Reddit reviews Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works

Here's the story mentioned at the 45 min mark. (It's a quick read)

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

Highly recommend it!

It can be found in this EXCELLENT short story collection

https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Monkey-House-Collection-Short/dp/0385333501

My favorite SF short story writers (in no special order):

• Philip K. Dick--Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a really good collection
  
• James Tiptree Jr aka Alice Sheldon--Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is the best collection IMO, but it is sometimes hard to find (at a reasonable price)
  
• Ray Bradbury--too many volumes to count
  
• J.G. Ballard--The Best Short Stories collection is a nice sampling of his early classic SF. The Complete Stories is a comprehensive collection that includes his later conceptual work.
  
• Kurt Vonnegut--Welcome to the Monkey House has several SF short stories
  
• Jorge Luis Borges--Ficciones is a great short collection, but Collected Fictions is a wonderfully complete collection
  
  EDIT--added Amazon links
  
  EDIT2--Also Gardner Dozois' "The Year's Best Science Fiction" is always ridiculously good. I haven't read this year's collection, but I am sure it's excellent.

You might be interested in short stories. These are all fiction but really fun reads. Check out the Best Short Stories books, like this one, the 2014 edition. I also really liked Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, also a book of short stories.

For nonfiction, there's this series, I find easy enough to read and each essay is fairly short. There's one for each year and they're great.

That's Welcome to the Monkey House, from Vonnegut's short story collection of the same name.

Oh, oh! There are two collections of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories. They are almost uniformly excellent.

http://www.amazon.ca/Welcome-Monkey-House-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333501

http://www.amazon.ca/While-Mortals-Sleep-Unpublished-Fiction/dp/0385343744/ref=pd_sim_b_14?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GKQ35QW9TWSSE6YEC19

History

True History of the American Revolution – Sydney George Fisher

Life and Liberty in America – Charles Mackay
Land of the Dollar – George Steevens
Outre-Mer – Paul Bourget

Shall Cromwell Have a Statue? – Charles Francis Adams Jr.
Memoirs of Service Afloat – Adm. Raphael Semmes
The Roving Editor – James Redpath

Democracy and the Party System in the United States – Moisei Ostrogorskiy
A South-Side View of Slavery – Nehemiah Adams

The Origin of the Late War – Lunt

Reflection on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
Origins of English Individualism – Alan MacFarlane
The Shortest-Way With The Dissenters – Daniel Defoe

While you Slept – John T. Flynn
The Road Ahead; America’s Creeping Revolution – John T. Flynn
America’s Retreat from Victory – Joseph R. McCarthy

****

Fiction/Poetry

Complete Verse – Rudyard Kipling*
Harrison Bergeron – Kurt Vonnegut*
Camp of the Saints – Jean Raspail
Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler

****

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I'm a huge fan of short stories. 20 pages (give or take) and the story is run from beginning to end.

Here are some superb short story collections -

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
By LEO TOLSTOY

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/179299/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-and-other-stories-by-leo-tolstoy/9780307388865/

John Steinbeck is a maestro of the short novella. An American master. The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305862/the-short-novels-of-john-steinbeck-by-john-steinbeck/9780143105770/

Mark Twain did some of his best work in short stories.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/complete-short-stories-of-mark-twain-mark-twain/1100302841

Kurt Vonnegut's collection of short stories Welcome To The Monkey House is one of his best books.

http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Monkey-House-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333501

Here is a fine work, not much read in the US these days sadly, but I feel this work will rise again. The Guardian rates it as the 58th greatest literary work of the 20th century. I agree. A much larger undertaking than short stories, John Dos Passos 'USA' trilogy, U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money is a longer term project in understanding how the pieces fit together -

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/27/100-best-novels-john-dos-passos-nineteen-nineteen-1919-usa-trilogy

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut.

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.

Fully Loaded Thrillers by Blake Crouch.

Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson.

I agree with the short story idea. It takes a long time to narrate well. There are a lot of tips for doing this over at LibriVox.

As for a book suggestion, maybe look at some of Vonnegut's short stories. Like those in Welcome to the Monkey House.

Well, all the usual discussion aside, I really liked Welcome To The Monkey House when I was younger. Time for a re-read.