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1coffeezombie
Fans of genre fiction don't like to admit that there is any real distinction between genre and literary writing. But there is a distinct difference between what counts as a solid piece of genre writing and non-genre works. The goals are usually quantitative: To make the audience laugh, or scream, or swoon, or tense up. There is a beauty to the technique and you can appreciate the craftsmanship regardless of the stories higher literary ambitions. Hence, a seperate topic for discussion.
Here's where you can talk about the genre short stories that do it for you the most. Do you happen to like a good ghost story? Have a sci-fi short you want to share? Maybe an obscure old western tale you think should be more widely read? Let us hear about it.
Here's where you can talk about the genre short stories that do it for you the most. Do you happen to like a good ghost story? Have a sci-fi short you want to share? Maybe an obscure old western tale you think should be more widely read? Let us hear about it.
2myshelves
This thread seems to have been ignored. I have some favorite SF short stories to mention, so thought I'd revive it.
I read "The Streets of Ashkelon" by Harry Harrison, in Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows, in the days before I read "that space ship stuff." The cover blurb for the story --- "a priest brings sin to an unspoiled planet" --- intrigued me. I also love the Hornblower parody "Hornario Harplayer, RN" in that collection.
Once "into" SF, after a friend insisted that I read Robert A. Heinlein's The Green Hills of Earth, I bought anthologies to discover more authors. The plot of the classic "hard SF" story "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin made a big impression. Another favorite is "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke. Rare for me to be able to remember all the details of a story read decades back, and to have the last line etched in my memory. As I became more adventurous, I discovered the joys and confusions of reading R. A. Lafferty's work. My introduction was "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," one which I even understood. :-)
I have a few hundred SF anthologies and collections, and hope that LT will come up with a way for me to list what is in them!
I read "The Streets of Ashkelon" by Harry Harrison, in Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows, in the days before I read "that space ship stuff." The cover blurb for the story --- "a priest brings sin to an unspoiled planet" --- intrigued me. I also love the Hornblower parody "Hornario Harplayer, RN" in that collection.
Once "into" SF, after a friend insisted that I read Robert A. Heinlein's The Green Hills of Earth, I bought anthologies to discover more authors. The plot of the classic "hard SF" story "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin made a big impression. Another favorite is "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke. Rare for me to be able to remember all the details of a story read decades back, and to have the last line etched in my memory. As I became more adventurous, I discovered the joys and confusions of reading R. A. Lafferty's work. My introduction was "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," one which I even understood. :-)
I have a few hundred SF anthologies and collections, and hope that LT will come up with a way for me to list what is in them!
