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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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What is the fictional date range for "The Children of Night" by Frederik Pohl, (1964)?
"The Children of Night" by Frederik Pohl was first published in the October 1964 issue of Galaxy Magazine, and has been reprinted a number of times.
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57220[1]
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How old was Delos D. Harriman in Heinlein's "Requiem"?
Many of the early stories of Robert A. Heinlein were part of his "future history" series.
Business tycoon Delos D. Harriman is mentoned in a number of stories, and as far as I can remember, is a chara …
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Old children's story with family exploring asteroid belt
I would have read that story or had it read to me maybe several times by about 1961.
I remember it was in a large format book, which had soft covers or maybe had lost its hard covers. I think there w …
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Science-fiction short story ending with the line "Twenty years later, it didn't seem so funny."
In Pre-70s science-fiction short story: "Cracker for my Megatherium?", user VWFeature asked a question about a story they read. As I read the question I was reminded of two separate classic stories. S …
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"Lost race" in New Jersey from 1960s
Long ago in the 1960s I read a story in a science fiction magazine that was not very much science fiction, if at all.
It was justified as sort of a "lost world" story set about 25 miles from New York …
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A Story About Bad Galactic Bureaucracy
This story was written in or before the 1960s when read in an anthology.
It may have been written by famed science fiction writer Murray Leinster, or not.
In this story Earth Humans have colonized m …
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Short story space liner materializes, almost self destructs
I read this story (English language) in a science fiction anthology paperback book from the 1960s or earlier.
I remember only one scene from this story. In this story spaceships travel by jumping fr …
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Space war story from 1960s song "The Minstrel Boy to the War Has Gone"
A short story or novelette read in a 1960s science fiction magazine, probably If, Tomorrow, or Galaxy.
Much of the galaxy has been colonized by humans. Parasitic aliens from another galaxy that cont …
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Old short story with multidimensional being/monster
As I remember the being from a multi dimensional universe seemed to change form as different parts of it interacted with our 3 dimensional universe.
I read it in the 1963 paperback edition of The Best …
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Short science fiction story where Lititz was east of King of Prussia instead of west
I remember a science fiction short story published a few decades ago, probably in Analog, probably in the previous millennium, about a scientific detective type character, which had scenes set in Lanc …
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Short Story involving Immortality Drug and Murder Trial
I read the story in a hard bound science fiction anthology which I purchased after 1968 and probably in the 1970s. The anthology was rather old when I bought it, so could have been printed in the six …
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Old SF story where a human helps defend Jovians agains human invaders
This was an old English language science fiction short story I read in an anthology in a high school library sometime between 1962 and 1968.
In the 1920s and 1930s astronomers discovered that the gian …
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Is there a real substance called "bismullah"?
In a science fiction story "Schedule" by Harry Walton, June, 1945, Earthmen trade for a substance callled "bismullah", mined on Rhea, a moon of Saturn.
And I assumed that that bismullah was the elemen …
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1960s humorous short story set in far future lizard alien protagonist
I read a short story in a science fiction magazine in the 1960s, probably in If, Tomorrow, or Galaxy. I think that the story was set billions of years in the future. The protagonist was a lizard like …
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A short story from the 1960s where Martian (?) authorities wear purple togas
I read this story in a science fiction magazine, possibly if, Galaxy, or Tomorrow, sometime in the period of 1963 to 1968.
It was a short story, or at least shorter than a novel.
The protagonist and h …
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