# Name of scifi story??

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555 "2014-09-25T20:42:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![justjean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@justjean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justjean)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555/1 "2014-09-25T20:42:46Z")

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I read a scifi story somewhere in the late 60’s to late 70’s, it has been bugging me since. Cannot remember the title or author…All I can remember it was a solitary man on (Mars?) who (crash-landed?) and had no food, no water. Was dying. Found what had been some type of dwelling. Saw a ‘trough’…saw a ‘fountain’…heard awful noises. The last I remember of this is when he put his ‘snout’ into the trough and ate… he had transformed to life there. Oh help please. Thanks, jean 😕

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**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555/2 "2014-09-25T20:45:10Z")

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You’ll probably do better with a question like this in Cafe Society. I’ll alert the mods so they can help out with moving it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555/3 "2014-09-25T21:12:34Z")

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Could be “Enchanted Village” by A.E. van Vogt.  
If you asked me on a quiz show I wouldn’t have gotten the title and author. But I knew I had it in one or more anthology books I have.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555/4 "2014-09-25T22:17:43Z")

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**Moderator Action**

Since this concerns literature, off to CS it goes.

Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society.

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555/5 "2014-09-25T23:02:09Z")

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> [@Aquadementia](#):
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> Could be “Enchanted Village” by A.E. van Vogt.  
> If you asked me on a quiz show I wouldn’t have gotten the title and author. But I knew I had it in one or more anthology books I have.

Yeah, that sounds right - the description of Enchanted Village here [Private Site](http://jennre.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/the-enchanted-village-a-e-van-vogt-1950/) says “During the night, it seems the city adjusts. The man wakes up to a delicious meal, violin music, and a proper bed temperature. He waddles off happily, unperturbed by his new snout and four-foot tail.”

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**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:** [September 26, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-scifi-story/699555/6 "2014-09-26T00:32:50Z")

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Definitely the Van Vogt.