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Ask HN: What are your favorite (sort) sci-fi stories with twists?

by notomorrow on 10/17/21, 9:15 PM with 7 comments

• by denton-scratch on 10/18/21, 5:53 PM

  I think all the short stories in Ray Bradbury's collection "The Illustrated Man" have twists. Strong recommend, if you've never read it.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man

  The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke, certainly has a twist. But it doesn't come as a surprise nowadays, because everyone's seen 2001.

  Hmmm. Many of Kurt Vonnegut's stories have astonishing twists, but I can't think of any that are short (although I guess most of the early ones were initially magazine serials).

• by mikewarot on 10/18/21, 7:13 AM

  Wikihistory - https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/

  A sound of thunder - http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.p...

  The last question - https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

• by timonoko on 10/17/21, 9:38 PM

  https://www.scribd.com/doc/100964572/Larry-Niven-Bordered-in...

• by MilnerRoute on 10/17/21, 10:04 PM

  William Gibson's "Burning Chrome".

  (Provided the rough skeleton for the movie "Johnny Mnemonic".) Appears in a collection of Gibson stories also titled Burning Chrome.

• by IronWolve on 10/17/21, 9:26 PM

  Older stuff, Man-Kzin Wars, Stainless Steel Rat

  Newer stuff, We Are Bob, Undying Mercenaries. Expeditionary Force, Old Man Wars

  Risky Stuff, Forbidden Thoughts

  All kinds of twists in the stories.

• by mathematically on 10/17/21, 9:46 PM

  Emergency Skin - N. K. Jemisin

• by andrei_says_ on 10/18/21, 8:03 AM

  8 o’clock in the morning is great.