Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Very Short Stories

We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.


A couple of my favorites:

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
--Vernor Vinge

It cost too much, staying human.
--Bruce Sterling

1 comment:

razorsmile said...

w.m. bear: you WIN! :D

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My former favourite was Alan Moore's entry:

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time

William Shatner's was a lot of fun too:

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.

Now it's Greg Bear's that has me thinking: New genes demand expression -- third eye

Heh.