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

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 ...

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though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...