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Use for identifying a work of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests instead.

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Short story of a man missing his opportunity to escape his unhappy life on earth [duplicate]

Read this story in an anthology of not strictly science fiction many years ago. A man unhappy with his life is offered the opportunity after an interview to escape this world and live in basically a p …
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Short story, probably from the '70s, where a new procedure would supposedly make people smarter

This is not "Flowers for Algernon." There was one very intelligent scientist who initiated it (as I remember) and the results were that the people who went through it started speaking in a form of gib …
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