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Tagged with parallel-universe short-stories
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Short story about friends talking about parallel universes and probability
Trying to find a short story where two people talk about how the "many worlds" theories (or possibly the idea that if the universe is infinite everything will eventually happen) with the example of a ...
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Looking for YA short story about boy who finds family living in cave from alternate world
I’m looking for the name of a YA short story that I read in middle school back in the late 70’s. I believe it was part of a Science Fiction short story collection. My recollection is that it had “Key” ...
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Parallel universe horror story where apparently normal people are ravenous monsters
I am looking for a short story. The plot is as follows: Scientists or mathematicians find a way to peer into an alternate dimension. In the alternate dimension the inhabitants appear to be living a ...
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50's story: space travelers reach speed of light, universe implodes
It was probably a short story by one of the popular sci-fi writers of the 50s. As I remember it, the story unfolded in a space vehicle where two travelers had embarked on a mission to exceed the speed ...
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Can anyone identify a story I read once, about a boy who communicates with creatures in another dimension?
I read this in the 70s, I think it was in a collection although it might have been in a pulp mag like Analog. This was a short story about a boy who lives in a rural area, (possibly Maine?) who when ...
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Short story where time travelers are surprised to see black people
In one of Gardner Dozois anthologies in the last few years had a short story about an alternate time line where the travelers were surprised to see black people as their reality had none. Can anyone ...
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Looking for short story about a scarf
... bought by a space traveler visiting an unfamiliar planet. The scarf pulls him into another dimension/realm/universe. Very spooky tone. Read it decades ago in an anthology.
Any clues? Thanks.
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Looking for a sci-fi collection book 2000 to 2010 containing two specific stories
First, the cover has a purple alien riding a motorbike down a road at night. As I recall it's sort of squid like, and wearing biker clothes.
The two stories are:
Three friends discover a device ...
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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 addictive games and virtual realities
This was a short story I read in the 80's but I think it was written earlier than this. It was about a man who was hit by a bus and thrown through a shop window. When he became aware he was in the ...
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Story about a multiverse theory of immortality
Please help me identify a short story I read about a guy who believed that the multiverse was true, but the one that we experienced was the one in which we lived the longest. He was also contemplating ...
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Short story about alternate world seen through a crack in a wall
Here is a vague description of a story I'm trying to identify:
In the story, there is some sort of a support group for people who have glimpsed, through doors or cracks in walls, other worlds and/or ...
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Short story where a character moves through dimensions via mental exercises
It's been about 25 years since I read a story in an anthology. The only details I remember from it are that a guy is told that if, while walking down a road (or something similar), he mentally forces ...
