who is your favourites author -science fiction short stories?

The two authors who jump to mind are Harlan Ellison and Richard Matheson (links below).

I used to read a lot of fantasy & science fiction but not so much these days. Actually none these days. I've also included a link for Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine. I had a subscription to this magazine for years and it had a lot of good stories and authors. You might want to check it out for current authors, but the two I've mentioned above are classics.

Happy reading!

Sci-fi short stories? It would have to be Harlan Ellison, author of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, the best short story I've read in a long time. There are typos and such, but it is still a classic. Also, ANY short story by H.P Lovecraft.

Here's a sample of I Have No Mouth:

"Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported hanging high

above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily

breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern. The body hung head down,

attached to the underside of the palette by the sole of its right foot. It had

been drained of blood through a precise incision made from ear to ear under the

lantern jaw. There was no blood on the reflective surface of the metal floor.

When Gorrister joined our group and looked up at himself, it was already too

late for us to realize that, once again, AM had duped us, had had its fun; it

had been a diversion on the part of the machine.

Three of us had vomited, turning away from one another in a reflex as ancient as the nausea that had produced it. Gorrister went white. It was almost as though he had seen a voodoo icon, and was afraid of the future. "Oh, God," he mumbled, and walked away. The three of us followed him after a time, and found him sitting with his back to one of the smaller chittering banks, his head in his hands. Ellen knelt down beside him and stroked his hair.

He didn't move, but his voice came out of his

covered face quite clearly. "Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with?

Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this." It was our one

hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us."

That is the first paragraph. Tells you pretty much how the rest of the story goes.

My favorite authors of SF short stories are probably James Tiptree, Jr., and Robert Silverberg. However, I don't think many of their stories are available online.

Ted Chiang.

http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chi...

eta: Oh also Philip K Dick!