A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other various material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.
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Trying to track down a series I read as a teenager
I'm trying to figure out a fantasy series I read in the early to mid 90's. It wasn't the Belgariad or Eye of the World but it is so similar that I forget its name.
A young simple boy gets caught up ...
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What is the assumed name of Jon Snows mother told to Arya Stark?
Related to the book series A Song of Ice and Fire:
I forgot the assumed name of Jon Snows mother that was told to Arya Stark by a lord (forgot his name - first name Edrik I think) in the third book A ...
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Cloning- many sizes, just before clone war
A book read 1973 and I've been looking for the name since.
It opens with a young boy sitting at his desk watching words appear on a sheet of paper in front of him. It is from his uncle who has been ...
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Scifi short story with a star in a jar
When I was in elementary school, I remember borrowing a science fiction short story collection from the library. It had a number of great stories in it, but I've never been able to find it as an ...
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Book about an impostor knight
I've been having these thoughts lately that I'd read a book where one of the characters (a lowborn) pretended to be a knight so that they could compete in the tournaments. This character would win ...
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Reading order of Tolkien's middle-earth books [duplicate]
I have these books written by J.R.R. Tolkien:
The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
All three LOTRs
Which reading order is the best to get the complete story?
The one I wrote up above, or?
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What is the origin of milk in Redwall books?
In the Redwall books written by Brian Jacques, where do the creatures get milk from?
All of the characters are small creatures ranging from shrews and mice to otters, badgers, and wildcats. Nothing ...
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Trying to find the title of an interplanetary saga by Ursula Le Guin
I remember that it's a series by Ursula Le Guin, who I adore, but I can't remember the title and find the books.
It's a collection of connected histories of three planets in different systems. There ...
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Looking for a fantasy book about ape-like humans who get invaded by humans
This is a book I read when I was in high school. The main story revolves around these ape-like humanoids, who are the main characters, that get invaded by humans and later enslaved. It was a ...
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If this speculation about Jon Snow is true, would he be allowed to leave the Watch?
So, Jon joined the Night's Watch under the assumption he was the bastard of Ned Stark. This makes sense, since bastards aren't entitled to land or any of the like. But, lets for a second assume that ...
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Book with creatures like bugs in a box that the book told not to open
I'm looking for a book that I can't quite remember the title or author of. As far as I remember it is a young kids or teens book.
It's about these very smart bug-like creatures that I believe are ...
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Book about a family who can contact each-other with playing cards
This book was written in the 80's possibly. The book opened with the male antagonist having amnesia and a broken leg. The family can travel upon the "road" and it changes. They can contact each-other ...
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Time travel book for young adults, available in school libraries in 70s, cape-wearing girl meets Greensleeves-whistling boy
Tyring to identify a 70s book about a teenaged girl in England, alone at boarding school over the holidays, who puts on a cape from the school theatre and time travels. She meets a boy in the woods ...
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Does Sarkhan Vol planeswalker die after the Eldrazi are freed in Zendikar? (MTG Novel)
I've not had the pleasure of reading Magic The Gathering (MTG) "Teeth of Akoum" Zendikar book yet even though its been around a few years now. I play alot of MTG and Sarkhan Vol is probably one of my ...
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What book is set on a giant space ship with the captain infested by a parasite?
The novel has several story lines going on at the same time.
The one I remember the most is inside a giant spaceship, we are talking many km long. The captain of the ship is kept frozen due to a ...
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What fantasy book has a kid who turns evil and can move so fast he can pass through solid objects?
This was a long time ago, but there were other kids with powers too, like a guy who could generate a force field, and a girl that could control any kind of energy from the kinetic energy of bullets to ...
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Young adult or children's book about creatures from a parallel dimension?
I've have been racking my brain for a long time now about a book which is centered on a house as a gateway for these creatures from a parallel dimension. A young boy stops them by solving a riddle and ...
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What book had the Norse gods in a nuclear war against ice giants?
The story is that a scientist or engineer is kidnapped by the Norse gods to help them. A tree that gave fruit that kept them powerful was dying, and the ice giants were on the war path. He used gnomes ...
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I'm trying to find a book I read in the 70's about hive minds / psionics
Here's what I remember
The main character was a black girl (late teens or early 20's)
I seem to recall the story takes place in California (maybe the Bay
Area)
The girl is the nexus of some sort of ...
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Identify a book about founding of Scientology where female protagonist has sheep DNA and is an intended sacrifice
Identify a book about founding of Scientology where female protagonist has sheep DNA and is an intended sacrifice.
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Book series about a man who discovers advanced alien artifacts on the moon
I am trying to recall the title of a book series I read in 1980-1981 where the hero was a human astronaut that discovered an alien aircraft crashed on the surface of the moon. His investigation of ...
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Identify Russian novel about intelligent, talking dolphins, with nuclear test site near by
I'm 99% sure it was written by a Russian author (1% - it may have been written by Polish author)
Author is male (I'm 100% sure)
I seem to recall the author's name or surname starts with "P", but I ...
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Looking for a series of books about a young man who is promoted to captain of a starship on his first trip
Things I remember:
There are only a few inhabited worlds
Travel between planets takes months
There is an alien species, that travel in space without ships, which resembles giant blobs.
The ...
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Young adult novel with dragons, magic, and ends weirdly
In elementary school, between '92 and '96, I read a young adult fantasy novel that has eluded my internet searches to this day. I don't remember the plot, but I think it had the word 'Rainbow' in the ...
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What elements of Arthurian Legend are adopted in Harry Potter?
We know for a fact that Merlin (in the potterverse) was in Slytherin house and did indeed live during King Arthur's Court whilst also pertaining to the same enemy named Morgana. (source)
What other ...
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house elf freedom? [duplicate]
Do house elves only submit to freedom if they are directly handed a piece of clothing from their master or do they have the free will to release themselves from their slavery if they find their own ...
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1970s (or older) book about a werewolf on an alien planet, who probably became one through alien technology
I'm trying to remember then name of an old book I read as a kid, hope someone can help locate it?
Ok the book I read was part two of a trilogy from around the 70s maybe 80s, it starred a hero who was ...
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Can anyone identify this 90s teen-fantasy series, gems in backbone, big magic, evil king?
I've been trying to find this darn series of books for ages, I read them back in early 2001-02 and can't really remember much of them. I think there were 10-ish (vague I know, memory isn't as good as ...
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How did Mad-Eye Moody survive in the enchanted trunk in Goblet of Fire?
How did Alastor 'Mad Eye' Moody manage to survive for 9 months when he was trapped in the enchanted trunk in the 4th book?
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Novel where everyone must provide entertainment TV time
I read this novel in the 1990s.
It involved a neighborhood, much like a cooperative, whose houses were all interconnected with closed circuit TV or similar. The inhabitants were all given a ...
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Adventure book, possibly published around 25 years ago
It was an adventure book where the reader could choose various paths for the hero to take (i.e. if you want to do X go to page 20). I remember a sword that needed to be reforged, some dwarfs (blatant ...
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What is the background for the phrase “literary trend for shit books about talking dragons” in connection with Wales?
On 16th of March, 2013, Wales won with England 30-3 in Six Nations tournament.
Dailymash commented it this way:
ENGLAND deliberately lost the Six Nations to Wales as part of a plan
to boost the ...
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Trying to find a book about rediscovered space travel after interstellar war isolates planets
The book is written in the 1980s. The storyline is about an early 20th century level technology planet getting visited by a spaceship which causes quite a stir. The visitors start helping to ...
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Looking for scifi novel published around mid-80s about a scientist who gets telepathic abilities from a drug he creates?
The story is about a scientist who makes a drug that gives him incredible telepathic abilities which he uses to help others. He later gives the drug to his girl friend so she can help him in his ...
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I am looking for the author of a trilogy
Okay, so this is going to be vague, but I read a scifi series (there were 3 books total) where it takes place in the future, each book is from the point of view of a different character (all boys). ...
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Was Gollum completely naked in the books?
This might sound like a weird question, but here goes anyway.
In the LotR and the Hobbit movies, Gollum is always shown with a piece of cloth hiding his private area. It seems dull to me that he ...
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A series of books involving reptilian-alien protagonists
I'm trying to track down these books I read when I was younger. I've done some fruitless searching online and am stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The series of books involves ...
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Kid gets sucked into a video game or TV show
I read a book as a kid (in the late 80's-early 90's) that was about a kid getting sucked into a video game or TV show and he had to make his way through the world and defeat the bad guy. I was ...
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Book where half the protagonist's body was replaced with cybernetics
I'm trying to remember the name of a sci-fi book that would have come out before 2000.
Half the main character's body has been replaced with cybernetics (from some injury). The only specific thing I ...
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Does anyone know a book about Rune Casters/Masters?
When I was in America, I began reading a book series. It was a fantasy fiction series about some people who could use other peoples attributes, like their beauty or their intelligence by tattooing a ...
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Identify a book and sequel about Mattias Hand, inventor and Prince who is exiled
I once read a book where the main character was named Mattias. I believe his surname was Hand, or Han, but cannot be absolutely sure. Mattias was son of the king of the northern kingdom on the planet, ...
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In the Silmarillion, what was Morgoth's “dark design” against Luthien?
In the chapter "Of Beren and Luthien", we're told that, when Morgoth discovered Luthien in Angband, he
"conceived in his thought an evil lust, and a design more dark than
any that had yet come ...
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Does an illustration of Tochee from the Commonwealth Saga exist?
One specific creature from the Commonwealth Saga has caught my interest -- Tochee. My imagination is really bad, and I can not hold all the descriptive details in mind at once. I have tried to find ...
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Looking for an older dark fantasy book series
I thought the series was by Tannith Lee, but looking over her books, I can't find it. I believe it was a trilogy, and the copy my mom had was from the SF&F Bookclub. It starts out with a girl ...
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Is Bran cursed?
In the prologue of A Dance with Dragons , Haggon (a skinchanger) forbids three things to a skinchanger:
To eat of human meat.
To mate as wolf with wolf.
To seize the body of another man (this is the ...
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A boy hit by lightning is sent to another universe
My girlfriend read a book when she was a kid about a boy who was hit by lightning and sent to a different universe or planet or something (her memory is fuzzy on the details).
That's all she can ...
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What is the SCIFI book about some species of moon beings and their interactions and it could be allegorical to modern race and ethnic relations?
There was a small (150 pg paper back) book I read 20+ years ago in an college anthropology class. I think the anthropology class was about race & ethnic relations and this book was some reading ...
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help remembering book title - multiverses/bladerunner-ish future. “sphere of influence. 2150”?
I am trying to remember title (and author) of best sci-fi book i have ever read (at least thats what my fading memory tells me).
Plot revolves around multiple-universe theories - set on earth, 'hero' ...
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What is the plot of the Star Wars Post-episode 6? [closed]
Allowing for the fact that any film adaptation will have creative licence, could someone please provide an overview of the plot of Star Wars Episode 7, based on the books released since. Insofar as ...
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Trying to recall the name of a book I read in the 80's
I read a book or short story where kids did not go to school or read books. When they reached a certain age they were programmed. The programming did not work on some kids and they were sent away. ...
