Questions tagged [short-stories]
For about a fictional work too small to be called a [novel] or [novella] - usually less than 10-20 thousand words and no chapters. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the short story and its form in other media.. If you are looking for a particular anthology of short stories, use the [anthology-book] tag instead.
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Old story about space-walking humans
I believe this was in Fantasy & Science Fiction, sometime in the early to mid 1980s. I cannot remember title or author, alas.
The setting was on a planet where only one man lived; at some point in ...
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Short story from the 1930’s through mid 1950’s with a plot that includes robots learning how to replicate independently of humans?
I'm trying to identify a short story about robots learning how to replicate independently of humans.
It was included in a textbook at Hampden Sydney College in Virginia during the early to mid 1950’s, ...
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Short Story - Nixon becomes a game show host with a lie detector theme
This is a short story I read in Asimovs in the 1980s. Richard Nixon is the main character- the premise is that after his disgrace and resignation he's become a popular TV personality, His program ...
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Short horror/weird fiction story about a ship that travels to another dimension?
I’m trying to track down a short story that I must have read in a horror anthology around 2003 or so, when I would have been around 10.
It's set, if I remember correctly, in or around World War I, and ...
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Title of a SF novella with human man realizing he's a robot
I'm looking for the name of a short story/novella from an anthology written before the 80's.
My dad had a bunch of Astounding/Amazing Stories/Weird Tales that I read when I was young and sadly we lost ...
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Story written as book reviews of fictional SF books - with a twist
I'm looking for a short story probably from the 1990s or so, and probably from Asimov's magazine.
It was written as if it were an installment of a regularly published book review column by a somewhat ...
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Short story, maybe by Stephen King, about a woman who learns that her boyfriend (husband?) has been manipulating reality to get her
I was reading Story about a man who can predict future but commits suicide due to this ability and it suddenly brought back memories of a short story I read probably 15-20 years ago. The viewpoint ...
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Sci-fi story by an American author in the early 1960s about a group of mutant human giants who form an all-conquering football team?
I read the story in the middle 1960s in a book possibly entitled Future Tense or Future Perfect -- a collection of stories by different authors, possibly the offshoot of a magazine such as Amazing ...
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Looking for info on a short story by Brian Mooney
I have been looking for info on an author called Brian Mooney. In particular I am looking for a plot synopsis for a story called Supply Point.
I found a list of his works on isfdb.org.
From here I can ...
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Looking for: story published online after 2010 about husband dying of degenerative neurological disease
I'm looking for a story in which a husband's memories are supplemented by a type of generative AI, but the wife feels that this is insufficient. Published online in an online s.f. magazine. That's all ...
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Short story collection read online c.2018-2019 with a story about an abandoned house with a series of arcade game cabinets
I've searched for every permutation I can find and no luck.
I'm looking for an online short story collection that was a combination of sci-fi, horror and fantasy. I found it in the past five years or ...
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A short story about pilot rehab
Things I remember for sure:
a pilot returns from a long journey and has trouble living without his ship, which he had spent years caring fro in transit
in the end, the pilot is left to live out his ...
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Novella, in a collection of three, where space explorers discovered alien technologies like "bonded photon" sheets and disintegrator rays
I read this story around 1975-1977 in a hard-bound collection of 3 stories (pretty sure it was 3 stories, definitely not a short story collection, etc. with many stories). I believe all 3 stories ...
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Short Story: Small Humanlike Creatures, but with Fangs and they are Reptilian?
I have NOT been able to find this; it was a story I read in the late 1970s, maybe in a DAW Books “Year’s Best” paperback.
On an island or in a jungle, small human-like beings, under a foot tall, are ...
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Short story I read in the 70s about a bartender who orders an obscure drink for a customer and finds he is Apollo
I'm trying to identify the only story I remember from a thin paperback of short stories, about 200 pages, from the mid-late 70s. The story itself could well be older. The cover art featured a bald ...
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