I would also recommend this book. It’s got several of the science fiction stories mentioned in this thread:
“He Walked Around the Horses” by H. Beam Piper (no relation ) which Baker mentioned;
“Computers Don’t Argue” by Gordon R. Dickson, which is the riff on Kidnapped mentioned by John DiFool (although Kidnapped is by Stevenson, not Kipling);
and “Who’s Cribbing”, by Jack Lewis, the one mentioned by OtakuLoki.
There’s also “One Rejection Too Many” by Patricia Nurse, which features Isaac Asimov as one of the letter-writers, in his capacity as editor of “Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,” with a fun little twist at the end:
Asimov keeps rejecting short stories written by a time traveller from the distant future. The time traveller finally goes back to the future, pledging to make “some long overdue improvements to the time frame.” The closing letter is from the general editor of “Arthur C. Clarke’s Science Fiction Magazine,” who is puzzled at receiving a letter addressed to someone named Isaac Asimov, who is completely unknown to anyone in the science fiction community.
:smack: I can’t believe I missed seeing Hometownboy’s post earlier (especially considering it was right after one of mine), because I definitely would have recommended it too. “One Rejection Too Many” was one of the stories I was trying to remember.
You’re welcome! I just noticed Space Mail also has the novella version of “Flowers for Algernon” as well, mentioned by CalMeacham. I’ve had my copy of Space Mail since it came out in 1980 years (Gad, I’m ancient) and it’s survived all the culls of my books and all my moves - it’s a great book to read cover-to-cover, or just to dip into from time to time.
There’s a neat book called Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason that looks like a woman’s scrapbook. The story is told through clippings, emails, letters, journal entries, etc.
) which Baker mentioned;