Looking for the authors and titles of SF stories (Potential Spoilers)
kcho
long time ago. I have included a spoiler warning since all that I
remember are the plot details and the endings.
SPOILER SPACE
ALMOST THERE...
1. Human colonists on an alien planet encounter native shape shifters
who take the shape of various animals, starting with rodents that eat
away the human crops to large tigers when faced with cats and guard
dogs, to menace the colonists. In the end, the colonial leaders
decide on a less confrontational approach when the shape shifters
finally take the form of human beings.
2. I believe this story was written by a Japanese author. A man
decides to test the limits of human appetite and obsession with food
when he uses state-of-the-art medical equipment to amputate parts of
his own body and eat them, starting with his limbs, till all that he
has left is his mouth that utilizes mechanical means to keep chewing
whatever is placed in its mouth.
3. A tale of soldiers who are revived from death to fight a costly
ground war. Military doctors nicknamed Brahmin have the technology to
revive the dead if certain percentage of the body is left intact to
counter the enemy's numerical superiority. The narrator is a soldier
who has been revived several times from death and feels a lot of pain,
so he decides to get himself killed by making sure a large percentage
of his body is destroyed in the next attack. He succeeds, but he is
revived again due to a breakthrough in medical technolgy and is
awarded for his bravery before being thrown back into the war.
Many thanks in advance.
Richard Todd
> I am looking for the authors and titles of three SF stories I read a
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> 1. Human colonists on an alien planet encounter native shape shifters
> who take the shape of various animals, starting with rodents that eat
> away the human crops to large tigers when faced with cats and guard
> dogs, to menace the colonists. In the end, the colonial leaders
> decide on a less confrontational approach when the shape shifters
> finally take the form of human beings.
I thought the title on this one was "Omnimal", but I checked, and I was
wrong. The title is "Student Body" by F.L.Wallace. "Omnimal" was just the
name the colonists gave the native lifeform. And they weren't shapeshifters,
in the usual sense, just insanely rapidly evolving into new forms.
Dan Goodman
kcho...@yahoo.com says...
> I am looking for the authors and titles of three SF stories I read a
> long time ago. I have included a spoiler warning since all that I
> remember are the plot details and the endings.
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> 1. Human colonists on an alien planet encounter native shape shifters
> who take the shape of various animals, starting with rodents that eat
> away the human crops to large tigers when faced with cats and guard
> dogs, to menace the colonists. In the end, the colonial leaders
> decide on a less confrontational approach when the shape shifters
> finally take the form of human beings.
F.L. Wallace, "Student Body".
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Dan Goodman
dsg...@visi.com
Aaron Bergman
kcho...@yahoo.com (kcho) wrote:
> I am looking for the authors and titles of three SF stories I read a
> long time ago. I have included a spoiler warning since all that I
> remember are the plot details and the endings.
>
> SPOILER SPACE
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> 2. I believe this story was written by a Japanese author. A man
> decides to test the limits of human appetite and obsession with food
> when he uses state-of-the-art medical equipment to amputate parts of
> his own body and eat them, starting with his limbs, till all that he
> has left is his mouth that utilizes mechanical means to keep chewing
> whatever is placed in its mouth.
This was discussed recently here, I think. You should be able to find it
in google.
Aaron
Lonnie Courtney Clay
> I am looking for the authors and titles of three SF stories I read a
> long time ago. I have included a spoiler warning since all that I
> remember are the plot details and the endings.
>
> SPOILER SPACE
> ground war. Military doctors nicknamed Brahmin have the technology to
> revive the dead if certain percentage of the body is left intact to
> counter the enemy's numerical superiority. The narrator is a soldier
> who has been revived several times from death and feels a lot of pain,
> so he decides to get himself killed by making sure a large percentage
> of his body is destroyed in the next attack. He succeeds, but he is
> revived again due to a breakthrough in medical technolgy and is
> awarded for his bravery before being thrown back into the war.
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> Many thanks in advance.
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Sounds like a garbled version of "The Eternity Brigade" by Stephen Goldin.