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Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

Wireless - Charles Stross

Stories of your life and others - Ted Chiang

Moonrise - Ben Bova

Last Plane to Heaven - Jay Lake

Best of Greg Egan - Greg Egan

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I heartily second Ted Chiang. He is an expert at the craft of the short story despite it being his first whole compilation that was published.

Short stories have historically been the way science fiction was popularized starting in the early 1900s. Novels and series would develop out of those successful shorts or if an author becomes successful enough.

I quite liked "Terminal World" by Alastair Reynolds, though sadly he plans no further novels in that universe.

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