Fiction recommendations
This is a collection of links to fiction you can read on the World Wide Web. Flash (extremely short) fiction is marked with a “⚡”.
- “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Edgar Allan Poe1839
- “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe1842
- “The Assignation”, Lord Dunsany1915 ⚡
- “The White Ship”, H. P. Lovecraft1919
- “An Imperial Message”, Franz Kafka1919 ⚡
- “The Cats of Ulthar”, H. P. Lovecraft1920 ⚡
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, Jorge Luis Borges1940
- “Dogfight on 101” (aka “Along the Scenic Route”), Harlan Ellison1969
- “The Gospel According to Mark” (audio), Jorge Luis Borges1970
- “Why Johnny Can’t Speed”, Alan Dean Foster1971
- “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”, James Tiptree, Jr1973
- “Flop Sweat” (audio), Harlan Ellison1977
- “The Last Answer”, Isaac Asimov1980
- “BLIT”, David Langford1988
- “They’re Made Out of Meat”, Terry Bisson1991
- “A Colder War”, Charles Stross2000
- “Three Wish Habit” (audio), Janni Lee Simner2005
- “Postcard” (audio), Kathy Kachelries2005 ⚡
- “The Long Chase”, Geoffrey A. Landis2010
- “The Things”, Peter Watts2010
- “The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre”, Gwern Branwen2010 ⚡
- “Clarity didn’t work, trying mysterianism” (the Whispering Earring story), Scott Alexander2012 ⚡
- “The Study of Anglophysics”, Scott Alexander2014
- “The Northern Caves”, nostalgebraist2015
- “FAQ on LoadBear’s Instrument of Precommitment”, DataPacRat2015
- “The Dime Spared”, R. Scott Bakker2016
- “The Gig Economy”, Zero HP Lovecraft2018
- “FLUORESCENT GRAVEYARDS”, Nanda2018
- “top bunk”, ctrlcreep2018 ⚡
- “Untitled” (“A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog…”), sadoeuphemist2020
- “Lena”, qntm2021
- “Basilisk collection”, Blackle Mori2021
- “The ants and the grasshopper”, Richard Ngo2023
- The Holders (archived)
- Calgary’s Gideon Keys