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Great Gray Shrike posted:John Varley wrote a lot of really interesting sci-fi short stories that are largely unknown now, in various collections - it looks like The John Varley Reader hits most of the highlights based on it's wikipedia page. I've read five stories by John Varley and all five of them featured pedophilia as a wonderful and magical experience for the child. I've sworn off reading anything by him as a result. For anyone curious why I kept going through five stories, I was going through all of the Hugo and Nebula winning and three of his stories won. But just so I'm not a complete downer, I have to mention Ted Chiang who is easily the best short fiction writer in sf/fantasy today. He only writes short stories and publishes one about every two years. I think it's because he's obsessive in getting the language and structure down perfectly. As a few recommendations, his best known work is "Hell is the Absence of God" which is about dealing with loss in a world where heaven and hell are manifestly visible and "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" where he takes the nested story structure of the Arabian Nights stories and applies it to time travel.
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