# Ask the guy who is pretty good at SF Story Identification

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**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-pretty-good-at-sf-story-identification/462417 "2008-09-07T00:08:02Z")\
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Short story: a ginormous alien ship hundreds of miles high lands (docks?) on Earth, crushing a couple of states in the process. In an effort to destroy the ship heavily stealthed crawlers slowly climb up the legs of the ship like fleas, carrying nukes. _ **Maybe** _ one of Harlan Ellison’s or Philip K. Dick’s?

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