r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Jun 05 '25
MOD Looking for Story Thread #284
This thread is where all the "Looking for Story" requests go. We don't want to clog up the front page with non-story content. Thank you!
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u/Skylord711 Jun 11 '25
Looking for a story about when humans get bored they disassemble things so a captain gets a sphere that does nothing to keep it occupied with the punch line being in the end the human runs in with the sphere proud with themselves for finally fixing the coffee machine
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u/GelmanAxe Jun 18 '25
I have not been able to find this specific story. Though none of them end up making coffee, you may enjoy the submissions to this Writing Prompt with a similar premise.
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u/NeumaticExpert Jun 10 '25
So a few years ago there was this WP that stood out to me amidst the horde of “humans are the best in space” style of writing prompts and I can’t for the life of me find it.
What I remember most clearly is that humans have been sent to assist in an ally’s battle using trench warfare and it confuses/scares the other species they’re fighting alongside. Most prominently I remember that in the story the alien recalls that they had weird chants they would say, such as,
“Where are we going? Over the top! When do we stop? When we drop! Where do we drop? On their heads or until we’re dead!”
I’ve had a lot of trouble finding it and any help would be appreciated!
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u/Antidote8382 Jun 10 '25
Looking for story i've read a while back, Humans of Earth are lost colony, and aliens come to them for help against genocidial human interstellar empire.
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u/oececawolf Jun 11 '25
Earth is a Lost Colony by u/ApprehensiveCap6525? It's been taken down from Reddit but there's an audiobook here:https://youtu.be/FTxbTEgreqA?feature=shared
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u/CMDR_NotoriousNut Jun 08 '25
Looking for a real specific one: it’s a good sized series which starts off with a guy getting lost after a test flight of an ftl ship, ends up having to integrate into an alien society, and there’s a movement in said society who’s trying to kill him. Also think I remember the MC has a breakdown somewhere in the middle? Not sure how old the series is either, but probably at least a year old.
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u/Shigashamu Jun 21 '25
I read a story years ago that started out with this guy who is forced to go into the cryogenics study. Because he dumped this crime bosses daughter because she cheated on him. He signs up for it because his ex takes her own life I think? And then her dad wants to kill him or smth. Anyways, after going into the cryogenics chamber for the experiment he wakes up hundreds of years later after a nuclear war and finds the world populated by small cat like humanoids with Middle Ages technology. There’s this other race of humanoids that live underground in this vast subterranean fortress with a bunch of people they enslaved. And they are ruled over by a gigantic female of their species that is hinted to be a human or the offspring of a human in another cryo experiment. The royal language is called “glish” a bastardized form of English with the nobles of the original race mentioned speak. There is this one scene where one of the slaves in the underground fortress is considering trying to escape but is dissuaded from doing so because he is told by another slave that he will fail and they will eat his family. I’ve tried looking for this in the past but I don’t even know if it is still around and hasn’t been taken down. I’d appreciate any information on the story that anyone may know. I wrote this on a phone so there may be errors.