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Distant aliens receive signal with instructions on how to construct humans, long after Earth is extinct
I'm looking for a specific scifi book that I read years ago, I only partially remember the story, and I don't remember the author or the title.
What I remember of the story is:
An alien race picks ...
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Short story about a hole to another universe that pulls in metal
This question reminded me of a story I read in the 90s.
A woman is caught shoplifting a bunch of metal items by throwing them into her purse. She has no memory, and the purse is empty. Anything metal ...
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Short Story About How 2 Astronauts Who Stop for Lunch Unknowingly Destroy the Only Lifeform on an Arid Planet
In the 70's or 80's I read a short story in which 2 astronauts looking for a nice place to eat lunch choose a spot at the pole of a small desolate planet, overlooking the world's only pool of surface ...
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Short Story About Contact With An Alien Race That Extruded An Elixir
I remember once many years ago reading a short story about how the Human Race established contact with an alien race. One of the exchanges involved one alien and one human meeting in orbit on a space ...
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Which novel involves vampires, burning satellites, space travel, and body modification?
About a decade ago, I encountered a novel or a novella that I cannot locate.
The setting was Earth, about one century into the future. I remember vampires and a mesh of satellites around the Earth ...
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Alien survives crash, dies from medicine
This is an old (1950's or 60's?) short story, possibly Soviet or European author. An alien ship crashes near an isolated village (might be a fishing village?). One alien survives the crash but is ...
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Old story where aliens sell humans some machines to heal anything, and then disappear with their loot before we realize we've been scammed
I remember the story fairly well; I've just forgotten the title. (And the author.) I have the impression that the story goes way, way back to the 1950s, but that may be inaccurate. I first read it in ...
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I am trying to locate a story about first contact where the aliens want to talk to the ship's dog instead of the contact team, any ideas?
The premise is that the dog can tell the aliens more about the real nature of human beings. I've been looking for the story for weeks now.
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Story About Contact with an Alien Race That Lives on a Different Time Scale [duplicate]
I remember a few months ago looking at a story about humans arriving on a planet and finding a microscopic alien race. This microscopic alien race lived on a different time scale where they aged a lot ...
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Story where the main character learns to perceive time out of order from the aliens
I read a story several years ago in which aliens come make first contact with Earth, and a bunch of scientists set to work trying to establish communication with them in various fields. The main ...
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Short story told from vegetarian alien's POV observing astronaut behavior, including laughter [duplicate]
Probably mid to late 20th century story. I believe the title is something like "Farewell Ilya" or "Goodbye..."
The alien tells the story. Actually, perhaps the astronauts are the aliens, since I ...
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Looking for a short story title about an alien that encounters a probe on its own planet [duplicate]
This short story concerns an alien creature of some kind that is slowly feeding on the surface of its home planet. It must stay "in its lane" so to speak because others of its species feeds on either ...
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Trying to identify a short story about a dog and how it's being left behind resulted in a human /alien race alliance [duplicate]
This is a story - likely from the mid seventies - that I read (maybe even have) in an anthology paperback. The premise is that humanity is threatened by a malevolent alien race. A military (?) space ...
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80's or earlier story called "There Stands a Statue"(?)
In the 80's(?) I read a story in an secondhand anthology that may be called "There Stands a Statue." The plot I remember is something like this.
In the park there stands a statue; like many others it ...
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First contact story where aliens are (discovered at the very end to be) anti-matter
Does anyone recall the name of a SF first contact story where humans encounter an alien ship, and use the weak force to define left and right. At the very end, as the human and alien space walk out to ...
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