfonline.de/Awards.html

[psikeyhackr]

Hi.

I'm teaching a short course in the science of science fiction right now, and I would like to find some sciency short stories.

Why do you need to shop? What is wrong with Project Gutenberg?

I say this is the quintessential SCIENCE Fiction short story.

Omnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam Piper
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/sci...-qomnilingualq
http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308/omnilingual
http://librivox.org/omnilingual-by-h-beam-piper/

What are you trying to say with or about science fiction with the stories you select?

There Will Be School Tomorrow, by V. E. Thiessen
www.feedbooks.com/userbook/11643.pdf

Pandemic by Bone, Jesse F.
http://www.digilibraries.com/ebook/112122/Pandemic/

Subversive (1962) by Reynolds Mack
http://www.digilibraries.com/ebook/115574/Subversive/

Cost of Living (1952) by Robert Sheckley
https://senjibqa.wordpress.com/2011/...ost-of-living/

All Day September (1959) by Roger Kuykendall
http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2295/all-day-september

I think a lot of modern SF just has nothing to say but just tells what many young people regard as an exciting story. If you want "sciency" science fiction then old stuff may be better.

psik

[slaven41]

There are also a lot here: http://www.freesfonline.de/Awards.html

I wasn't aware of this site, but I think it will do nicely. Thanks.

--Dave

[slaven41]

I think a lot of modern SF just has nothing to say but just tells what many young people regard as an exciting story. If you want "sciency" science fiction then old stuff may be better.

psik

Actually, I've found some fairly recent stuff that has served my purpose pretty well. I've used a story by Gregory Benford called "Sanctuary" and a couple of Robert J. Sawyer stories (one featuring a Dyson sphere and some chickens). Not particularly deep, but good springboards for talking about some science.

I'll check out some of the ones you've mentioned, too.

--Dave

[psikeyhackr]

a couple of Robert J. Sawyer stories (one featuring a Dyson sphere and some chickens). Not particularly deep, but good springboards for talking about some science.

I'll check out some of the ones you've mentioned, too.

--Dave

Yeah, Sawyer carries on the old time tradition. I have read a number of his novels but none of his short stories but it doesn't surprise me if his works fill your bill.

I think his Far-Seer Trilogy is really cool but it may be longer than you want.

psik