Questions tagged [story-identification]
Use for identifying a work of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests instead.
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Searching for sci-fi film where several characters are alone on an alien planet and there's a large alien "cube" and some organism attacking them
Sadly, I don't remember a great deal about this movie other than a specific scene where there are three to five(?) characters in some kind of shuttle or base on an alien planet. Can't remember why ...
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Sci-Fi short about people increasing appreciation for beauty too high for sanity
Story about some shipmates visiting a settlement area (a planet?) that's producing beautiful art. But all the people there are apathetic about their creations. The characters marvel at the beauty but ...
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Manhwa in which the female lead is beheaded after her second brother takes advantage of her
The female lead (FL) has two brothers and her brother (the second) is jealous of the first brother, so the second brother takes advantage of the FL, and the FL is beheaded.
After that, there was a ...
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Holmesian short story about the detective raising magic (?) bees in the Himalayas
I am trying to identify an English language short story about Holmes, spending a year or more in a remote Himalayan rural setting. I think I first read it in the 2010s. I vaguely recall he persuades a ...
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Book trilogy from the 1970's or 60's with snow wolves, some kind of water people, bird people, and one hero
It was a trilogy and the protagonist had to travel to either three different worlds or three different parts of the same world.
One part was a based on water, with people or people-like creatures who ...
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Manga where reborn Demon lord searches for his former companions
This was a manga about a demon lord(?) reborn in the future. He is searching for his past comrades.
I recall two of them. One is like a robot/android girl and another one is a giant rainbow sheep.
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Which old black and white movie is the end of the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" video based on? (Not "Death Takes a Holiday!")
Back before YouTube was well policed, someone uploaded a video for the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" which was a movie that goes exactly like the last verse – there's a woman dying on a ...
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Short story about alien invaders encountering prairie dogs
This was a one-page ultra short story, maybe three paragraphs. I read it no later than mid-80s in a random story collection and it was probably a lot older than that.
There isn’t much to it:
An alien ...
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream
Two people meet and fall in love in a dream. They return to each other each night. At the end they come together in real life.
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Title of anime where the protagonist is a vampire queen?
The female lead is a vampire queen and there are two groups one who want to protect and one who wants to kill her. This story involves both werewolves and vampires they all ends up loving her. I think ...
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Looking for a children/ya book about a poor knight's son after the Norman conquest [closed]
I read this book as a kid in the UK in the early 90's. Set during the generations after the Norman invasion, about a boy raised by peasants who he thinks are his parents, but he comes home one evening ...
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Anime scene with DNA helix changing
There's a scene from an anime I'm trying to find but I don't remember which anime it was. I think it was an MC getting a power-up or something and it showed his DNA changing.
Does anyone know what ...
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SF novel inspired by Moby Dick and featuring "Sand Skiffs"
A friend asked me for help identifying a science fiction novel. Notably he was not allowed to check the book out as it was in the adult section of the library and he only had a children's card so in ...
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Girl taken from her village and trained in magic in a tower
There's a book about a girl who's taken from her village and is trained under a magic person (?) while being away from her home (and living in a tower?)
I think it's a one word title and I know the ...
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Story which ends with humans not being capable of riding the standing wave that binds the members of the higher alien race together
Looking for a story where humans encounter a new alien race and at the end of the story find that humans are not capable of riding the standing wave that binds the members of the higher race together.
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Looking for a story where a man is killed because he entered a neighborhood where he has the wrong personality type
A man wanders into a neighborhood where are the people have personality types different from his and they beat him to death.
This happens because the rulers of the society manipulate where people live ...
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Book including a computer game
I read this book (or had it read to me at school) a long time ago - probably around 15 years ago.
Points I recall
The woman/mother and her child are driving somewhere to visit family, and the road is ...
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YA novel about a clumsy boy who learns it is actually his talent
The book title was definitely the boy's name with a subtitle. The story that I can remember is that the boy is constantly bumbling and breaking things and feels like he can't control it. On his ...
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Looking for an older sci fi novel where a woman's skin/body is colonised by colourful bacteria or algae
I read this novel when I was younger, so it may be anywhere from 80s - 00s.
The part of the story that stayed with me was where a woman was knocked unconscious by a scientist who had been ...
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Book/short story about a post-apocalypse Earth with kids trained to fight
I'm looking for a short story or book series about a post-apocalypse Earth which is controlled by aliens. The aliens at the time of the story have a more maternal role over the remaining humans. The ...
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Sci-fi book about a boy who lives a few seconds into the future as well as the present
The story goes like this: There's a little boy living with his dad (mom disappeared/died in some accident). The kid lives a few seconds into the future as well as the present - he answers questions ...
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What's the title of the movie where flesh and muscle monsters eat humans
These flesh/muscle like monsters walk very fast and can even run. They can hear noises and are strong. Most establishments' doors and windows are blocked. I remember parts of the movie where
There's ...
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A manga about a guy transferred to a video game as a girl
According to the plot, the guy plays a dating simulator and angers God, and he transfers him to the game (then it turns out that he created a world similar to this game) and infuses the guy into the ...
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Novel in which a research team investigates a rip in the fabric of space
I read this sometime in the late 80s.
A science experiment causes a rip in the fabric of space. A being (person?) joins a research team that goes to investigate by creating a scion of themselves. They ...
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Name of film with a little girl with an alien inside her body?
I want to know the name of a film with a little girl, (a child or perhaps 12 years old, tops) with an alien inside her body.
This little girl still acts like a normal girl her age, in other words she'...
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Manga/Manhua/Manwha Where the female lead is in a world where her day keeps repeating with zombies
In the story, our mc is the female lead of, I think, a story. Her day repeats over and over again and she can't see other people, only the male lead (which turns into a zombie). She finds out that the ...
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Novel about a man waking to a world without life after hibernating, then hibernating while re-evolving life? [duplicate]
I have vague memories of a novel I read decades ago, and am trying to find out what it was. I tried various "AI" services to identify it, but all failed. This is what I remember:
It was ...
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Science fiction movie, man wandering the desert, tribble-like creature with him
I honestly wish I could remember more. I saw the movie on TV, which was either cable (a sci-fi channel) or just broadcast (in the Houston, TX, area, if that helps) in the late 90s or very early 2000s. ...
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Book about a girl who is a thief and learns to transform into a puma or cougar
It’s a book with a girl in a kingdom. She has no family but is drawn to animals. She is a thief but later on learns how to transform into a puma or a cougar or some type of cat. She finds a tribe of ...
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Novel about a man who was taken by aliens and used as an ambassador because humans used to be the galactic diplomats aeons ago
I remember reading a book ages ago (25-30 years or more) about a man who was taken by aliens and used as an ambassador because humans used to be the galactic diplomats aeons ago. At one point, he ...
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Book about a girl or woman who has to go to a school for magical beings
So this book I'm looking for I think the main character goes to a school or something like that for magical beings.
There's a lot of people who don't like her and like how well she is doing in ...
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Story about a spacecraft that crash-lands on a planet with a civilization resembling Pre-Columbian era
I have read this book around 20 years ago, and the book was already quite old at that time so was likely written before 1990. Highly likely I have read it in Hungarian, but I'm unsure if the novel was ...
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Searching for a specific book about a woman born on the edge of the veil between worlds
I found this book in a library and want to see if it has a sequel. The main character is a woman who was born on the edge of a magical wasteland on a special day where the magical world and her world ...
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This is a manhwa. FL uses a cane ( I think she has a limp) [closed]
What I know is that ML and FL they are like rivals and the ML wants to marry the FL sister bcuz their family is ( I think)on the brink of brunkuptcy but the sister love another guy so the FL suggest ...
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Anime with a girl who chooses a school based on its uniform and ends up in a club with duels and special powers
The female lead chooses a school based on its uniform, and the school she chose was a kind of unusual one where the students are required to join a club and have a duel with one another, and everyone ...
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Early 90s book of interviews with scifi authors, includes Pratchett talking about translating jokes to different languages
I am looking for the name of a book I saw in my local bookshop in the early 90s. It was, I believe, a newly published paperback containing either interviews with or descriptions of interviews with ...
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Old anime movie about an alien who falls in love with a human girl
I remember watching it on TV when I was young, but I don't know the title. It's about creatures that are not actually aliens, but are not human either. One of them creates an illusory world for the ...
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What is the name of this short sci-fi award winning film on YouTube, in which robots are exterminating humans but one robot kept a little girl?
Looking for the name of this short film released around 2013 maybe.
So basically the story is that the robots invaded and destroyed the humans but one girl (baby at the time) was found and kept alive ...
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90s historical kids show where people get sucked into a computer?
I remember some sort of 90s kids history show. Kids would put a floppy into an 90s era computer and then gets sucked into the computer where they would interview various historical figures.
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Trying to remember a fantasy portal book from the 1970s or early 80s
I am pretty sure I read the book between 4th and 8th grade (1978 to 1982).
I remember the book was about children being transported from the "real" world to a fantasy world. Mostly, I only ...
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Short nerdy sci-fi story where scientists discover that the Earth is falling into a black hole
I remember finding a PDF of this on the internet a few years ago, so it may not be a published work. It is about a scientist who observes unnatural behavior in the sky, and after some analysis ...
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Grimm brothers talking to ghosts?
I am trying to find a story in which knowledge of historical sound changes is important for talking to ghosts.
I am pretty sure one of the Grimm brothers was involved (aside from documenting fairy ...
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Manhwa where the main lead gets reincarnated into a novel where the main character is her sister and she has 4 potential husbands
The female lead goes into a novel and her goal is to stop her sister from marrying an asshole and to instead marry someone else.
All the potential male leads bring their nephews and I know one of them ...
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70s illustrated children's book about a witch who lives in the attic of an old house purchased by a single mother
The plot as I remember it: A young boy and his mother move into an old house in the country (this could be set in England, not sure). I am unsure about the boy's name, but I believe his name is "...
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I can't remember the name of this manga I read before [duplicate]
I don't remember a lot but it was definitely a Manhwa Manga. But I remember the main character is a orphan girl who lost her parents as a child, and she's forbidden to ever leave the orphanage by the ...
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A very old young adult SF novel about interplanetary travel within the solar system
This story was my very first contact with SF. It was at least 61 years ago. I remember reading it in my parents' "old" apartment and we moved out of it in December 1962.
It was a novel, in a ...
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TV show from 2000s where a group of kids were put in a digital version of the real world
There was this TV show I remember watching as a kid, but I can’t recall the name. I know it’s not MP4orce or Chaotic, I only remember very little about it.
The premise was these group of kids would ...
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Dark manhwa/webtoon about a girl who meets her alleged future husband, who has actually time traveled to find his twin's killer
I'd like to ask for help finding a webtoon/manhwa.
The story might be a bit all over the place, but I remember all of it quite well.
It is set in high school, the main character is a female (I shall ...
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Revenge manhwa/manhua about a woman who dies and uses a system to take revenge on all her lover's counterparts in parallel worlds
I read a manhua/manhwa some years ago. It was about a woman who is betrayed and chained by her lover. Then she dies and a system appears. The system allows her to take revenge on all of his ...
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I'm looking for a manga
A hentai manga where the protagonist is a girl who finds a sword stuck in a tree and when she removes it, she gets a dick and has the power to make men turn into girls
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