Mindblowing!
For certain reasons , I've been musing on some of the science fiction stories that, over the years, at one time or another, I might have classified as "mindblowing". Just a little personal list, one made very quickly... "The Lost Kafoozalum" by Pauline Ashwell "Blood Child" by Octavia E. Butler "Fool to Believe" by Pat Cadigan "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany "The Start of the End of It All" by Carol Emshwiller "The Faithful Companion at Forty" by Karen Joy Fowler "Midnight News" by Lisa Goldstein "The Violet's Embryos" by Angélica Gorodischer "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Tiny Tango" by Judith Moffett "No Woman Born" by C.L. Moore "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy "A Scarab in th...