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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 - 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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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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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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Sci Fi short story collection: One about immortals that live in the mountains and another about a drug to perfect genetics that also swaps sex
Some years ago, never mind how many, (Early 2000-2010) my mother gifted me a thick volume of sci-fi short stories. I vaguely remember the dust jacket being covered in greenery.
I feel like the title ...
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Collection of short sci-fi stories - zombie soldiers and a man tears his own heart out
In the title - I would've read it sometime in the mid to late 90s, I suppose. Cover just had a weird-looking humanoid alien figure, front profile (head/chest) - wish I could be more detailed.
Anyway - ...
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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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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 short story about a cashless society where they let a guy pay cash but his change is credit
I read this story in an anthology of science fiction short stories. I was in grade 6 and it was 1969.
It was about a man that goes to buy something with money but the store was cashless. Finally they ...
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Children's sci-fi collection - Alien orthodontist
When I was a child in the 70s I would stay with my grand parents and read children's sci fi. They had a particular book containing a collection of short stories one of which was about a human guy ...
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Sci-fi book about a shape shifting machine wandering the surface of a planet sized space ship
Been looking for this forever, it was part of an anthology I think and used such generic names that it seems impossible for me to find without knowing the book name.
It's about a shape shifting ...
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Science Fiction short story - orphan child is really shape-shifting alien (monster movie in climax)
I read this short story in a collection of short stories about monsters of various kinds. It's told in a journalistic style, with reports about what survivors remembered about a particular kid in the ...
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Childrens Anthology with the first chapter of the Hobbit and a Moomintroll story
I read The Hobbit in 1963 after reading a large format children's illustrated anthology which had a Tove Jansson Moomintroll story or chapter and the first chapter of The Hobbit along with other ...
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Sci-Fi short story about a scientist who travels uncontrollably through alternate dimensions
In 1984-85 I read a short sci-fi story in a book of stories about a scientist who created a device that sends him to an alternate dimension. At first there is very little difference from our own but, ...
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Seeking an anthology book called 'A View From A Distant Shore'
In the 1990s I came across a book by the title
A View From A Distant Shore.
It was a collection of short stories from Eastern Europe I believe. It was an older secondhand paperback. I mostly ...
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Sci fi anthology book with a story about a lizard alien who comes to Earth, and another about a commune of humans being led by tentacle aliens [duplicate]
I am looking for a book -- I think from the '70s or '80s -- that was a collection of scifi stories that usually had some kind of horror element to them.
I know the first story was about a man who ...
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