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Tagged with parallel-universe short-stories
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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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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 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 ...
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Old SF story, similar to "Sliders", involving a group who've been sliding through alternate Earths, and have gotten lost
Spoilers, BTW. The story concerns a group who have been sliding through alternate Earths, and are lost. They're terrified of being identified as some Earths are aware of sliders and don't approve. ...
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Short story where a man enters a cave and emerges into a parallel world
Read this short story maybe twenty-plus years ago, the story itself may be older. A man wanders into a cave, maybe in Mexico, and when he emerges he's in a parallel world. He's not staying at the ...
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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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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 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 guy who travels to an alternative Earth where he pirates music from bands that are still together or still alive
This a long shot, so here we go. In the late 90's or early 2000's, I read a book with short stories.
The one story I remember is about a guy who travels to an alternative Earth where he pirates music ...
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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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What was the short story about a woman stealing aluminum items and putting in a seemingly bottomless shopping bag?
This story came from an anthology, I'm pretty sure. I read it about 30 years ago. A lady ... in somewhat of a trance ... gets caught shoplifting and all she is stealing is aluminum items. The stuff ...
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Sci Fi short story about characters exploring an alternate pocket universe [duplicate]
Sci Fi short story I found in an anthology.
I think the story dates back to at least the 1990's.
I believe the characters are exploring an alternate pocket universe.
They require special suits to ...
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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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Story about a hungry alien who eats the universe and accidentally creates multiple universes when he poops
Time: Early 2000's or maybe earlier
Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy/Dark
Narrative work: A novelette or a story book
Language: Might be in another language than English. Possibly French
Plot: There is a ...
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Short story identification - man in contact with his parallel world counterparts
Science fiction short story, I think it appeared in the 1990s/2000s.
It is about a person who manages to contact hundreds and hundreds of his counterparts in parallel worlds, and in the story is ...
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