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Story about recording and comparing the "scores" of sexual encounters
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I read an article in the New York Times about a sex toy that monitors sexual arousal and uploads the data to a phone app that can display an arousal curve like an EKG. The curve (allegedly) ...
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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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A short fiction about an oven that did not need fuel
This is either a short story or a "shortish" novelette, I am not sure. I read it about 20 years ago but probably in a collection, so it could be much older.
It happens in a world quite ...
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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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Looking for a Short Story Title about a Victimizing Society
This story, maybe 1960s or 70s, is about a society where everyone carries a weapon, and people prey on each other. Those who allow themselves to become victims are blamed for being weak. After a ...
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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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Club footed man needs testosterone for sons, kills
Looking for a story Where anthropologists study a primitive society, (modeled on New Guinea?) They are befriended by a club footed native with two sons. The native then murders one of his new friends. ...
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Book about escaping dystopia
I am looking for a book for my mum that she can't remember the name of.
Details:
The people lived in pod like rooms.
Fed by pills
Escape by a shoot.
They do that by working out the pods.
Set in the ...
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Teleportation short story 1950s-1960s effects on society
Sometime in the 1960s I read a short story about the effects of teleportation on society. Looking for title and author.
Every home had a teleportation booth which could send someone to another booth ...
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Short story where man rejected from learning program and identified as untrainable
I read a story when I was a child in the 70's that I cannot forget. It may have been from fiction written between 1950 - 1975. My older brother subscribed to several short fiction scifi magazines.
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Story about curing poverty by injecting the poor with nanotechnology?
This was probably an Analog short story. Plot involved infecting the dregs of society with nanotech that gave them motivation and valuable skills. There was an essential ethical component to this ...
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Searching for a scifi novel incl. Evolution, telepathy, own state/country/isle and bad ending
I think that this was a rather old novel, some children developing telepathic skills on different parts of the world, getting in contact with each other, maybe some disabled telepath, and then them ...
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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 ...
