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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Astronauts on Europa (moon), time-shift future, gravity, intelligent computer, Aries, 1960s?
I'm looking for the title and artists of a comic about some astronauts (around five I think) doing research/archaeology on (I think) Europa (Jupiter's moon). They're working when one or more of them ...
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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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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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Does anyone know the title of a 1980s book/series about polymorphs?
Humans are in space. An alien race comes upon them. The aliens are single-celled, single-sexed creatures who can change their shapes and imitate other lifeforms including humans. They imitate them ...
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Story about atoms being entire universes/solar systems and their inhabitants invade the world
About 5 years ago I read a story about scientists discovering that atoms are tiny universes/solar systems. Then at some point the scientists develope a microscope that can see the planets and their ...
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80s/90s (?) SF book about a space traveler finding a planet, which turns out to be inhabited by humans who left Earth after he did
This is one of my father's favourite books, he read a library version in the 80s or 90s in the Netherlands and has found it online, so he knows what he remembers is correct/exists. So it's not from ...
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People in a train realise their planet is attacked by powerful and vicious aliens
This short fiction (short novella ? long novelette ?) is clearly SF : it happens on a sparsely settled planet far from the main human settled worlds, during a fierce attack by cruel aliens.
I read it ...
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Sci-fi book series about the ragtag crew of a spaceship who rescue a superhuman, female scientist imprisoned on an icy planet by a gang of pirates
I'm pretty sure that the cover of one of the books shows a giant lizard that is standing on two feet and has some kind of cyborg parts on his noggin. He's facing outwards, looking at another gigantic ...
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SF book about one or more mysterious, pyramid-shaped artefacts that appear at the edge of Earth's solar system
I've been looking for this book for decades. :) I read it in the mid 90s which makes me think it was probably written around that time or in the 80s. It could be part of a series or a standalone book.
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Sci-fi novel about a highly self-destructive race
I read a novel ~10-20 years ago, but it could be written many decades earlier. Since it was so long, I don't remember if it was a standalone book or a novel in a collection. I read a non-English ...
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Searching for a short story scifi/horror of kid teleported to space to die
I'm looking for a short story. I believe I read it in a horror anthology, but it definitely had SF elements.
What I can remember:
It took place in what I recall as a vaguely dystopian society. This ...
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Looking for what seems to be an 80s hero sci fi film
I watched this film a while ago about a guy who was a sort of self identified super hero and he was working as an agent for earth. He infiltrates a space ship or a space station which is controlled by ...
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TV show or movie with aliens taking people over via red triangles on their foreheads
I remember as a kid in the 1990s or early 2000s watching a VHS tape of a show or a movie (not quite sure which) but all I can really remember about it, which should be pretty major, was there were ...
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Children's novel where destroying computer's paper backup changes what planet humanity settled on
Can you help me identify a children's novel, probably "juvenile" reading level.
The main character is a boy. Long after losing earth, humanity lives on a colony planet that is barely ...
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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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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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Black & white sixties episode where a spacecraft is unable to depart the planet
I believe it's a sixties T.V. item, possibly from The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. It is not "Death Ship."
This crew land and can not secure takeoff again no matter what they try. The ...
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Sci-fi kids' book about a pilot's flight through space, and the ships he encounters along the way
The book is probably from the 70's or 80's, and is small, short, and written for a juvenile reader. It's illustrated in color.
The book presents you as the pilot of a small spacecraft, and as you ...
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Philip is MIA (old, trippy, scifi cartoon)
I am in search of an animated movie/cartoon that is very VERY old. I don't remember much, but I am sure about some aspects of the movie that might help. I watched it when I was very young which was ...
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Late 80s book with a militaristic space faring civilization where protagonist is an alien entity possessing a commander of the civilization
Trying to find the name/author of a book I've read a while ago. As far as I recall, this was a single book published in the late 80s (maybe 1987). Published in English. I want to say the cover had a ...
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Collection of short stories that take place in space I read in middle school. I got it from a Christian bookstore.
I’m pretty sure the title had to do with Mars. The book cover had a lot of blues and greens, with what I think was a planet in the center. I only remember a few stories/scenes, but I’ll do my best to ...
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Book or story about a person alone for life on a spaceship. Aliens make a friend
Somewhere in the 80s I read a story or book about a person in a ship traveling through space alone. It is unlikely he will ever get to meet humans again. He has at a point someone to correspond with ...
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Short story about a teenage boy living in a mining colony, who is given an AI friend by his parents
I'm looking for the name of the story about a teenage boy who is living on a mining colony (vague recollection says on a moon, but not necessarily the Moon).
He apparently has some form of severe ...
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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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Another Killer Robot on a Space Station or Space Ship Movie
I'll get this out of the way:
It's not Saturn 3.
It's not The Black Hole.
It's not Space Truckers.
The movie was released to home laserdisc before 1990. I watched it at my dad's house before I moved ...
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Space fantasy book about a rebel group planning to upstage this master captain
I read it in the year 1997 - most likely published 10-20 years earlier than that. Things that I recall:
Cover art had this man-like being engulfed in (wings of?) fire, protecting a girl
Plot deals ...
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What book is this where a smuggler wakes up to A.I. in his head?
The book i am trying to remember is that this person in space, (who I think is a smuggler?), hyperdrives to another star, but along the way he passes out and wakes up to an A.I. in his head.
This A.I....
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looking for a science fiction book. About an artifact found in space
I'm looking for a science fiction book about an artifact found in space that had the remains of an alien inside with the tech to bring him back to life. He turned out to be a dictator with psychic ...
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Illustrated children's book about trip to Moon
I remember reading a book about a trip to the Moon in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It was an illustrated hardback with a large page size, but not very thick - I'd guess fewer than 100 pages. The ...
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Book about a girl who gets a substance in her that gives her really strange powers
There was this book I read a few years ago.
It was about a girl who gets this substance in her that gives her really strange powers. Like one is the ability to pick up any item, study it for a moment, ...
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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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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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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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Prison(?) satellite orbiting earth
I've been trying for years to track down a sci-fi film I saw probably back in the 80/90's. I only ever saw the last few minutes of it and it seemed to show someone running along corridors (presumably ...
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Perpetual war sci-fi story from the 70s
So my dad was telling me the other day that he used to read a lot of short sci fi stories in the 70s and he mentioned one story in particular but has long since forgotten what it's called and who it's ...
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2000s (?) black and white comic about a training academy for teens with psychic powers, ranked by "psych level"
The story was set in some sort of sci-fi school or training academy. The characters were somewhere in their teens, and I think the main character was a blonde girl. The characters had some sort of ...
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ID story about survivors of nova
Short story, sun has gone nova, a family is translated into waveforms traveling in space. The youngest family member, a girl I believe, slowly realizes this, and her realization, followed by ...
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Anime series from 1980s or 1990s about princess, protagonist and his robot who are flying to the Earth for help
This anime series is about a protagonist whose planet was destroyed/conquered by an Evil empire and princess, along with the protagonist and courtiers, are flying to the Earth for help. They are ...
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A SciFi book about a kid trying to recover kingdom
I'm trying to remember a book about a young man trying to get back his kingdom after being deposed and family is killed. It had a large military space station and a bit about where he gets a group of ...
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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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SF book about a spaceship captain and female officer who survive a crash landing on a jungle planet and are hunted by an invisible alien predator
I am looking for the title of a SF book about a male and female space officer who survived a spaceship crash on an alien planet where everyone of their crew is dead and an invisible alien tries to ...
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Short story or novel about a battle of wits between humans and aliens aboard a spaceship
A short story or novel, from the '80s or earlier. It took place on a spaceship. If I recall correctly, the aliens resembled big cats and were evil and more intelligent than humans. The human ...
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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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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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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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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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Futuristic agent stuck in past, runs off with own mother
Pretty sure this was a full novel from the 80s. Set in the future with spaceships, a special agent has a traumatic memory of someone taking away his mother and being abandoned.
Somehow on a mission he ...
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Sci-fi book about a man on the run due to uncovering some conspiracy to destroy the galaxy
I read this book in the 1990s, can't remember the title of it.
Pretty much a man who is accused of some crime and is on the run due to uncovering some conspiracy to destroy the galaxy.
The only ...
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SciFi book where the enemy aliens were gray and had a mind weapon called the scree
This is a series that I think is pretty old but not sure. It starts with a guy on Earth and a UFO lands. A lady falls out obviously in pain and a tiger/lion creature also falls out. They are being ...