Some of them were quite good, but they’re not something that I would assume would hook younger readers.
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What? No way! Both Microcosmic God and Surface Tension are timeless and amazing stories. Read just as well today as they did 75 years ago.
aug 11, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
.... do they.
aug 11, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess. But two stories don’t justify an entire short story collection, unless you’re already hooked on the genre. There’s a ton of clunky writing in there.
aug 11, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Not sure if you get off on being contrarian or something, but it’s literally a murderer’s row of outstanding, timeless stories.
aug 11, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess. Many of them struck me as quite clunky. I think most modern readers are going to be pulled in by Exhaulation more than they are from A Martian Odyssey, for example.
aug 11, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
… and Exhalation is a decade old at this point, so I probably shouldn’t recommend it to newer readers either.
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