query: Short story about a collector alien that relentlessly chases man stuck on an island
positive_passages.docid: 21473
positive_passages.text: What short story has a ball chasing a researcher to add him to its collection?
negative_passages.docid: 113926
negative_passages.text: Story about a space war, and a human prisoner of war captured by alien enemy
negative_passages.docid: 4259
negative_passages.text: Trying to identify a short sci-fi story about a human that is "resurrected" by malignant aliens
negative_passages.docid: 120950
negative_passages.text: Trying to remember name of an eerie story about a seemingly uninhabited Greek island
negative_passages.docid: 29366
negative_passages.text: Short story with spaceship and humanity not realising they should be on it
negative_passages.docid: 67000
negative_passages.text: Old short story with multidimensional being/monster
negative_passages.docid: 121599
negative_passages.text: Short story about a gigantic space monster that is big enough to cover half of the Earth
negative_passages.docid: 36075
negative_passages.text: Identifying a short story about time travel and paradoxes
negative_passages.docid: 39822
negative_passages.text: Looking for a short story about the icy end of the world
negative_passages.docid: 15303
negative_passages.text: novel identification: alien scientists must save their civilization from future destruction
negative_passages.docid: 135002
negative_passages.text: Short story about astronauts being killed one by one by a non-corporeal alien entity on a deserted planet
negative_passages.docid: 131908
negative_passages.text: short story about astronauts/colonists in a hostile planet
negative_passages.docid: 139194
negative_passages.text: Short story about a crew finding an ancient alien ship filled with tons of artifacts from their society
negative_passages.docid: 22676
negative_passages.text: Looking for a short story about a man who is visiting a planet where you get your position/job through playing a game
negative_passages.docid: 106721
negative_passages.text: Short story about aliens trading for hydroponics
negative_passages.docid: 1179
negative_passages.text: Short story where a man owns creatures that build statues of him
negative_passages.docid: 55497
negative_passages.text: Short sci-fi story, involves an exotic drink made from the tears of tortured aliens