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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 about boy cocooned by giant wolf spiders for food
A friend remembers a horror story in which giant spiders had overrun the world and a little boy was cocooned as food for hungry baby wolf spiders.
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Telegrams from Unknown City that Gets Destroyed by Mist
A visiting science fiction author, James D. Macdonald, showed a writing group at my school this story when I was in 7th/8th grade (around 1996-1997) and I can't remember the title or the author but it …
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Looking for Story in Which Men & Women Shunted into Different Worlds
So, the premise of this story is that (on our world) a husband wakes up in his bed one morning to find the fetus of his unborn baby son next to him on the bed. It seems all the men in the world have b …
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Galileo and the Far-Future Antigrav Toy
I was remembering a science fiction story mentioned on an online discussion forum; the context was a discussion about how fortunate it was that early pioneers had a relatively predictable mechanistic …
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Galileo and the Far-Future Antigrav Toy
Someone answered this for me on another discussion group! The story is Stanley Schmidt's "Lost Newton"!
From the SF Encylopedia:
[Schmidt's] first novel, Newton and the Quasi-Apple (September 1970 A …
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Medievalesque fantasy stories on audio cassette in Early 1990s
As a small child in the early 1990s I eagerly listened to a series of short stories on audio cassette that took placing in a strongly medieval world, involving a jester (who perhaps ultimately gets cr …
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Humorous SF Novel About Cartoon Animal Looking Aliens That Go To Disneyland [duplicate]
Looking for a humorous science fiction novel about some humorous aliens that look like cartoon animals. They ultimately go public, but before that they visit Disneyland and are stopped by security who …
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Humorous SF Novel About Cartoon Animal Looking Aliens That Go To Disneyland
Sorry!
I don't know why it took me so long to find the answer. Google Search is not what it used to be! The answer, in case anyone beside me is curious, is Alan Dean Foster's Quozl. Thanks to all who …
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