The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection 'Think Like a Dinosaur' by James Patrick Kelly 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' by Roger Zelazny 'The Persistence of Vision' by John Varley

'Or All the Seas with Oysters' by Avram Davidson 'The Only Neat Thing to Do' by James Tiptree, Jr. 'The Mountains of Mourning' by Lois McMaster Bujold 'The Lucky Strike' by Kim Stanley Robinson 'Hell Is the Absence of God' by Ted Chiang 'The Game of Rat and Dragon' by Cordwainer Smith 'The Country of the Kind' by Damon Knight Here are Szymon’s program results looking for Kindle editions: Sense of Wonder It’s great to pull out my iPhone and read a science fiction short story whenever I have an idle moment. There is another reason to prefer the Kindle edition. My eyes do enjoy reading off my phone or tablet, but they tire more easily. My eyes still prefer reading off of paper pages but only if the font is large enough, otherwise my eyes like the Kindle e-ink page. In fact, I’m starting to want the Kindle edition as my primary format. That suggests we should also do a Science Fiction Anthology Problem with an audiobook solution.īy the way, the two giant anthologies, Sense of Wonder and The Big Book of Science Fiction are so huge in print that I don’t like holding them to read, and Sense of Wonder has a typeface that demands perfect vision. stories, however, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever that’s available on audio contains those stories. It was especially surprising that he couldn’t find an ebook collection of James Tiptree, Jr. That allowed him to bring the total stories to 94. I told him to break the original rule and include single-author collections. There just weren’t that many science fiction anthologies available on the Kindle. His first effort could only find 80 of the 101 stories. He wanted to rerun the program but this time pick only anthologies that were available in ebook format. Szymon Szott solved that problem, but then he wrote and told me since he lived in Poland that it was too expensive to buy physical books from overseas. The original Science Fiction Anthology Problem required finding anthologies that contained all the 101 stories from the Classics of Science Fiction Short Story list.

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