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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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Fantasy story, beginning has old woman waiting in line to see someone important
Maybe 20-30 years old. Paperback in English.
The first chapter (or maybe the preface, or intro, or maybe just a short story prequel) describes an old poor woman waiting in line with other people (mos …
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New invention compresses matter to produce energy? or other items? (Short Story)
Probably read in 1970s or 1980s (it may have been written earlier.) Pretty sure it was a short story in English from the USA.
Scientist develop a device that converts or compresses any material into a …
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Short story about men stranded on Mars who are running out of air, each takes a last walk as...
After seeing the question about a woman trapped in the nose of a spaceship being burned alive by solar radiation, [The movie "Lifepod (1981)] it reminded me about another story I read. Probably publi …
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Short story: invention of a device to view the past
While reading a question here whose answer was Stephen Baxter's "Light of Other Days" book, it reminded me of a short story I read with a similar idea.
Probably read at least 30-40 years ago, in Engli …
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70s? Two or three short stories involving the discovery of a time sensitive molecule/compoun... [duplicate]
The first story was written almost as a scientific paper reporting the discovery of a time sensitive substance. It described the theory, and process that led to its discovery and include charts and gr …
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Story in which most people in town are reanimated dead people and don't know it
I have vague memories of a story. I am pretty sure it is a short story. I can't think how it would be fleshed out to be a novel, or movie. It is possible it might have been an episode of a TV show li …
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Manga? Large Tower Dungeon climb/battle defeating each level. MC has a cheat. He had explore...
Pretty sure it was a Manga/Manhua/Manhwa.
MC lived in a world (modern times) where a very large Tower appeared and humanity had to climb it and defeat each level (100 total?). Each level (maybe more o …
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Aliens secretly use video game to get humans to solve their problems
I recall a story probably 20-30 years ago (pretty sure it was a short story) in which a top gamer hears about a new computer game out that no one can beat. So he gets it and starts playing it. (Pretty …
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Young teen girl is immortal
I believe it was a Short Story but can't be sure (I just can't think of enough to have made it novel length).
It was in English, probably read 30+ years ago (before 1990)
Set in modern times. The gi …
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70s book/short story, Man wakes up from suspend animation or cryo and world has collapsed
In the book, the protagonist wakes up from either suspended animation or cryo (Probably supposed to be a short test), After 10-20 years have passed.
He finds the facility abandoned (and looted?), get …
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