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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

For my next book report I have to read a short story. Im into Action and Science Fiction. What is a good short story in this category. And nothing too old.
my teacher changed the assignment to read 20 short stories with different authors. Does anyone know 20 different short stories?
- Kevin D

I am trying to find a science fiction short story that was about a scientist who created some small, very simple, fast living creatures. He then put them into a closed environment and made various changes to this environment–which caused them to evolve. He did this over a period of time, and his creatures became more and more complex and intelligent.
I would sure appreciate knowing the name of this story, and its author.
Thanks to anyone who remembers the story.
- curiousme