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'Twilight' by John W. Campbell - A fascinating thing you see with early Science Fiction, and I don't know if there's an existing term, but so often the stories are all framed as tall tales one person who experienced the events tells to an audience rather than actively placing us in the narrative as it unfolds. Here is an example. The Time Machine is another. The previous story is yet another.

My summer reading anthology. Trying to stay connected with SF because so much of my reading is moving away from it.

“A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley G Weinbaum - The (accepted) first appearance of an intelligent, anthropomorphized, non-human, true alien in Science Fiction. So in a way it is foundational, and establishes many First Contact concepts. Besides that, nearly unreadable as a SF adventure story.