I have barebones of pre-1980 short stories I would like to read:
>Vladimir Nabokov - A Nursery Tale (1926), An Affair of Honor (1927), A Dashing Fellow (1930), Breaking the News (1931), A Russian Beauty (1934), Spring in Fialta (1936), Signs and Symbols (1948)
>A.E. van Vogt - The Seesaw (1941)
>Isaac Asimov - Liar! (1941), Runaround (1942), Catch That Rabbit (1944), Breeds There a Man...? (1951), The Last Question (1956)
>Arthur C. Clarke - Rescue Party (1946), The Sentinel (1951), The Nine Billion Names of God (1953), The Star (1955)
>Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (1948)
>Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains (1950), The City (1950)
>Jerome Bixby - It's a Good Life (1953)
>Philip K. Dick - Second Variety (1953), The Trouble with Bubbles (1953), We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966)
>Poul Anderson - Sam Hall (1953)
>Alfred Bester - Fondly Fahrenheit (1954)
>Robert Sheckley - Ghost V (1954)
>Theodore Sturgeon - The Education of Drusilla Strange (1954)
>Tom Godwin - The Cold Equations (1954)
>Cordwainer Smith - The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955)
>G.C. Edmondson - Technological Retreat (1956)
>A. Bertram Chandler - The Cage (1957)
>Avram Davidson - Or All the Seas with Oysters (1958)
>J.G. Ballard - Chronopolis (1960), The Cage of Sand (1962), The Reptile Enclosure (1963), The Terminal Beach (1964), The Drowned Giant (1964), Crash (1970), The 60 Minute Zoom (1976)
>H. Beam Piper - A Slave is a Slave (1962)
>Bob Shaw - Light of Other Days (1966)
>Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
>Gene Wolfe - The Changeling (1968), The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories (1970), Alien Stones (1972), The Hero as Werewolf (1975), Many Mansions (1976), The Doctor of Death Island (1978), Tracking Song (1979)
>Robert Silverberg - Passengers (1968)
>Ursula K. Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
>James Tiptree Jr. - The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973), Houston, Houston, Do You Read (1976)
>Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (1977)
>George R.R. Martin - Sandkings (1979)

Could anon please suggest more short stories to add to the list (doesn't have to be sff), or suggest what to replace with other stories which explored the idea better?

>Asimov
I'm not quite sure which short story represents his robot universe the best. I read the Foundation series when I was a kid and honestly looking back at it it's nothing exceptional and not worth a reread as it is. I would love the first 3 or 4 books to be compressed into a novel.
>Dick
I read most of his short stories, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, and Scanner Darkly. Second Variety is the only short story which stands out (haven't read the other two I included). I liked The Man in the High Castle but as with Foundation I think it would work better as a novelette.
>Ballard
Crash (the short story is enough to explore that theme) is hit or miss, was a hit for me. The 60 Minute Zoom is rather experimental but coherent enough and I think it's not being mentioned enough.