It’s about these children living on Saturn or some planet like that. They have to wear protective gear all the time because there is acid rain. This acid rain has been raining for years and the children don’t remember or have never seen the world without rain. So one day the rain stops for a little bit and the main character is pushed into a closet and finally gets out but not in time to see the world with no rain.

I read this story in middle school in our textbook. I want to read it again.

I really would like to know what this short story is called. The author would help, too.
- asdfghjkl;’

Years ago I read this story about this guy who wanted, I guess, to understand what was really going on, or maybe what reality was, so he had the idea that if he could get every piece of information about everything that happened everywhere on a certain day, then he would achieve his goal. So he went around and got thousands of newspapers, maybe he got films about the news also, it’s all a little bit fuzzy, but he began to study all this stuff and assimilate all this information, and the story ends something like that when he had finally assimilated the last bit of info that he somehow “merged” with this moment..The story was called ” The man who collected September the……….” , and there was a date and year also, but I can’t recall it. Does anyone remember reading this story or know anything about it ?
- birdman

This story was a conceptual gem. Late seventies to early eighties. You know concept stories — years later they’re still grabbing you, but you’ve forgotten the author. The story was about some ants from another planet (there is space-travel now) who can be bought and had as pets. You put them in your living room in a giant ant-farm terrarium and the ants, who are large, begin making glubular bricks and building an enormous statue of you, very life-like, which they commence to bow down to and bring ceremonial gifts to every day.
The protagonist mistreats his ants, and slowly, over time, his statue gets less and less flattering, and finally turns ugly or something.
- beingagood1

It’s about a man who becomes a woman or a woman who becomes a man in order to join the space corps which will involve time travel. He or she then can’t resist going back in time to meet themselves as the opposite sex. They make love and she gets pregnant… and then my memory is hazy. The end is that he or she is his own mum and dad and son or daughter. It’s a crazy story that i’d love to read again. Can you help?
- Chubby

so in my english class i have to write a short story on something science fiction and i havent got a clue what to write it about.
any ideas
anything would be great
- ptv_fanatic97

My teacher wants me to write a plot/short story (science fiction) about cloning, and must be a little futuristic.

I really can’t think of some good story line ideas. Could you help me think what basically the story will be about and also name me your theme of story and characterisation?

Thank You very much
- eugene_cheeyj

Does anybody knows what story is this? I don’t remember who the author was. In the story there where no human characters, only the house who start the day performing all the tasks it was mean to. At the end the house somehow destroys itself. Thank you.
- Miguel M

i have to write a short 7 pages typed science fiction story i just need a little boost to get it starting i want to have a story with a good moral but what i am having trouble with the science fiction problem and content any help?
- Jamie

I need to do it for 6th grade science class… It needs to be like geography e.g. journey to the center of the earth
- Crazyapplegurl

it has to be like a short-ish story
and i don’t really want it to be about like space travel or a differnt planet or something

and it has to be sceience fiction!!!
also i was thinking maybe like a time machine or something?

ok
thanks~
- o_O