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• Efflixi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are quite a few sci-fi stories and short stories built on a similar concept. One of my favorites is an alien ship lands on a random farm in the US and (leaving a lot of details out, read the book!) it comes to light that the aliens normally live at insanely hot temperatures like 900F (480C) and consider Earth and “Ice World” (that’s also the name of the book). Anyway, one of the catches in the book is that farmer figures out the alien wants to trade (again skipping a lot of details) but all he has on him that he can give up is a cigarette (the farmer doesn’t know it’s super hot inside the ship). He does the trade and we later find out that most of the galaxy is INSANELY vulnerable to being 100% completely utterly addicted to nicotine. When the alien took in the cigarette it instantly vaporized and sent the nicotine into the air and they breathed it and became instantly addicted worse than any opiod addiction IRL.

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  • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You didn’t mention the book name, so how are we to read it?

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the exact theme of many stories on r/HFY

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