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Short Stories to get the Juices flowing

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Wed, 2011-01-12 15:11

Wyldknight Wyldknight's picture

Short Stories to get the Juices flowing

Sadly I don't have any but I have seen quite a few posted on random threads in different sections and I am hoping that some of you would know where to find some. My creative fatigue is setting in and examples of good story telling me help stem the tide.

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Fri, 2011-01-14 00:49

Axel the Chimeric Axel the Chimeric's picture

Re: Short Stories to get the Juices flowing

I just got a compilation of H. P. Lovecraft stories on audibook for my bus rides to and from college. The reading is fantastic, and, frankly, as long as you don't mind occasional bouts of sudden (and sometimes laughable) racism, Lovecraft is a great writer. Given that he pretty much created concepts like Eldritch Horrors and a cold and apathetic universe as the true inspiration for horror in modern literature, as well as had a fantastically visceral writing style, hearing it spoken in the trepidacious tone it was written in fills me with delight. If you want to write anything involving survivor logs or close-encounters with the true horror that is a malign or (just as horrifying) uncaring super-intelligence, this is the stuff you want to read.

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Fri, 2011-01-14 11:26

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Short Stories to get the Juices flowing

Alastair Reynolds: in particular "Diamond Dogs", "Enola" (this would make a great PC or NPC), "A Spy in Europa", "The Great Wall of Mars", "Glacial" (exoplanets), "Dilation Sleep" (psychosurgery, nanoviruses), "Grafenwalder's Bestiary" (oligarchs), "Nightingale" (fall criminals, spooky exploration), "Spirey and the Queen". Greg Egan: in particular "Axiomatic" (psychosurgery), "Seeing" (neural damage), "Learning to Be Me" (corticla stacks), "The Walk" (psychosurgery), "The Moral Virologist" (biohacking), "Closer" (merging), "Chaff" (nanodrugs), "Reasons to Be Cheerful" (psychosurgery), "TAP" (cybernetics) Ted Chiang: "Understand" (intelligence amplification), "Story of Your Life" (truly alien aliens), "The Evolution of Human Science (a.k.a. "Catching Crumbs from the Table")" (post-AGI science), "Liking what you see: a documentary" (psychosurgery) Vernor Vinge's "The Cookie Monster" and "Fast Times at Fairmont High" are also great for EP.

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