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Links to good science fiction. You will not see ratings below 4 stars, because these are supposed to be good, duh.
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‘Seven corporations control the afterlife now, and many people spend their lives amassing the money to upload into the best.’
Thanks to Kenny Chaffin for forwarding on diaspora.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well plotted. I think the literary device is called “inevitable surprise”, one of the most difficult to pull off well.Top2022-11-24
A lovely set of super-short stories curated for tor.com. Links to free reads for the following stories:
They’re Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
“Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“When the Yogurt Took Over” by John Scalzi (oh, by the way, this was made into an animated short, which you can find in one of the episodes of Love, Death & Robots on Netflix).
“Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor” by Grady Hendrix
“Wikihistory” by Desmond Warzel
“In the Forests of Memory” by E. Lily Yu
“Presence” by Ken Liu
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐, because, though most of the stories are funny on the surface, they have a melancholy core, and some are creepy if you think about them much, and I do require happy endings.Top2022-08
A one-para horror story based on the space station. Free to read.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐Top2022-07
A wacky science fiction story first published in 1910. You can also buy a print copy online, but manybooks.net offers it for free.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐, because it is more than a bit dated. But it's hilarious. And if you like it, read the story that made the author famous:The classic story that inspired the tribbles in Star Trek. Project Gutenberg offers it for free. First published in 1906.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. You keep expecting it to come back to earth, but it keeps escalating. I found a reference to it in a book review from 1969, which was sufficiently laudatory to get me searching. Certainly, those who would have wanted to grab a copy in 1969 never had it so easy. We live in science fiction times, we just don't know it.TopA prequel to the Jackaroo world (I haven't read any of that yet, but now I want to). A detective chases a murderous ex-professor. Also featuring alien technology indistinguishable from magic, and several geeky references that made me expand my knowledge. Free to read.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, inspite of a few repeated words (like naivetenaivete) and with a hat-tip to author Rupert Neethling for the find and pinging me with it. He says: "Damn but I love good space opera!"TopRunning a simulation of the Universe on a quantum computer may end up a bit more complicated than the developers would like.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐, with a hat-tip to Emmanuel Florac for the find, and for posting it on pluspora.com (note, June 2023: pluspora is now closed down).Top
2011-08-30 (G+)
Fur Trap by Josh Nunn
Fur Trap by Josh Nunn
Did I post Josh Nunn's excellent 'in the style of Ben Bova' before?
Read and enjoy!
The Geekorium » Fur Trap: Chapter 1 (In the style of Ben Bova)
From geekorium.au, free read, very short. Rating: Very funny!Top
2011-08-20 (G+)
How science fiction cover art started off
How science fiction cover art started off
2011-08-20 (G+)
The Mercy Dash by Ray Hammond
The Mercy Dash by Ray Hammond
Free to read courtesy The Tomorrow Project by Intel. (Copy and paste the link into a browser or google it; it's a pdf, so depending on your settings, it will either open up or download).
June 2023 comment: Some of that is already here, though it was science fiction in 2011: the name and photo of the caller does flash on the mobile screens. Self-driving cars have some traction, and several devices for heads-up display of information on wearable glasses have been developed, though neither of these has had widespread acceptance yet.
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