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explorers unwilling to return [duplicate]
Unusually for such a request, I think I know the title: “The Deserter”. Trouble is that ISFDB lists seven short stories with that title.
Setting is one of the cold planets. To explore it, people ...
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Looking for an old story about genetically engineering humans to live on a methane planet [duplicate]
In the story it is easier to "terraform" humans to live on this planet than to change the planet.
The humans end up looking like the local life forms...crablike creatures.
None of the converted ...
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An old sci-fi story about an Earth ship orbiting Jupiter [duplicate]
Years ago, in the 90's, I read a sci-fi story in an airline mag. It was about an Earth ship orbiting Jupiter where they sent Earth men down to the surface transforming them into these enormous Jupiter ...
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Short story about an astronaut who lands on Jupiter with a dog [duplicate]
I read a short story about an astronaut sent to Jupiter to try and find what had happened to other astronauts who had been sent there and never returned once they left the spaceship. The astronauts ...
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Transformed for Jupiter life [duplicate]
This is a short story; written before 90s; where a man is in charge of a program to settle Jupiter; where they had developed some way of transforming human into Jupiter adapted life. Seems to work; ...
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Classic SF short story. Men transmit consciousness into bodies that can live in Jupiter [duplicate]
The protagonist is the leader of the team of scientists exploring inside the gas of Jupiter.
The scientists sent to explore have their consciousness transmitted into bodies that can survive there. I ...
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Man and artificially sapient dog alone on Mars. Dog starts behaving erratically
I'm trying to recall a story I read about a man alone on a Mars outpost except for the companionship of a dog that had already either been modified post-birth or natally bioengineered to have human-...
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A story about an astronaut on Jupiter?
Short story about an astronaut on Jupiter, describing him walking around under heavy atmosphere & gravity, wearing a diving-type space suit.
Probably written in the 1950s.
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Story about explorer sending dog and self to planet surface
Looking for a science fiction story, probably from the 1960s, about a scientist on a space expedition who must send explorers to the surface of a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. In order to do ...
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Story: Humans transform themselves into the indigenous life form on a Venus-like planet
I want to identify a short story that involves humans using a machine to turn themselves into the native creatures (lizard-like) on another planet, maybe Venus. The turned humans go off into the grey ...
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