# What's a good sci-fi short story collection, post 1964? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259 "2006-01-16T20:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/21 "2006-01-17T16:24:21Z")
If you like military SF, try Jerry Pournelle’s _There Will Be War_ series – eight anthologies. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/22 "2006-01-17T16:35:03Z")
Too many of these are collections by one author. I was under the impression that the OP was asking about multi-author anthologies. Considered as a group, I’d recommend the **Man-Kzin War** series, based on Larry Niven’s stories about the Kzin, but now expanded to allow other authors to fill in the gaps. The series has been going for about 15 hyears now, and is up to its eleventh volume. Mik Resnick has edited several “theme” anthologies, such as **Alternate Presidents** (which has one of my favorite covers – it shows a triumphant Thomas E. Dewey holding up a newspaper with the headline **Truman Defeats Dewey** ) and the like. Harlan Ellison’s **Medea: Harlan’s World** is a shared-world anthology in wehich all the authors wrote stories about the same planet. It’s got stuff by Ellison, Hal Clement, Larry Niven, and other big names. It’s not entirely successful, but some of the stories are very good. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/23 "2006-01-17T18:37:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Mik Resnick has edited several “theme” anthologies, such as **Alternate Presidents** (which has one of my favorite covers – it shows a triumphant Thomas E. Dewey holding up a newspaper with the headline **Truman Defeats Dewey** ) and the like. Also _Alternate Warriors_ – the cover shows a snarling Gandhi packing heat like Rambo! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/24 "2006-01-17T19:15:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Harlan Ellison’s **Medea: Harlan’s World** is a shared-world anthology in wehich all the authors wrote stories about the same planet. It’s got stuff by Ellison, Hal Clement, Larry Niven, and other big names. It’s not entirely successful, but some of the stories are very good. Now that’s interesting! I’m currently reading **Altered Carbon** , by Richard K. Morgan (a novel), and the main character comes from Harlan’s World. I had assumed it was a nod to Harlan Ellison, but I didn’t realize that it was an actual shared-world. I may have to look for it. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/25 "2006-01-17T20:11:05Z")
Kate Wilhelm has put out some great collections, both as editor (_Clarion SF, Nebula Award Series 9_) and her own work (_The Infinity Box, The Mile-Long Spaceship_). I particularly remember being impressed with _The Infinity Box_. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/26 "2006-01-17T20:49:51Z")
The last sci-fi short story collection I bought was [Far Horizons](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380976307/qid=1137530095/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-0827109-6992712?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). It contains stories from some of my favorite sci-fi universes: An Ender story from Orson Scott Card; A Hyperion story from Dan Simmons; An Uplift story from David Brin; A Forever War story from Joe Haldeman; A Sleepless story from Nancy Kress; A Ship Who Sang story from Anne McCaffrey; A Heechee story from Frederik Pohl Not all the stories are great, but I thought it was a neat collection. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259/27 "2006-01-17T21:01:36Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **San Diego Lightfoot Sue** by Tom Reamy. Reamy died young, but this collection is superb. Another recommendation for **San Diego Lightfoot Sue** , one of my favorites. If you can find it try Blind Voices, which was his first and only novel. \*\*The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke \*\* contains almost every short story Clarke wrote, and almost all of them are high quality reads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-sci-fi-short-story-collection-post-1964/340259.md?page=1)