hello everybody I am compiling a list of my favorite sci-fi/ dystopian/ horror stories (in no particular order) for @Dramacel but felt like it was easier to just make a post, so if anyone wants some good stories, they're RIGHT HERE:
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There Will Come Soft Rains. A Ray Bradbury classic. An automated house goes about its day, in a world with no one left to return home to it.
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Guts. Everybody knows Guts.
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Incarnations of Burned Children. A brief flash of a normal day gone horribly, horribly wrong. Most parents' worst nightmare. Read at your own risk.
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BLIT, What Happened at Cambridge IV, and Different Kinds of Darkness. A mathematician discovers images that "crash" the human mind, killing anyone who looks at it. Three very short, related stories about the implications on the world these images have.
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The Quiet Boy. Inspired the new movie Antlers. A teacher tries to help a student she suspects is being abused, but realizes the truth is much worse.
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Probably everyone knows this one too. An AI takes over the world, imprisoning and torturing a small group of survivors.
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The Jaunt. Stephen King. A scientist figures out how to teleport, but it comes with a consequence.
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Survivor Type. Also Stephen King. A corrupt doctor finds himself stranded on an island with no food and large amount of smuggled heroin.
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By fellow dramatard
@JoyceCarolOates. A teenage girl is trapped home alone while a stranger tries to lure her out.
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The Soul of the Mark III Beast. Can you convince someone that a machine is sentient?
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The Human Chair. A craftsman creates a chair that no one has ever made before him, with a unique twist.
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In the Hills, the Cities. A couple touring through Eastern Europe stumbles upon a strange local tradition.
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They're Made Out of Meat. Maybe we were the aliens all along!
Ok that's all for now! I hope you enjoy them. Most of these are pretty short reads for the most part
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No philip k peepee = cringe!!!
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recommend me some, the list is always growing
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i liked A Scanner Darkly best, but Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Man in High Castle are all pretty famous ones. A lot of his short stories got adapted into movies too, like Second Variety (Scanners) and We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Total Recall).
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Seconding PKD. Ubik and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are good shit.
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Sadly, I was never schizo enough to read Ubik or Valis
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To fit the nasty theme of your other stories. I say "Faith of our fathers", Philip k peepees long form is over rated but this is a gem. Man meets the leader of the Party, https://genius.com/Philip-k-peepee-faith-of-our-fathers-annotated
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