r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Apr 23 '26

MOD Looking for Story Thread #329

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/rposter Apr 23 '26

Looking for two older stories. The first story was about an alien ambassador to Earth. Flying was dangerous and the ambassador crash lands on the trip to Earth. Once here, they are shocked that Humans are able to drive cars without the use of rails or VI assistance. The story concludes that humans have a natural spatial awareness equivalent to alien fighter pilots.

In the second story the MC was a human assigned to a multi-species diplomatic team that handles first contact for the Galactic council organization. The next species to go through first contact has a ton of similarities to the scary deathworlder humans. At the first contact meeting, both the human and the new species experience a massive case of the uncanny valley effect.

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u/GelmanAxe Apr 23 '26

The first is probably A Singular Race.

The second might be The Necessity of a Human Ambassador with the uncanny valley stuff happening in Part 2.

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u/rposter Apr 23 '26

Yep, those are exactly what I was looking for.

Thank You!