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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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Fantasy/SF short story about imprisoned artist [duplicate]
The story I am trying to ID was published, I think, in Asimov's magazine in the early 1980s, though it could possibly be The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and now I think about it the period …
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SF short story about alien trying to drive car
I think I've found it - "So I Jumped Into the Alien Vehicle. A Turnabout Suspension of Disbelief"
An essay by Donald L. Franson from 1961 in which he says:
The minute I saw that alien auto or helicop …
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British Virtual Reality story from 1990s or early 2000s
I'm pretty sure about this one. I believe it is "Piccadilly Circus" by Chris Beckett, originally published in Interzone magazine May-June 2005 and later in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 23rd Annual …
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Short story identification - man in contact with his parallel world counterparts
Science fiction short story, I think it appeared in the 1990s/2000s.
It is about a person who manages to contact hundreds and hundreds of his counterparts in parallel worlds, and in the story is hosti …
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1950s short story with people recruited to fight in far future war
I'm trying to recall a short story from the late 1940s or 1950s about ex-soldiers being recruited by a shadowy agency who then end up fighting in a far-future conflict. The chief recruiter employs a h …
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Short story about alien transmission which ends with the aliens' star exploding
Read this story online a few years back but I am quite sure it was far older, maybe from the 1970s or even earlier.
It has a pair of scientists receiving a transmission from a distant star system. Ini …
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Trying to identify 1920s/30s British ghost story with twist in the tale about a ghostly harp...
This sounds very like the delightful semi-comic short "Ghost of Honour" (1936) by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Though the ghost - who is named Jeremiah Dunbow - plays the organ, not the harpsichord.
The o …
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