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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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Story about Unions and their Balance with Management
I believe this is "Meeting of the Board" (1955), by Alan E. Nourse, readable online here. The premise of the story is that a union owns and controls the company Robling Titanium at the expense of the …
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Itinerant workers, one of whom wants to be an interstellar pilot,
This might possibly be Samuel R. Delany's novella "The Star Pit" (1967), readable online at archive.org. Two of the main characters, the protagonist Vyme and Ratlit, have knocked around the galaxy be …
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Trying to remember the name of a story in which a character gets a "tactical massage"
I found a copy of (full title) The Windhover Tapes: Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets. The passage I was thinking of that was similar to the question is soon after the protagonist, Gerard Manley, joins th …
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Question about a short story I heard read on the radio about a race who performs surgery for...
This story is most likely "Sporting with the Chid" (1979), by Barrington J. Bayley, which matches your description closely. Having heard that, in human religions, souls can leave bodies, the Chid (th …
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Man committing suicide wakes to find that Earth is an alien simulation of a perfect world
This is a match for the Harlan Ellison story "Strange Wine" (Amazing Science Fiction, June 1976.) Although it doesn't say that Earth is a simulation, the story is otherwise as you've described it: …
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Sci-fi story about a future in which students are evaluated to determine the field of work t...
As the comments above say, this is probably the Isaac Asimov novella "Profession" (1957; ISFDB, Wikipedia links). To quote from the Wikipedia article:
People in this future society are taught to rea …
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Anyone tell me the name of this half-remembered sci-fi story about a genius teaboy?
I think this is Futuretrack 5 (1983), by Robert Westall.
It's set in a future where everyone's allotted role is decided by a series of tests once they reach a certain age. They are then classified in …
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SF novel with sentient planet that consumes the bad guys
This sounds like Orson Scott Card's novel A Planet Called Treason (1979), later rewritten as Treason (1988).
In this book, different families have different territories and different talents, based on …
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Trying to recall the name of a book I read in the 80's
This could be the story "Profession", by Isaac Asimov (1957.)
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Name of short story about scientists replicating a folk cure
This is an approximate match for the story "Behind the Sandrat Hoax", by Christopher Anvil (Galaxy, October 1968.) This story doesn't mention a native disease—the problem is rather dying of thirst, w …
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Book series about a feudal planet with two species of humans- one being tentacled symbiotes
I think you may be thinking of the Sime~Gen Universe, by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (sometimes together with Jean Lorrah.) To quote Wikipedia:
The Sime~Gen Universe, created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg …
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Story about a colonized planet of butterflies that are telepathic plant life
This sounds like the novelette "Hunter, Come Home" (1963), by Richard McKenna. In this story, which deals with an attempt to terraform the planet by releasing the killer plant Thanasis to destroy the …
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Story about teleportation gateways that make the user younger
This might possibly be the Damon Knight story "Ticket to Anywhere" (1952.) It has a network of teleportation booths that don't make you younger, but do temporarily stop the aging process while you're …
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Short story with schizo-tech aliens and "hydrogen fusers"?
This is the Christopher Anvil story "The Plateau", originally published in the March 1965 issue of Amazing Stories and available to read at the Internet Archive. The magic device was called a "hydrof …
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Set of short stories, including eating mangoes in the bathtub and helium suitcases
This was probably the collection My Friend Mr. Leakey, by J. B. S. Haldane (1937). In the first story, "A Meal with a Magician", the magician Mr. Leakey gives the protagonist a mango that he's enchan …
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