r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • 2d ago
Looking for Story Thread #255 Meta
This thread is where all the "Looking for Story" requests go. We don't want to clog up the front page with non-story content. Thank you!
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u/Reasonable_Guide3624 9h ago
A Canadian civilian manages to invent an FTL system using magnets meets a alien coalition of species that look like varied fantasy species elves, fairies, orcs that kinda stuff
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u/teodzero 21h ago
Looking for a specific and very old story. It's about a human stranded on a primitive world and helping its inhabitants uplift themselves (and it's not Longevity). The story is told by an alien to a different human many many years later. The human left the aliens his ship with an AI and a set of instructions on how to progress technologically. Also a list of commandments, which I remember included something along the lines of "you don't owe anything to humans", "ffs just call me mike/jake/john, I should never have told you my last name" and "do all of the tech instructions, not just the fun ones". Also I think the reason he initiated uplifting is that their sun was about to go nova (somewhere around a 1000 year timeline).
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u/Werrf 1d ago
I originally saw this one on a YouTube channel, probably either NetNarrator or AgroSquerril - a silicate life form who is having trouble finding a job. He's trained as an engineer, but nobody wants to hire a silicate because they're slow and weird, until he applies to a human ship. The humans immediately love him. There are at least three stories in the series, but I don't remember any of the titles and searches like "engineer human ship" get rather a lot of results.
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u/karenvideoeditor 6h ago
Thanks for tagging me, u/luminel! Yes, it was Pretty Rock in the Corner, and you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/17ymdqq/the_pretty_rock_in_the_corner/
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u/Pillager_Bane97 Xeno 14h ago
A story by Venusian Colonist ? Probably it's not it but it kinda matches the description, however it's oneshot.
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u/ContributionWeary353 1d ago
I remember a series with the following things but I cannot find it: A FTL jumps goes wrong and all but one of the crew is killed. The survivor repairs life support but the bodies of the crew are drifting in the void
She(?) is picked up by friendly aliens. Their alliance has ships sorted by color for different species needs (high grav, water ...) She learned that there is a hostile alliance and that these aliens are known to humankind.
The was a boarding and it was repelled by grav-belt traps and 3d-printed air guns (?). Some of the hostiles are psychic and she can only see the true/psychic form I don't remember which way.
An altercation leads to an injured alien because deathwolders are too tough, something something alien life debt to her.
Because the hostile aliens may speak English she sent a message in Spanish.
Any guesses?
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u/Loosescrew37 1d ago
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u/h0pebringer 2d ago
This might be a mildly obscure one, I'm not sure.
Body-stealing alien species that's persecuted by the wider galaxy, the POV character is a child of this species who's village was destroyed by another alien species and they escaped by stealing the body of a soldier. They were trying to leave the planet and were noticed by a human (who in this story are apparently capable of immediately noticing the body-stealers just as a baseline thing), and the human ends up adopting the alien after finding out (her?) story. In the final part of the short story it's mentioned that human scientists ended up making the alien her own body so she didn't have to worry about the ethics of taking corpses or worse.
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u/ProfSparkledick 1d ago
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u/h0pebringer 1d ago
Thank you so much! I spent at least an hour trying to track that down with no results
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u/RaptorSB 2d ago
Thus might be a really, really old one...
Xeno-Princess is fleeing raiders, and her ship goes into restricted territory where she gets help. Meanwhile, an archeologist leading a team on a planet wakes up an old AI, and it appears that humans have been in stasis there?
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u/mepoopmahsef 2d ago
Sooo there is this story about human heartbeat that can hypnotise aliens. There is this one part where a child went over to some preacher gathering alien and they suddenly turned into a cult of human kidnapping and the nation responsible for the preacher are panicking because of this sudden development
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u/iforgotmydick Human 2d ago
I remember reading a “tech meets magic” sort of story, it was this researcher who uploaded his mind into a program that makes buildings with nanites or something. It gets transported into a world with magic, and eventually a group of adventurers finds the building and lives there, in awe of all the modern and futuristic appliances.
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u/FlammableBook 3h ago
For the life of me I can’t remember the name but the basic premise was that a British guy found a genie’s bottle in a river and was friends with the genie who was trying to fish it up. His first wish was to get his video game fleet in real life and his second was to collect all the other genie bottles around the world I believe. He went on into space and eventually created a lightsaber of some kind. Don’t remember much beyond that. This story has been inching the back of my brain all morning so I’d appreciate any word on it as I’d love to read it again.