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5 votes
1 answer
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Old story about plant symbiont-enabled simulated paradise [duplicate]

I'm looking for an SF short story in which the protagonist has a vision of the future in which all humans end up living in tanks filled with a plant-like or algae-like symbiont. The people in the ...
Polichinelle's user avatar
19 votes
4 answers
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What story has an alien symbiote bond with a human in a cave?

I'm looking for a story (novelette, short, etc) I've read in an anthology, about a human running from pursuit who lands in a planet and enters in a cave where something falls on his shoulders and he ...
Pithon de Barros's user avatar
23 votes
3 answers
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Short story about a woman and an alien symbiote who live in the vacuum in Saturn's rings

I read this short story before 2000, possibly in the '80s. It is about a woman who usually lives out in the vacuum of space, I believe in the rings of Saturn, and survives through connection to a ...
Elizabeth Myers's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
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searching for a space opera novel with a planet of monks who controlled a monopoly on functional immortality via plant-based biotech

A space opera novel with a planet whose inhabitants are a group of 'monks' with a quasi-religious monopoly on functional immortality. There's a parasitic/symbiotic plant organism (I don't remember if ...
Bassoe's user avatar
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6 votes
0 answers
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Old SF novel series possibly called "Riders"

I am looking to identify a series or at least an individual volume of pulp(ish) sf. Probably, but not definitely, dating from the 1970's. I was given the volume in question by an aunt. I was a school ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Novella where a man bonds with an alien who lives inside of him

A book I read in the early 70s, novella-length. A man bonds with an alien who lives inside him and keeps him alive for centuries. Basically immortal.
Kevin 's user avatar
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5 votes
0 answers
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Illustrated science fiction story about a astronaut infected with an alien symbiote

I read a science fiction story around the year 2000. The story was accompanied by large illustrations, and the book itself was large, bigger than a novel or trade paperback. It was about an ...
bobbyoleo's user avatar
10 votes
1 answer
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Possible tête-bêche book - symbiote on back/ lost colony finds gun in spaceship

This book was possibly a tête-bêche book. A tête-bêche book is where two books are bound back to back, with one being upside down. The name is used for all books that follow this format, regardless of ...
Aaron Gullison's user avatar