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Catsnpotatoes on July 9, 2024 3:41 pm Invisible Planets edited by Ken Liu is an awesome collection of Chinese sci-fi. Lots of great stories in there
RobertEmmetsGhost on July 9, 2024 3:48 pm Off the top of my head I loved “Vaster than Empires and More Slow” by Ursula K Le Guin, and “Johnny Mnemonic” by William Gibson. Clarkesworld have been publishing some really incredible spec fic stories lately, might be worth checking out for you.
Waynersnitzel on July 9, 2024 4:05 pm *Flannery O’Connor* – **The Complete Stories** Southern Gothic short stories. Themes of dark humor, some grotesque imagery, morality, and redemption. Southern US setting. Her stories can be found free online, I believe through the national archive. Personally, I am a fan of O’Connors writing style. [A Good Man is Hard to Find](https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/selena.anderson/engl2307/readings/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-by-flannery-oconnor/view) is one of her most popular short stories and personally falls under horror genre. I prefer [The River](https://www.doxaweb.com/assets/The_River.pdf) which I think is a great representation of southern gothic writing.
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Invisible Planets edited by Ken Liu is an awesome collection of Chinese sci-fi. Lots of great stories in there
Off the top of my head I loved “Vaster than Empires and More Slow” by Ursula K Le Guin, and “Johnny Mnemonic” by William Gibson.
Clarkesworld have been publishing some really incredible spec fic stories lately, might be worth checking out for you.
*Flannery O’Connor* – **The Complete Stories**
Southern Gothic short stories. Themes of dark humor, some grotesque imagery, morality, and redemption. Southern US setting.
Her stories can be found free online, I believe through the national archive.
Personally, I am a fan of O’Connors writing style. [A Good Man is Hard to Find](https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/selena.anderson/engl2307/readings/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-by-flannery-oconnor/view) is one of her most popular short stories and personally falls under horror genre. I prefer [The River](https://www.doxaweb.com/assets/The_River.pdf) which I think is a great representation of southern gothic writing.
Any short story collection by Shirley Jackson