# 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 "⚡".

- <!-- 1839-09 --> ["The Fall of the House of Usher"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tales_(Poe)/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher), Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
- <!-- 1842-05 --> ["The Masque of the Red Death"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Late_Edgar_Allan_Poe/Volume_1/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death), Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
- <!-- 1915-04 --> ["The Assignation"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fifty-one_Tales#9), Lord Dunsany (1915) ⚡
- <!-- 1919-11 --> ["The White Ship"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_White_Ship_(Lovecraft)), [H. P. Lovecraft](/lovecraft) (1919)
- <!-- 1919-09 --> ["An Imperial Message"](http://www.kafka-online.info/an-imperial-message.html), Franz Kafka (1919)  ⚡
- <!-- 1920-11 --> ["The Cats of Ulthar"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar), H. P. Lovecraft (1920)  ⚡
- <!-- 1940-05 --> ["Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140719112136/http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf), Jorge Luis Borges (1940)
- <!-- 1969-09 --> ["Dogfight on 101"](https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v43n03_1969-09_Lenny_Silv3r/page/n5/mode/2up) (aka "Along the Scenic Route"), Harlan Ellison (1969)
- <!-- 1970-10-23 --> ["The Gospel According to Mark"](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/paul-theroux-reads-jorge-luis-borges) (audio),
Jorge Luis Borges (1970)
- <!-- 1971-09 --> ["Why Johnny Can't Speed"](https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v32n02_1971-09/page/n84/mode/1up), Alan Dean Foster (1971)
- <!-- 1973-04 --> ["Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death"](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-the-plan-is-death/), James Tiptree, Jr (1973)
- <!-- 1977-12-21 --> ["Flop Sweat"](https://archive.org/details/flop-sweat) (audio), Harlan Ellison (1977)
- <!-- 1980-01 --> ["The Last Answer"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030643/https://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/), Isaac Asimov (1980)
- <!-- 1988-09/10 --> ["BLIT"](http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm), David Langford (1988)
- <!-- 1991-04 --> ["They're Made Out of Meat"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090609051307/http://www.terrybisson.com:80/page6/page6.html), Terry Bisson (1991)
- <!-- 2000-07 --> ["A Colder War"](http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm), Charles Stross (2000)
- <!-- 2005-05-26 --> ["Three Wish Habit"](https://escapepod.org/2005/05/26/ep003-three-wish-habit/) (audio), Janni Lee Simner (2005)
- <!-- 2005-10-23 --> ["Postcard"](https://365tomorrows.com/2005/10/23/postcard/) ([audio](https://archive.org/details/voices-of-tomorrow/Postcard.mp3)), Kathy Kachelries (2005)  ⚡
- <!-- 2010-09 --> ["The Long Chase"](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-long-chase/), Geoffrey A. Landis (2010)
- <!-- 2010-01 --> ["The Things"](http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10), Peter Watts (2010)
- <!-- 2010-12-21 --> ["The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre"](https://gwern.net/fiction/acre), Gwern Branwen (2010)  ⚡
- <!-- 2012-10-03 --> ["Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131229234101/http://squid314.livejournal.com/332946.html) (the Whispering Earring story), Scott Alexander (2012)  ⚡
- <!-- 2014-04-03 --> ["The Study of Anglophysics"](https://web.archive.org/web/20240206200720/http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/03/the-study-of-anglophysics/), Scott Alexander (2014)
- <!-- 2015-04-01 --> ["The Northern Caves"](https://archiveofourown.org/works/3659997/chapters/8088522), nostalgebraist (2015)
- <!-- 2015-04-29 --> ["FAQ on LoadBear's Instrument of Precommitment"](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nRSRWbAqtC48rPv5NG6kzggL3HXSJ1O93jFn3fgu0Rs/mobilebasic), DataPacRat (2015)
- <!-- 2016-03-22 -->  ["The Dime Spared"](https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/the-dime-spared/), R. Scott Bakker (2016)
- <!-- 2018-05-11 --> ["The Gig Economy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180517195501/https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/), Zero HP Lovecraft (2018)
- <!-- 2018-07-04 --> ["FLUORESCENT GRAVEYARDS"](https://duel.neocities.org/FLUORESCENT%20GRAVEYARDS.pdf), Nanda (2018)
- <!-- 2018-07-09 --> ["top bunk"](https://www.patreon.com/posts/top-bunk-19965012), ctrlcreep (2018)  ⚡
- <!-- 2020-04-15 --> ["Untitled"](https://sadoeuphemist.tumblr.com/post/615521935528460288/a-scorpion-being-unable-to-swim-asked-a-frog-to) ("A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog..."), sadoeuphemist (2020)
- <!-- 2021-01-04 --> ["Lena"](https://qntm.org/mmacevedo), qntm (2021)
- <!-- 2021-02 --> ["Basilisk collection"](https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/), Blackle Mori (2021)
- <!-- 2022-03-06 --> ["It Looks Like You're Trying To Take Over The World"](https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy), Gwern Branwen (2022)  ⚡
- <!-- 2022-08-18 --> ["Eager Readers in Your Area!"](https://archiveofourown.org/works/41112099), Alexander Wales (2022)
- <!-- 2023-05-06 --> ["The ants and the grasshopper"](https://greaterwrong.com/posts/GJgudfEvNx8oeyffH/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper), Richard Ngo (2023)
- <!-- 2025-10-06 --> ["The Origami Men"](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/cDwp4qNgePh3FrEMc/the-origami-men), Tomás Bjartur (2025)


## Collaborative fiction wikis

- [_The Holders_](https://web.archive.org/web/20200921194531/http://theholders.org/) (archived)
- [_Calgary's Gideon Keys_](http://gideonkeys.wikidot.com/)


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Published 2020-04-07, updated 2025-12-06.

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- bookmarks
- fiction
- literature
- recommendations