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12 questions linked to/from Story featuring smart people sent on a space mission to nowhere
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Looking for a short story, where a few people are sent on a spaceship and become geniuses [duplicate]
The thing is, Earth is doomed because of strife and lack or resources, so the government sends a few (six? I think) people on a voyage toward "a new home for mankind", but actually there isn't any ...
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IChing and space travel identification question [duplicate]
There was a short that I read in an anthology, when I was on my anthology kick about 8-15 years ago. I am fairly positive that the story was from pre-1995, if that helps anyone. I know it wasn't a ...
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Short story or novella about a group of young people sent off to space with an AI, who return as avenging angels [duplicate]
They are sent off as a suicide mission toward Vega or somewhere similar, and the AI is supposed to learn from them whatever they discover and return it somehow. They aren't told the truth, naturally. ...
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Looking for title of a sci-fi story about a one-way space journey [duplicate]
I'm looking for the title of a Sci-Fi story (probably pre-1990) where a group is sent off into deep space and I believe unbeknownst to them it's a one-way journey.
In the course of the journey they ...
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Novel with humans travelling to a distant planet becoming super-intelligent [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the name of a novel (or was it a short story) where a group of humans travel to a distant planet and along the way (through genetics?) become more and more intelligent. I seem to ...
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Couples sent on near-light speed trip to see how they're affected [duplicate]
Earth sends a few (4?) couples on a short near-light speed round trip to see how they are affected, not telling them some important facts. They evolve very rapidly, first dropping all social mores, ...
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Science fiction short story where a spaceship crew develops some kind of powers, through isolation and necessity [duplicate]
Trying to remember the name of this story I read at least a decade ago. A spaceship is sent out to find a new world. But actually its secret purpose is for the crew to, in necessity and solitude, ...
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Sci-fi novel about the first voyage to a planet around another star, along the way it is found that planet doesn't really exist
I've been looking for this book I read as a teenager and can't find any reference to it. It was written probably late 70's to early 80's.
A mission to the first planet around another star is formed ...
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Story about children sent into space who return for revenge
I vaguely remember a story (novella?) about a group of children with enhanced intelligence shot into space at relativistic speed where they develop almost mystical powers (at some point they use the I ...
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Seeking title and/or author of dystopian science-fiction novel from late-70s/early-80s
In the novel, humans all lived underground and were decanted - not born, were undersized, short-lived, emotionally-empty, and prone to suicide and freak-outs. Above ground there were mechanized ...
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Astronauts get mental improvement in space, return with amazing tech
science fiction theme : astronauts return with fantastic technology after a short time in space after learning how to think better after leaving earth.
Short story 40-60 years ago : name ? author?
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I am searching for a story I partially recall but can't identify
The story I am looking for was probably published around the 1960s. I think it was a novel, but it might have been shorter. I believe the author was well-known. The plot of the story is that society ...
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