Fiction links

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. 1840.
“The Masque of the Red Death”. Edgar Allan Poe. 1842; topical in 2020.
“An Imperial Message”. Franz Kafka. 1919. ⚡
“The White Ship”. H. P. Lovecraft. 1919.
“The Cats of Ulthar”. H. P. Lovecraft. 1920. ⚡
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. Jorge Luis Borges. 1962.
“Dogfight on 101” (aka “Along the Scenic Route”). Harlan Ellison. 1969.
“The Gospel According to Mark” (audio). Jorge Luis Borges. 1971.
“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.
“Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism” (the Whispering Earring story). Scott Alexander. 2012. ⚡
“The Study of Anglophysics”. Scott Alexander. 2014.
“FAQ on LoadBear's Instrument of Precommitment”. DataPacRat. 2015.
“The Northern Caves”. nostalgebraist. 2015.
“The Dime Spared”. R. Scott Bakker. 2016.
“The Gig Economy”. Zero HP Lovecraft. 2018.
“FLUORESCENT GRAVEYARDS”. Nanda. 2018.
“top bunk”. ctrlcreep. 2018. ⚡

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