Bingo! (Off-Topic)

by Lekku, Canada, Friday, November 22, 2013, 07:19 (4106 days ago) @ Ragashingo

What did you search for / how did you find it?

My first attempts were just to go through some of the stories in Project Gutenberg where you mentioned you thought it was an older story. That did not pan out, so I did some pretty specific searches in Google based on the tidbits from the story that you had remembered such as:

sci fi short stories aliens search for human home world

That didn't produce much in the way of results but I did see lots of links from the Sci Fi Stack Exchange and people asking for titles of stories they had read. So I made the search site specific and shorted it to the following:

site: scifi.stackexhange.com short story telepathic alients

And the second link had what you were looking for. I just did a search for the title and author to get the link I put in the post.