Short (but Sweet) Science Fiction Stories

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1. When the crew of the starship Bustler learn they are about to be subjected to a full military inspection they discover they have a small problem...they can't find their "offog". Which short story is this? Allamagoosa Metamorphosite Diabologic Minor Ingredient

2. In this short story it appears that the aliens, the Kanamit, are here to help humanity - but they have something quite different on their menu. What is this often quoted story called? Special Delivery To Serve Man Be My Guest Idiot Stick

3. This Asimov story was inspired by the Emerson quote: "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years..." and is set on a planet surrounded by six stars which keep the planet in almost continuous daylight. So, what is its name? It's Such A Beautiful Day Nightfall The Dying Night Star Light

4. If I tell you that this story centres on a man and a mouse, and that the mouse dies, can you identify it? The Trouble with Elmo Flowers For Algernon The Quality of Mercy Something Borrowed

5. You could say that the moral of this story is never step off the path - or is it never tread on a butterfly? Which of these stories, invoking the perils of time-travel, am I talking about? There Will Come Soft Rains I Sing the Body Electric! The Golden Apples of the Sun A Sound Of Thunder

6. An architect named Quintus Teal builds a unique home in Hollywood, with eight cubical rooms - which collapse into a tesseract when hit by an earthquake. Which Heinlein short story begins with the line: "Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world"? If This Goes On- -All You Zombies- -We Also Walk Dogs '-And He Built a Crooked House'

7. Beowulf Shaeffer takes a theoretically indestructible starship to find what happened to earlier researchers who died investigating a strange astronomical object - and is nearly killed himself, by the same mysterious force. Which Larry Niven story am I talking about? The Hole Man Inconstant Moon The Borderland of Sol Neutron Star

8. A "dark star" has pulled the Earth out of its orbit into the cold of interstellar space. Yet a human family manages to survive, eking out a grim existence in their Nest. Which story is this? The Snow Women Coming Attraction Gonna Roll the Bones A Pail of Air

9. In this future, a talking dog, named Surplus, may seek an audience of a Queen...even if "Her name was Gloriana the First, and she was a hundred years old and still growing". So which story am I talking about? The Dog Said Bow-Wow 'Hello,' Said the Stick The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport Scherzo with Tyrannosaur

10. It involves Tibet, monks and a computer. It ends with the classic line, "Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out." Which Arthur C. Clarke story is this? Expedition to Earth The Sentinel The Star The Nine Billion Names of God