Comments for BestScienceFictionStories.com http://bestsciencefictionstories.com The Best Science Fiction Short Stories - and where to find them! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 Comment on Gold by Isaac Asimov by Bob http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/03/02/gold-by-isaac-asimov/#comment-564 Bob Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:09:50 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/03/02/gold-by-isaac-asimov/#comment-564 Big thanks. Good idea. I'll become <a href="http://bride-makeup.ru" rel="nofollow"></a>your regular visitor and RSS subscriber. Big thanks. Good idea. I’ll become your regular visitor and RSS subscriber.

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Jason Sanford by Rusty http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/12/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-jason-sanford/#comment-503 Rusty Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:56:01 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/12/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-jason-sanford/#comment-503 I haven't read too much by Bradbury either, mostly his short stories - which I have really enjoyed. I quite liked this story and I am planning on reading the rest of The Martian Chronicles. Thanks Jason - you have inspired at least 3 people! I haven’t read too much by Bradbury either, mostly his short stories - which I have really enjoyed. I quite liked this story and I am planning on reading the rest of The Martian Chronicles.

Thanks Jason - you have inspired at least 3 people!

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Jason Sanford by Jim Harris http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/12/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-jason-sanford/#comment-502 Jim Harris Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:05:46 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/12/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-jason-sanford/#comment-502 This inspired me to buy The Martian Chronicles on audio so I can listen to the story. I read the book back in the 1960s and remember it very fondly. I went through a Bradbury phase back then and read many of his books, but I haven't really revisited him in all these years, except for the audio edition of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451. Maybe it's time to go on another Bradbury kick. Thanks Jason for the push. Carl, you should read Fahrenheit 451! This inspired me to buy The Martian Chronicles on audio so I can listen to the story. I read the book back in the 1960s and remember it very fondly. I went through a Bradbury phase back then and read many of his books, but I haven’t really revisited him in all these years, except for the audio edition of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451. Maybe it’s time to go on another Bradbury kick. Thanks Jason for the push.

Carl, you should read Fahrenheit 451!

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Greg Wickenhofer by Rusty http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/16/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-greg-wickenhofer/#comment-498 Rusty Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:55:44 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/16/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-greg-wickenhofer/#comment-498 Thanks Greg, Those two stories are excellent! I especially enjoyed the humor in "Killbot." Keep up the good work - we'll be looking for your new story in Antipodean SF. Thanks Greg,

Those two stories are excellent! I especially enjoyed the humor in “Killbot.”

Keep up the good work - we’ll be looking for your new story in Antipodean SF.

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Greg Wickenhofer by Wickenhofer http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/16/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-greg-wickenhofer/#comment-492 Wickenhofer Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:20:54 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/16/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-greg-wickenhofer/#comment-492 I appreciate your kind words, Rusty. Please look for my flash fiction story, The Home Team, which will appear in Antipodean SF around November 2008. Links to a couple of my other stories follow. Greg Wickenhofer http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3761 http://www.oraculartree.com/wickenhofer_BeforeFall.html I appreciate your kind words, Rusty. Please look for my flash fiction story, The Home Team, which will appear in Antipodean SF around November 2008. Links to a couple of my other stories follow.

Greg Wickenhofer

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3761

http://www.oraculartree.com/wickenhofer_BeforeFall.html

]]> Comment on The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke by AlexM http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/03/18/the-nine-billion-names-of-god-by-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-463 AlexM Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:34:06 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/03/18/the-nine-billion-names-of-god-by-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-463 Your blog is interesting! Keep up the good work! Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: John DeNardo by Carl V. http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/11/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-john-denardo/#comment-462 Carl V. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:26:11 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/11/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-john-denardo/#comment-462 That is great! I love the concept of two authors sharing the stories that inspired them or meant something to them when they were younger. That is great! I love the concept of two authors sharing the stories that inspired them or meant something to them when they were younger.

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Jason Sanford by Carl V. http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/12/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-jason-sanford/#comment-461 Carl V. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:15:02 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/12/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-jason-sanford/#comment-461 I recently read my first ever Bradbury novel (possibly...I have a dim recollection of reading Something Wicked This Way Comes as a child). It was Dandelion Wine and I was just blown away by it. Loved it! I certainly want to check out more of his fiction (yes, I'm embarrassed, I haven't read Fahrenheit 451!) I recently read my first ever Bradbury novel (possibly…I have a dim recollection of reading Something Wicked This Way Comes as a child). It was Dandelion Wine and I was just blown away by it. Loved it! I certainly want to check out more of his fiction (yes, I’m embarrassed, I haven’t read Fahrenheit 451!)

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Dave Tackett by Carl V. http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/14/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-dave-tackett/#comment-460 Carl V. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:13:23 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/14/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-dave-tackett/#comment-460 It could be. By the way, here is the link where I first discovered the name Cordwainer Smith. Upon reading this I wanted to know what the fiction would be like of a man who wrote that: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/004803.html It could be. By the way, here is the link where I first discovered the name Cordwainer Smith. Upon reading this I wanted to know what the fiction would be like of a man who wrote that:

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/004803.html

]]> Comment on My Favorite Science Fiction Story: James Wallace Harris by Carl V. http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/13/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-james-wallace-harris/#comment-459 Carl V. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:10 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/08/13/my-favorite-science-fiction-story-james-wallace-harris/#comment-459 I've added that to my list to check out as well, thanks for the link! I just thing some people 'get' the ability to write good characters and for some that isn't their strong suit. I also think that readers bring a lot of themselves to the experience and for me personally, I am often open to that connection and possibly even finder deeper connections with some characters than a 'critic' would see in the short story. Perhaps that is one of the reasons I am drawn to them. The other is that you can just have this incredible experience in a few pages and then go on, in an anthology for example, to have another incredible experience with a completely different author all in the space of a small amount of reading time. I love that. I’ve added that to my list to check out as well, thanks for the link!

I just thing some people ‘get’ the ability to write good characters and for some that isn’t their strong suit. I also think that readers bring a lot of themselves to the experience and for me personally, I am often open to that connection and possibly even finder deeper connections with some characters than a ‘critic’ would see in the short story. Perhaps that is one of the reasons I am drawn to them.

The other is that you can just have this incredible experience in a few pages and then go on, in an anthology for example, to have another incredible experience with a completely different author all in the space of a small amount of reading time. I love that.

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