# Stories You Don't Remember **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351 "2014-07-04T15:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/21 "2014-07-05T14:33:16Z")
That sounds like “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/22 "2014-07-05T14:36:21Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > That sounds like “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg. The wiki description matches perfectly. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/23 "2014-07-05T15:20:55Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Possibly \*Frozen Fear \*by Robert Bloch. I’ve not read the original story, but it’s been filmed and I’ve seen the film. I don’t know how close it is to the original. The film is \*Asylum \*(1972). It’s one of those anthology movies with a framing story that were popular in the seventies. > > Film : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcDYtxbPyF4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcDYtxbPyF4) > > Story starts : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcDYtxbPyF4&t=11m18s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcDYtxbPyF4&t=11m18s) > > Dismembered parts attack : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcDYtxbPyF4&t=25m45s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcDYtxbPyF4&t=25m45s) No, I think **pinkfreud** was right. I know it’s not the story from _Asylum_, although that also has crawling body parts–I have that film on DVD, on a shelf not 3 feet from me even as I type this. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/24 "2014-07-05T20:12:44Z")
Aliens attempt to destroy the human race by building giant mirrors (or possibly lenses) in orbit around the Earth to raise the ambient temperature. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/25 "2014-07-06T15:32:33Z")
Well, since I found one for somebody else maybe someone can find this one for me. Happens on a spaceship, a malfunctioning thruster or something ramps their speed up to99.99999999…% of light speed. They’re basically screwed and time inside slows down so much that they observe the end of the universe. And it’s NOT “Tau Zero” by Poul Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/26 "2014-07-06T15:57:13Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Well, since I found one for somebody else maybe someone can find this one for me. Happens on a spaceship, a malfunctioning thruster or something ramps their speed up to99.99999999…% of light speed. They’re basically screwed and time inside slows down so much that they observe the end of the universe. And it’s NOT “Tau Zero” by Poul Anderson. Perhaps _Kyrie_, another story by Poul Anderson, one that has come up on the Dope several times before: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12037078#post12037078](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12037078#post12037078) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/27 "2014-07-06T18:40:57Z")
Nope, no telepathic twins. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/28 "2014-07-06T19:26:02Z")
Well, another possibility is mentioned in that thread. > [@Time-Dilation in Science Fiction stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-dilation-in-science-fiction-stories/526236/53): > > _One Face_, also by Niven. Not _technically_ a relativistic time dilation story but the same effect - in this case a hyperdrive malfunction causes an almost-instantaneous journey, ship’s time, to last billions of years, external time, and the travellers have to try to make a living in a universe that’s almost aged itself to death. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/29 "2014-07-07T02:25:57Z")
I’ve got a short story from 1968 or '69: When it is first noticed that the world-wide death rate is approximately equal to the world-wide birth rate, statisticians believe it is a statistical anomaly. But when it continues, year after year, they realize that somehow a maximum limit has been imposed on the number of people living on Earth. Nations of the world try to use this fact to “birth” out the older people of other nations, until they realize they have no idea just which country’s people they are killing. They story ends as one woman dies just as she is giving birth. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/30 "2014-07-07T03:08:46Z")
This one was in an 8th grade reading book that reprinted stories from various authors and sources. A kid sneaks out hunting with his shotgun that he isn’t allowed to take out on his own. He shoots at a patch of what appears to be gray fur thinking it is a rabbit. Oops. He kills an elderly neighbor by mistake. He disposes of the empty shell and sneaks back home to put the gun up without getting caught. The story ends with him being determined never to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/31 "2014-07-07T03:12:18Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > 1. On an extremely overpopulated Earth of the future, people are killed off in large numbers by using traffic tunnels, like the Lincoln Tunnel, as traps that close off at unpredictable intervals. A family is driving back from vacation when the tunnel door closes right after they go through – that is, they just missed being killed but the car full of people right behind them is doomed. > > I’ll see if I can remember any more. Ok, as a civil engineer dealing with traffic issues I really want to read this story. I hope someone can ID it. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/32 "2014-07-07T03:35:05Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > 1. On an extremely overpopulated Earth of the future, people are killed off in large numbers by using traffic tunnels, like the Lincoln Tunnel, as traps that close off at unpredictable intervals. A family is driving back from vacation when the tunnel door closes right after they go through – that is, they just missed being killed but the car full of people right behind them is doomed. I seem to have found something to do tonight. 🙂 I’ve found people asking about the same story on other boards over the years. Best answer so far: The Tunnel Ahead, by Alice Glaser. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961, pp. 54-61. Looks like it’s more obtainable in here: [Sci-Fi Womanthology](http://www.senseofwonderpress.com/womanthology.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/33 "2014-07-07T06:00:58Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Well, since I found one for somebody else maybe someone can find this one for me. Happens on a spaceship, a malfunctioning thruster or something ramps their speed up to99.99999999…% of light speed. They’re basically screwed and time inside slows down so much that they observe the end of the universe. And it’s NOT “Tau Zero” by Poul Anderson. “Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman perhaps? There was no end of the universe but it was set on a spaceship with a malfunctioning engine and by the time they fix it, it’s a thousand years in the future and everyone on Earth is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/34 "2014-07-07T06:45:31Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I seem to have found something to do tonight. 🙂 > > I’ve found people asking about the same story on other boards over the years. > > Best answer so far: The Tunnel Ahead, by Alice Glaser. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961, pp. 54-61. > > Looks like it’s more obtainable in here: [Sci-Fi Womanthology](http://www.senseofwonderpress.com/womanthology.htm) Yeah, looks like it. > **[The Tunnel preview](https://nordicfantasy.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/the-tunnel-preview/)** > > Even though he is attached to direct big budget Hollywood features now, Troll Hunter director André Øvredal is also well into The Tunnel, the most complex special effects movie ever made in Norway.… \*André Øvredal’s short film The Tunnel is based on the sci-fi short story The Tunnel Ahead written by Alice Glaser in 1961. It was published in Norway in 1991 in an anthology edited by Norway’s leading sci-fi authors, Jon Bing og Tor Åge Bringsværd. The story takes place in a future with extreme overpopulation, and with people living in megacities. One way to cure the problem is to let the gates of tunnels leading into the cities close at random moments, and everyone who are inside them will be killed. \* ---
**Author:** ![Mad\_Hatter1984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mad\_Hatter1984](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mad_Hatter1984)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/35 "2015-09-29T09:42:55Z")
A short story I read which I can’t remember the name of. It’s about a spirit of violent malevolence that somehow passes invisibly between little boys. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/36 "2015-09-29T15:47:44Z")
[quote=“Kobalt, post:6, topic:692351”] [QUOTE] 1. A man is sent to some sort of prison planet where the prisoners grow extra body parts – ears on their backs, for example. Every once in awhile, someone comes around to give them all a dose of happy gas and cuts off the extra parts to be used for transplants. > [@](#): > > [A Planet Named Shayol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Planet_Named_Shayol) Huh, I was going to go with [A Planet Called Treason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Planet_Called_Treason), but I think yours is closer. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/37 "2015-09-29T17:21:12Z")
I think it was a story in one of the ‘Science Fiction Hall of Fame’ series, but the only thing I can remember about it is one of the characters, a small child called someone ‘Jerry Ho-Ho.’ ---
**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 29, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/38 "2015-09-29T17:23:12Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I think it was a story in one of the ‘Science Fiction Hall of Fame’ series, but the only thing I can remember about it is one of the characters, a small child called someone ‘Jerry Ho-Ho.’ “Baby is Three” by Theodore Sturgeon - the teleporting twins (Bonnie and Beanie) teased Jerry, saying “Jerry hee-hee” and “Jerry Ho-ho” as they popped in and out nearby him. [Baby Is Three - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Is_Three) ---
**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 29, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/39 "2015-09-29T17:29:48Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > “Baby is Three” by Theodore Sturgeon - the teleporting twins (Bonnie and Beanie) teased Jerry, saying “Jerry hee-hee” and “Jerry Ho-ho” as they popped in and out nearby him. [Baby Is Three - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Is_Three) Relevant link > **[Baby Is Three](https://books.google.com/books?id=RbfJ54u5BscC&pg=PA349&dq=%22gerry%2Bho-ho%22%2Bsturgeon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIi_HrueKcyAIV0TweCh38tAgy#v=onepage&q=%22gerry%20ho-ho%22%20sturgeon&f=false)** > > Baby Is Three is the sixth volume in the series devoted to the complete works of one of science fiction's titans. Like others in the series, this one includes extensive notes and background information on each story by editor Paul Williams. The early... ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-you-dont-remember/692351/40 "2015-09-29T18:07:18Z")
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