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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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OMNI short story involving a world tree
I only recall bits of this one...
A father who lives in a world tree is telling (his?, all?) children about the weird people from Earth who have to fly in spaceships. He tells of an adventure where h …
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OMNI short story involving a world tree
Ahh, the internet answers!
Time Warp, Theodore Sturgeon.
http://williamflew.com/omni1d.html
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Short story set in the near future where all wars are settled on the moon using automated ma...
I read this one or something a whole lot like it, I think in a 1970s edition of Analog. The version I read was a "war" between "Usa" (that one I remember) and Arabia (although I don't think it was cal …
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Time travel and shark repellant
Some time ago I read a short story that started with "time police" arriving to arrest the protagonist, who grabs one of the police's devices and hits the button. This triggers a series of time jumps a …
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Short story where a person's name defines their nature
This sounds something like Asimov's "Spell My Name with an S". Not entirely, but you've given us lots of wiggle room, so...
In that story the protagonist, Zebatinsky, is badgered by his wife to visit …
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Story where a virus is turning people "better"
I'm sure Jontia's answer is correct, but when I read the OP I thought of Sterling's The Moral Bullet. In that, the Euros grow tired of the US's attitude, so they decide to change it with a mind-alteri …
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50s/60s short story in which a tourist on Mars becomes dinner
So the only thing about Mars and cannibalism that comes to mind from the 50/60s is the short story "The Food of the Gods" (1964) Arthur C. Clarke,. But it takes place in Congress and starts with a len …
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Short story where the protagonist is the number 5 (or 7?)
Another question triggered my memory of a different story, this one short, likely Omni in the 1980s.
A former child prodigy and now professional mathematician works at a sealed think-tank, I think in …
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Architect makes custom mini-planets in orbit
I'm actually trying to find the anthology this short story was part of, but this is the only story I can recall from it. It was written in the 1950s or early 60s.
An up and coming architect is hired …
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Short story about a moon of Mars whose orbit is only a few feet up
A spaceship arrives on Mars and begins exploring. The crew notices a shallow semicircular trench that runs arrow-straight across the landscape, turning into a complete circle and boring right through …
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Short story collection identification
''Rain Rain Go Away'' appears almost solely in collections organized by Asimov himself. It's possible you mean The Complete Stories 2, but I don't think so from the description of the cover? It's unli …
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Short story where the planet's terminator line is central. Someone stranded on the planet(?)
And I'll add Nightside City by Lawrence Watt-Evans to the longshot pile. This is basically a detective novel set on a tidally locked planet. The protagonist is desperate to get off-planet before its e …
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Collection of short stories; in one a spy attempts to escape detection on Mars's moon by mov...
I'm trying to track down a collection of older short stories I read as a kid. I can recall only one of the stories quite clearly.
It involves a spy, telling a story years later, attempting to escape …
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Sci-fi short story, aliens warned not to wake last human from cryo sleep
Does The Monster by van Vogt ring a bell? In it, "monsters" come to Earth and revive people to find out what went wrong. They wake one too many...
Artwork from the original story had sort of frog/liz …
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Short story about England right after nuclear war
I strongly suggest googling "nuclear war anthology". That turned up this one with a cover that one might stretch to be the one you're looking for:
https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Midnight-H-Bruce-Fr …
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