I mean it's pretty obvious from the very first paragraph, isn't it?

> By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster.

Lots of short stories on HN have just their original title with nothing like [Novella] or whatever, seems fine.

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fartfeatures 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?

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necovek 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The definition of clickbait includes intention.

If anything, the poster here likely followed a rule to use the original, non-editorialized page title, and certainly the original page has not had the title set with intent to attract clicks by misrepresenting what it is.

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maxerickson 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could write a tale in response, about how you spent seconds, minutes, hours, days, years...a lifetime identifying that the several hundred words at the link were fictional.

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sscaryterry 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HN is starting to grind my tits with the amount of clickbaity articles of late.

	▲	red-iron-pine 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		there has always been a ton of bait and bots here mon ami. now it's bursting at the seams with them.

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mcphage 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess it could be. Wikipedia says the term "computer mouse" first showed up in print in 1965, but this wasn't printed until 1982.

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jibal 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I expected it to be fiction from the title, and knew it was from the structure, before even reading any text.

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aaron695 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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