Talk:List of science fiction short stories
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Ringworld is significative, but its a novel, not a
How about categories for space travel and science fiction mysteries?
This is a very problematic and nebulous article. Heinlein's All You Zombies was preceded by his own By His Bootstraps which is at least equally intricately plotted. (1959 vs. 1941) To drive the point home, I think the whole concept of this page needs quite a bit of critical thought.
Cimon avaro
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- "Orbitsville" is a novel, I read it. If I may I'm going to change this some. Concentrating on stories that didn't win awards.--T. Anthony 03:49, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What about Nightfall
I agree with the person who said this page has problems, but it has some potential. For example, Nightfall is one of the most famous and important SF short stories ever written, but it did not win a Nebula or Hugo. There is a need for some sort of list beyond the Hugo/Nebula lists but how we determine what's on that list I can't really say. I do think that the categorization of stories doesn't seem too important -- and I don't think it seems feasible to try to create a complicated set of explicit criteria for qualification of a story for the list. There's no way around the fact that any sort of judging like this will always be subjective.
