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