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Book where the protagonists are transported from the past into a futuristic spaceship

I am looking for a book I read on kindle a number of years ago (not an account I have access to now). The concept was that 2 midshipmen (I think that was their rank) are transported forwards in time ...
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Looking for time dilation spaceship "restart the Earth's rotation" sci-fi short story, please

The plot is something happens to the ship, time dilation millions of years, the ship's AI is damaged but before it goes offline it relieves the Captain and puts the science officer in charge. They ...
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Short story about an astronaut who keeps meeting a version of himself from a different time, possibly by Isaac Asimov

I can't remember the details very clearly because I read it many years ago, but he needs to fix his stuff. He has a repeating day, I think, and keeps meeting a version of himself from a different time....
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80's two part series about a time travelling human male in a spaceship with puppets who visits Earth

The man in question falls in love with a human on planet Earth, after travelling back in time and ends up being his own father. His crew are all puppets. I believe the second part in the series was ...
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2018 SF Novel - Spaceship mission, time travel

I recall reading about a new science fiction book published recently (2018). I seem to remember that it maybe involved a spaceship mission, and that there was a time travel element. I believe I read ...
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Looking for a sci-fi book that involves Mankind's very last Starship

The ship was crewed by an AI and carried the "hero" thru time to battle Orbs of energy that turned out to be what Man had evolved into. I believe the book was written before Star Wars came out and ...
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Movie/Episode: Time travel story resolved by alien sneezing

I have a very vague memory of a live-action movie or episode I watched on Swedish TV in the mid-to-late 90's, most likely in English. The setting was on some kind of spaceship, I believe captained by ...
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Looking for old sci-fi book, I think from 1959 not sure.. starflyer?

It's about a man who ends up on a space whale that can "dive" through time, he picks up a capsule with a woman in stasis that he is attracted to, he also saves a little girl who he travels through ...
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Short story where man removes food from spaceship because of cheating wife

The plot is basically a short story where a maintenance guy figures out his wife is cheating on him and removes the food from a spaceship and it’s not realized until after launch.
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Book series about an orphan befriending a dragon and traveling between stars

In my early years, I read a book about a orphan boy with strange colored eyes found on a off-planet world and raised, for some reason, I keep thinking his name is Fix although this may be incorrect. ...
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Which starship has travelled back in time the most number of times?

The title says it all: Which starship has travelled back in time the most number of times? The only restriction is it must be from canon. It can be from any society (not just Starfleet or Federation)...
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Scifi book with FTL travel that caused the ship to split into multiple copies

I'm trying to remember the name/series of this book that I read (at least) a few years ago. It had a sci-fi space travel theme, but was mostly set on this planet that had "zones" that kept people ...
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Short animation of a spaceship running against time

It's basically a man riding a spaceship at full speed thru a canyon in a random rocky planet.. Then he gets out and RUNS holding a pod into a big building, jumping over bodies stuck in time, only to ...
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Space ship manned by only AI returns home to a different earth, back in time

I read this short story 30 years or more ago. A space ship is returning home to Earth from a battle. There are no people on board this ship, only an AI and the ship's computer. When the ship tries to ...
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In Doctor Who, has India become a super power by the year 2367?

In the last episode of Doctor Who (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) we see the ISA launching missiles at a spaceship on a collision course with the Earth. It's the year 2367. At first I thought that ISA ...
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What does the blue elevator (?) in this picture refer to?

From graphjam, Can anybody tell me what the elevator refers to in the picture?
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