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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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Science fiction story where Asimov like writer is actually clones
This question:
How many books did Isaac Asimov write?
reminds me of a short story I read in a science fiction magazine once, probably late in the previous millennium. The title was something like "Th …
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Short story fantasy elections in Hell
A short story, genre fantasy, read during the 1960s in English, I think in an anthology instead of a magazine.
A human and a devil interacted, possibly the human sold his soul but I don't remember. …
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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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Science fiction short story where medieval villagers were used to time travelers
There was a story in a science fiction magazine, probably Asimov's or Analog, probably about 1990, plus or minus 15 years I guess, where time travelers disguised themselves as natives of the time and …
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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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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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Late 20th century story, probably in Analog, about "glory rings"
I remember a late 20th century story, possibly in Analog, maybe in Asimov's, about an expedition in search of "glory rings".
In the story, "glory rings" were rings of smallish objects orbiting stars o …
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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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Very creepy short story by Lord Dunsany
I remember a very creepy short story by Lord Dunsany, set more or less in the real world - the reader will hope it is less. I read it during the previous millennium, probably in a book of stories by …
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Time travel for literary research from Analog c. 1990s
This is a story from Analog Magazine about the 1990s.
An English professor made his reputation critiquing the stories of a dead writer, especially one particular story. The story opened in class when …
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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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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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Arthur C. Clarke collection with two old stories where light kills?
In an answer to If visible light has more energy than microwaves, why isn't visible light dangerous? on Physics.SE, I wrote:
I remember a story by Arthur C. Clarke in which a character criticized …
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20th century fantasy story with protagonist at the court of a child empress [duplicate]
This is definitely not The Neverending Story!
This story was probably read sometime in the last millennium (possibly in the 1980s) in a science fiction or fantasy magazine that probably had large pag …
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Title of Mark Twain science fiction story with a television
When I was a child I read a science fiction short story by Mark Twain (died 1910) in which a television was important to the plot, solving a murder, I think. And if my memory serves me correctly it w …
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