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And there's at least one literary example prior to WW1

Some suggestions Late 1950s novel by a British author later described as a "Terrorist's Handbook". Late 1940s to early 1990s novel and story series by an American author with relativistic interstellar travel. Early 1970s novel with an alien's corpse under human control. 2010s TV series epi...

In "Doctor Who and the Daleks", Ian Chesterton disguises himself as a Dalek. The Doctor and his companions manage to overpower one, open it up, and scoop out the creature inside; Chesterton is able to climb into the casing and, at least to a degree, drive it around. That was indeed one of...

I'm really surprised that nobody has mentioned some fairly obvious ones from books and TV - I can think of at least three others that haven't been mentioned yet.

Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Visions short story titled The Repairman. took me a while to find this , i remember the story but not where i had read it... Hyperspace Beacon stops working and our guy gets sent to fix it. Finds a reptilian race has built a pyramid around the beacon and worship it. ...

I'll grab it before anyone else comes up with a Star Trek answer: in the Star Trek: TNG episode " First Contact ", Riker is surgically altered (i.e. given little forehead lumps) so he can observe the pre-warp civilisation on Malcor III. That's definitely a good example. Four to go! In Exc...

OK, in one of my previous questions I asked for shape-changing aliens. This time I'm looking for five examples of HUMANS imitating ALIENS on the alien's worlds, ships, space stations or whatever - by shape changing, makeup, plastic surgery, drugs or whatever else might be needed to convince the alie...

OK - I'll try another - Dr. Prilicla from James White's Sector General series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General To quote Wikipedia A large but fragile winged insect-like being from the very low-gravity planet Cinruss. In addition to being highly skilled in the more delicate types of surg...

I see the Thranx and raise you some REALLY big mutant ants, in the film Them! (1954) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_22_June_1954%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg/555px-Tri-City_Drive-In...

I'm guessing that the Asimov reference you're after is the Earth becoming radioactive and uninhabitable at some point between the first two robot books and the founding of the Galactic Empire in the Foundation series. The trouble is that if I recall correctly that turns out to be a deliberate act of...

Forgot to say that I did as Commander X suggested. Does seem to be some speed improvement. Microsoft Office made me run a repair rather than just telling me fonts were missing, apart from that I've had no problems.

Another one I found by accident - I thought I remembered a Superman story with an atomic-fuelled villain created by a reactor accident - couldn't find that, but did find Pozharnov, a small, abandoned city in Russia evacuated after a 1987 meltdown and later used as an alien base for an invasion of Ea...

...draws its inspiration from 1920s advertising and the late great Harry Harrison. The card is here, for best results print it double-sided with short edge collation https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/xmas2023.pdf The illo is here without text if you want to use it for something else https://forgo...

If a meltdown counts: Turnmill Nuclear Power Station near Cardiff, in Torchwood . Partial meltdown triggered by time travellers, damage limited by the actions of two Torchwood agents who are both killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Wounds_(Torchwood) https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Exit_Wounds...

There was also a 1965 Poul Anderson novel, The Corridors of Time, which had literal tunnels going to the past and future with "gates" a few months wide opening every few years if you knew how to enter them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Time