Questions tagged [anthology-book]
An anthology book is a collection of short stories or novella-length stories in a single omnibus edition. This tag is typically to be used in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag.
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Collection of dystopian short stories: people eat a dog, detective hunts and kills kids, world where everyone is dumb
It’s a compilation of short stories that all take place in the future. I read it in 2016 & I can’t for the life of me remember it. It’s written in English.
One of the stories was about these kids ...
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Young adult short story book with one story where a woman finds a walrus suit and becomes a walrus
I’m trying to identify a book I remember reading sometime in the 2005-2006 time range. This book was in my fifth grade classroom in the US. I’ve tried searching for it a few times in the past few ...
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Searching for a Sci-fi short story about a parasitic fungus that makes people climb poles and explode
This short story concerns a parasitic fungus, very similar to the infamous Ophiocordyceps unilateralis in ants. In this story, it was used as a bio-weapon, and has taken over large swaths of America. ...
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Short story: member of 'atomic priesthood' reminisces
This is a short short I remember reading, part of an anthology, possibly near the front. The main character is a member of an 'atomic priesthood', a monkish order charged in ancient times with keeping ...
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Old story about a man with tattoos that told stories
I'm trying to remember the name of this book that's really a collection of short stories but is told with a narrator character who's telling the stories he sees as they take place on a man covered in ...
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Time travel short story about a man from a multi-racial future who is killed when he goes back to a racist past?
A friend of mine had an Amazing Tales-type anthology back in the mid-80's with this story. A traveller is sent back to an earlier time (early 20th century America?). He reveals innocently that he's &...
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Short story collection about a genius inventor who guesses a password and develops an addictive food that turns explosive
I picked this hardcover book up at an overstock store in the late '70s or early '80s and I haven't found the identification on Stack or other sources during sporadic searches in the past year. (The ...
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Author and book title that includes "The Slow Ones"
I am looking for the author and book title that included a short story I think was called "The Slow Ones".
On this planet is found large circular basalt-glass lakes of unknown origin. Around ...
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AI tricks space pirates into attacking its ship; kills all but one as part of effort to "civilize" space
Sometime around 2000, I read a short story in an anthology. Humanity is implied to be entirely, or largely spaceborne, with rare encounters between ships.
A group boards/attacks one ship, intending to ...
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Earth men land on planet with wolf/dog-like predators, use newly developed ray guns with unlimited range
Earth men land on a planet filled with wolf- or dog-like predators. They have newly developed ray guns and fight off the predators that attack them when they leave the ship. Upon returning to the ship ...
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Science Fiction Anthology, probably 70s
I'm fairly sure the book has Science Fiction in the title. It also contains Who Can Replace a Man? by Brian W. Aldiss. I think that was either the first, or one of the first few stories in the book. I ...
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SF short story about a woman that travels between worlds by means of a web
Years ago (between 2006 and 2010, so the anthology would have to have been published before then, but it might have been as old as say the 80s-90s, late 90s or early 00s more likely) I borrowed a sci ...
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Short story from an anthology book where a man travels back in time trying to meet Jesus but ends up becoming him
This story involved a young man in the future who travels back to the time of Jesus to meet him only to end up as Jesus. He is able to perform "miracles" because he shares some aspirin from his ...
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Short story involving a man who does battle at the molecular level in his own body
After I saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in my youth I bought a paperback of the same name. Besides 2001, it had maybe two short stories. I thought all were written by Arthur C. Clarke but that ...
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Help identifying either an anthology or specific short story contained therein
When I was a kid, I had an anthology of sf stories, and now I'm trying to see if I can recover/rediscover any of them. The book itself was a hardback. I read this as a kid, so some time in the 90s. ...
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Help finding a short story - Protagonist finds out that people have voted for him to die
I roughly remember the premise as follows:
A protagonist finds out that a televangelist has encouraged his audience to vote to kill him. In 24 hours he should die.He spends that time trying to stop ...
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1960s sci-fi anthology with a Viking fighting a U.S. army MP on the cover
A sci-fi collection with a Viking and a U.S. army MP fighting each other on the cover. I lost this in 1967. It was a paperback anthology.
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Short story where interplanetary explorers find a strange planet that's weirdly suited for human life
I recall reading the story in a book that was part of a larger award anthology. The plot revolved around a small team of scientists (3-5) exploring planets searching for those potentially suitable for ...
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Paperback anthology, likely named something like "Happy Death-Day to You"
This one is particularly frustrating because I think I remember the exact title of the book as being Happy Death-Day to You, except searches for that title don't bring up anything useful. The cover ...
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Anthology: Vampirism as a cure for HIV; house full of odd characters; arrows on a path through the afterlife
In the mid-90's, I read a wonderful collection of stories that I've been trying to find since. The book was titled something like Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories, I believe ...
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Short Story ID: Academy of gifted children evolve beyond us & "resign from humanity"
Short story, originally read in a short SF story anthology in jr high school library in early 80s.
Starts off with narration or presentation by a man discussing "wolf/ape children" raised by ...
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Sci-fi short-story collection for young readers - from the early seventies
I’m hoping someone can identify a short anthology of sci-fi stories I read as a fourth or fifth-grader, around 1971. It was probably published specifically for younger readers.
I’m certain it ...
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Anthology series with suspended animation and a galaxy-wide empire?
The stories within the anthology consist of different time periods and perspectives from within the "empire". I'm pretty sure the empire is built based on a technology that allows suspended animation, ...
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Short story, part of a collection, involving a clown pun duel
I believe this was a book of collected stories focusing on a planet that developed its society based on a stranded circus troupe. I vaguely remember that there were wizards (stage magicians using ...
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Fantasy anthology about wizards and magic, including a story about a wizard's tower becoming sentient
I'm looking for a fantasy short story anthology about wizards and magic. I don't remember what it was called or any of the authors it featured. I can only remember one story.
This story was about a ...
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Anthology of stories beginning with the protagonist checking into the suicide clinic
I'm trying to remember the title of an anthology of SF stories that all started with the same premise: a few paragraphs in which the male protagonist checks into the suicide clinic, has a brief ...
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Short story about Jesus being actually an alien that got stranded on Earth
This is a story I read about 15 years ago (or maybe 20?) within an anthology book of sci-fi stories that was already old when I read it. From what I can remember, the story goes like this:
An alien ...
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Horror short story told through a collection of postcards about a man killed by an ancient snake goddess
When I was homeless, I stumbled onto a collection of horror short stories from either 2002 or 2003. They where all based around a single award I can't remember the name of.
The only memorable story ...
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Young adult anthology book from 1970s/1980s
I am trying to figure out the title of an sci-fi short story anthology book that was geared towards young adult readers. It was in my junior high school library and I read it sometime between 1987 to ...
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An illustrated book of short science fiction stories I read as a kid in the late 80s, early 90s
I’ve been searching for a book of science fiction short stories, with black and white illustrations interspersed throughout. I can’t be sure of the publication date, though I read it in the late 80s, ...
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Book about an AI that traps people on a spaceship
My memory about this story is rather short. I only remember the following points :-
The story was in a collection of stories.
In this, a robot/AI of some sort traps 2 people on a spaceship and sends ...
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Scholastic sci-fi anthology book containing a short story about a planet with crystal monsters
During the late 1970's and early 1980's Scholastic would publish and sell books at elementary schools and I picked one up which had 8-10 stories inside which were all fantasy or sci-fi in nature. The ...
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Short Story - Man lives in isolation in a compound, plays tennis against a robot, arranges meeting with a woman
I read this story in an anthology in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
I don't remember the name of the anthology (that will be for a future question) but do remember it also had the first chapter of ...
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Set of short stories, including eating mangoes in the bathtub and helium suitcases
In the early 2000s I read a book that had a series of short stories in it. One of those stories was about a boy meeting an eccentric man who then had a few anecdotes - one was about how the man made ...
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70's Sci-Fi Comic Magazine (anthology) about an alien crash-landing his saucer
A wonderful illustrated B&W story about an alien crash-landing his saucer, rescued and nursed back to health by a boy and his farmer dad. They name the kind, benevolent alien "Pi", ...
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Children's scary story anthology, including an illustration of a pair of pants that walked around by themselves at night
I read this in the early '90s. It was a collection of scary stories that I got from the school book fair. I don't remember much, but there was a story in there that took place during the civil war (I ...
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Story about the 10 commandments being shattered and eventually reconstructed
Read in an anthology in the 90's. Basically Moses comes down with the tablets sees what's going on and shatters them telling the people they're not worthy. They gather all the fragments and start ...
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Name of author (and anthology) of a sci-fi short story called (I think) "Gold Brick"?
Decades ago, I mowed indiscriminately through dozens of sci-fi anthologies. I remember one short story that stood out in terms of writing style and characterization. It involved a bright but ...
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1980's Sci-Fi story collection book with entry about a praying mantis from her perspective
I read this story back in the mid-90's, so this is all from 20+ year old memories.
The sci-fi collection book had a red cover with a large breasted alien/robot. Or maybe the alien was red but the ...
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A collection of fictional stories about chess?
I knew the librarian in a smallish town who was a chess player and so he curated a pretty good set of chess books. One was a collection of chess-themed fiction. I believe this story, from 1953, was in ...
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Short story about a laser-soccer type sport in which a team defends against shots on goal by reflecting the laser beams
Does anyone recognize this story from an old sci-fi book of short stories? I'm looking for the title of both the story and the anthology, if possible.
A laser-soccer type team (reflect the light into ...
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Sci-fi anthology about future crime
I remember reading an anthology collecting stories about crime, possibly crime-solving specifically. What I can remember about the book is:
General theme was crime/crime solving
Different authors for ...
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Collection of sci-fi/fantasy short stories: tiny aliens crashlanding in a backyard on Earth, growing a star as a school project, and some Le Guin
There was a collection of sci-fi/fantasy short stories I had as a kid. I can't remember the names of any of the stories but I can remember some of the contents well:
One story was about some tiny ...
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Anthology that contains illustrations for some Arthur C. Clarke short stories
I had as a child (early 1960s?) a boys anthology of stories of various genres, like westerns. It included several short stories from Arthur C. Clarke's The Other Side of the Sky/Venture to the Moon. ...
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70s-80s SF book, a series of short stories each set X years ahead. In first one aliens placed domes over cities before wiping out everyone else
I read this years ago, most likely this would be a young adult book, maybe from the 1970s or 1980s. I swear the title was "The Turning Point: Tales of a Future Past" but I've never been able to find ...
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Sci-fi short story compilation, including a story about a protagonist who erases the universe from existence with his mind
Looking for a sci-fi short story compilation book I once read.
I don't remember whole lot of details, but there are two stories I sort of remember. A lot of details are missing, but the overall plots ...
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80s or earlier short story or serial about natives on a faraway planet battling invading high-tech troops
I read a story in a sci-fi magazine anthology in the early '80s about a "primitive" culture on some faraway planet. The story started with a young boy practicing fighting in a group of other young ...
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SciFi anthology from 1969-1970
I am looking for the title of an annual Sci-Fi anthology book from circa 1969 or 1970. I remember two stories from it:
Space fighters where the pilot is encased in a womb-like structure that protects ...
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Children/ Young Adult Fantasy Book featuring fairies
I'm looking for a book of fairy stories by a single author that my teacher gave me in the late 70s in grade 5.
The book starts with a girl exploring. She finds a tunnel that passes through a mountain ...
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Science fiction anthology of short stories about radiation and nuclear disasters
I read this book when I was a kid in the 90s. I think it may have been stories all by the same author, who I think was a woman, but I’m not sure.
The only story I remember in any detail was about ...
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