Timeline for Old sci-fi story in which fleeing aliens merge with spiders on Earth in the prehistoric era
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| Aug 5, 2023 at 23:57 | answer | added | Remco | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 8:55 | comment | added | mattdm | And in the ant story, the "abdomen" was actually some kind of backpack rather than part of their body? It's very hazy. :) | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 8:54 | comment | added | mattdm | I do not remember the title or author (actually, have thought about posting it here!) but I remember reading some classic sci-fi short story where the aliens look like ants -- that deep-seated "ick factor" was a major point of the story. (Basically, the point, as a I recall.) | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 7:06 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 4, 2023 at 1:27 | comment | added | releseabe | It is interesting how many creatures right on Earth seem about as alien as we might imagine, spiders, octopus, etc. I would bet that even stranger beings, perhaps more intelligent than humans, might lurk in the depths. Perhaps when we learn to communicate with whales they will have all sorts of stories of "alien" life. | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:46 | comment | added | Dosco Jones | The horror comes from a human watching a forest floor completely crawling with little animals. | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:38 | answer | added | Dosco Jones | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:36 | comment | added | Photowriter | Thanks, Dosco Jones, you're right, it does sound a lot like The Possessed, which I also remember reading. But I do remember the abhorrence part at the end of story I'm trying to remember of humans for the "alien" spiders. | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:20 | comment | added | user14111 | If "The Possessed" is the right answer, it's a duplicate of this old question: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65011/… The story is available at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/… | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:17 | comment | added | Dosco Jones | I had the same thought about garbalage. It happens all the time. | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:12 | comment | added | Dosco Jones | Here's a pdf version of The Possessed for reference. | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 23:39 | comment | added | Dosco Jones | This reminds me strongly of The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke, except it's lemmings, not spiders. | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 23:26 | comment | added | Jon B | I don't think it's the answer, but it seems similar to some of the plot to the Doctor Who story Full Circle (which is from the 1970s.) | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 23:12 | history | edited | LogicDictates | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Aug 3, 2023 at 23:04 | history | asked | Photowriter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |