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Tagged with moon short-stories
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Short story where a woman on the moon turns off the hologram trees and garden [duplicate]
Does anyone recognise this story? It was in a sci-fi anthology I found in a charity shop and have since lost.
A woman lives with her husband in a town on the moon. He goes to work every day and she is ...
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What is the title of the short story using the plot device of a Film archive found on earth's moon by aliens
Short story published in either a magazine or more likely an anthology. Probably published in the 50's or 60's. Earth is dead and aliens land on the moon. While studying the moon and earth, an ...
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The origin of the Moon: Short story
This is a Matheson-like story where the human race, once widespread in the galaxy, was beaten back to our home planet after a devastating interstellar war. The aliens won the war and the Moon -- an ...
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Nuclear explosion in lunar city [duplicate]
I utterly forget the plot of this tale, but it includes a vivid description of a nuclear bomb going off deep inside a large, underground lunar city of many levels. The explosion, set off in secret, is ...
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Short Sci-fi Story about a door on the Moon?
I read it in a sci-fi collection book, like a "Greatest Sci-Fi Of XXXX". I read a story years ago while underway on a submarine, about a door that appears on the moon, and a retired astronaut is ...
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Short story, a base on the moon and the perceived problems occupants believe they are having
This was a short SF story where there is a base on the moon and the men who go there to do their time at the base (not sure if they get stranded there for a short while or not) eventually start ...
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Tanks, artillery, armored infantry from earth vs. alien base on the moon (1970s magazine story)
I read a short story published in the 70s. Aliens capture the moon and earth military recaptures it using specially modified tanks, artillery and armored infantry.
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Looking for a short story involving robotic proxy warfare on the moon [duplicate]
War was banished from Earth, and instead operated by proxy on the Moon. Belligerent nations would each send robots (not necessarily androids) to the moon to compete for supremacy in the given conflict....
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Robot tank run amok, its trainer trapped in cave on the Moon
Another dim memory from my sci-fi reading binges in the 1980s... this one almost definitely in one of the big hardback collections full of late Golden Age short stories.
The story is told from the ...
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Short story of last alien on the moon?
Can anyone identify this story and author for me?
An alien on the moon, the last of his race, eats copper to reproduce and has spent many decades looking for copper on the moon. He is living in an ...
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Identify a catastrophic sci fi story written before 1980: ruptured spleen, alien moon base, time and space travel, antimatter tool
I read a sci fi short story sometime between 1974-1980 but it may have been written long before that. I believe it was in a paper back anthology of sci fi stories, but I'm not certain.
I think the ...
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Warrior race trapped on their home planet by aliens. Their society turns out to be hyper-advanced [duplicate]
I read this story in a collection of short stories the 1980's and I am now looking for the publication. All I can recall is that it was about a warrior race imprisoned on their own planet by an ...
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Short Story - Family Moving to the Moon
I am looking for the name of a short story about a family that moves to the moon. They aren't happy there and want to go back to earth. The father uses up their return voyage money to have their piano ...
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Looking for title of sci fi short story about lunar base
All I remember is there is a "siren" like effect luring people out of a lunar base to the surface where they die. There is a man looking into this on the base, he barely manages to escape the pull of ...
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Looking for a short story involving warfare on the moon
The story consists of the conversation at a dinner party between two couples. The husbands are soldiers in the opposing "white" and "black" armies that constantly wage war on the surface of the moon, ...
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