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 “⚡”.

• “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
• “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
• “The White Ship”, H. P. Lovecraft (1919)
• “An Imperial Message”, Franz Kafka (1919) ⚡
• “The Cats of Ulthar”, H. P. Lovecraft (1920) ⚡
• “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, Jorge Luis Borges (1940)
• “Dogfight on 101” (aka “Along the Scenic Route”). Harlan Ellison (1969)
• “The Gospel According to Mark” (audio). Jorge Luis Borges (1970)
• “Why Johnny Can’t Speed”, Alan Dean Foster (1971)
• “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”, James Tiptree, Jr (1973)
• “The Last Answer”, Isaac Asimov (1980)
• “BLIT”, David Langford (1988)
• “They’re Made Out of Meat”, Terry Bisson (1991)
• “A Colder War”, Charles Stross (2000)
• “Postcard”, Kathy Kachelries (2005) ⚡
• “The Long Chase”, Geoffrey A. Landis (2010)
• “The Things”, Peter Watts (2010)
• “The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre”, Gwern Branwen (2010) ⚡
• “Clarity didn’t work, trying mysterianism” (the Whispering Earring story). Scott Alexander (2012) ⚡
• “The Study of Anglophysics”, Scott Alexander (2014)
• “The Northern Caves”, nostalgebraist (2015)
• “FAQ on LoadBear’s Instrument of Precommitment”, DataPacRat (2015)
• “The Dime Spared”, R. Scott Bakker (2016)
• “The Gig Economy”, Zero HP Lovecraft (2018)
• “FLUORESCENT GRAVEYARDS”, Nanda (2018)
• “top bunk”, ctrlcreep (2018) ⚡
• “A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog…” sadoeuphemist (2020)
• “Lena”, qntm (2021)
• “Basilisk collection”, Blackle Mori (2021)

Collaborative fiction wikis

• The Holders (archived)
• Calgary’s Gideon Keys

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