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If you really want to get into this style, check out Space Mail, a collection of SF short stories edited by Asimov, Greenberg and Waugh. The table of contents divides the stories into diaries, memos and letters. Included are some choice stories including “View From a Height,” by Joan D. Vinge.
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I would also recommend this book. It’s got several of the science fiction stories mentioned in this thread:
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“He Walked Around the Horses” by H. Beam Piper (no relation
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“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);
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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.