Recommend me some short fiction?

[redbird]

I would like recommendations of short fiction (individual stories or collections) or nonfiction for the kindle, to use as airplane reading. Most of the fiction I read is sf, fantasy, and mystery, but am open to other genres (including "mainstream"); nothing too dark please.

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[submarine_bells]

The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto. It's a collection of short stories on the theme of AI and virtual reality, bound together by an overarching story as a framing device, so it kind of straddles the borders of "short story collection" and "novel". I really like this book, and recommend it highly.

[kaberett]

The Saladin Ahmed I just linked to is really good and mostly hopeful. Some gore and some bittersweetness, but I loved it to bits (and my gore tolerance is super low).

Also really enjoyed Crossed Genre's Menial.

[sraun]

Two Kindle books I've recently picked up from Amazon - Virtual Unrealities, The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester and Tales from High Hallack, Volume 1: the collected short stories of Andre Norton.

[lilysea]

Memories of the Body by Lisa Tuttle

A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories by Lisa Tuttle

A Tour Guide In Utopia by Lucy Sussex

[ironed_orchid]

I still have your copy of a Tour Guide in Utopia.

[lilysea]

Are you going to Swancon? You could give it to me there...

[ironed_orchid]

I'm not planning to go. But I am free, so maybe I'll get a day pass. Will email rather than clog comments.

[ironed_orchid]

I really enjoyed the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies edited by Mike Allen. Some of the stories are a bit unsettling, but for the most part my feeling is wonder.

Another anthology I enjoyed recently was Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution edited by Anne Vandermeer. Because this collection called for steampunk stories with a political theme, it tends to steer clear of the sort of steampunk that seem to unthinkingly glorify colonial empires.

[hunningham]

Tor publish a lot of short stories from their website as free ebooks. Try this best of 2013