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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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Which story had an alien who mistakes autumn/winter for Earth dying?

I think he was sending a report home or communicating with another alien, and the autumn leaves falling from trees etc convinced him the Earth was dying. Likely a short story written before 2000.
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Which story featured a human woman who had a relationship with a short lived alien?

The protagonist was working on an alien world where the natives lived only a matter of days, but despite the inevitable tragedy she allowed herself to enter into a relationship with one. I seem to re …
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