miscellaneous reading group

[HardScienceFan]

I've compiled a list for a possible reading group:Old time SF
I realize it is very idiosyncratic,feel free to add others.
I know there are some notable absences,but the list is compiled in a slightly random fashion.It comprises only novelettes.
John Brunner Imprint of Chaos
Wilmar Shiras In Hiding
Pohl and Williamson Doomship
C.M.Kornbluth the Little Black Bag
Algis Budrys Dream of Victory
David Drake Nation without Walls
Richard Wilson A Man Speakith
Jack Vance The Gift of Gab or any Magnus Ridolph story

Jack Williamson’s With Folded Hands
Judith Merrill’s That Only A Mother
Robert A Heinlein Waldo
Chad Oliver Field Expedient or Blood's a Rover

James White Christmas Treason
[FONT=&quot]Raymond Gallun Prodigal’s Aura
Kris Neville Bettyann
Good Fantasy is of course,also welcome!!!!

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[j d worthington]

Glad to see someone getting a discussion group going for shorter works as well, as the short story seems to be getting very short shrift these days -- and as the mainstay of sff for such a long time, and the form in which some of the greatest practitioners have chosen to work, I'd say it damned well deserves more respectful (and thoughtful) consideration. (By "short story" I mean everything from the vignette to novelettes to short novels or novellas.)

Incidentally, for those who are interested in the difference:

Short story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Novelette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Novella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And, as some of the pieces you've included are things I've read (often more than once), I may be able to join in after all, by having a brief glance over them to refresh my memory on those in certain points.

Thanks, HSF!

 

[j d worthington]

By the way... I'd like to add a story to the list: "The Day is Done", by Lester del Rey...

 

[HardScienceFan]

Phillip K.Dick Jon's World,The Defenders,War Veteran
Theodore Sturgeon Minority Report*YES,I KNOW Astounding,june 1949,if you don't believe me*
Donald Wandrei Colossus
C.Smith The Lady who Sailed the Soul or Ballad of Lost C'mell
Pohl & Kornbluth Critical Mass
Piers Anthony & F.Hall The Message
Avram Davidson Take Wooden Indians
C L Moore No Woman Born
R Garcia Y robertson Four Kings and an Ace

 

[HardScienceFan]

van Vogt Empire of the atom,Slan
Barrington J Bailey The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor
Richard Cowper The Hertford Manuscript
Poul Anderson Kings Who Die
Gordon Dickson Call Him Lord
Murray Leinster Exploration Team series
HEinlein Year of the Jackpot,Blowups Happen
Lester del Rey Nerves
Pauline Ash The Lost Kafoozalum
Mark Clifton They'd rather Be right
Zelazny For A breath I Tarry
Larry Niven Flatlander
et very many cetera

 

[Connavar]

So what? We choose old SF and put in the list to read as a group later?