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Ringworld is significative, but its a novel, not a short story
How about categories for space travel and science fiction mysteries?
This is a very problematic and nebulous article. Heinlein's All You Zombies was preceded by his own By His Bootstraps which is at least equally intricately plotted. (1959 vs. 1941) To drive the point home, I think the whole concept of this page needs quite a bit of critical thought. -- Cimon avaro
The article had this editorial comment, which is moved here for reference: "(Note: This list may be more appropriate as a list of Significant Science Fiction Themes)". Hu ( talk) 03:30, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I agree with the person who said this page has problems, but it has some potential. For example, Nightfall is one of the most famous and important SF short stories ever written, but it did not win a Nebula or Hugo. There is a need for some sort of list beyond the Hugo/Nebula lists but how we determine what's on that list I can't really say. I do think that the categorization of stories doesn't seem too important -- and I don't think it seems feasible to try to create a complicated set of explicit criteria for qualification of a story for the list. There's no way around the fact that any sort of judging like this will always be subjective.
This would be greatly improved by a link to a forum that routinely IDs classic stories. I know such pages have problems with short life, reliability, but how else does an aging brain track down a seminal or unique story that belongs here when it cannot remember either the author or the exact title? D Anthony Patriarche ( talk) 05:32, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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Ringworld is significative, but its a novel, not a short story
How about categories for space travel and science fiction mysteries?
This is a very problematic and nebulous article. Heinlein's All You Zombies was preceded by his own By His Bootstraps which is at least equally intricately plotted. (1959 vs. 1941) To drive the point home, I think the whole concept of this page needs quite a bit of critical thought. -- Cimon avaro
The article had this editorial comment, which is moved here for reference: "(Note: This list may be more appropriate as a list of Significant Science Fiction Themes)". Hu ( talk) 03:30, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I agree with the person who said this page has problems, but it has some potential. For example, Nightfall is one of the most famous and important SF short stories ever written, but it did not win a Nebula or Hugo. There is a need for some sort of list beyond the Hugo/Nebula lists but how we determine what's on that list I can't really say. I do think that the categorization of stories doesn't seem too important -- and I don't think it seems feasible to try to create a complicated set of explicit criteria for qualification of a story for the list. There's no way around the fact that any sort of judging like this will always be subjective.
This would be greatly improved by a link to a forum that routinely IDs classic stories. I know such pages have problems with short life, reliability, but how else does an aging brain track down a seminal or unique story that belongs here when it cannot remember either the author or the exact title? D Anthony Patriarche ( talk) 05:32, 18 July 2017 (UTC)