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fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

woke kaczynski posted:

Short story that I would've read in some fantasy or sci-fi anthology, I would've read it in I think the past 5 years but no idea when it was published. Basically about a society that's found an equilibrium point in some sort of medieval-ish era level of technology and social structure, and people who question things too much are I think killed off so nobody gets to the point of building nukes and things again

It's Pavane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_(novel)

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fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

A friend of mine is looking for a short story about an amnesiac shapeshifting alien who landed near a lumberjack camp, and ends up working with a psychiatrist under the assumption that restoring their original shape will also restore their memories.
They read it back in the late 70s, so it's at least that old.

Jonathan Hoag has been tentatively ruled out already.

I think I read something like that in one of the early Asimov/Greenberg, Great Science Fiction Stories anthologies which fits the time period

Here's the sf database entry for the series https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?8662

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

Diesel_Doc posted:

I've been looking for a book I was given as a kid that was a collection of myths from various cultures. I have tried googling things I remember but haven't had any luck.

From what I recall:

It contained the stories of Beowulf fighting the dragon, Hercules killing the hydra, a tale about a woman saving her husband(?) from a curse by embracing him for a whole night in the woods while he changed into various things, etc...

I'm pretty sure it had something about Gilgamesh in there too.

The Great Deeds of Superheroes?
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?346616

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