We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century ...

The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English ...

“A short story, generally speaking, is about one thing, and one big thing needs to happen in it,” says Neil. “Which is not to say that you can’t have lots of different events. It’s just ...

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...