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For about a fictional work too small to be called a [novel] or [novella] - usually less than 10-20 thousand words and no chapters. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the short story and its form in other media.. If you are looking for a particular anthology of short stories, use the [anthology-book] tag instead.
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Short story published in Sci-Fi Best in 60's-70's about delivering a unique animal to home p...
Could this be "Novice" by James Schmitz (read for free at Project Gutenberg)?
In this short novel, the protagonist Telzey Amberdon, has a pet Baluit Crest Cat, which is a species of animal known only …
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SF Short Story — Mercy-Killing Telepath
Could this be Suite Mentale by Randall Garrett, published in Future Science Fiction issue 30 in 1956? The story is drafted as for the movements of a piece of classical music (overture, nocturne etc.)
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Name of sci-fi story about a favors-based, cashless society?
Could this be Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. This was published in 2003, so 20 years ago. It is 208 pages long, so a short novel.
The story is set in the Magic Kingdom, AKA Walt D …
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Sci-fi collection: duel between blaster and crossbow, slug eaten alive by butterflies, boy w...
I know this was asked several years ago, but the third story in the question is likely to be "It's such a beautiful day" by Isaac Asimov. The story is about a boy who sees a teleporter break down/fail …
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Short story where a researcher pursues evidence that a small farm has a breeding stock of dodos
FuzzyBoots definitely has answered his own question; but for the sake of partial matches to the question of extinct bird populations being found, I can think of two other stories that are partial matc …
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Short story: Norse command generation(?) or battleship at war
Partial match to Northworld by David Drake, in which the eponymous planet has lost its all-powerful leader and is missing from the "Consensus". A human police officer is recruited by the non-human con …
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Old sci fi short story about weird acting rulers in a decrepit outpost and a lone bounty hun...
This sounds very like "Planet of the Damned" by Harry Harrison. This was published in Analog in 1961/62, as well as in book form. Read for free at Gutenberg.org.
In this story, Brion Brandd is the cha …
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Short story about a hole in the basement
This is a partial match to House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
House is a complex story narrated by different individuals that tells about a young family that buy a house, which, unbeknownst to them, …
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Short story ID: Earth evacuates and one(?) person stays behind
I read this story in the last 15 years, but the story was probably much older (50's, 60's?) and I think is from one of the more well known authors, but maybe not one of the greats. I probably read it …
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Online short story or novella about an astronaut returning to earth and finding only immorta...
This could be from Joe Haldeman's Forever War series. Made up of the eponymous Forever War and the sequels Forever Peace and Forever Free. These are novels, so not particularly short and this event w …
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Short story about a neurodivergent child who becomes a pilot
Could this be a partial match to Gloriously Bright by Orson Scott Card?
This story was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in January 1991, and also as expanded in his Xenocide novel.
It has …
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Short story where a sentient bear and a few other sentient animals band together to save the...
Could this be the novel Space Prison/The Survivors (available at Project Gutenberg) by Tom Godwin. Published in 1958, it is based on an approx 30 page short story called "Too Soon to Die", published i …
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Short story about aliens who melt into one another when they are being intimate
This might also partially match the Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker, published between 1982 and 2000 for the 4 books.
This is a series about competition between human (not alien!) and self-replicating …
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Short story about humans as beasts of burden for another race, read about 30 years ago
This is also a partial match with The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone.
The Lani are humanoid alien species with long tails on the planet Kardon, where they are kept as work animals. They are used to perf …
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