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Short story of an alien society without the concept of suicide until first contact with humans
I’m looking for a very short story about a disastrous first contact between humans and aliens, involving a sort of memetic cross-infection. The aliens had never come up with the concept of ‘suicide’ ...
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Short Story about unexpected first contact
I'm trying to help my dad identify a short story he read when he was young. So it must have been written in early 70s or before.
Synopsis as he remembers it:
The far space scout lands his ship on ...
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Cannot find simple first contact "mood" story
I read a first contact science fiction story in class in 1976 that I found fascinating but cannot find anywhere after many searches. It was perhaps written by Pohl or Asimov or Leinster ? but every ...
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Short story: ship for first contacts, species most like those contacted would seem to be in charge
This story was from the 1960s or earlier, read in a hardbound collection of stories, possibly all from one magazine.
The spaceship was large and sent on first contact missions. It had several ...
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Identifying story on male human protagonist helping aliens crashed in the mountains
This is a story I read about 20 years ago, but translated so it may have been older. Can't find it by google/google books.
What I remember: there was a single, human male protagonist, in the ...
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Looking for short story about alien scavengers chasing space whales on earth
I read this short story years ago on the net, and a lot of details have faded from my mind since then.
The premise is that there are these gigantic space-borne creatures that eats just about ...
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Alien Nanotech Builds Space Travel Portal
There was a series of books that I read part of back in the 1980s in trade paperback form published in the US. It was newly published then I think. It featured an alien race that had perfected ...
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First contact book where humans, humanoid cat people and other aliens are captured to fight for their alien captors
Humans are captured, transported to an alien starship, then brutally trained to fight by fighting each other. Ultimately a leader emerges and his trained team is then introduced to other captured ...
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Aliens united to destroy a violent race, but the twist is that it’s humanity
I'm looking for a sci-fi short story where a crew from Earth makes first contact with an alien. The alien tells them about how all the alien races united to destroy an extremely violent/belligerent ...
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Short story first contact - Earth can ask anyone a question and nobody can answer
It's a short story about making first contact.
I can remember than the Earth is able to ask a question, but nobody can answer it.
In the end some army attacks the place they are going to send the ...
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