Questions tagged [space]
For story-identification questions which are related to or might be set in space. Always use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag.
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Small furry alien but very intelligent and good fighter with human male partner
I'm trying to find the name of a short story or novel from the '60s to early '80s.
The human and the alien partner travel in space, solving mysteries or fighting bad guys or just getting rich. The ...
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Star Wars ripoff from the 2010s in which a Han Solo knockoff is sent to save a princess and fight an evil overlord
I did not watch the movie but saw its preview on MX Player (this may not be available outside my country).
I remember laughing after seeing the plot - It was nearly same as that of Star Wars: Episode ...
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Identify an animated cartoon I watched in the mid 80s (space alien/ghost battle??)
Seen on TV or VHS in the early/mid 80s (United States). Could have been from the 70's too.
I do not recall much about the general plot. I believe it involves a set of siblings (as kids), I think four ...
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Old cartoon TV show (on DVD) about soccer ball-shaped characters that live in outer space or on an alien planet
It's a TV show where the characters are in the shape of a soccer ball and they live in outer space or on a planet where everyone is also a soccer ball.
They basically have all these fun episodes that ...
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Space anime movie from '90s with a spaceship that looks like a large sled with wings [duplicate]
I remember an anime from the 90s. It was on VHS back then.
The spaceship looks like a large sled with wings.
The commanding bridge was on top of it.
The spaceship started on the water, maybe in the ...
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70s/80s comic space ship like dome/ball/asteroid on its journey through space
I saw this comic book in a shop in the mid 80s. The book could have been older though.
Don't remember the title or publisher.
It was about the journey of a bunch of astronauts/scientists/kids on this ...
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An 80's-90's sci-fi cartoon about adventuring on the planet's surface with a female reptilian scientist character and an army of stone "robots"
I saw this cartoon (might be an animated series) a long time ago, like 20 years or so and my memories about it might have slipped away a bit. Some of the details may not belong to a single piece of ...
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Alien plant from another planet moves around a spaceship during the night and finds a sleeping human body to take root in
A man takes an alien plant from another planet into his spaceship. But what this man doesn't know is that the plant has its own mind, and it moves around during the night looking for somewhere warm. ...
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'80s or '90s movie that begins with a small spaceship docking with a larger one, and the captain entering a bar
I was hoping someone could help me find the name of a movie that was released sometime between through the '80s and '90s.
I remember it starting out with a smaller space ship docking to a larger one; ...
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Book involving a protagonist in control of a new kind of spaceship, who visits human colonies which are all in danger from a superior enemy
I'm looking for the name of a mid-to-late century sci-fi book. I recall little of the book, other than enjoying it.
The main protagonist is a human male who somehow ends up in control of a new kind of ...
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Book featuring a specific method of FTL travel which involved tachyon pulses and made a lot of people sick
I’m looking a for a book that I read that contained a specific type of FTL travel method. It involved tachyon pulses and when the transition was complete a lot of people would get sick. I can’t ...
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Story/novel about an alien world that achieves spaceflight in its solar system by engineering organic vegetable matter that operates as a spaceship [duplicate]
In the 1960s or '70s I read a story/novel featuring a world that achieved space flight by engineering biological (vegetative) material. Does anybody know what it might be?
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1950s-ish novels with spacecraft drives that are concentric rings
Looking for the name of the author of a series of short novels (at least two in the series) where spacecraft engines are concentric rings (some sort of reactionless drive?) that gave off a glow when ...
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Sci-fi horror movie that streamed around the same time as The Cloverfield Paradox
I watched parts of this movie and thought I was watching The Cloverfield Paradox. It wasn't until a couple months ago that I actually watched TCP and I've been looking for this other movie since then.
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Short story about a disabled dancer who can dance in space
Short story in anthology. Not a movie. She develops dances that can only be performed in space.
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Novel about a mission to the edge of the solar system to find a lost ship; everyone on the missing ship is a zen acolyte; the protagonist joins them
I've got just one image from the book, which is at the very end: the protagonist, now joining the acolytes / cult-members on the missing ship, lies down in his newly assigned bunk, and his shaved head ...
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Novel or short story about space-travellers tapping in to stars for energy and it turns out that stars are living things
I read a novel or short story in the '70s about stars being harnessed for energy and it turns out that the stars are living things which are dying from the practice.
The stars were introduced in human ...
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Cartoon from the '80s/early '90s about a huge robot that flies through space and had a train behind him with people/children that he saved
I'm trying to find the name of an cartoon/anime from the '80s, maybe '90s. I remember there was a huge, friendly robot that in one scene flies through space and, instead of legs, he had like a train ...
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Kurd Lasswitz — a war between Earth and Mars published a year before Wells' — any indication of influence?
What was the first science fiction story that showed a successful alien conquest of the Earth?
Until I read an answer to the above question, I had never heard of Kurd Lasswitz. He is notable to me for ...
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Book about 2 spaceships one of which was trying to contain a zombie outbreak
Written in the form of logs.
One of the ships seems evil at first but as the story goes on it's revealed that it was trying to contain a zombie outbreak but the story was narrated from the POV of ...
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Identifying/remembering project about speculative evolution on another planet
Another specbio/specevo related question, though not so much about SF/F proper but a real world project
As a kid I had a copy of the Dorling-Kindersley book 'Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide' ...
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Old ('80s?) cartoon/anime with some kids who find a spaceship and go on a space journey with a princess
Old (possibly '80s?) cartoon/anime with male kids/youngsters. I think I remember one main boy character that loves the princess, one with glasses, and a chubby one. They find a landed spaceship with ...
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Book about a kid who plays a space flight simulator at an arcade for a prize
So the book's cover has red and yellow caution tape around the edges and red for the rest of the cover; it's a short single word title. It's not The Road, Ender's Game, or Armada.
The book follows a ...
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Searching for title of 1980s sci-fi movie that reminded me of Star Wars [duplicate]
In the 1980ies I saw a Sci-Fi movie on TV, but I am not able to identify it any more. What I recall: There was a young man teaming up with various aliens to fight an evil captain of a spaceship that ...
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English 1950s sci fi movie where a man and a woman are on an alien spaceship that they control using cubes
Trying to find the name of an old black and white movie where a man and woman end up on an alien spaceship. The ship is full of cubes with kind of a horn out of the top. They plug caps into the cubes ...
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Creepy Horror film with one crewmate/character being grabbed by tentacle worms that engulf his limbs
Like the title says, I vividly remember this Sci-Fi/Thriller/Horror movie where its a group of characters escaping through a room similar to the trash compactor on the Death Star (Star Wars), but when ...
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A space opera novel with a hierarchy Humans/Geeks/Gooks (or Humans/Gooks/Geeks, I am not sure) [duplicate]
This is definitely a novel, too long even for a novella.
I read it at least four decades ago, maybe five. Therefore it is a quite a bit fuzzy in my memory. The book might be even older than that.
It ...
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Book about a pair of apes dying, spaceship gives them a shot with medicine and they thrive to become humans
I remember something about Atlantis in the title. The book describes a spaceship going from planet to planet to check on them. They visit a planet where there is a pair of apes dying. These apes are ...
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Early 2000s sci-fi book where the main character investigates a suspected meteor, and discovers an alien craft on his heavily forested colony world
I'm looking for the title of a science fiction book. I believe it would have been pre 2010.
I believe the book is part of a trilogy. The setting is a heavily forested colony world, dotted with the ...
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Book that involves a mom and her son teaming up with the son's father, who was disowned right before the son's birth
The mom and son are in the same division of a space federation and, after a war breaks out, they are ordered by the higher ups to work with a pirate group that was hired to work with them. The father ...
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Space fiction novel about a woman who finds an alien who later may become attached to her as a soulmate
First character I remember is a woman (on a planet setting) who finds or defends from an alien who later may become attached to her as a soulmate.
Setting moves to space/space stations- The alien love ...
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Book with a main character who is kidnapped by space pirates and then trained by aliens to become a spy and assassin
The main character starts in a colony ship which is attacked by pirates his family is killed and he is kidnapped and enslaved by the pirates. The pirates get attacked and killed by a winged, alien ...
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Book involving ships which use a “screaming female sidhe” for space travel
I read this book 10ish years ago from a library, and I remember this one specific trope about space travel that's always struck with me.
The setting was sci-fi in space, with the technology used for ...
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1980's sci fi cartoon, where space stations are destroyed but their crews escape in life pods
So this is way back in my youth (single digit age) and I saw this one cartoon, but can't remember the name or its full premise. I think about it from time to time and it always drive me crazy. I think ...
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Book about spacefaring humans that capture some form of alien/spirit (possibly named "angels") found in space
Trying to remember this book has been killing me for the better part of a decade, so hopefully someone can put me out of my self-inflicted misery. I read it in the late-90's or early-00's, borrowed ...
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Old SciFi short story on debt to society and a brain ship
There was this story I read when I was quite young that left an impression on me. Could have been anytime in the 70's. It would not have been a new story at the time because it probably came from my ...
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Movie about a space cargo transporter who has to pick up a woman and deliver her to a space station [duplicate]
I am looking for a space movie I saw one night on TV, I think it was 2015 or 2016. I don't remember any person's name so it might be difficult. Also searched the entire Wikipedia and Googled a lot but ...
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Book about two hostile Mayan or Aztec villages in a valley. Turns out they are in a giant space ship
The plot accelerates when a warrior from one tribe falls in love with a girl from the other tribe. Turns out the two tribes are being kept separate for genetic purposes because the union of the two ...
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Old anime series where a clumsy kid was kinda beamed up into space and met with a princess
It looked like maybe '90s-2000s. I remember there was a clumsy kid who was supposed to be a chosen one or something and was kinda beamed up into space and met with a princess.
Don't remember what the ...
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Looking for a short story about space crew who are taken over by an alien consciousness
I think I read it in a collection of horror or SF. The incident happens after landing on an alien planet. It may be Mars. I can not recall a physical entity being involved but somehow one of the crew'...
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Sci-fi or horror, guess from Mars
When I was young, I saw a movie from space. I remember just this scene:
bloody red sand, astronauts building a white oxygen tent. Inside, they take off their helmets, and from behind the tent window ...
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Anime featuring a boy who was raised aboard a spaceship and a war among robots
So this anime is from around 2000 to 2004, I guess. It showed a boy who was raised aboard a spaceship? He keeps having flashbacks of a small baby crying, searching for his parents, with the ...
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Scifi book involving a main character is traveling between worlds with a giant, blind cat
The book I'm looking for is probably '80s or '90s. The main character (MC) is traveling between worlds with a giant, immature, blind cat from a planet he was on. On that planet, hunters go out and ...
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Movie about a spaceship travelling to a distant planet, only to discover that a newer ship, designed and launched later, has gotten there first
A few years ago I saw a movie, the title of which I just can't remember.
It was a movie about a crew on a spaceship travelling a long time to a distant planet or system to check on something, or to ...
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Sci-fi book about man who built an interstellar ship with the use of a collider and met his enemy inside of the Sun
The main character of the book finds out that he built an interstellar ship with the use of a collider and then removed his memory to refuse from interstellar travel. He also had a suit built with the ...
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'90s sci fi novel with a female main character who is the only member of her ship to survive a space battle with pirates/aliens
Book was read in mid-'90s. Female main character was on a mission in space; she was either the pilot or gunner. She sings (unconsciously) under her breath in high stress/battles. She was very close ...
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Short satire about a comically upscaled spaceship
About 5-7 years ago, I stumbled upon a forum post with a few paragraphs written about a spaceship that started with the designs of a "normal" sized military type starship, and just scaled up ...
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Short story about two guys on a spaceship, but one of them doesn't believe he's on a spaceship
The story is from the perspective of the guy who doesn't believe he's on a spaceship. He is trying to help his companion, who insists that they are on a spaceship and have been attacked by aliens. ...
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Young adult book; takes place on a dusty planet where the only food is space potatoes
I read this book a few years ago; I remember it was in the young adult section of my library. i feel like it was an older book, not quite sure though.
The cover was pink I believe with flowers or ...
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'80s/'90s movie with a spaceship and onboard computer
I am trying to remember a sci-fi film I saw briefly as a child. It was probably in the '80s/'90s.
I have hardly any memories, other than a man who was piloting a spaceship with an onboard computer.
I ...
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