# Short Stories

## Some short stories I recommend:

* [Stories of Your Life and Others ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others) by Ted Chiang, also: [Understand](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7234685-understand), [The Lifecycle of Software Objects](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang), [The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate](https://bbs.pku.edu.cn/attach/80/a2/80a255d7a8fc70db/Ted_Chiang.pdf), [The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang), [Exhalation](http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/)
* [Ficciones](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426504.Ficciones) by Jorge Luis Borges
* [The Egg](http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html) by Andy Weir
* [Three Worlds Collide](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/), [Dark Lord's Answer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33406999-dark-lord-s-answer) and [The Sword of Good](http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
* [The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant](http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html) by Nick Bostrom
* [Folding Beijing](http://uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/) by Hao Jingfang
* [Water](http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/th/4._Water_RamezNaam.pdf) by Ramez Naam
* [The Cambist and Lord Iron](http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cambist-and-lord-iron-a-fairy-tale-of-economics/) by Daniel Abraham