# Help! Looking for an old SF short story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170 "2005-08-16T00:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/1 "2005-08-16T00:03:17Z")
It was published in the early 90’s in _Aboriginal_ SF. The title of the story was “The Secret Identity Super-Diet” or something to that effect. It was about a mild-mannered (and very overweight) patent office clerk who ends up foiling a Brazilian plan to use horse pistols with superconducting round shot balls to take down the stock exchange and gain a huge economic advantage. I would love to know who wrote it, and best of all to find out which issue of Abo it was in so I can replace that hole in my library. (Some draconian house cleaning by a well-meaning housemate took care of 95% of my old Abo’s.) Or at least if it’s been collected in any mass market book. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/2 "2005-08-16T00:10:27Z")
[Is this it?](http://www.locusmag.com/index/t223.html#A24754) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/3 "2005-08-16T00:12:28Z")
If so, [eBay has it](http://cgi.ebay.com/Aboriginal-Science-Fiction-20-fantasy-magazines_W0QQitemZ6972359278QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) (but you’ll have to buy it in a lot). ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/4 "2005-08-16T00:13:03Z")
Yeah, thanks! And there’s even a sequel to that story. Crap, now it’s **two** issues of Abo I need to find. \ ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/5 "2005-08-16T00:16:48Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > If so, [eBay has it](http://cgi.ebay.com/Aboriginal-Science-Fiction-20-fantasy-magazines_W0QQitemZ6972359278QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) (but you’ll have to buy it in a lot). And they’re both in that lot. Coool. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/6 "2005-08-16T00:21:28Z")
If so, [eBay has it](http://cgi.ebay.com/Aboriginal-Science-Fiction-20-fantasy-magazines_W0QQitemZ6972359278QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) (but you’ll have to buy it in a lot). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/7 "2005-08-16T00:22:39Z")
Ooops! Sorry 'bout that, chief. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-an-old-sf-short-story/317170/8 "2005-08-16T00:25:14Z")
There are also at least three stories of mine in that lot. Definitely worth it. 🙂