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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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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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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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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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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Old, space-themed comic from the '90s or earlier, involving a female character with cat ears and a tail
I remember one of the female characters had cat ears and a tail; I think she was involved with another character romantically. In fact, I think there was some nudity and it might have had a softcore ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sci-fi cartoon about robots, wars, virtual scenarios and space
I only remember these facts from the series:
Humanity is getting enslaved by another race whom seem similar to the human race
Both groups use robots in combat
Enemy uses technology, like a virtual ...
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Space series featuring feathered humanoids, as well as a pig-like race killing humans
I read a book about a pig-like race killing humans in space there were also avians that looked like humans, with feathers so fine they look like hair. Space series with some humans over everything ...
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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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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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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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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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