20 Top short stories books like This is Klon Calling by Walter J. Sheldon

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This is Klon Calling

By: Walter J. Sheldon

3.24

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

One sure way to live dangerously is to become a practical joker. Should you have any doubts about i…

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1. Pythias

By: Frederik Pohl

3.44

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

PYTHIAS appeared in the February 1955 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Sure, Larry Connaught saved… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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2. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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3. The Egg

By: Andy Weir

3.41

Format: None pages, ebook

A short story about the universe. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. Keep Out

By: Fredric Brown

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Fredric Brown is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" f… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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5. Reluctant Genius

By: Henry Slesar

4.00

Format: None pages,

It is said that Life crawled up from the slime of the sea-bottoms and became Man because of inheren… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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6. Zen

By: Jerome Bixby , William Ashman

3.02

Format: None pages,

The twenty-nine of us were E.T.I. Team 17, whose assignment was the asteroids. We were four years a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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7. Beyond the Door

By: Philip K. Dick

4.04

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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8. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories

9. Star Mother

By: Robert F. Young

3.65

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

10. Examination Day

By: Henry Slesar

3.22

Format: 402 pages,

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11. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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12. It's a Small Solar System

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages,

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13. A&P: Lust in the Aisles

By: John Updike

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A & P" is a comic short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person na… read more

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14. All Cats Are Gray

By: Andre Norton

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in d… read more

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15. The Veldt

By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more

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16. Beyond Lies the Wub

By: Philip K. Dick

4.07

Format: None pages,

"The wub, sir," Peterson said. "It spoke!" The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk li… read more

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17. Navy Day

By: Harry Harrison , Gregg Margarite

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Audiobook

The Army had a new theme song: "Anything you can do, we can do better!" And they meant anything, in… read more

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18. 2BR02B

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

2BR02B is a satiric short story that imagines life & death in a future world where aging has been "… read more

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19. Old Rambling House

By: Frank Herbert

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Old Rambling House is a short story notable for its atmosphere and the dystopian multiverse in whic… read more

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20. No Shield from the Dead

By: Gordon R. Dickson

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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21. Hall of Mirrors

By: Fredric Brown

3.82

Format: 17 pages, Nook

Hall of Mirrors appeared in the December 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.It is a tough decisio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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22. This is Klon Calling

By: Walter J. Sheldon

3.24

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

One sure way to live dangerously is to become a practical joker. Should you have any doubts about i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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23. Two Timer

By: Fredric Brown

3.50

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

“Here is a brace of vignettes by the Old Vignette Master ... short and sharp ... like a hypodermic” read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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24. Egocentric Orbit

By: John Cory

3.06

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. Beyond Pandora

By: Robert J. Martin

3.27

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Short Story, Science Fiction, Post-1930 The ideal way to deal with a pest—any menace—is, of cou… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

26. Hard Guy

By: Howard Browne

3.10

Format: None pages, Nook

He was standing at the side of the glassite super-highway, his arm half-raised, thumb pointed in th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

27. Quiet, Please

By: Kevin Scott

2.56

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Groverzb knew what he wanted--peace and quiet. He was willing to scream his head off for it! read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. Project Hush

By: William Tenn

3.18

Format: 20 pages, Hardcover

We were stuck with calling it Project Hush and we had to take extra measures to ensure secrecy. A c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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29. The Demi-Urge

By: Thomas M. Disch

2.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As if one mystery of creation weren’t enough, there was the myth of the “Demi-Urge.” A classic SF s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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30. Sentry

By: Fredric Brown

3.73

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In war, every infantryman has been there. He is wet, he is hungry and cold, and he is a long, long … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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31. The Fourth Invasion

By: Henry Josephs

3.17

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

Psychopathology has offered possible answers to why, from time to time, people in large quantities … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

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