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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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'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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