Yes. 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson can be considered a science - fiction - like short story in some ways. It presents a dystopian small - town society with a very strange and disturbing ritual. For more traditional science fiction short stories, Philip K. Dick has a lot to offer. His story 'Second Variety' is set in a post - war world filled with menacing self - replicating machines. And Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' is a profound exploration of ethics and sacrifice in a fictional society.