Questions tagged [novel]
For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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SF book with alien planet, whose plant life lacks chlorophyll / is not green and is being outcompeted by Earth plants
Does anyone happen to recall the title or author of a science fiction novel with the following major plot elements?
My recollection, not a quote:
On an alien planet, whose plants are not green (...
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Book about an amnesiac protagonist who sucks the life out of anyone nearby if he dies near them
A book about an unkillable, amnesiac protagonist that wakes up in the introduction of the book, after being killed in a children's playground, looking up at a fake dragon children's rocking horse. ...
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Story of a human going to school to learn magic in space alongside kids from different planets
In this book there was a human boy who went to school in space with kids from different planets. He had 2 friends a girl and a boy. The male friend gets sick with some sort of virus early on in the ...
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Book about crowns that enhance mental abilities
I am looking for a book set in the future in "outer space" where children wear different colored crowns that enhance mental abilities.
The book starts at a boarding school where the kids are ...
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Manhwa in which the male lead sends the main character back in time?
I'm looking for a manhwa where the male lead sends the main character girl back in time and we find out about it in later episodes. I guess the main male character was the main character girl's ...
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Girl taken from her village and trained in magic in a tower
There's a book about a girl who's taken from her village and is trained under a magic person (?) while being away from her home (and living in a tower?)
I think it's a one word title and I know the ...
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YA novel about a clumsy boy who learns it is actually his talent
The book title was definitely the boy's name with a subtitle. The story that I can remember is that the boy is constantly bumbling and breaking things and feels like he can't control it. On his ...
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Novel in which a research team investigates a rip in the fabric of space
I read this sometime in the late 80s.
A science experiment causes a rip in the fabric of space. A being (person?) joins a research team that goes to investigate by creating a scion of themselves. They ...
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Novel about a man who was taken by aliens and used as an ambassador because humans used to be the galactic diplomats aeons ago
I remember reading a book ages ago (25-30 years or more) about a man who was taken by aliens and used as an ambassador because humans used to be the galactic diplomats aeons ago. At one point, he ...
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Young adult novel in which the protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone
I'm looking for a fantasy book I read as a kid. The protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone. She befriends a griffin that is very well spoken and intelligent. One of the parts I ...
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Manga where a guy has a system where he levels up his exes. Winds up with a daughter made from his mana
The Manga where the mc progresses with a system picking up girls along the journey only for the system to learn and gain emotions along the way falling in love with the mc and finally leveling up and ...
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A time loop manga or manhwa where mc is an office worker and the world starts to change and when he goes out he finds a Minotaur and dies
It is a black and white manga or manhwa it wasn't coloured.
The main character (MC) is working in his office and talks to a girl and some other people. The world starts to change he then goes outside ...
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Sci-fi, mid-grade/YA novel about a girl in a wheelchair beta testing the world's first fully immersive VR program
I read this book when I was nine or ten, so back in the late 90s (no idea if it was new then, but probably based on the subject matter), and I really want to try to find it and recommend it if I can.
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Can any one help me with the title and author of Fantasy novel series with wars between good and evil waged by human champions of various gods
So I remember there being wars between good and evil being waged through wars with humans and some humans being the champion of a god and some being chosen by more then one god. Roughly medieval time ...
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Glass submarines, sea serpents and aliens at the bottom of a deep sea trench
Trying to identify a book I read at school back in the early 1980s. It featured small glass submarines, elusive sea serpents, and once the sea serpents were tracked down, aliens hiding under a force ...
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Novel where sick children are transported to a world with three types of machines controlled by the villain
I strongly remember reading this book, including large chunks of the plot and setting, except that I can't remember the author or the title. After fruitlessly wrestling with various book searching ...
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Short novel about artificial infertile girls coming from Venus to marry men and eliminate human race
Short novel about artificial infertile girls coming from Venus to marry men and eliminate the human race through infertility.
There was a "happy" ending (quite questionable) - men just ...
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Trying to remember an older planetary romance novel
I am trying to remember a book that I read fairly recently, although it was much older (from the 1970s at the latest). I probably found a copy of it online somewhere like the Internet Archive. It ...
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A book about a girl who experience murders in her dreams
I read it a few years ago, and I really just can't remember the title of the book. I probably read it on Google Play books/Play Store for free. It's about a girl who experiences real murders in her ...
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YA/Children’s 2000s sci fi novel featuring a female spy/assassin in a world with flying cars and aerial highways
I’m looking for a book I read about 12 years ago, I’m guessing it was written in the early 2000s but not positive.
I don’t remember much but it took place on a futuristic planet that had some sort of ...
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Sci-fi/fantasy fae book about a girl whose family place a geas on her, causing her to be unable to escape the town
I'm looking for a book published between 2013 to 2019.
At the beginning of the book, the kids are all sitting around looking for someone they'll fall for, who they'll live with for a year and, if ...
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Book about people who are taken through portals all over the world and wake up in a strange world
I read this book in 2019, it was a paperback and I believe the cover was green. It wasn't very thick.
It starts with a man waking up in a forest and he finds others after that. They are attacked in a ...
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Quote from Discworld about Ankh-Morpork tolerance and greed
In one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, he writes something along these lines:
The residents of Ankh-Morpork are willing to welcome everyone. No matter what sex, what species, and what race: ...
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Do The Puppet Masters duplicate people?
In the story The Puppet Masters (not the movie, I've never watched it) we have a scenario early in the tale where they visit the Des Moines news office, the director "Barnes" proves to be ...
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Scifi book with teenagers growing in a spaceship, which crashes when landing on a new planet
I read only the first 10 pages of a scifi book in 2020.
There is a spaceship with teenagers, but they have never been awake: in order to not endure the stress of the journey, they are growing in a ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
I can't find the name of this book! I believe it's YA. I read it at least 5 years ago, probably more.
The main character was born in between time on some sort of timeship. His mother had gotten ...
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Book about a boy who doesn't believe in magic after his older magician brother disappeared
Like the title suggests this story I'm looking for is about a boy who didn't believe in magic after his older brother who was a magician disappeared. The boy ends up getting framed for graffitiing his ...
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Solid state drug addiction
I’m looking for a book from the 60’s or 70’s, about a post apocalyptic world. Some characters in the book are addicted to “the wire” i.e. electric nirvana is achieved when they hook the device into ...
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Space station commander previously a hostage in an embassy
My memory is playing tricks. I'm trying to remember a novel I read probably late 90s, early 2000s.
Set in roughly modern day. Space station orbiting Earth is a secondary objective in the plot because ...
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An old novel about a sentient planetary organism, but not an ocean, so not Solaris [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question to identify a novel which turned out to be Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem. That reminded me of another novel, clearly different, but with some analogies.
I also read it long ago,...
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Very old novel about a planet with a living ocean [duplicate]
I read this novel more than 40 years ago, but I believe that it is much older than that, it was already a classic.
I don't remember much. There is a scientific station there, to study an ocean that ...
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Book about a girl who dies in an accident and is brought back to life by her parents in a robotic body
It's about a girl who is in an accident and her parents bring her back to live in a robotic body that they uploaded her brain to. Nobody at school will talk to her anymore because they're creeped out.
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Fantasy book series with wizard who grew up on the streets
This was a fantasy book series (5-7 books?) where the protagonist is a wizard who grew up on the street ..he is more willing to kill etc..he builds a castle for himself and the local king gets worried ...
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Book series where the characters are trying to get the last parts of sentient dragon armour [duplicate]
The series has many parallel worlds. There are four books, and all but the last are called "dragon-something". They are trying to get the last parts of this dragon armour that is sentient. ...
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Book where a guy goes to different worlds/regions in a boat: in the first, there were ants or tiny humans, and in the second, there were giants
I read this book when I was a preteen. What I can remember is that a guy traveled to different worlds/places: in the first one, the region was made up of ants or tiny humans, and in the second one, ...
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Science fiction novel featuring a hillbilly roadside mechanic
I'm looking for an old sci-fi book. It features a hillbilly roadside mechanic who turns out to be some kind of super genius with mechanical things, but has poor money and social skills. He fixes the ...
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Book about a young man in high school who is approached by a warrior woman and travels to alternate dimensions
I need to figure what early 2000s book this is!!
This book details a young man in high school who seemed to have a talent for everything, especially basketball. One day, he's approached by some ...
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70s/80s novel. Woman helps alien man avoid the government agents chasing him
For along time I have been confusing two stories. One of which was the short story "Amanda and the Alien" by Robert Silverberg. (A high school girl encounters an alien who feeds on humans ...
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Help finding the name of a book about/containing a self harming angel?
I come here one more time to help my friend again, she's trying to remember a book she read around 8 years ago.
What she remembers is that it depicted an angel covered in scars, each scar she ...
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Book about an orphan girl taken to a magic school
I'm trying to remember the name of a book from when my friend was a kid.
There are not many memories, beyond it being about an orphan taken to a school for magic when she was proven to have it. Only ...
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Fantasy book involving a lost princess, religion, and a pit with wolves
I’m trying to find a fantasy book I read at least 15 years ago. Here’s all the details I remember:
The main character, a teenage girl, was unknowingly adopted and raised by parents who looked ...
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Novel: Hidden (floating?) island with aptitude tests and sterilization after multiple generations of low scores
Some time between 1980 and 2005, probably in the 1990s, I read a novel where in one chunk the two protagonists get shipwrecked on an island not on their charts, and stumble into a rather bizarre ...
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Science fiction book about a seven foot tall teen who is forced to fight and inducted into an interplanetary martial arts guild
This book has been on my mind for years and have done searches for at a long time but nothing ever come up so figured I'd try here.
I read this book in the late 90's early 2000's no later than 2001-...
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Novel in which an alien federation initially opposes humanity's advance towards interstellar space, then hires them to help them fight a war
Humanity in the not too distant future has successfully colonized its solar system, and is now on verge of developing faster-than-light drives. A peaceful alien federation spanning the galaxy and ...
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Time travel back to the 1970s, body merging stops it
This is very vague, a short book or a long novelette that I read in the 1990s in the UK.
There was a small group of people who find themselves (I can't remember why) materialising on the outskirts of ...
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Trying to identify a juvenile SF from around 1950-1960. Pirates hijacking spaceships cruisers on the Earth-Moon (or inner planets) route [duplicate]
When I was a boy (so, some 55 years ago; 1960-1970) I read a novel (written probably in the '50s or 'early '60s) about pirates hijacking spaceship cruise ships on the Earth-Moon route (or perhaps also ...
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Book that explores cryofreeze, before storing human DNA in threads becomes viable
I read this around 2005 from my high school library, though the book appeared at minimum a decade older.
The protagonist was one of few people who were successfully restored from cryofreeze, and he ...
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Fantasy, possibly children's book, with a main character named "Axle" who hunts dragons
There's this novella/novel I read, probably in elementary or middle school, about a boy named Axle who hunts dragons throughout the book.
I remember that one of the other main characters was a quirky ...
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Paperback book about a purple-haired sorceress fighting an evil wizard
In high school, between 1984-1988, I read a sci-fi fantasy book about a sorceress with purple hair. She had a son and was fighting an evil wizard. She had to learn the secret name of magical creatures ...
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Fantasy novel about magic and telepathic birds
I am looking for a book I read back in high school. This was 2003 so it was published before then. I only remember a few things.
Only a few people were able to have a bond with one bird. But there was ...
