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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of weird fiction, fantasy, and cosmic horror, who is probably best known for his creation of the "Cthulhu Mythos". His short story, "The White Ship", was first published in the November 1919 issue of The United Amateur and was later reprinted in the March 1927 issue of Weird Tales . Listen to more H.P. Lovecraft audio...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of weird fiction, fantasy, and cosmic horror, who is probably best known for his creation of the "Cthulhu Mythos". His short story, "The Beast in the Cave", was first published in the June 1918 issue of The Vagrant . His first draft of the story was written at the age of fourteen, and so it is largely regarded as an e...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of weird fiction, fantasy, and cosmic horror, who is probably best known for his creation of the "Cthulhu Mythos". His short story, "Dagon", was first published in the November 1919 issue of The Vagrant  and was one of the first stories Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was later reprinted in the October 1923 issue of W...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry, who wrote and edited more than 500 books over the course of his career and was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. "The Machine That Won the War" is one of the dozen or so short stories Asimov wrote about a supercomputer...

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of twentieth century science fiction, alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. His short story, "The Nine Billion Names of God", was first published in 1953 in the collection Star Science Fiction Stories . We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and pulp fiction era of sci...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery fiction writer, who was well known for his use of humour and his mastery of the so-called “short-short” form of story-telling. His short-short story, “The Weapon”, was first published in the April 1951 issue of Astounding Science Fiction . We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery fiction writer, who was well known for his use of humour and his mastery of the so-called “short-short” form of story-telling. His short-short story, “Pattern”, was first published in 1954 in the collection Angels and Spaceships . We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry, who wrote and edited more than 500 books over the course of his career and was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. His short story, “The Fun They Had”, was first published in the children’s pages of a newspaper in 1951, then reprin...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry, who wrote and edited more than 500 books over the course of his career and was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. “True Love” is one of the dozen or so short stories Asimov wrote about a supercomputer called “Multivac” and was fir...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry, who wrote and edited more than 500 books over the course of his career and was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. “Key Item” is one of the dozen or so short stories Asimov wrote about a supercomputer called “Multivac” and was firs...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry, who wrote and edited more than 500 books over the course of his career and was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. His short story “Exile to Hell” was first published in the May 1968 issue of Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact . W...

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of twentieth century science fiction, alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. His short story, “The Other Tiger”, was first published in 1953 in the June-July issue of Fantastic Universe. We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and pulp fiction era of science fiction and...

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of twentieth century science fiction, alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. His short story, “The Haunted Space Suit”, was first published in the November 1958 issue of  New Worlds Science Fiction  under the title “Who’s There?” It was then republished in 1971 under the more familiar title of “The Haunted...

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of twentieth century science fiction, alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. His short story, “Reunion”, was first published in 1971 in the collection  Infinity Two . We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and pulp fiction era of science fiction and fantasy: a cent...

Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was an American author and screenwriter who wrote primarily in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres of literature and film, and is perhaps best known as the author of “I Am Legend”. His short story “Third from the Sun” was first published in the October 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction . We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the cl...

“The Knock” is another “short-short story” by writer Fredric Brown (1906-1972) and is almost certainly the shortest one of them all. Possibly the shortest science fiction story ever written! Brown expanded his original two-sentence work to a more conventional short story format which significantly altered the narrative and tone of the original. This was published in the December 1948 issue of Thri...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery fiction writer, who was well known for his use of humour and his mastery of the so-called “short-short” form of story-telling. His short-short story, “Answer”, was first published in 1954 in the collection  Angels and Spaceships . We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery fiction writer, who was well known for his use of humour and his mastery of the so-called “short-short” form of story-telling. “Sentry” is one of his shortest and best-known examples of the form, and was first published in the February 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction . We’re building a digital archive of short fic...