Questions tagged [society]
This tag is for the questions about works, usually Sci-Fi, that focus on how something would affect or change a society. This tag can also refer to questions the real societies we live in.
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How does economy in City of Ember work?
The question popped in my head since I got to the part where shopkeepers wait in line before the store house to get goods for their store.
Here is some background story:
The city of Ember has a ...
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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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Was ‘The Return of the Archons’ the first example of “regularly scheduled chaos”?
In the original series Star Trek, the episode "The Return of the Archons" (TOS, S01 E21) has a placid, peaceful society with a scheduled time of utter lawless chaos. Several SFF works since then (like ...
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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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Did Jack London influence "We"?
Summary: Did Jack London's dystopian novel, The Iron Heel, published in 1908, influence Zamyatin's We?
Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel, We, completed in 1921 and published in English in 1924, is one of the ...
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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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How are Vulcans that don't strive for logic treated?
While in history, there were a number of Vulcans who rejected logic, and fought wars with the majority that did (one of which resulted in the Romulan Star Empire), what happens to modern-day Vulcans (...
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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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Which 70s/80s story/book has horses as protagonists? [duplicate]
This book is pretty unique. It's about a planet only populated with intelligent horses who have domesticated their humans, because they have hands (horses don't have them). The whole time reading you ...
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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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Dystopian future, an old novel where everyone only has a three day memory? [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the name and/or author of a story I read in the 1990s (I think) about a future where everyone takes 'memory loss' pills. It means you only remember three days of short term stuff, ...
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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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A kind of 1984 remake, in an Internet based society
I am looking for the title and author of a specific novel, a social dystopia that sort of takes after 1984, but takes place on the Internet where some Big Brother, controlled by corporations, watches ...
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