When It Changed
By: Joanna Russ
3.84
Format: None pages, None
A science fiction short story about an all-female human colony planet whose inhabitants produce off…
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1. Scanners Live in Vain
By: Cordwainer Smith
3.98
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Man has conquered space, but not without costs. To maintain the space lanes, Scanners have to under… read more
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2. Surface Tension
By: James Blish
3.90
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In this acclaimed short story, a human colonization ship crash lands on a distant planet where the … read more
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3. The Women Men Don't See
By: James Tiptree Jr.
3.78
Format: 42 pages, Unknown Binding
The short story revolves around protagonist Don Fenton, an American government agent on vacation in… read more
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"Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world."-James Tiptree Jr., The Women Men Don't See
4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
5. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
6. The Comet
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
3.80
Format: 319 pages, ebook
In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over … read more
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7. The Star
By: H.G. Wells , Goran Lowie
4.03
Format: 453 pages, ebook
First published in the magazine The Graphic, December 1897. In January (about 1900, presumably), th… read more
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9. Sultana's Dream
By: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai
3.72
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
The female narrator of Sultana's Dreamwanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In thi… read more
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- feminism
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10. The Nine Billion Names of God
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
This collection of science fiction short stories includes: * The Nine Billion Names of God * I Reme… read more
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11. "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
By: Harlan Ellison , Rick Berry
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rebel inhabits a world where conformity and punctuality are top priorities and the Ticktockman ca… read more
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13. Rogue Moon
By: Algis Budrys
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee… read more
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14. Bloodchild
By: Octavia E. Butler
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more
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15. The Machine Stops
By: E.M. Forster
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more
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16. Ligeia
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.51
Format: 235 pages,
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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17. Day Million
By: Frederik Pohl
4.21
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: Day Million (1966) The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass (1962) The Day the Martians Came (1… read more
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19. Reason
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 240 pages, ebook
"Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue … read more
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20. 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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21. The Evening And The Morning And The Night
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.83
Format: 266 pages,
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22. Fondly Fahrenheit
By: Alfred Bester
3.67
Format: 363 pages,
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23. A New England Nun and Other Stories
By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"A New England Nun" is the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman who has lived alone for many years. Louis… read more
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24. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
By: Philip K. Dick
3.65
Format: 192 pages, ebook
He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more
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25. Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student comm… read more
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26. There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more
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27. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling
4.06
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more
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"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
28. The Girl Who Was Plugged In
By: James Tiptree Jr.
3.56
Format: 35 pages, None
James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece,… read more
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"There's nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up and nobody would know it if they didn't want."-James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In
29. The Jaunt
By: Stephen King
4.18
Format: 25 pages, None
"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine i… read more
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30. When It Changed
By: Joanna Russ
3.84
Format: None pages, None
A science fiction short story about an all-female human colony planet whose inhabitants produce off… read more
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- classics
- school
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- feminism
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- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
31. The Heat Death of The Universe
By: Pamela Zoline
4.20
Format: 10 pages, ebook
An example of feminist science-fiction writing. Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent youn… read more
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