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DarthIshtar Title: Former CR Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 2/1/06 5:02pm Subject: Great short stories of the greater writers
	So, has anyone read the little stories by all our favorites? Anyone know the origin of the Star of Bethlehem? What it means to walk away from Omelas? Discuss it here! -----signature----- "I feel like a more down-to-earth Pink 5 when I'm writing Leah. Same attitude, less lip gloss." ~Me on how to get in the right mindset for Twilight fanfic.
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Excellence Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 2/2/06 12:18am Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	What is this Cascade Point, that they out in Zahn's author bio every book? -----signature----- The Brits gave the world Doctor Who We owe them
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Raja_Io Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 2/3/06 2:43pm Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	Oh, Tolkien's Leaf by Niggle was delightful. -----signature----- It's better to have loved and destroyed your girl with the power of the Arc of Covenant than never to have loved at all. --- Making a ninja burger in progress... 0%
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DarthIshtar Title: Former CR Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 2/3/06 10:18pm Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	My favorite is Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star," in which a Jesuit priest finds the holographic records of a utopian civilization wiped out by a supernova. He wonders how God could have been so cruel as to destroy it, but the real blow is when he dates the supernova explosion and realizes that the civilization was wiped out in order to provide the Star of Bethlehem. -----signature----- "I feel like a more down-to-earth Pink 5 when I'm writing Leah. Same attitude, less lip gloss." ~Me on how to get in the right mindset for Twilight fanfic.
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Raja_Io Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 2/4/06 3:38am Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	I'll have to read it. I love Jesuits Thanks for giving me the ending, though. -----signature----- It's better to have loved and destroyed your girl with the power of the Arc of Covenant than never to have loved at all. --- Making a ninja burger in progress... 0%
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VadersLaMent Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 2/4/06 4:02am Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man was my first intro into Scifi shorts. The Long Rain and The City are my favorites, and The Veldt was the first story I ever read that had to do with virtual reality. In fact, it shows what a Star Trek holodeck could do if the safety protocols are removed. My fav Clarke shorts would be The Nine Billion Names of God in which monks use a computer to bring about the end of the Universe; Sunjammer which portrays a solar sail race around the Moon, and The Sentinel which is the story that 2001:A Space Odyssey is based on. Despite Brin's horrid opinion of Star Wars I think he has a great collection of short stories in a book called [i]Otherness which I highyl recommend. -----signature----- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic--Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God--Michael Shermer I am a sexy, shoeless GOD OF WAR!
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arwen_sith Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 3/28/06 5:20am Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	"Greater writers" might be a bit controversial, but never mind. Asimov's Nightfall and The Last Question. Clarke's Nine Billion Names of God. -----signature----- "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Yoda Missing: trans-mural feline.
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RolandofGilead Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jan '01	Date Posted: 3/28/06 9:20am Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	I loved all of Bradbury's short stories in the Martian Chronicles. I also really enjoyed a few from HP Lovecraft. -----signature----- Satan's not in a guitar pick, he's inside all of us. In here, in your hearts. He's what makes us not want to go to work, or exercise, or tell the truth. He's that little voice in your mind that says "**** you" to the people you hate.
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Zombi_2_1979 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 3/29/06 4:31pm Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	One of the scariest supernatural authors ever, M. R. James. 1. Casting The Runes (based on Aleister Crowley, made into a classic horror film, and the finest short story I've ever read.) 2. The Ash-Tree 3. Number 13 4. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (Lovecraftian) 5. The Tractate Middoth 6. The Mezzotint 7. Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book In that order, honestly pursue all of James's short tales. IMO, a better writer than Lovecraft in most catagories.
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SnipeHunter Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 3/29/06 11:04pm Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	Alfred Bester "Hobson's Choice" i think is a really good one. -----signature----- I was touched by his noodily appendage http://www.venganza.org/ I'm Stranded...........Alone.........In Space.....With twenty tons of chicken Vidaloo.........................................................SMEGIN' BRILLIENT
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agap_afima Registered: Dec '05	Date Posted: 3/31/06 11:12am Subject: RE: Great short stories of the greater writers
	Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man was very good, as was Arthur C. Clarke's anthology The Sentinel. -----signature----- "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our lord..."
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