Space is the void between planets, essentially a vacuum, through which everything in the Universe moves. It is a common setting and/or hazard in science fiction.
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Sci-Fi movie with a stasis chamber for 1 but has to hold 2
There was a movie in the late 1990's, early 2000's, that takes place aboard a ship. At the end of the movie, there is a man and woman who have to share a stasis pod, and there is gene transfers ...
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Anything known about the plot in David Weber & Jane Lindskold's upcoming book “The Treecat Wars”? [closed]
Has there been released any details about the plot in the 3rd book in the Young Adult Star Kingdom series - "The Treecat Wars" (by David Weber and Jane Lindskold)? Are there any ARCs out there yet?
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A book about a girl with a computer in her head
I'm trying to find the name of a book I read about 15 years ago. The cover had a picture of a girl standing in front of a bunch of rockets. The story was about a girl who finds out that a computer ...
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Identify YouTube trailer for Sci-Fi Show
The plot involved a woman waking up alone on a spaceship in uncharted space. The spaceship has an A.I. which tells the woman that she is the only one on board. When she finds a man asleep she wants to ...
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Space film about pilots and navigators
It is a space film set on the relatively near future. Later than Star Trek but probably earlier than firefly. It was made in the 80s, I think it was American.
It was on a space station, the setup is ...
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Book about a man on a space station who sees himself
I'm looking for a book about a man on a space station who travels through time and sees himself lurking around, but he doesn't know it and hits the intruder over the head.
He is setting traps for the ...
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Absurd movie from the 70s or early 80s about traveling in space
I watched an movie in the 90s about a man who was traveling in space:
the man was alone in a spaceship
seems like an employee of a cargo company, or something like that
there was mechanical head ...
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Post-apocalyptic novel: an astronaut returns to an Earth reverted to the stone age
I read this scifi post apocalyptic book back in mid 90s. It revolved around an astronaut who had been in deep space, and upon returning to Earth, he found that civilization had returned almost to a ...
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In “Silent Running”, why blow up the Domes?
In the — pleasant — 1970s film “Silent Running”, it has been decided that the space ship will “return to commercial service”. But why blow up the Domes? The workers are in a hurry, and this operation ...
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Looking for an odd space movie from 80's or 70's
I remember seeing this movie as a kid some time in the late 80s, maybe early 90s (video rental). It's been a weird movie mixing space/science fiction and fantasy elements. The whole movie didn't take ...
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Story ID: Spacepod racers powered by Singularities
I have vague recollections of a novel I think I read in the late 70's. In it, a young man travels to the center of the the space racing industry and joins a racecrew and helps the team race a vehicle ...
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1970s space cadet training novel for young adults
I would love to identify a sci-fi novel I read in the late 60s or 70s. It followed a group of young space cadets through their training in the Space Academy. The training culminated in small groups ...
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Which book/film ended this way?
I read a book (I'm sure it was a book) ages ago.
It ends with a character floating aimlessly through space. They are alive (or still have power) and floats for millennia to the point where time ...
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A 80's comic could be late 70's book I read as a kid
I don't remember much about it but I thought it was very cool and strange back in the day.
The details I remember is that it started of with a guy (human) in a funny looking spaceship. It was made up ...
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Television series about a space station
I remember watching this TV show in the 90's set aboard a space station. It featured an eccentric cast of characters including a security guard reminiscent of Bruce Willis, an alien with abnormal ...
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Omnivorous fusion and Earth at war with distant colonies
I recall reading a novel, probably back in the 1990's, that featured the use of omnivorous fusion reactions used for weapons and propulsion, and Earth being at war with distant colonies that ...
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Did any of the Markab survive the plague in Babylon 5?
In episode 18 of season 2 of Babylon 5, "Confessions and Lamentations" a plague hit the Markab population on the station as well as their homeworld and colonies.
Dr. Franklin managed to find a cure, ...
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Movie with a war between Russia and the USA witnessed by astronauts on a space station?
Some years ago, I saw a scifi movie from the 70s/80s and I remember the following scene: It's the future, two astronauts (a Russian and an American) are floating above the Earth in a space station. ...
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In Doctor Who, has India become a super power by the year 2367?
In the last episode of Doctor Who (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) we see the ISA launching missiles at a spaceship on a collision course with the Earth. It's the year 2367.
At first I thought that ISA ...
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Novel where “sub-standard” humans are sent to perform space exploration
When I was in my early teens, I read a science fiction novel I have since lost track of, and can remember neither the title nor the author. I can remember only a few details about the novel, but ...
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Is there a work where a spacecraft lands using a skycrane like the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiousity)? [closed]
I'm just asking whether a book, film, comic or other work of art has had a spacecraft land using a skycrane mechanism. Has someone though of this before the public was told how it would be done?
I ...
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What's that 1950s movie where astronauts land on Mars but Martians trick them to thinking it's their Earth hometown?
I've been looking for this movie for years. When I was a kid I saw a 1950s/60s sci fi about astronauts that land on Mars (I think it was Mars) but the Martians transform the landing site to look like ...
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Kif's species making it into space
How did Kif's species make it into space?
As we see from their planet, it is ravaged with plants. Kif's species doesn't even have supreme control over the planet, their babies still get attacked by ...
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At what distance could we spot a fleet of flying saucers? [closed]
Scenario:
In the autumn of 1988, a fleet of flying saucers approaches Earth from the outer solar system, coasting at a few tens of kilometers per second, with the intent of hitting atmosphere over ...
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Is there really sound in space? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why and how can you hear explosions in space in Star Wars?
In firefly they were specific in all of the outer space scenes there was no sound which some people complained ...
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Is there a difference between a spaceship and a starship?
Is there a difference between a spaceship and a starship?
I've been wondering... is it like boats and ships?
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Does a spaceship lose air reserves every time an airlock is opened?
Something seemed to me a little bit bizarre when watching some movies or series that take place in space.
When someone wants to leave a ship (either alone or with a smaller vehicle), there must be ...
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Can someone help me figure out the name of a sci-fi book about space travel at the speed of light?
I read this book when I was much younger and can't remember the name of it but I remember it's one of the best books I've ever read. It starts with this young girl that bumps into an older lady, the ...
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Are there examples of sub-light propulsion that are not subject to time dilation?
A common theme in space sci-fi are means of moving faster than the speed of light without experiencing the effects of time dilation (to a substantial enough degree, anyways). Such methods often use ...
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Book from the late 1980's about an abandoned space station
I read this book about 1988-89.
Sci fi, dealt with an alien space station (out in deep space) that humans stumble upon, long abandoned by a possibly insect-like race, human sized (they can tell from ...
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Short story of a race who discovered primitive but subtle interstellar travel
Many years (20+?) ago in Analog SF magazine I read a short story where a culture discovered interstellar travel shortly after the start of their iron age. They could construct air-tight ships and ...
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How far did the Blight fleet travel during The Children Of The Sky?
In Vernor Vinge's new novel The Children Of The Sky, humans are preparing for a confrontation with the Blight fleet some 30 lightyears away from the Tines' world. The book takes place over 10 years, ...
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Short story of a lone person at a military outpost/station that may have the quote “Hello, Brother” near the beginning
This was published in an anthology I read in 1975. The anthology may have been fairly recent at that time (new or 2-3 years old).
Plot: The lone person is viewing a video of the person who was there ...
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Serial Scifi story, with some nasty form of Immortality at the end
Ok, I don't remember a lot about this, but it was rather intriguing.
From what I recall, it was written in such a way that it must have been published as a serial; multiple climaxes and denouements. ...
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Story about warring human factions fighting over a backwater planet
This is a story I read between 1992 and 1999 about the fight between two opposing human inter-stellar empires that takes place on and in the local vicinity of a relatively back water planet.
It ...
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Novel about space marine dealing with relativity?
I read half a book in a library a while ago that followed a guy from the first set of marines to actually go fight. They have gel-pod-beds to survive accelerations in space. after the first mission, ...
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Scifi novel with extremely slow motion space battles
I'd like to remember the name of a scifi novel that had a strong military theme with lots of political intrigue where the space battles were fought in slow motion due to some limitation of the ships ...
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Effects of nuclear explosions in space?
In the Honor Harrington universe, ship-to-ship combat takes two forms: missiles and direct energy weapons.
Missiles come in two forms - bomb-pumped lasers and contact nukes. Both use multi-megaton ...
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Ejected into space — survival tactics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What would really happen if you were exposed to space?
In several Sci-Fi adventures (e.g.: 2001: A space Oddessy and HHGTG) the protagonist survives a markedly brief ...
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What would really happen if you were exposed to space?
It seems that every science fiction story has a different idea about what would happen if a human were exposed to the vacuum of space.
At the end of Total Recall, Quaid and Melina are ejected to ...
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What short film features a space station that projects movies onto the moon?
I'm looking for a short indie film where a space station orbiting the moon has a giant lens that projects movies onto the moon. I may have seen it on io9, but I'm not sure.
It begins with a guy ...
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planetery system with two suns in K-PAX
In the movie K-PAX the character talks about his planet where there are two suns and he say that they only rise together once in many years. Wouldn't it be impossible to have one rising and the other ...
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Process management and high technology weapon. Novel name and author?
I am looking for help to point me out at a very old novel (likely from the '60s) about two empires at interstellar war. When it comes to starships, one is technologically very advanced, and the other ...
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What novel had an isolationist Earth and the rest of humanity in a war of attrition against aliens?
In the book, humans were in a long war with an alien race that had a slight upper hand in numbers and technology, and so were slowly losing ground. At the start of the war, Earth had cut itself off ...
