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What story has an alien symbiote bond with a human in a cave?
Warren Peace #1
Who Goes Here?
Bob Shaw
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/876440.Who_Goes_Here_
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Sci-fi / Action movie involving portals appearing in the desert and soldiers accidently passing through into another dimension (last 10 years)
This sounds a lot like the 2020 movie Monster Hunter based on the video game of the same name.
Quoting from the plot summary on Wikipedia:
On Earth, U.S. Army Ranger Captain Natalie Artemis and her ...
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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach
It's not a film, but this sounds an awful lot like the first episode featuring a Trill in Star Trek: TNG, The Host
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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach
Is this David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975)...?
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out ...
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Story Identification: Rousing speech delivered on alien planet to alien allies that borrowed heavily from Shakespeare and Churchill
That is Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts AKA War of the Wing-Men, a Nicholas Van Rijn story.
Van Rijn and two others are stranded on a remote part of Diomedes when their air car goes down and Van ...
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Earliest 'space locust'/'devouring swarm' type of alien in science fiction?
1930: Last and First Men, a novel by Olaf Stapledon, available at Project Gutenberg Australia. The Earth is invaded by Martians, who exist as cloudlets of motes with a kind of hive mind.
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Earliest 'space locust'/'devouring swarm' type of alien in science fiction?
1950: "Strange Exodus", a short story by Robert Abernathy, first published in Planet Stories, Fall 1950, available at the Internet Archive. The text of "Strange Exodus" is also ...
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Story where hospital staff succumb to aliens and wear them close to their bodies
If it was a bit later than you remember, it could be the 2006 Candy Stripers (not to be confused with the 1978 porn film of the same name)
Candy Stripers begins with a blind girl taken into the ER ...
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Aliens throw Earth's technology back to 19th century levels by stopping all rapid chemical combustion
I think you might be remembering "Pax Galactica" by Ralph Williams, Astounding, November 1952. It was collected in The Stars at War, the first volume of the Pournelle/Carr anthology series ...
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Science fiction story with a boy and girl protagonist and spider-like alien abductors
I found the book, thank you all; it is The Doom Machine by Mark Teague.
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague is a science fiction novel for children that was published in 2009. It is about a boy named Jack ...
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Looking for scifi book similar to The Day of the Triffids
Certainly never too late to solve one of these - or at least to offer a solution. I believe the OP is querying about The Flying Eyes by J. Hunter Holly (1962). Radioactivity, disembodied eyes in the ...
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Book about a space traveler who meets a cat-like alien on another planet
Murdoc Jern series
Book 1 Zero Stone
Book 2 Uncharted Stars
Author: Andre Norton.
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Chapter book where a scientist with lung cancer is abducted by aliens
This sounds similar to Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer. It isn't a chapter book, but it has the plot elements you describe. The protagonist Thomas Jericho is a palaeontologist and he does get ...
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What is the earliest work to have a species deliberately falsify its level of technology?
Around the same time-frame as @Spencer's answer, the Lensman series by E. E. Smith, the first novel (Triplanetary) of which was published in 1948, but initially serialized in 1934, has not just one, ...
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Looking for a ~2000s cartoon with a blonde guy in his teens investigating anomalies where he hunts/catches aliens/monsters
It sounds like Martin Mystery (2003).
The main character, Martin Mystery, is a 16-year-old blond haired guy. He's always seen wearing his typical shirt with flame pattern, and a special watch with ...
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Looking for a ~2000s cartoon with a blonde guy in his teens investigating anomalies where he hunts/catches aliens/monsters
Just spent an hour looking for this, it's Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist.
Summary from Wikipedia:
It is the year 3000. Dex Hamilton, a young entomologist and wildlife explorer is called into action ...
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What is the earliest work to have a species deliberately falsify its level of technology?
The same novel as my most recent answer, Isaac Asimov's Second Foundation is a good candidate. Second Foundation is a fixup of two novellas serialized in Astounding Science Fiction between 1948 and ...
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Long Lost series of books read in school
It's been nearly ten years but I figure I can give an answer to this one. The OP is most likely seeking the Hood's Army series by Nathan Elliot (pseud. for Christopher Evans).
The time frame matches (...
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Short story where an alien signal containing a DNA sequence leads to the end of life on Earth
John Barnes' Enrico Fermi and the Dead Cat, published as far as I can tell only in his collection Apostrophes and Apocalypses
Brief mention of the story here
The ultimately hideous version of this (...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby
Progeny (1998)? Wikipedia gives a basic plot summary:
Sherry Craig, a professional woman, happily discovers she is pregnant. While this is happy news for her and her husband Craig who is a doctor, ...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby
This might be "The Stranger Within", a 1974 made-for-television movie based on Richard Matheson's novella "Trespass". I've included a link to the film's Wikipedia entry.
There is ...
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A story about humans exploring space that are conquered by a much superior alien race
This is All Tomorrows by C. M. Kosemen writing as Nemo Ramjet. The story has already been asked about here: Web story about aliens who twist humans into various sub-humans
The bit you remember is a ...
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Short story about aliens sending messages to Earth and prime math being key to decoding
It isn't a short story, but the idea that 1 perhaps is prime is part of decoding the alien message in Robert J. Sawyer's novel Rollback (2007).
"You're right. It is a debatable point. One is ...
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Book with a man on an alien planet who cooked biscuits for the aliens in a copper kettle
It's not an exact match, since the metal involved is titanium, not brass or copper, and the "frontier man" isn't the one who does the cooking, but this is a partial match for Fuzzy Sapiens, ...
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70-80’s scifi space machine aliens
This reminds me of Moontrap, a 1988 movie about space robots, there are tentacles and parts (human and otherwise) seen and mentioned in the trailer. Not sure about green visor eye (trailer shows red ...
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Old sci-fi movie that has multiple alien spaceships with long necks and people being turned into piles of worms
I think this might be Night of the Creeps.
It's from 1986, so the era fits.
The movie has alien parasites that infect people then the people split open and they release more alien parasites.
The ships ...
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Alien possessing a man in a care facility
Is this K-PAX (2001)...?
It's been over a decade since I watched the film, but it stars Kevin Spacey as a patient in a mental hospital claiming to be an alien named 'prot' from another star system, ...
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Sci-fi children's book with an alien football mascot named Mookiee?
This sounds very much like Aliens in the Endzone, the second book in the Screammates series, published in 1998.
The plot concerns a middle-school American football team called "The Rockets". ...
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Science fiction TV episode in which three young women meet a dying alien
This is the 1995 Outer Limits series season 2 episode 17 "Paradise".
From the linked Tvtropes page:
A dying alien woman who was the Last of Her Kind arrived on Earth in 1946 and met four ...
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