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**CaseyFronczek** · 07-29-2012, 04:52 AM

Sorry if this is OT but I am trying to identify a science fiction story I recall from my teenage sci-fi phase 30-odd years ago.

It was about someone/ something who was collecting (or making?) specimens of every creature, and by the end of the story you realise he/she/it is creating life on earth. I only really remember the fact that at the end you realise it is about the creation of life, the rest is sadly vague, which is why I'd like to find it and read it again!

Does this vague plot ring a bell with anyone?

I have tried internet searches to no avail. I thought it might have been an Asimov but I can;t find anything similar in lists of his stories. I also searched for Bradbury, and Arthur C Clarke, but it could be any author that was around before the 70s really.
I mostly read collections of short stories, which is why I think it was a short story rather than a novel - but I could be wrong. (Maybe I imagined the whole thing?)

07-29-2012, 04:52 AM	#1
CaseyFronczek Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	trying to remember name of scifi short story Sorry if this is OT but I am trying to identify a science fiction story I recall from my teenage sci-fi phase 30-odd years ago. It was about someone/ something who was collecting (or making?) specimens of every creature, and by the end of the story you realise he/she/it is creating life on earth. I only really remember the fact that at the end you realise it is about the creation of life, the rest is sadly vague, which is why I'd like to find it and read it again! Does this vague plot ring a bell with anyone? I have tried internet searches to no avail. I thought it might have been an Asimov but I can;t find anything similar in lists of his stories. I also searched for Bradbury, and Arthur C Clarke, but it could be any author that was around before the 70s really. I mostly read collections of short stories, which is why I think it was a short story rather than a novel - but I could be wrong. (Maybe I imagined the whole thing?)
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