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Short story about humanoid creatures living on ice, which can swim under the ice and eat the moss/plants that grow on the underside of the ice
Huddle by Stephen Baxter. It was published in 1999 and I read it in Year's Best SF 5. In fact it immediately follows the story Valour that I identified only a couple of days ago.
The creatures are ...
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Looking for a book from 25 ish years ago, Aliens mined Earth and made Humans their slaves, but a human bombs the alien homeworld,
This is L. Ron Hubbard's infamous book Battlefield Earth (1982).
Wikipedia's notes on the setting:
In the year 3000 AD, the Psychlos, an alien race, have ruled Earth for a millennium. The Psychlos ...
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Teen sf/horror book with main character with club foot
I wouldn't call it marketed at teens/young adult audience, but this is Richard Paul Russo's Ship of Fools (titled Unto Leviathan in some markets).
It's a SF horror novel set on the Argonos, a ...
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Looking for the title of an old science fiction book about a man sent to a crystal planet
Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster.
From the Wikipedia plot summary:
Set in the Humanx Commonwealth, Prism is a unique planet because its ecosystem contains both silicon-based and carbon-based ...
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Short story - 80s or earlier - man hit by "meteor fragments", but were symbiotic nanites that improve his health
"Inside John Barth", a novelette by William W. Stuart, first published in Galaxy Magazine, June 1960, available at the Internet Archive. The story is also available at Project Gutenberg. You ...
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Movie or series involving an alien disguised as a child in the woods
Is this Intruders (1992)...?
All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will ...
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Short story about a scientist abducted and experimented on by aliens
"Learning Theory", a short story by James McConnell which was also the answer to the question Literature scene where a man determines he's in a space station by doing some tests; first ...
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Old sci-fi movie with a chrome spaceship and aliens disguised as people eating organs under a black cloak
This might be Life Force (1985). Churchill, the combined British and American space shuttle under the leadership of Colonel Tom Carlsen, discovers a 150-mile-long spaceship hiding in Halley's Comet's ...
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Book in which a spaceship crashes on a planet with sentient vegetation and the crew is followed by an unfriendly alien
This could be a "Nemesis From Stars" by Hans Kneifel,
original german title Nemesis von den Sternen.
Czech translation (possibly multiple publishings over the years) came as a book with 2 ...
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