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No ICE in Minnesota bundle at itch.io: 1400+ games for $10 donation that goes to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

Notable items include:

Baba Is You (video game)
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build (video game)
Calico (video game)
ECO MOFOS!! (TTRPG)
Bump in the Dark: Revised Edition (TTRPG)
Tangled Blessings (solo TTRPG)
Be Seeing You (GM-less TTRPG)
Rosewood Abby (Brindlewood style TTRPG)
Three Magic Eyeland collections (...nobody else may care about stereograms but I love them)

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From this thread at Bluesky - When people ask how to get into GA SF I always say that the right way is via some of those fat "Best Of" short fiction collections.

Long discussion, many comments, mostly agreeing that yep, the way to get people into SF is anthologies, not novels, especially "best of" anthologies rather than whatever theme-of-the-day was popular. Also many people agreeing that many of "the classics" do not hold up today, and "Heinlein juveniles + the Foundation trilogy" is not a good suggestion for a young teen who might be interested in scifi now.

So... if you were building an anthology of The Great Science Fiction, with a focus specifically on non-SF readers who might be interested, what would you put in it?

( Some limitations may be in order )