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For about a fictional work too small to be called a [novel] or [novella] - usually less than 10-20 thousand words and no chapters. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the short story and its form in other media.. If you are looking for a particular anthology of short stories, use the [anthology-book] tag instead.
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Short story about an Afghan dragon during the Soviet invasion
Sounds like Andrzej Sapkowski's 2009 novel Viper (originally Żmija in Polish).
From this review:
Viper is set near the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the action is centered aroun …
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Short sci fi story - A doctor (probably) and a prisoner in Mayan (probably) times have visio...
This sounds like "The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortazar. I found it by doing a web search for "sci fi short story aztec each dreaming about the other" (since I'm pretty sure it was the Aztecs and not t …
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Old short story featuring a glacier in Oxford Street?
Probably "The Forgotten Enemy" by Arthur C. Clarke, borrowable at the Internet Archive. It was first published in 1949 in the New Worlds magazine, then appeared in the 1956 collection Reach for Tomorr …
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Short story about researchers disappearing from a base in Antarctica
Are you certain this was a short story?
It sounds rather like the 2012 film South of Sanity:
Fourteen souls were left to winter-over on Britain's largest Antarctic base. Nearly six months into wi …
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Identify a story about elf and troll and cardboard box
Per this Reddit post, it looks like the story is called "Timor and the Furnace Troll", from Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters. Its ISFDB entry is here, and it's also been summarised in this post entitl …
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Are there hints to the identity of Ivovandas's locus?
I don't see any reason to think we're meant to know
I'm not familiar with the works of Scott Lynch in general, which is why I put this in comments first: in case you'd say that he always puts enough c …
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Superman in Axis WWII Germany
Could it be Kim Newman's Ubermensch!?
Here is a Gardner Dozois anthology including the following short story with description:
Kim Newman. Ubermensch!
Originally in : New Worlds 1, Unwin, 1991.
Alter …
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What is the relationship between Alice and McFeen in "The Vanderlark"?
Margaret St. Clair's short story "The Vanderlark" is set on a spaceship in deep space with a crew of two, Alice and McFeen (or Mac). The interaction between the two is odd: McFeen slaps Alice near the …
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SF short story about alien trying to drive car
Could you be thinking of Nicholas Fisk's "Sweets From a Stranger", which I got identified for me on Literature Stack Exchange a few months ago?
The opening scene of the story, the heroine (a girl call …
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Short story about the lifetime that occurs between a bullet being fired and execution
Most probably Dragan Milosevic's answer is the one you're looking for. But since you say "the story might be Russian", I wonder if you're also conflating it with elements of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, i …
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Short story: planet with wrong chirality
Are you sure it was a short story, or could it be Larry Niven's novel Destiny's Road?
From this page:
In Larry Niven's Destiny's Road, the title planet's indigenous life is based upon right-hande …
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Short story about The Last Zoo on Earth
Asimov's "2430 A.D."?
Wikipedia's plot summary says (emphasis mine):
Earth has established a totally balanced and ecologically stable underground society (similar to that portrayed in Asimov's novel …
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Who are all the characters in Hal Clement's "Hot Planet"?
Hal Clement's short story "Hot Planet" is freely available to read online at Project Gutenberg. I read it the other day and was more or less able to understand what was going on, but the number of dif …
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Who are all the characters in Hal Clement's "Hot Planet"?
In order of their mentions in the story:
Dr. Mel/Milt Schlossberg, astronomer (meteorologist)
Dr. Joe Mardikian, geophysicist
Dr. Tom Marini, biologist
Dr. Camille Burkett, mineralogist
Dr. Eileen Ha …
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What does PE&G stand for, and does it connect with Mazda's name?
I've just read Margaret St. Clair's short story "An Old Fashioned Bird Christmas", available on the Internet Archive. In the setting of this story, mention is made of an organisation (a company?) call …
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