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Science fiction is renown for its short stories. I'd recommend reading some anthologies. Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volumes 1 and 2. The Library of America collection "American Science Fiction". Any collection edited by Gardner Dozois, "The Year's Best Science Fiction." Ted Chiang probably has the best collection of an individual author right now "Exhalation" "Story of your Life and Others." "Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu and "Pump Six and Other Stories" by Paolo Bacigalupi are others that I have enjoyed

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The Elric series by Michael Moorcock is high fantasy at its best. Moorcock originally wrote the stories as serials for a fantasy magazine in the 1960s. I've always felt that the rest of the swords and sorcerery realm had its way paved by this series. Elric might also be the first anti-hero.

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