Others: Positive "Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken. This collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed. Another character has a horn growing out of the center of his forehead--punishment for an affair. But he is too weak to end it, too much in love to be moral"--Amazon.com.
Genres: science fiction
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Norman Spinrad
1970 · 215 pages · 1 review
Others: NegativeShort story collection
What made the match, strongest first
Cixin Liu
2013 · 464 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveCollection of short stories.
What made the match, strongest first
Ken Liu
2020 · 432 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Positive"From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years-sixteen of his best-plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne"--
What made the match, strongest first
Thomas M. Disch
1970 · 1 review
Others: PositiveIn the near future, there will be two of every man--but only world enough for ONE!
What made the match, strongest first
Robert Sheckley
2012 · 396 pages · 1 review
Others: PositivePresents a collection of short stories by the famed science fiction author.
What made the match, strongest first
Bruce Sterling
1986 · 239 pages · 1 review
Others: Neutral"The definitive cyberpunk short fiction collection."
What made the match, strongest first
Loved itAnd I love it. There were some stories that I still think about because of personal connections to the material, like there's one that is called the fantasy impromptu by Chopin, which is a song I have known how to play since third grade. And the use of that song was perfection.
