Short Story SF recommendations? (new member)

[psikeyhackr]

Sturgeon has made it into Project Gutenberg

THE SKY WAS FULL OF SHIPS
By THEODORE STURGEON

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Sky Was Full of Ships, by Theodore Sturgeon.

That title sounds really familiar. I may have read it in the dim mists of time.

 

[Danny McG]

One that popped into my head today while looking at the very long lines waiting to pay their last respects to Her Maj.
(Not relevant regarding exploring)

In the queue by Keith Laumer

 

[BAYLOR]

Berserker by Fred Saberhagen first in the series, Its mostly short stories about the ultimate death machine and enemy all life the Berserkers . It's good stuff.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Williamson Effect Edited by Roger Zelazny In this collection other writer are doing stories set in the world and place created by Grand master science fiction great , Jack Williamson. Among the stories is Bad Machines by Fred Saberhagen This story brings together two of the scariest machine races in all of science fiction literature , Jack Williamson's Humanoids whose goal is serve and protect and keep mankind safe wether they like it or not snd, Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers who who want wipe out all life wherever they find it. Here, mankind has a very stark choice ether be served into slavery by former or wiped out by the latter.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Project Gutenberg has reached 70,000 entries.

It should take 3+ years to reach 80,000.

A recent SF entry is:

The Trans-Galactic Twins by George O. Smith​

The Trans-galactic Twins, by George O. Smith—A Project Gutenberg eBook

gutenberg.org

There may be 1,500 SF stories in PG by now.

 

[dask]

Was this by chance published in book form under a different title?

 

[BAYLOR]

The Machine Stops by E M Forester

 

[psikeyhackr]

Was this by chance published in book form under a different title?

Was that question directed at me?

If so I am not aware of it.

 

[psikeyhackr]

The Machine Stops by E M Forester

With all of the people talking about civilization collapsing and making comparisons to ancient civilisations that story comes to mind. The Romans did not have maintain a transcontinental electric power grid. So any real collapse will be fast. Imagine any city of over a million people with no electric power.

Apartments more than 10 stories up with no elevators or lights in the stairwells. No refrigerators. Chaos across the US in 3 months.

 

[BAYLOR]

With all of the people talking about civilization collapsing and making comparisons to ancient civilisations that story comes to mind. The Romans did not have maintain a transcontinental electric power grid. So any real collapse will be fast. Imagine any city of over a million people with no electric power.

Apartments more than 10 stories up with no elevators or lights in the stairwells. No refrigerators. Chaos across the US in 3 months.

The British anthology series Out of the Unknown did an adaptation of The Machine Stops.