A Meme for All Seasons: the 1999 All-Time Readers Poll Short Story List

[asyouknow_bob]

A Meme for All Seasons: the 1999 All-Time Readers Poll Short Story List

borrowed fromjames_nicoll

"The usual rules apply: bold the ones you've read. Strike the ones you've read that you don't think belong on this list. Post a peeved comment about stories you think should have been on this list but weren't (Extra credit for complaining about the lack of

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[bluetyson]

Yeah, Inconstant Moon is a better story. I have read all these now, too.

The reason you don't remember those I think (and particularly the Malzberg) is they aren't any good or worth remembering. :)

Cassandra is pretty reasonable, though, come to think of it. All time best ever type, no.

[asyouknow_bob]

Yeah, thanks for the confirmation.

I checked ISFDB, and, yes, each of those three stories IS in my house, (several times over), AND in books I've read, even.

(But I still have no specific memory of them....)

[bluetyson]

Yeah, that's partly how to tell if you liked a story a lot I think - if it won't leave your brain, or at least some part of it won't.