I turned up a few copies of _The Best of Randall Garrett_ on bookfinder dot com. May grab one soon.
I remember another good short -- Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early," which shared a few elements (time travel, Vikings, and a 1911, at least). Anderson's story was from the POV of one of the Vikings, and went a little differently.
Don't know if I have an overall favorite short story, but James Warner Bellah's "Spanish Man's Grave" is a good candidate.
Depending on how you feel about the ethics of the Internet Archive, there is a copy of the 1979 Summer issue of Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, in which the story appears starting on page 32.
I have a couple of short stories that I've really enjoyed, Green Days In Brunei by Bruce Sterling (more novella length) is one. Another is Counting Potsherds by Harry Turtledove. And another novella is The Folk of the Fringe by OSC, which he later turned into a longer novel which I haven't read.
Garrett is more obscure now than he should be. His Lord Darcy stories are among the best SF/mystery hybrid stories ever written. And he was also an adept satirist and parody writer, in a field needing that.
The only books and stories I remember reading from school are either:
-the really awful ones that I regret reading.
-those two Goosebumps knockoffs, because my sister laughed at the extremely trite ending of one of them. She wasn't wrong, I just found it annoying at the time.
-a Jack London story or two, because I had already read White fang, and I had already been annoyed by "To build a fire".
-three separate books that I could name, or at least name the series of them, because they were ones I chose myself during free reading time in elementary school and actually enjoyed.
My google-fu and amazon-fu are weak. Where can I find a copy of this story?
I turned up a few copies of _The Best of Randall Garrett_ on bookfinder dot com. May grab one soon.
I remember another good short -- Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early," which shared a few elements (time travel, Vikings, and a 1911, at least). Anderson's story was from the POV of one of the Vikings, and went a little differently.
Don't know if I have an overall favorite short story, but James Warner Bellah's "Spanish Man's Grave" is a good candidate.
Depending on how you feel about the ethics of the Internet Archive, there is a copy of the 1979 Summer issue of Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, in which the story appears starting on page 32.
https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_SF_Adventure_Magazine_v01n03_1979-Summer_MadMaxAU/page/n31/mode/2up
I'll have to search that one out.
I have a couple of short stories that I've really enjoyed, Green Days In Brunei by Bruce Sterling (more novella length) is one. Another is Counting Potsherds by Harry Turtledove. And another novella is The Folk of the Fringe by OSC, which he later turned into a longer novel which I haven't read.
Thank you. I have carried that story in my heart for decades without remembering the title or the author.
Garrett is more obscure now than he should be. His Lord Darcy stories are among the best SF/mystery hybrid stories ever written. And he was also an adept satirist and parody writer, in a field needing that.
Nice reminder of how insane the population control push was back then.
The only books and stories I remember reading from school are either:
-the really awful ones that I regret reading.
-those two Goosebumps knockoffs, because my sister laughed at the extremely trite ending of one of them. She wasn't wrong, I just found it annoying at the time.
-a Jack London story or two, because I had already read White fang, and I had already been annoyed by "To build a fire".
-three separate books that I could name, or at least name the series of them, because they were ones I chose myself during free reading time in elementary school and actually enjoyed.
School really does suck the fun out of reading.