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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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'Scavenger' reading dead alien's mind. Turns out it's a small girl
A short science fiction story I'm looking for: a 'scavenger' (or was he called 'vulture'?) is a policeman who reads the mind of the dying. He's a bit of a pariah. He's called to a crashed spaceship, w …
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Old sci-fi story in which fleeing aliens merge with spiders on Earth in the prehistoric era
Aside from the Clarke story, it may have merged with "The Green Drift" by John Lymington. I read it as "The Green Spiders Came Tomorrow", and it has spiders, time paradox, and if I'm not mistaken the …
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