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A good place to ask would be scifi stackexchange using the story-identification tag. I did that once, got a prompt reply, complete with additional context and a
by lloeki 4y ago
A good place to ask would be scifi stackexchange using the story-identification tag. I did that once, got a prompt reply, complete with additional context and a short movie adaptation.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65813/conspiracy-about-a-hidden-number https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65813/conspiracy-a...
- chucksmash 4y ago+1. I was in the process of linking this exact question as well, what a world. Love that the top answerer shows their work, and as a bonus they reached out to the author of the story: UPDATE: I emailed Greg Cox about the question. Here's his response: > Wow. I had no idea people were > still talking about that story, > which I haven't thought of for years. > I can't speak for the original > questioner of course, but that > description sure sounds like my > story, which I wrote nearly thirty > years ago! > > greg
- abbeyj 4y agoThis quote is not from the page linked above but I found it at https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-t...
- chucksmash 4y agoYou're right! I saw a scifi Stackexchange link, clicked into it, and saw it was a [story-identification] question for a story about numbers but I missed that it was a different question about identifying a story about numbers. Sloppy of me, but speaks to the depth of content on that tag!
- throwoutway 4y agoStories like that are what make the internet so fascinating!
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoOr an appropriate forum is https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/ https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/
- maest 4y agor/tipofmytongue has also been useful to me in the past.