Ooh, I love that Buffistas can come up with all these short stories they love. Several of the ones mentioned are faves of mine, but many make me want to get out some short story collections I have--Connie Willis has a book with several great ones, and I seem to recall loving a set of Spider Robinson ones too (he can be annoying and cheesy in his longer stuff, often, but I did like the shorts a lot)
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Jan 16, 2008 5:00:03 pm PST #3784 of 10001
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2008 5:00:08 pm PST #3785 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'd been looking for the out-of-print collection of CL Moore's stories
Hec gave me one at the first F2F. t /random Buffista memory
t edit I don't know that it was out-of-print; but it's a collection of CL Moore's Northwest Smith stories.
-t - Jan 16, 2008 5:03:50 pm PST #3786 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Connie Willis has a book with several great ones, and I seem to recall loving a set of Spider Robinson ones too (he can be annoying and cheesy in his longer stuff, often, but I did like the shorts a lot)
Oh, yes, I have to agree with both of those.
sarameg - Jan 16, 2008 5:03:52 pm PST #3787 of 10001
Tomorrow is wintery mix.
I'm torn between taking the car back in and walking in that shit, in case it is something time-consuming and I have to rent a car for the weekend (I have a salon apt I WILL NOT FUCKING MISS) and waiting until Friday or explosion.
I live on a subway line. That goes nowhere near work. Fucking Baltimore public transit.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2008 6:11:43 pm PST #3788 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What are some of your favorite short stories?
"Come Lady Death" by Peter S. Beagle
"More Light" by James Blish
"The Electric Grandmother" and "Homecoming" by Ray Bradbury (though really, everything of his I remember was great...)
"Lest Levitation Come Upon Us" by Suzette Hayden Elgin
"1408" by Stephen King
"The Events at Poroth Farm" by T.E.D. Klein
"The Call of Chthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft
"Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore
"Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
aurelia - Jan 16, 2008 6:11:53 pm PST #3789 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Huh. I guess I don't tend to read short stories. Plays seem to occupy that space for me.
Dani - Jan 16, 2008 6:32:52 pm PST #3790 of 10001
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Best short stories: ANYTHING by Alice Munro. Seriously. Although the whole collection Lives of Girls and Women & her later stories "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" & "The Albanian Virgin" are my personal favourites. She can write a novel in 10,000 words.
Mavis Gallant's "My Heart is Broken" & all of her Paris stories, esp. the collection From the Fifteenth District.
::waves & disappears in a puff of smoke::
Burrell - Jan 16, 2008 7:16:07 pm PST #3791 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
ugh. Isaac has such trouble falling asleep these days. Poor kid. But it Wipes. Me. Out. I'll be glad when he outgrows this phase.
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2008 7:27:35 pm PST #3792 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I did not get The Fall of the House of Usher. Made me think there'd been a shift in definition of short story between then and now. There's gotta be, in my estimation, something that makes a story a story, above and beyond a sequence of events. That story was a whole lot of "and then..." for me.
Cashmere - Jan 16, 2008 7:32:47 pm PST #3793 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm trying to choose a family doctor. There is a practice that is affiliated with a Catholic hospital in town that looks like it has drop in child care for patients (I SO NEED THIS).
I've never been treated at a religiously affiliated facility before. I'm wondering if there would be any ethical issues that might come up that would cause problems. (e.g. birth control prescriptions, etc.) Or should I look for a OB-gyn services outside of this practice and find a GP in this office?