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“Short stories, a historically important form for science fiction, have also had a banner year, in a variety of formats, such as the podcast A World Where.Ted Chiang – one of the most lauded ...
We're looking for original, short fiction that can be read in less than three minutes — that's no more than 600 words. Our judge for Round 6 is novelist and short-story writer Chimamanda Ngozi ...
Comment Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time. We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to ...
Science fiction and fantasy are almost always most innovative when they’re at their briefest. Imaginative short stories have the freedom to make a huge mess, because they’re not obligated to ...
Twenty-nine short stories to help us try to understand this moment. Fiction by Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Yu, David Mitchell, Rachel Kushner and more.
“Hint Fiction” is the perfect gift for the person who is both story-besotted and short of time. This anthology of stories — really short ones, 25 words or less — features contributions by ...
The American short story has always had a challenge finding a broad audience. But in the pages of one magazine, short fiction found a consistent home.
From “Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories”: “I Get Smart,” by Pamela Painter. This delightfully breaks one of my flash rules that there’s no room for dialogue in flash.
The short story, like the western, is periodically said to be on the brink of a comeback. The most recent example of this boosterism: an article by the New York Times' new(ish) publishing reporter ...
The new film is based on a short story by Ted Chiang — a 49-year-old technical writer based in Seattle. "Fiction writing is very hard for me," he explains — and so Chiang takes his time.
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