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Short story about aliens warning humanity not to leave Earth
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowWhat novel had an isolationist Earth and the rest of humanity in a war of attrition against aliens?I am trying to track an Asimov short story in black-and-whiteShort story where humans receive false distress signal, lured into galactic federationTwo Earth-explorers encounter aliens, learn Earth had lost war in past; aliens thought humans were extinctTrying to find the name of a SF short story about earth violent raceScifi short story. Alien makes first-contact with humanity but finds us overly obsessed with sexTrying to recall a book about an alien parasite invasion of a colony world that I read in 1990 - 1991Short story about a slower-than-light interstellar ship carrying the last seeds of humanityStory about machine-life spaceship that eats asteroids in order to spawnBook about alien ships emerging from holes in the earthShort story about research/exploration team looking for weapon on some distant planet to defend Earth
I was reading an answer on Quora and it referenced a story. The answer went like this:
Humans were contacted by aliens out in the Oort Cloud and told never to come farther. It wasn’t, they told the humans, safe out there.
Humans managed to learn from some other aliens that it wasn’t safe because there was one particular race that loved to attack races that were just emerging, and would destroy the world and enslave the people — and no one had ever stopped them.
So the humans undertake a massive building program, moving the whole population into habitats built around the solar system, with even more ships for getting back and forth between the habitats, for stopping asteroids, for mining hydrogen from the gas giants and mining water and gases from comets. And since pirates sprang up, the humans built a lot of armed ships to keep the pirates at bay.
Then one day a human ship ventured out past the Oort Cloud. It ventured to visit the Oort Cloud of Alpha Centauri, then went home. By the time the races who had warned the humans got to the solar system, earth was a ruin, and the system was full of debris, pieces of thousands on thousands of ships.
But an observant officer noticed that nearly all the debris she could find was from ships of the killer race, with only a little of human making. Then search and rescue found three survivors, not humans, but members of the killers of races.
Between examining the debris and other evidence, it became clear that the entire effort by the humans had aimed at two goals: first, to draw the attention of the killer race… and defeat them, indeed crush them; second, to take the entire human race out where they weren’t dependent on a planet to live on, to hide and grow until they were ready to come back and reclaim their home with enough strength that no one would ever be able to take it away.
The former killer race had to be protected, they’d been devastated so badly — the defeat was so crushing they couldn’t even count on defending their handful of systems.
The solar system had to be protected from members of that race just moving in and taking it.
And the alien who had told the humans the reason they shouldn’t leave their solar system sat up worrying, wondering just how nasty a race he’d helped unleash on an unsuspecting galaxy.
Does anyone know what this is?
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I was reading an answer on Quora and it referenced a story. The answer went like this:
Humans were contacted by aliens out in the Oort Cloud and told never to come farther. It wasn’t, they told the humans, safe out there.
Humans managed to learn from some other aliens that it wasn’t safe because there was one particular race that loved to attack races that were just emerging, and would destroy the world and enslave the people — and no one had ever stopped them.
So the humans undertake a massive building program, moving the whole population into habitats built around the solar system, with even more ships for getting back and forth between the habitats, for stopping asteroids, for mining hydrogen from the gas giants and mining water and gases from comets. And since pirates sprang up, the humans built a lot of armed ships to keep the pirates at bay.
Then one day a human ship ventured out past the Oort Cloud. It ventured to visit the Oort Cloud of Alpha Centauri, then went home. By the time the races who had warned the humans got to the solar system, earth was a ruin, and the system was full of debris, pieces of thousands on thousands of ships.
But an observant officer noticed that nearly all the debris she could find was from ships of the killer race, with only a little of human making. Then search and rescue found three survivors, not humans, but members of the killers of races.
Between examining the debris and other evidence, it became clear that the entire effort by the humans had aimed at two goals: first, to draw the attention of the killer race… and defeat them, indeed crush them; second, to take the entire human race out where they weren’t dependent on a planet to live on, to hide and grow until they were ready to come back and reclaim their home with enough strength that no one would ever be able to take it away.
The former killer race had to be protected, they’d been devastated so badly — the defeat was so crushing they couldn’t even count on defending their handful of systems.
The solar system had to be protected from members of that race just moving in and taking it.
And the alien who had told the humans the reason they shouldn’t leave their solar system sat up worrying, wondering just how nasty a race he’d helped unleash on an unsuspecting galaxy.
Does anyone know what this is?
story-identification short-stories aliens alien-invasion
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
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49.1k19267311
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
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Sounds like some kind of prequel to With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster...
– Mr Lister
Sep 20 '18 at 13:56
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Thanks for asking this question @Mickmick , I'll read the story once it's identified. I love stories where humans turn out to be badass and meaner than the aliens.
– James from NZ
Sep 20 '18 at 19:25
Your description somewhat reminds me of the Answer that was accepted for this old question -- scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/410/… -- so you might want to read that Answer and see if the summary of Norman Spinrad's The Solarians sounds familiar.
– Lorendiac
Sep 21 '18 at 1:56
Thanks @Lorendiac, it's not the short story, but it still looks very interesting. I may have to read it.
– Mickmick
Sep 21 '18 at 3:55
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I was reading an answer on Quora and it referenced a story. The answer went like this:
Humans were contacted by aliens out in the Oort Cloud and told never to come farther. It wasn’t, they told the humans, safe out there.
Humans managed to learn from some other aliens that it wasn’t safe because there was one particular race that loved to attack races that were just emerging, and would destroy the world and enslave the people — and no one had ever stopped them.
So the humans undertake a massive building program, moving the whole population into habitats built around the solar system, with even more ships for getting back and forth between the habitats, for stopping asteroids, for mining hydrogen from the gas giants and mining water and gases from comets. And since pirates sprang up, the humans built a lot of armed ships to keep the pirates at bay.
Then one day a human ship ventured out past the Oort Cloud. It ventured to visit the Oort Cloud of Alpha Centauri, then went home. By the time the races who had warned the humans got to the solar system, earth was a ruin, and the system was full of debris, pieces of thousands on thousands of ships.
But an observant officer noticed that nearly all the debris she could find was from ships of the killer race, with only a little of human making. Then search and rescue found three survivors, not humans, but members of the killers of races.
Between examining the debris and other evidence, it became clear that the entire effort by the humans had aimed at two goals: first, to draw the attention of the killer race… and defeat them, indeed crush them; second, to take the entire human race out where they weren’t dependent on a planet to live on, to hide and grow until they were ready to come back and reclaim their home with enough strength that no one would ever be able to take it away.
The former killer race had to be protected, they’d been devastated so badly — the defeat was so crushing they couldn’t even count on defending their handful of systems.
The solar system had to be protected from members of that race just moving in and taking it.
And the alien who had told the humans the reason they shouldn’t leave their solar system sat up worrying, wondering just how nasty a race he’d helped unleash on an unsuspecting galaxy.
Does anyone know what this is?
story-identification short-stories aliens alien-invasion
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
TheLethalCarrot
49.1k19267311
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
MickmickMickmick
12612
I was reading an answer on Quora and it referenced a story. The answer went like this:
Humans were contacted by aliens out in the Oort Cloud and told never to come farther. It wasn’t, they told the humans, safe out there.
Humans managed to learn from some other aliens that it wasn’t safe because there was one particular race that loved to attack races that were just emerging, and would destroy the world and enslave the people — and no one had ever stopped them.
So the humans undertake a massive building program, moving the whole population into habitats built around the solar system, with even more ships for getting back and forth between the habitats, for stopping asteroids, for mining hydrogen from the gas giants and mining water and gases from comets. And since pirates sprang up, the humans built a lot of armed ships to keep the pirates at bay.
Then one day a human ship ventured out past the Oort Cloud. It ventured to visit the Oort Cloud of Alpha Centauri, then went home. By the time the races who had warned the humans got to the solar system, earth was a ruin, and the system was full of debris, pieces of thousands on thousands of ships.
But an observant officer noticed that nearly all the debris she could find was from ships of the killer race, with only a little of human making. Then search and rescue found three survivors, not humans, but members of the killers of races.
Between examining the debris and other evidence, it became clear that the entire effort by the humans had aimed at two goals: first, to draw the attention of the killer race… and defeat them, indeed crush them; second, to take the entire human race out where they weren’t dependent on a planet to live on, to hide and grow until they were ready to come back and reclaim their home with enough strength that no one would ever be able to take it away.
The former killer race had to be protected, they’d been devastated so badly — the defeat was so crushing they couldn’t even count on defending their handful of systems.
The solar system had to be protected from members of that race just moving in and taking it.
And the alien who had told the humans the reason they shouldn’t leave their solar system sat up worrying, wondering just how nasty a race he’d helped unleash on an unsuspecting galaxy.
Does anyone know what this is?
story-identification short-stories aliens alien-invasion
story-identification short-stories aliens alien-invasion
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
TheLethalCarrot
49.1k19267311
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
MickmickMickmick
12612
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
TheLethalCarrot
49.1k19267311
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
MickmickMickmick
12612
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
TheLethalCarrot
49.1k19267311
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
TheLethalCarrot
49.1k19267311
edited Sep 20 '18 at 10:37
TheLethalCarrot
49.1k19267311
49.1k19267311
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
MickmickMickmick
12612
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
MickmickMickmick
12612
asked Sep 20 '18 at 10:30
MickmickMickmick
12612
12612
1
Sounds like some kind of prequel to With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster...
– Mr Lister
Sep 20 '18 at 13:56
1
Thanks for asking this question @Mickmick , I'll read the story once it's identified. I love stories where humans turn out to be badass and meaner than the aliens.
– James from NZ
Sep 20 '18 at 19:25
Your description somewhat reminds me of the Answer that was accepted for this old question -- scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/410/… -- so you might want to read that Answer and see if the summary of Norman Spinrad's The Solarians sounds familiar.
– Lorendiac
Sep 21 '18 at 1:56
Thanks @Lorendiac, it's not the short story, but it still looks very interesting. I may have to read it.
– Mickmick
Sep 21 '18 at 3:55
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1
Sounds like some kind of prequel to With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster...
– Mr Lister
Sep 20 '18 at 13:56
1
Thanks for asking this question @Mickmick , I'll read the story once it's identified. I love stories where humans turn out to be badass and meaner than the aliens.
– James from NZ
Sep 20 '18 at 19:25
Your description somewhat reminds me of the Answer that was accepted for this old question -- scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/410/… -- so you might want to read that Answer and see if the summary of Norman Spinrad's The Solarians sounds familiar.
– Lorendiac
Sep 21 '18 at 1:56
Thanks @Lorendiac, it's not the short story, but it still looks very interesting. I may have to read it.
– Mickmick
Sep 21 '18 at 3:55
1
1
Sounds like some kind of prequel to With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster...
– Mr Lister
Sep 20 '18 at 13:56
Sounds like some kind of prequel to With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster...
– Mr Lister
Sep 20 '18 at 13:56
1
1
Thanks for asking this question @Mickmick , I'll read the story once it's identified. I love stories where humans turn out to be badass and meaner than the aliens.
– James from NZ
Sep 20 '18 at 19:25
Thanks for asking this question @Mickmick , I'll read the story once it's identified. I love stories where humans turn out to be badass and meaner than the aliens.
– James from NZ
Sep 20 '18 at 19:25
Your description somewhat reminds me of the Answer that was accepted for this old question -- scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/410/… -- so you might want to read that Answer and see if the summary of Norman Spinrad's The Solarians sounds familiar.
– Lorendiac
Sep 21 '18 at 1:56
Your description somewhat reminds me of the Answer that was accepted for this old question -- scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/410/… -- so you might want to read that Answer and see if the summary of Norman Spinrad's The Solarians sounds familiar.
– Lorendiac
Sep 21 '18 at 1:56
Thanks @Lorendiac, it's not the short story, but it still looks very interesting. I may have to read it.
– Mickmick
Sep 21 '18 at 3:55
Thanks @Lorendiac, it's not the short story, but it still looks very interesting. I may have to read it.
– Mickmick
Sep 21 '18 at 3:55
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I don't know if this is right, but I read a book called "My teacher is an alien" by Bruce Coville, which is similar to what you explain. Aliens are trying to figure out what to do with humans because we are not civilized enough to keep intergalactic peace, but we are close to being able to travel through space. They thought of either taking over the planet, destroying it, or somehow send our science back for a little bit, until we are ready. Anyway, that's what I think it is, but I'm probably wrong. Hope you found this helpful!
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I don't know if this is right, but I read a book called "My teacher is an alien" by Bruce Coville, which is similar to what you explain. Aliens are trying to figure out what to do with humans because we are not civilized enough to keep intergalactic peace, but we are close to being able to travel through space. They thought of either taking over the planet, destroying it, or somehow send our science back for a little bit, until we are ready. Anyway, that's what I think it is, but I'm probably wrong. Hope you found this helpful!
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I don't know if this is right, but I read a book called "My teacher is an alien" by Bruce Coville, which is similar to what you explain. Aliens are trying to figure out what to do with humans because we are not civilized enough to keep intergalactic peace, but we are close to being able to travel through space. They thought of either taking over the planet, destroying it, or somehow send our science back for a little bit, until we are ready. Anyway, that's what I think it is, but I'm probably wrong. Hope you found this helpful!
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I don't know if this is right, but I read a book called "My teacher is an alien" by Bruce Coville, which is similar to what you explain. Aliens are trying to figure out what to do with humans because we are not civilized enough to keep intergalactic peace, but we are close to being able to travel through space. They thought of either taking over the planet, destroying it, or somehow send our science back for a little bit, until we are ready. Anyway, that's what I think it is, but I'm probably wrong. Hope you found this helpful!
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I don't know if this is right, but I read a book called "My teacher is an alien" by Bruce Coville, which is similar to what you explain. Aliens are trying to figure out what to do with humans because we are not civilized enough to keep intergalactic peace, but we are close to being able to travel through space. They thought of either taking over the planet, destroying it, or somehow send our science back for a little bit, until we are ready. Anyway, that's what I think it is, but I'm probably wrong. Hope you found this helpful!
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Sounds like some kind of prequel to With Friends Like These by Alan Dean Foster...
– Mr Lister
Sep 20 '18 at 13:56
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Thanks for asking this question @Mickmick , I'll read the story once it's identified. I love stories where humans turn out to be badass and meaner than the aliens.
– James from NZ
Sep 20 '18 at 19:25
Your description somewhat reminds me of the Answer that was accepted for this old question -- scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/410/… -- so you might want to read that Answer and see if the summary of Norman Spinrad's The Solarians sounds familiar.
– Lorendiac
Sep 21 '18 at 1:56
Thanks @Lorendiac, it's not the short story, but it still looks very interesting. I may have to read it.
– Mickmick
Sep 21 '18 at 3:55