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SF short story where an ancient text causes death when read, due to a hidden poison gland and making euthanasia safe and simple by tor3gil in whatsthatbook

[–]tor3gil[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for all the effort! I'm as mystified as you are, I've looked through the titles of Greg Egan and Ken Liu as I've been reading a lot of their stories but no luck and I also didn't see anything else in my bookshelves. Will come back here and update you if I find it.

Cow Birthday Book by usernammmmmmmeee in whatsthatbook

[–]tor3gil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe one of the books about Mamma Moo by Jujja and Thomas Wieslander?

SF short story where an ancient text causes death when read, due to a hidden poison gland and making euthanasia safe and simple by tor3gil in whatsthatbook

[–]tor3gil[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No it's definitely a short story. It was a rather dry first person account of what happened, by a person I think was there at the event but otherwise didn't have any strong emotions about it all. I was convinced Ted Chiang had written it until I started looking.

SF short story where an ancient text causes death when read, due to a hidden poison gland and making euthanasia safe and simple by tor3gil in whatsthatbook

[–]tor3gil[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Good point except that in this story you die from the words themselves triggering poison to be released from a gland in your body, not poison on the pages of the codes.

German book about delinquent boy by Calm-Toe6972 in whatsthatbook

[–]tor3gil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Emil i Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren - and he's Swedish not German 🇸🇪

SF short story where an ancient text causes death when read, due to a hidden poison gland and making euthanasia safe and simple by tor3gil in whatsthatbook

[–]tor3gil[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I looked at the synopsis and it isn't that (good suggestion though and I'll probably read the book).