Engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict
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War with remotely piloted micro-machines
While waiting to get onto a computer booked at the local library about 2 years ago, I picked up a sci-fi novel whose name and author I cannot recall and began reading.
Elements of the opening part of ...
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Which Twilight Zone/Outer Limits episode featured a Manchurian Candidate-like terrorist cell?
I remember seeing either a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits (I think) with a plot line around a group of brainwashed/Manchurian Candidate-like mercenaries soldier types who were drawn together not ...
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Sci-fi show plot where people are killed in war based on a calculation
A piece I was reading on just war brought to mind a plot of a sci-fi show (I believe it was a show, e.g., Star Trek, rather than a movie or book). In this storyline, opposing warring parties would ...
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Mixed sci-fi and fantasy show from the 90s
When I was a kid I watched a TV show (late 90s, early 00s). All I can remember was some stuff from the episodes that I watched. It was in English.
The TV show had a medieval setting with swords, ...
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Book involving small scale spaceships which are used to power an economy?
I'm looking for a novel I read whilst at high school 1996-2000. It involves a young child who accidentally discovers the truth behind a stellar war being fought by 'miniature' humans created ...
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What is the name of the SF novel that takes place on a planet called Ragnarok?
In my youth I read and enjoyed a SF novel that took place largely on a planet called Ragnarok. I'd like to rediscover it, if I could. Some details I remember:
Humans are fighting a war with a ...
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Old story about two men fighting over a water hole and the alien who tries to make peace between them
This story is 40 or 50 years old or more. There is a drought; the men, normally friends, are fighting over the last water hole because there is only enough water for one of their two families. An ...
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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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Searching for the name of a Sci Fi illustrated story from approx 1970s about a never ending war
The story is set far into the future, not on Earth, about two nations that have been at war for as long as can be remembered but the origins of the war have now been forgotten.
I seem to remember ...
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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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Story identification - fantasy novel in first person narrative/memoir
I'm struggling to remember/identify a fantasy story I read, probably 10+ years ago.
From memory, it was written in first person narrative and/or memoir style. The protagonist went through various ...
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Book Search, Tyrant Earth, “Ghost” Soldiers, Hellbore
I read a book way back in the 70's/80's. Been looking for it for a few years, it boils down to:
In the future Earth maintains an iron grip on its colonies around other stars. It does so with a ...
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Looking for a story told by intelligent nuclear bombs about the war they had with humanity
I'm looking for a short sci-fi story I read in a magazine about 20 years ago, with a very similar premise to Dark Star. The story was narrated by an artificial intelligent nuclear bomb, telling about ...
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Short story where the Apocalypse gets overshadowed by the First World War
I read this in an anthology back in the 90's, but haven't been able to find it again. the gist of it is that the Apocalypse starts during WW1 but no one notices because each of the seals is lesser ...
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Are there “Aces” in the Star Wars universe?
On Earth, when a pilot shoots down 5 or more enemy aircraft, that pilot is called an "Ace". Is the title "Ace" awarded to pilots in Star Wars?
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Identify series of books - collecting memories from the dead (robots and humans battle)
Years ago, I read a series of books about humans trying to survive in a universe being flooded with robots. The first book I read started on a planet where people were scouting, while they had to ...
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Story with creatures who able to jump backward in time for several minutes
I read it about 1995-96 - though it was a translation and the original book could have been published earlier. So, some facts I remember so far:
There were creatures able to go back in time several ...
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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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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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What's that sci-fi book where phones are dropped from orbit?
What's that sci-fi book where phones are dropped from orbit? People are able to ask for things which are then manufactured and delivered to them. I think the scheme is used to bring down an ...
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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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What book features aliens defeating humanity with a sleep inducing virus?
This is what I remember of the plot.
Aliens called Poppers (or something like that) have landed on earth and released a virus that has put the human population to sleep. Only about 1 in a hundred ...
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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 ...
