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What is your favorite book of short stories (fiction only)? And why…?
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1. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
2. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
1. Neil Gaiman is easily my favorite author. I love these short stories. They range from beautiful to fantastic to downright creepy. His writing style is wonderful, his stories engaging. I read everything I can get my hands on by him, but I am most engaged by his short stories. The stories in Smoke and Mirrors are beautiful. They say just enough and leave just enough to the imagination. I’m babbling now, but I adore them and really just want other people to read them so that they can adore them too. I’m being literal on the fantastic part, though – he writes (often dark) fantasy. And he does it really wonderfully.
2. Ray Bradbury has a gift as a science fiction and fantasy author. I think that the Illustrated Man is his best collection, containing some of my favorite short stories of his.
If I had to choose just one, I’d go with Smoke and Mirrors because it has a wider range and is generally more diverse than the Illustrated Man. However, both are incredibly excellent collections of short stories.
| Jan 30, 2010
Grimm brothers fairytales
Why? They’re short, exciting, are fantasy that is not too ridiculous, have good story ideas, have unexpected twists, the characters die quite often, say something about life…and much more…
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THE DEATHBIRD STORIES by Harlan Ellison. Brilliant, biting, hard-edged.
Herschel | Jan 28, 2010
this may not be quite what you are looking for, but Michener’s "Tales of the South Pacific" was a chapter-by-chapter set of different tales about service men and women in the Pacific theater during WWII. Most people know this title because of a very popular musical – but I assure you the book itself is well written, dramatic, at times sobering, but always engaging. And if you read the stories in the order that the book is written, the final tale will knock your socks off…
Michener was known for "taking his time" telling a story, but Tales of The South Pacific, as well as The Bridges at Toko-Ri were both novelette-length books which were very good and fairly quick reads.
rofc2 | Jan 28, 2010
Yes…short stories naturally come in fiction only. lol
Pistols for Two, by Georgette Heyer for my romantic moments
Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales are lovely whenever
Gin | Jan 28, 2010
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler. These stories center on the Vietnamese refugee community on the Louisiana coast. They are poignant and insightful and just beautiful in every way. This won the Pulitzer for fiction.
The Way that Water Enters Stone, by John Dufresne. Dufresne is my favorite contemporary writer. Some of these stories set the stage for some of his later novels. He respects even his most despicable characters. He breathes life into all of his situations.
Sachie | Jan 29, 2010
"Different Seasons" is my favorite book of short stories for several reasons. First, it only has 4 different stories in it (one for each season), so they’re long enough to really get into, but short enough that they don’t take a huge time commitment to read. Also, the stories are each exceptional; none of them are King’s usual horror/gore. The movies "The Shawshank Redemption," "Stand by Me," and "The Apt Pupil" are based on three of the four stories.
jadini | Jan 30, 2010











