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In this SF story the question is : should one fight prejudice for beautiful people and against ugly ones artificially or just through education?
I am trying to put some order in my memories of a middle-length fiction (novelette to novella) I read about 10 to 15 years ago in a collection.
It is presented as a succession of interviews with ...
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A SF story where "non compos (mentis)" might have been understood as "nincompoop", considering the reaction of the person so adressed [duplicate]
I read this story (in fact, a novella) at least 40 years ago. Probably in a collection.
A team of scientists is sent to investigate the value of a newly discovered planet. With them there is also a ...
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Story about mass hibernation "time travel" to a future that is worse than the present
I've read the story in a translation, so it was likely originally published in English before 1972.
The protagonist works for a police department that detects and wakes up "sleepers", who ...
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Analog Magazine short story from about 1972 or '73 about a Russian/Soviet occupation of Eastern Canada and Northern Maine after a war
Analog Magazine.
Russian Soviet occupation of Canada and Northern Maine.
Early 1970's.
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Short novel about a man with a giant maggot in his house
Can someone please help me find a book I read at high school in the early 90s about a man who ends up with a giant maggot in his house that basically consumes his life. He stops looking after himself ...
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A novella (?) about "experts" in the theory of time travel and their "Socratic" mentor
I read this middle-length fiction (short novella or maybe long novelette) more than 20 years ago in a collection that might well have been older.
It is about time travel. There is one character who is ...
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A probably Fantasy middle-length fiction about a probable vampire during the Blitz
I read this novella (or perhaps a very long novelette) about 20 years ago in a collection that was probably somewhat older.
During the Blitz, the volunteers who dug the rubble caused by the bombs to ...
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Short story or novella where a man's wife dies and is brought back to life. The process is called rekindling. Rekindled people are very different
This was a short story or novella I read back in the mid 80's probably. It was published in one of the Analog-type periodicals, but I don't remember which one.
The main thing I recall is that a man's ...
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Short story or novella in which the protagonist's hypnosis-protecting glasses get displaced by a beaded curtain, rendering him vulnerable [duplicate]
I'm looking for the title & author of an old classic sci-fi short story or novella I read about 50 years ago (story written in the 1940s, 50s, or 60s?) where the protagonist (cop?) is pursuing the ...
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Very faint memory of a book featuring a one man predator
A long long time ago, about fifty years I read a book or novella in the UK.
I can't recall much of the plot, some guy leaves Earth and is out in the big bad universe and meeting/interacting with ...
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Short novel about a scientist who created microcosm universes and traveled to them
Years ago, I read a short novel about a scientist who created microcosm universes and traveled to them. 100 years would pass for each year here.
The scientist would appear every 100 microcosm years -- ...
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Story Identification: Rousing speech delivered on alien planet to alien allies that borrowed heavily from Shakespeare and Churchill
This story or novella probably dates from the '80s and I probably read it in Analog or Galaxy, but I cannot swear to it.
An exploratory team of humans, or maybe a small colonizing team, (call them &...
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Short story/novella featuring armored vehicle vs. dragon
It was in an anthology I of course also don't know the name of. This anthology would be at least several years old, perhaps as much as a decade or so. I see some interesting results about a novel ...
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Looking for title of story, probably sci-fi, about mentally declining man who built prompts allowing him to perform daily functions. Any help here? [duplicate]
I have no idea when it was written, nor when I read it, but it's been at least a couple of decades My memory is very vague on particulars, just that it seemed to be pretty prophetic, bringing to mind ...
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A very cramped place with visiting aliens
I read this novella (or maybe longish novelette ?) at least 20 years ago, probably in a magazine so it could have been older than that.
I don't remember much. It took place in a crowded place, ...
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