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Short story about alien invasion with a twist.

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Anyone running for office declared insane so leaders were selected by some other method

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Dystopia of a world where old people get killed

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Soldier travels via interplanetary portal-like booth/kiosk

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Short story about a spaceship haunted by Laika's ghost because the pod got stuck in one of their tail spurs, featured in an anthology

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Short story where a captive spirit entity was used to defeat other spirit-realm entities

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Sci-fi story: they put humans in missiles/rockets

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Trying to remember a Fantasy book/short story I read about powerful maybe enslaved humans with 6 fingers

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Improved memory leads to writing success

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Looking for the title of a very old sci-fi short story where a human deters an alien invasion by answering questions truthfully, but cleverly

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Short story: typical 'time machine and kill Hitler' tactic backfires when the world is made peaceful and thus totally unprepared for alien invasion

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Old science fiction short story about a lawyer attempting to patent a new kind of incredibly strong cloth

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A short story where all humans deliberately evacuate Earth to allow its ecology to recover

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A short story where criminals are sent back in time as punishment

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