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Tagged with society short-stories
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A hilarious story where "Cyclists" does not mean what you think
This short fiction (short story or maybe novelette) could only have been written by a woman. I read it more than 10 years ago in a collection, but it is probably much older than that.
A middle age ...
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What is this science fiction short story about sex determined at puberty, and three genders?
I think I read this in a Gardner Dozois Anthology of Best Short Science Fiction Year X. The year would have been 2005 or earlier. The story was about a boy and a girl, about 13 years old initially. ...
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Short science fiction story in which cyborgs are treated equally as humans
Last year I read a science fiction story online, but I forgot the name of the story.
Roughly, the story goes like this:
Imagine, in a futuristic society, where the cyborgs were treated equally as ...
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Old story about New York City having become "Black New York"
I ran across this in a science fiction anthology. The book may have had a sociological/political theme. I think I read it somewhere around the late 1990s, but I also think the book was a hardback I ...
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Sci-fi short story about compensation for stress
People have monitors that measure stress levels. If they interact with someone who causes them stress, money is transferred to compensate. Visual indicators allow others to know if they are causing ...
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Looking for an old science fiction short story [duplicate]
I am searching for a science fiction short story I read in an anthology obtained from the public library in Riverside, California around 1964.
It is written in the first person, and deals with a man ...
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Science Fiction short story about a town where people got cured by other people in the town
I'm looking for a short story about a town that had no doctors or pharmacies and sick people were taken to the town square. I believe there was a family passing through and the lady took sick. The ...
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Scifi short story where all citizens are armed (golden age)?
Trying to identify a scifi short story, possibly from the golden age, where all citizens carry sidearm weapons. Everyone is super-polite because it is legal and accepted to challenge another citizen ...
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Short story identification, everyone fixated on an increasingly addictive pattern
This story involved an artist creating a series of splodges that turned out to be incredibly addictive. The representation spread like wildfire, being reproduced on cushion covers, the floors of ...
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