Questions tagged [space]

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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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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 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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Car chase on the lunar surface

I'm trying to identify a scene I saw on TV a year or two back. All I can remember is that it had a chase across the surface of the Moon, using vehicles that looked like stretched versions of the ...
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Space fantasy novel - Human king, alien prince, telepathic plant-human hybrids

Would like to be able to read this book again, and see if there were sequels. I read it around 2000-ish, no idea on the published date. Unfortunately the names of people/races/places I cannot recall,...
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What book had a robot going around the galaxy, making other robots?

I remember getting recommended a book about a robot travelling around the galaxy making other robots. However, I never had a chance to read and have now forgotten its title. My recollection is ...
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Novel about an alien spacecraft in the asteroid belt which knocks rocks out of the way by hitting them with its tail

A bizarre novel I read some time in the 1970s. The only thing I remember is that they find a clear space in the asteroid belt (this is one of those books back when many people though the asteroid belt ...
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Comic about a man with a self-sustained spaceship moving about as the Galactic Arbitrator in search of God

Read this in the nineties. Could have been from earlier. Man with self-sustained spaceship moves about as the Galactic Arbitrator in search of God. Finds him on a pleasure planet held captive by ...
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Novel about incompetent space pirates

I remembered only some bizarre details about this novel. Space pirates that are really incompetent, they try to steal some stuff from an enormous ship on an enormous space habitat... This ship is ...
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Dark space comic where a supercomputer rules over humans after an alien defeat

I saw a video for this series the other day and cannot find it again, it apparently starts with a guy waking up on some space station, the only person alive there, long since abandoned. What had ...
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Detective story novel involving Victorian technology level space travel

Enjoyed this book, but can't recall title. Collection of planets connected by ways. Travel on ways need elephant-like animals that are hitched to train cars with basic vacuum engineering. Plot was ...
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A horror comic about vampire in a spaceship, 80's

Looking for a comic I read likely in the late 80's or early 90's. It was about a vampire in a spaceship. The comic was in Finnish, so original language might be anything. Printed in black and white, ...
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Trying to find a book about slaves on a barren planet

I read it 10 years ago. It started with them on a planet that looked barren. Later on they're captured as slaves. The story centers on one person, who toils through the slave labor but later escapes. ...
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Young adult scifi short story collection with spider planet and crystal rain

I’m looking for a collection of young adult science fiction short stories. I read it in the 90s. The cover had a very vintage pulp look to it. It depicted a starship caught in a web, with a planet in ...
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Sci-fi show marketed towards teens about a blonde girl living on some kind of space station

Years ago, in the middle of the night, I woke up and a strange show I’d never seen before was being aired on Disney. It was about a blonde girl, and she lived on some kind of space station with ...
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A short story about a telepathic monster who could not attack children who were told not to believe in it [duplicate]

I read this short story at least 30 years ago, maybe more. I cannot remember at all where, but probably a collection. On a planet where humans have a some settlements, there is a very dangerous ...
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Novel about a teenage female protagonist on a FTL spaceflight in a deterministic universe

Looking for some help, please, finding a novel I read in the '90s (I think mid-'90s). I have the vaguest memories of a hot pink border on the cover. The plot involved a teenage female protagonist ...
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30 or more years old short story about a creature that kills at distance

This short story I read at least 30 years ago, maybe more. Since I rarely read magazines it must have been in some collection but I don't remember anything about which one. So it could be older than ...
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Novel about an alternate dimension where human perception is warped

I'm looking for a novel series, probably for teens, published in 80's-90's, which has a spaceship traveling to an alternate dimension. One distinguishing feature is that human senses stop behaving ...
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Youth Christian sci-fi book trilogy featuring a telepathic man and woman, who're separated but find their way back to one another

I can't find these books for the life of me, and thought I'd give this a shot. Looking for a sci-fi book trilogy I think I read in the early-to-mid-'90s. I think the main character was named "...
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Sci-fi short story compilation, including a story about a protagonist who erases the universe from existence with his mind

Looking for a sci-fi short story compilation book I once read. I don't remember whole lot of details, but there are two stories I sort of remember. A lot of details are missing, but the overall plots ...
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Novel about a starship that intervenes in another galaxy’s war. The starship was on a test flight and they use antimatter missiles

I read a novel a few years ago about a starship that intervenes in another galaxy’s war. The starship, on its first flight, intervenes to protect a planet that’s about to be bombarded. They use ...
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Sci-fi movie or TV series where earthlings are captured by alien species [duplicate]

It aired somewhere in the nineties I think? It's quite foggy as it is so long ago, so maybe some details are (way) off. From what I remember it had no happy ending. There is a war against humanity and ...
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Book about a boy whose tribe is separated from another tribe by a swamp and taboos. It turns out they're all living aboard a spaceship

The book is about a boy whose tribe is separated from another tribe by a swamp and taboos. He breaks the taboos, finds the monster in the swamp, which is, I think, a machine, and the sky a dome with ...
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Space thriller movie where two humans try to cross the edge of normal space in a spaceship

The movie is not told linearly, if I remember correctly; sometimes one day passes, sometimes a few years. There are only two people on the ship, who try to get to the edge of normal space and discover ...
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1980s paperback about a man who traveled on a spaceship made of ice

The spaceship was just an ice chunk floating in space, until the protagonist captured and hollowed it out, put engines and equipment inside, and started it moving. The heat from the engines melted the ...
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Communication through deep space in Halo

In universes like Halo, where civilizations span hundreds of planets/moons etc. How would they be able to reliably communicate without having extreme latency? Is there some sort of "reasonable ...
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Short story where explorers searching the universe for Earth discover that humanity was wiped out by war

I’ve been trying to find this short story for ages. I read it in a sci-fi anthology collection in 2005; it had a red/orange cover, and was definitely an older book, probably from the '60s. I don’t ...
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Novel with galaxy divided up among Earth nations, enemy aliens controlled by parasites, and teleporting hero

In the early 1980s I skimmed a book in the high school library (possibly in the B-section, because I used to think it was a Biggle or Brunner). It had the following elements (I hope these are all ...
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Short story (or opening chapter of a novel) where a fat man's body is used as a makeshift spaceship

Sci-fi short story (or maybe opening chapter of a novel?) which was read in the late '90s, but could have been written long before that. The plot involved a ship crewed by four men, two of whom being ...
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Please help to identify an animated movie: a boy lost on a jungle planet (80-90-s) [duplicate]

I remember watching an animated movie (part of, because it was incomplete) on a videotape in the 90's. It was a full-length movie, not likely a series. Please help to identify. The movie was French (...
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Short story, read from library about 40 years ago. Gallanz comes to mind

A group of people land on a distant planet. The hero and heroine explore. There is a villain. Somehow the three fall into a type of plant that absorbs their flesh but they remain alive. The villain ...
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Book of short stories, illustrated, space theme 1950s/60s, aimed at children

I remember illustrations showing a man in space holding a generator towing an electrical cable which attracted the worm-like serpents away from the space ship. Another story showed our heroes under ...
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Time distorted space exploration

Looking for a book starting with the abandonment of war torn earth. Scientists discover how to distort time for people and objects. They use that distortion to slow their perception and aging. ...
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Collection of sci-fi short stories I read in the '90s. One story was about a girl and boy with powers who'd been raised on a spaceship

I think there was a hand on the cover which looked like it was pushing through/covered by a type of material. The last or near-last story was about a girl and boy with powers who'd been raised on a ...
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Trying to ID a movie I watched in the '90s, featuring a spaceship with a logo showing a star being held between the thumb and index finger of a hand

I watched a feature-length movie on TV in Romania in the '90s. It was shown on the main TV station in the country, after 10PM, at a time when there was a single national TV station on the air and ...
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Trying to ID a movie I watched in the '90s, featuring a spaceship with a logo showing a dark, abstract, rectangular or parallelogram-like design

I watched a feature-length movie on TV in Romania in the '90s. It was shown on the main TV station in the country, after 10PM, at a time when there was a single national TV station on the air and ...
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90s PC space game where the enemies resembled Imperial probe droids

I have been trying to find a 90s pc space game. All I can remember is that your spaceship was in the middle of the screen and enemies that looked like Imperial probe droids. (But they were not and it ...
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Looking to find out what this old movie was I rented from Blockbuster as a kid

Not sure if it’s even possible to find out with this amount of detail but I rented a movie from Blockbuster as a kid but never got to watch the whole thing. It was a squad of soldiers going to a ...
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Looking for a children's book about a boy who gets arrested and taken to space

The book is about a young earth boy who gets arrested by alien police. The police officer is like a wookie and has an universal translator earring. The boy has been arrested for supposedly killing a ...
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What is the earliest usage of the “Lightspeed” animation and why is it used so heavily?

I’ve seen many, many SciFi TV shows and movies over the years, and one of the most enduring motifs is the usage of “lightspeed” or “warp speed” in spacecraft. The standard animation technique used ...
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A planet where killing a monster brought even worse devastation [duplicate]

I read this novel at least 15 years ago, but of course it might be older. A group of people, probably an exploratory scientific expedition, arrives on a newly discovered Earth-like planet. Almost ...
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Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee for the Emperor and his family only [duplicate]

I'd like to find a SF novel, "space opera" type, of which I remember just one scene. There is apparently an Emperor, either for the whole known Universe, or just some part of it. But this ...

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