Help identify this science fiction story / novel [various merged]
01-26-05, 12:50 PM
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Doesn't sound familiar to me, but if you have no luck here, you might want to try Usenet. Post this description in rec.arts.sf.written with "YASID" in the subject line and you'll probably get an answer within 24 hours.
YASID, by the way, is "Yet Another Story ID."
YASID, by the way, is "Yet Another Story ID."
01-26-05, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by DARTH GAMER
I once had to read this short story in english class and it was an awesome story but for the life of me can not find a copy of it again. I believe it is called "The Survivor". It is about the future and how countries go about solving their differences. Instead of WAR, each party would gather up their best 100 solders and put them in an arena filled with various terrain and sorts. The last side to have any survivors would be the winner obviously. What made this unique was that it was all televised with commentary. It was like John madden and Dick Vitall (spelling) giving a play by play with slow motion and every one that was killed fighting for their country would get a tape of their death mailed to their family as a souveneir. Anyway, the survivor would be granted imunity in their country and would be able to do anything they wanted as compenstion for their term. Great story and I would love to find out the auther or where I might find this story again. Any help would be wonderful!!!
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01-27-05, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by cheapskate
It sounds like "THE SURVIVOR" by Walter F. Moudy. I think you can find it in several different compilations; just do a search at abebooks.
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05-20-05, 10:13 PM
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it really has nothing to do with star wars other than the can of film containing the alternate ending. it was printed out and passed on to me in manuscript form, so i have no idea who online had it.
05-04-08, 11:01 PM
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Can you name this book/story?
My uncle told me about it -- It was probably published in the late 1950s or early 1960s, possibly in a pulp magazine. The story is about a retired USAF officer who is taken aboard an automated ship (no crew, just an android who looks like a human male) -- this android is referred to as the Ever-Perfect Lieutenant (EPL). Towards the end of the book, the EPL is destroyed and the relief pilot, "The Emergency Mate" shows up.
This may be a Gordon Dickson story.
This may be a Gordon Dickson story.
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05-05-08, 04:33 AM
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Gosh, you've been seeking this one out a long time!
Although I don't have the answer, I wonder whether a look through some Dickson anthologies might yield fruit....
.... of course this presupposes that the particular story you seek was anthologised.
Alternatively, there is a list of his short work here which also shows where the various tales have been collected. I do not know if it is complete. Come to think of it, there is a list that may be more definitive here.
Although I don't have the answer, I wonder whether a look through some Dickson anthologies might yield fruit....
.... of course this presupposes that the particular story you seek was anthologised.
Alternatively, there is a list of his short work here which also shows where the various tales have been collected. I do not know if it is complete. Come to think of it, there is a list that may be more definitive here.
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Originally Posted by benedict
Gosh, you've been seeking this one out a long time!
Although I don't have the answer, I wonder whether a look through some Dickson anthologies might yield fruit....
.... of course this presupposes that the particular story you seek was anthologised.
Alternatively, there is a list of his short work here which also shows where the various tales have been collected. I do not know if it is complete. Come to think of it, there is a list that may be more definitive here.
Although I don't have the answer, I wonder whether a look through some Dickson anthologies might yield fruit....
.... of course this presupposes that the particular story you seek was anthologised.
Alternatively, there is a list of his short work here which also shows where the various tales have been collected. I do not know if it is complete. Come to think of it, there is a list that may be more definitive here.
07-28-09, 11:09 AM
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Re: Help identify this science fiction story / novel [various merged]
The novel was published several times. The first was in 1958 as an Ace Double
D-286 SF Robert Silverberg Invaders From Earth / Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnell) Across Time (1958)
Another edition, as a single, was Ace Books G-728
I bought D-286 when I was fifteen and may still have it in my small collection of Ace Doubles. There are a number of places on the net where both those editions are available at low prices.
12-29-09, 08:27 AM
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Re: Help identify this science fiction story / novel [various merged]
This is a very late answer, but I'll post it anyways: The novel is called Across Time.
The novel was published several times. The first was in 1958 as an Ace Double
D-286 SF Robert Silverberg Invaders From Earth / Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnell) Across Time (1958)
Another edition, as a single, was Ace Books G-728
I bought D-286 when I was fifteen and may still have it in my small collection of Ace Doubles. There are a number of places on the net where both those editions are available at low prices.
The novel was published several times. The first was in 1958 as an Ace Double
D-286 SF Robert Silverberg Invaders From Earth / Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnell) Across Time (1958)
Another edition, as a single, was Ace Books G-728
I bought D-286 when I was fifteen and may still have it in my small collection of Ace Doubles. There are a number of places on the net where both those editions are available at low prices.
10-29-10, 08:33 PM
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Looking for the name of an SF story
In the story, after a (presumably human-caused) disaster human "sleepers" find themselves awakened long after most humans are gone. Humanity might have had a chance if the lone female sleeper had agreed to have children, but she refuses and runs off and is presumably killed (or worse) by one of the roving bands of feral humans, who apparently cannot speak because there is nobody to teach them. Humanity effectively ends with the male sleepers being unable to breed. Humanity eventually evolves away its intelligence, which is shown in the story through depictions of varying epochs of humanity's descendants across deep time, in the vein of Last and First Men (but in reverse).
09-28-12, 01:46 PM
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I could have sworn it was by Wyndham, possibly Wollheim, but I can't find it.
I remember reading it in the 70's. Humans went on a trip around the solar system, visiting every planet, and finding intelligent life everywhere they went. The reason for the trip had something to do with activities of "bad guy" aliens who were, I think, collecting specimens of every intelligent species and keeping them in suspended animation in glass cylinders.
One of the alien species, that only makes a cameo, has something like a swarm of bees in its chest. Another cameo is made by an alien that is partly steel armor, and partly soft white flesh. This is during the last battle, when the Humans set all the captives free, and everyone takes on the bad guys.
Anyone know what this is? It's driving me nuts.
The Neptunians were sheets of vibrating ice crystals.
I remember reading it in the 70's. Humans went on a trip around the solar system, visiting every planet, and finding intelligent life everywhere they went. The reason for the trip had something to do with activities of "bad guy" aliens who were, I think, collecting specimens of every intelligent species and keeping them in suspended animation in glass cylinders.
One of the alien species, that only makes a cameo, has something like a swarm of bees in its chest. Another cameo is made by an alien that is partly steel armor, and partly soft white flesh. This is during the last battle, when the Humans set all the captives free, and everyone takes on the bad guys.
Anyone know what this is? It's driving me nuts.
The Neptunians were sheets of vibrating ice crystals.
09-30-12, 02:21 PM
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Re: Help identify this science fiction story / novel [various merged]
"posits a Britain where a sudden enveloping noise emanating from all machinery and technology causes the population to destroy them. The resulting upheaval displaces many people and reverts society back to a pre-industrial age where there is a deep suspicion of anyone who may be harbouring machinery. Even the words for technology are taboo. The remnants of modern technology that escape destruction (such as electricity pylons) produce a physical and sometimes violent repulsion among those left in Britain."
10-01-12, 02:58 AM
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Re: Help identify this science fiction story / novel [various merged]
I could have sworn it was by Wyndham, possibly Wollheim, but I can't find it.
I remember reading it in the 70's. Humans went on a trip around the solar system, visiting every planet, and finding intelligent life everywhere they went. The reason for the trip had something to do with activities of "bad guy" aliens who were, I think, collecting specimens of every intelligent species and keeping them in suspended animation in glass cylinders.
One of the alien species, that only makes a cameo, has something like a swarm of bees in its chest. Another cameo is made by an alien that is partly steel armor, and partly soft white flesh. This is during the last battle, when the Humans set all the captives free, and everyone takes on the bad guys.
Anyone know what this is? It's driving me nuts.
The Neptunians were sheets of vibrating ice crystals.
I remember reading it in the 70's. Humans went on a trip around the solar system, visiting every planet, and finding intelligent life everywhere they went. The reason for the trip had something to do with activities of "bad guy" aliens who were, I think, collecting specimens of every intelligent species and keeping them in suspended animation in glass cylinders.
One of the alien species, that only makes a cameo, has something like a swarm of bees in its chest. Another cameo is made by an alien that is partly steel armor, and partly soft white flesh. This is during the last battle, when the Humans set all the captives free, and everyone takes on the bad guys.
Anyone know what this is? It's driving me nuts.
The Neptunians were sheets of vibrating ice crystals.
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10-03-12, 04:50 PM
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Aha! I was conflating two different stories. Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, and Spacehounds of the IPC by Smith.
10-03-12, 07:41 PM
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Mrs Danger - I assume that by now you have discovered that both of these are old enough so that they are in the public domain and that there are free Kindle Editions.
Thanks for the ideas for book reading.
Thanks for the ideas for book reading.
10-08-12, 12:37 AM
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Re: Help identify this science fiction story / novel [various merged]
I seem to remember a sci-fi story in which the real enemy was mankind's hubris in regards to technology. Anyone know which one I'm talking about?
