RECOMMENDED SHORT STORIES:
(Updated on 14/05/05)
ANTHOLOGIES:
MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR: VOLUME 7.
“Tirkiluk,” by Ian R. MacLeod.
“The Most Boring Woman in the World,” by Christopher Fowler.
“More Tomorrow,” by Michael Marshall Smith.
“Extinctions in Paradise,” by Brian Hodge.
“Survivor,” by Dave Smeds.
“Cradle,” by Alan Brennert.
“The Sixth Dog,” by Jane Rice.
“The Bars on Satan’s Jailhouse,” by Norman Partridge.
“The True History of Doctor Pretorious,” by Paul J. MacAuley.
“The Grey Madonna,” by Graeme Masterton.
BEST OF CEMETARY DANCE: VOLUME 1.
“Chattery Teeth,” by Stephen King.
“Halceldama,” by Gary A. Braunbeck.
“Mobius,” by R. C. Matheson.
“Weight,” by Dominick Cancilla.
“Layover,” by Ed Gorman.
“Roadkill,” by Tom Elliot.
“The Rifle,” by Jack Ketchum.
“The Rabbit,” by Jack Pavey.
“Pig’s Dinner,” by Graham Masterton. (Good because it made me ill)
“Crash Cart,” by Nancy Holder.
“Great Expectations,” by Kim Antineau.
MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR: VOLUME 11:
“Unhasped,” David J. Schow.
“The Emperor’s Old Bones,” Gemma Files.
“The Ballyhooly Boy,” by Graham Masterton.
“Burden,” by Michael Marano.
“Naming the Dead,” by Paul J. McAuley.
“Aftershock,” by F. Paul Wilson.
“Jimmy,” by David Case.
“White,” by Tim Lebbon.
MACHINES THAT THINK edited by Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick and Martin
H. Greenberg.
“I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream,” by Harlan Ellison.
“The Evitable Conflict,” by Isaac Asimov.
“Sam Hall,” by Poul Anderson.
“I Made You,” by Walter M. Miller Jr.
“Triggerman,” by J. F. Bone.
“War with the Robots,” by Harry Harrison.
“Evidence,” by Isaac Asimov.
“2066: Election Day,” by Michael Sharra.
“Answer,” by Fredric Brown.
“The Bicentennial Man,” by Isaac Asimov.
“Long Shot,” by Vernor Vinge.
COLLECTED FICTION BY ONE AUTHOR:
USER FRIENDLY by Spider Robinson:
“User Friendly,”
“Copyright Violation,”
“Too Soon We Grow Old,”
“The Gifts of the Magistrate,”
“Distraction,”
“Orphan of Eden,”
“-and Subsequent Construction,”
“Not Fade Away,”
“Seduction of the Ignorant,” (Speech)
IMPOSSIBLE THINGS by Connie Willis:
“The Last of the Winnebagos,”
“Schwarzschild Radius,”
“Ado,”
“Winter’s Tale,”
“In the Late Cretaceous,”
“Jack,”
FIRE WATCH by Connie Willis:
“Fire Watch,”
“All My Darling Daughters,”
“The Father of the Bride,”
“And Come From Miles Around,”
“The Sidon in the Mirror,”
“Blued Moon,”
SMOKE AND MIRRORS by Neil Gaiman:
“The Wedding Present,” (Part of the Introduction)
“Chivalry,”
“Nicholas Was,”
“The Price,”
“Changes,”
“Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar,”
“Only the End of the World Again,”
“Looking for the Girl,”
“Bay Wolf,”
“We Can Get Them For You Wholesale,”
“How Do You Think it Feels?”
“Murder Mysteries,”
“Snow, Glass, Apples,”
WEREHUNTER by Mercedes Lackey:
“Last of the Season,”
“Nightside,”
“Wet Wings,”
“Roadkill,”
“Operation Desert Fox,”
FIDDLER FAIR by Mercedes Lackey:
“Small Print,”
“Last Rights,”
“Dumb Feast,”
“Jihad,”
“Once and Future,”
NIGHT SHIFT by Stephen King:
“Jerusalem’s Lot,”
“Graveyard Shift,”
“I Am the Doorway,”
“Greymatter,”
“Battleground,”
“Strawberry Spring,”
“The Ledge,”
“Quitters, Inc,”
“Children of the Corn,”
“The Last Rung on the Ladder,”
A SECOND CHANCE AT EDEN by Peter F. Hamilton.
“Sonnie’s Edge,”
“A Second Chance at Eden,”
“Deathday,”
“Candy Buds,”
ASSORTED STORIES: (Tales encountered independently of Books)
“The Second Variety,” by Philip K. Dick.
“A Boy and His Dog,” by Harlan Ellison.
“Kingsmeat,” by Orson Scott Card.