Greg Egan's short story Steve Fever was first published in the November/December 2007 edition of Technology Review. I read it the Year's Best Science Fiction 2008, edited by Gardner Dozois.

Steve Fever tells the story of nanobots that have taken over the world with a single task in mind: to raise their creator back from the dead.

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Vandana Singh's short story Delhi was first pubished in the 2004 anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan. I read it in The Year's Best Science Fiction 2005, edited by Gardner Dozois.

Delhi tells the story of an outsider who gets glimpses into the past and future.

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Arthur C. Clarke's Hugo Award-winning short story The Star was first published by Infinity magazine in 1955. I read it in the anthology The Hugo Winners 1955-1960, edited by Isaac Asimov.

The Star tells the story of Jesuit astronomers examining the Phoenix nebular.

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Susan Palwick's short story The Fate of Mice was first published by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in January 2005. I read this in Best Science Fiction 2006 edited by Rich Horton.

The Fate of Mice tells the story of a lab mouse that has had its intelligence boosted.

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Kurt Vonnegut's short story 2BR02B was first published in If Science Fiction in January 1952. I listened to this as a free audiobook through Librivox.

2BR02B is set in a future world where population is controlled, death is voluntary and disease has been eradicated.

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Naomi Kritzer's short story Cat Pictures Please was published by Clarkesworld magazine in January 2015.

Cat Pictures Please tells the story of sentient AI that tries to help improve people's lives.

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Andy Weir's short story The Egg was first published on his website Galactanet.com in 2009.

The Egg is a story about the meaning of life and the universe, with ideas inspired by Hindu philosophy.

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Octavia Butler's short story Speech Sounds was first published by the December 1983 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. I read the story in her collection Bloodchild and Other Stories, published in 1995.

Speech Sounds tells the story of a woman living in a postapocalyptic world where many people have lost the ability to speak or read.

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Mike Resnick's short story Observation Post was first published in the 2013 anthology Beyond the Sun, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.

Observation Post is a comedy about an aliens observing Earth through intercepted TV show footage.

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Nan Craig's short story Scrapmetal was originally published in issue 1.3 of Arc in 2012. I listened to an audio version on issue 524 of the Escape Pod podcast from March 2016.