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Results tagged with story-identification
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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/Novella where philosophy students invent a religion
Is it "The Sun and I" by K. J. Parker?
“We could always invent God,” I suggested.
We’d pooled our money. It lay on the table in front of us; forty of those sad, ridiculous little copper coins we used …
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Fantasy short story - fake church of the sun
After placing a bounty on this question, I was directed to another question that was awfully similar. Based on a clue from the comments on that question, and a healthy dose of sheer dumb luck, I sus …
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TV series or movie about intern or new employee in a lab with monsters or mutants
This may have been The Pilot Episode Sanction, S01E01 of the cult classic The Middleman. In the opening scene, the main character (Wendy Watson, played by the criminally underemployed Natalie Morales …
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YA novel involving immortality via drowning
In the early or mid-'90s, I read a young adult sci-fi/fantasy novel that I can't now remember the title of. My recollection is that the novel involved a main character (a teenage girl, I think) from …
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60's-70's Sci-Fi anthology(?) - planet Earth is overly hot and in the end the sun explodes
It's probably not this one, but I'll put it out there all the same: is it possibly Larry Niven's 1971 short story Inconstant Moon?
Most of this story takes place at night; it is narrated by a man li …
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Man broadcasting on the radio after an apocalypse
Steve's answer gave me an idea: could it have been Pontypool (2008)? Here's a summary:
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he think …
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Which Asimov story has malevolent 3-law AI?
"Cal" (1991) is a late Asimov story in which, at the end of the story,
Here's a passage from the very end of the story:
It is notable that the story ends with this passage; it is left ambiguous …
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