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Printable Science Fiction Short Stories

Science fiction short stories that are printable are good for many reasons. For example, if you need to mark up a story, highlight certain sections or make notes about it then having a printed copy is very helpful. Or maybe you don't like to read short stories directly off the computer monitor, printing them out can be more convenient - and possibly better for your eyes.

A majority of the science fiction short stories that I review are printable in one way or another. Here are some tips to help if you decide to print out a science fiction short story:
  • The stories that are in .pdf, .doc, .txt or .rtf format are easy to print. Just open them in the appropriate application and click the print button.
  • Printing stories from a web page is also easy to do - provided that the entire story is on one page. Most modern browsers have a print button (or printer icon) in the toolbar at the top. Clicking that will print the short story (and everything else on the page) for you. If you want to see how many pages will print out before you actually print it you can usually click on File > Print Preview to get the preview of it.
  • Printing from a web page doesn't always look pretty and can sometimes use a lot of paper. If you want to clean up the short story before you print it you can copy the text of the story to a new document in a word processor (such as Word or OpenOffice.org), arrange it to your heart's content and then print it out when it is just right.

Here is a list of printable science fiction short stories featured on our site:



  • Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg
  • Something Wicked This Way Plumbs by Vylar Kaftan
  • Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Old Shows and Old DNA
  • Pirates of the Crimson Sands by Justin Macumber
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Jack Fatigue and Tissue Re-growth
  • Conquistador de la Noche by Carrie Vaughn
  • Flash Fiction Friday: The Slow and The Overdrawn
  • Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Connected Hair and Unconnected Heads
  • The Shangri-La Affair by Lavie Tidhar
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Garbage Bots and Non-Historical Husbands
  • Happy Birthday, Niatti by Raz Greenberg
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Destructive Lights and Confusing Interviews
  • Down on the Farm by Charles Stross
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Pirates and Snakes
  • The Hated by Frederik Pohl
  • Death and Suffrage by Dale Bailey
  • Flash Fiction Friday: Anatomical Generosity and Smart Pilgrims
  • 5 Christmas Themed Science Fiction Stories
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