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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*Manga, about a girl who was friends with a boy group in her school days, but the friendship is now ruined * [closed]
Find me the name of the manga!!!
Ok so, i only read a few pages, so it went something like this. (Romance shoujo manga)
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The manga takes place in 2020 so, the female lead was actually really good ...
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1950s comic book about bowling ball looking creatures that inhabit the underground of Earth
1950s comic book about bowling ball looking creatures that inhabit the underground of earth. When they play and fight they cause earthquakes.
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What is the book in a world with no metal, where a librarian builds a "computer" from kidnapped people? [duplicate]
The book (or series?) is set in a future where combat satellites were launched that scan for and destroy any constructed metal devices. As a result, all technology must be built from wood. Humans also ...
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What’s the name of this horror movie where a girl dies and comes back to life evil?
I remember a movie that I saw the trailer and coming attractions for when I was little. Maybe in 2008-2013?
It was a horror movie. A teenaged girl gets killed at a party by hitting her head, I think ...
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Manga where MC wakes up/reincarnates and finds himself in a room with a shelf of books [duplicate]
As mentioned above, the only thing I remember is that he wakes up in a room with a shelf of books. I am pretty sure he stays the same as a person, so he is rather transferred instead of really ...
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Short story in the form of a search history of a man stranded on a planet
I'm pretty sure it was nominated for a Hugo or Nebula. It could have been a short story or a novelette, but definitely not a novella.
It is meant to look like a log of a computer answering someone's ...
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Book about a girl and her tiger in space
It's a story about a redhead girl raised mostly with tigers who ends up going into space because space pirates took her off of her planet with a tiger. She ends up being adopted by the captain of the ...
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Manhwa where the (female) main character can see how and when someone will die
So the story begins when the main character was little and had an accident that made her lose her memory. Afterwards, she realized that she could see how people would die and what causes them to die.
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Book trilogy read in 2006/2007 about a girl who is training to become a priestess
I believe one of the books started with an H, but it was not something I could pronounce. I read them back in 2006/2007. It starts out with a girl who is a novice in training to become a priestess. ...
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Conspiracy "documentary" where the intro scene has a submarine in space with a swastika on its side
There was a movie I saw many years ago that was made in a documentary style. I think it was on YouTube or something similar and I specifically remember these details.
Nazi bases in Antarctica.
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YA Trilogy where boys live on an island. They're unaware of the existence of women
I remember a trilogy of YA books I read as a kid, but I can't remember the name. Here are a few details, maybe they'll strike a chord with someone here.
Boys live and study in a school on an island
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Movie on an middle-ages alien planet where everyone is tall and grey, with guards riding hippo-like creatures
I watched it around 2008 - 2010, but it might be way older. All I remember is one scene. It all happened on a different planet. Everyone was alien. They were tall, grey and it looked like they lived ...
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Childhood counting book about a boy who goes to miniature worlds based on the numbers 1 to 10
Children's counting book. Both counting forward and backward to 10. Late 80's/early 90's
It had a child (male) going on an adventure in the woods behind his home? his grandparent's home? I don't ...
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Book that features clones used for retirement
Trying to find a book I read years ago. The main premise was that clones were used for people to live on Earth while the original person retired on the moon.
There were two main characters. One was an ...
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Science fantasy book regarding a student that learns everything but when tested he always fails [duplicate]
The book (or series) revolves around a young man that diligently studies under successive masters to no avail. When he has to demonstrate his skill it fails each time resulting in him moving to the ...
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Looking for the title of a manwha/manga/novel with MC pretending to be a god
He helped little/small(?) people/dwarves (?) and they were slaves of vampires(?) and they found their abandoned kingdom when they were escaping. I think he pretended to be a god or an ancestor of the ...
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Movie in which an asteroid landed on Earth and gave a lady super powers when she touched it
What's the name of the movie where an asteroid landed on Earth, small though, and a lady with her boyfriend went to check it out. The lady touched it and it gave her super powers; her hair also became ...
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Fantasy book involving a thief stealing a rainbow horn artifact
A master thief that gets roped in by the nation's king into exploring an elven crypt for some magical rainbow horn artifact.
I remember there being a heist in the first chapter, with something about a ...
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Forgotten Title "Poison Master From Wuxia" Story
This novel is most likely a Western fan creation, not Korean, Japanese or Chinese.
Poison master reincarnates from a wuxia world into a world where monsters exist and pose a threat to humanity.
This ...
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Anime about a dark-haired main character with chains around his heart and magical beasts inside him, set on a platform island in Japan
I remember very little of this anime, but I will share what I do know. The main character was a guy who had chains around his heart. There were magical beasts inside him.
I saw this ages ago, I'm ...
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A probably Fantasy middle-length fiction about a probable vampire during the Blitz
I read this novella (or perhaps a very long novelette) about 20 years ago in a collection that was probably somewhat older.
During the Blitz, the volunteers who dug the rubble caused by the bombs to ...
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Fantasy book about humans and gnomes entering one another's worlds
The book was a series where first a human enters the "Gnome" world and stop them from destroying the earth and the second was a gnome entering the "Human" world. I thought the ...
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Any "Scissorhands" before "Edward Scissorhands"?
I just remembered about a movie (I saw some of it when I was a child, during the 80s or later), about a man who had scissors instead of hands. Searching on the net, I found only the 1990 Edward ...
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Name of a book that has to do with a vampire family?
I read this book back in the early 2000s in either elementary school or middle school or high school. It was a chapter book and I believe the front is a vampire family standing in front of their ...
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Manhwa or manhua where a kid learning martial arts in a dojo starts jumping between realms
The story begins with a kid who gets adopted by a dojo where he learns martial arts. As the story progresses, it shifts into a game-like adventure, where he seems to jump between different realms. He ...
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Children's book about intelligent bears or maybe cats
I read this as a child, as a library book, so this would have been mid-late 1970s - the book could be older of course.
The setting was a post-human earth, where a society of intelligent bears (?) ...
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Manhwa about a FL that was betrayed by her cousin and poisoned
I remember the first chapter is it’s the female leads wedding day and her cousin poisons her and she goes to the altar and dies.
She’s then returned back in time though I don’t remember if it was just ...
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Anime that had floating islands/biomes
I watched this anime around 2020 or 2022 and it had a protagonist that was able to activate these floating islands that were made by a woman professor who could see the future or went back in time. ...
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Analog story - US provides food machines to other nations, with hidden feature
This is a near present day story for the time of publication - late 1990s/early 2000s, I think. At Christmas time, the US is sending devices (nanotech, I think) that can create food from non-organic ...
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Movie / episode where a spaceplane is stuck in orbit
I remember seeing part of a sci-fi movie or episode of a series 15-20 years ago.
What I remember is an airliner-like spaceplane being stuck in Earth's orbit. There was a rescue attempt with a space ...
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Live action TV-Show about kids/teenagers in a fantasy world
I'm looking for a fantasy TV show, that I saw some episodes of, when I was younger.
It was a live action show which featured teenagers(?) in a fantasy world. As far as I remember they were members of ...
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Book about a girl who is sentenced to death by robot elders for idolizing a man who was considered dangerous to her society
I'm seeking a book I would have read about 20 years ago.
It's set within a totalitarian society that survived a world-changing event that was either war or a catastrophe. There are walls enclosing the ...
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Manwha/manhua where mc has 2 helping spirits; one is a black knight and other one is an all-knowing mage,
In the manwha/manhua the mc has ability copy other peoples skills even unique ones upon killing them.
He started with only the black knight spirit which was named something like emperor which he later ...
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What sci-fi show was Ernie watching in the show My Three Sons?
Many years ago, I saw an episode of My Three Sons which referred to a science fiction TV show. For some reason, I've always remembered it as being a reference to Lost in Space.
I've never seen Lost ...
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Can you help me find this short horror story I heard on Otis Jiry's Scary Stories Told in the Dark podcast?
The story is about a man who digs a hole near a Union camp during the American Civil War. He is planning to try and assassinate a Union general by hiding in it and covering himself with a camouflaged ...
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Beatles reference in parody story from the 1980s
This was a story almost certainly from Asimovs. All I remember is one line about the alien invaders: something like "Their names was Legion, they called themselves Skreegion, but among their ...
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70s-90s Anime Mecha Movie/Series
I was born in 2000. However as a kid I used to watch a movie or tv show during long car rides to anywhere. However I only remember what seems like nothing useful. I remember the movie starting out ...
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Book about a post-apocalyptic Messenger Service that is seeking to use the last shuttle to activate a satellite system for communications
A science fiction book about a post-apocalyptic horse riding Messenger Service whose leader is seeking to use the last space shuttle to get to a space station to reactivate a satellite system to ...
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Manhua where the main character transmigrates to game-like world where he quickly becomes strong then kills a boss like character [duplicate]
Manhua where the main character transmigrates to a game-like world where he quickly becomes strong. He kills a boss like character, then kills 4-5 people who come to clear that world, but they get ...
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Children in a field trapped under a transparent dome who interact with a strange machine inside their car
I watched this movie on Hulu somewhere around 2019-2022. It's European, about Western or Northern, I believe. Possibly Danish or Dutch. I believe it was entered into a film festival as well.
I'm not ...
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Manhwa where the female lead with white hair escapes her castle on her birthday, stumbling upon her half-brother, the prince [closed]
I’m looking for a manhwa where in the first episode the female lead with white hair is trying to escape her castle because her mother loves her brother more than her.
She tries to escape on her ...
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Manhua where the main character has a physique that is hated by powerful sects
I'm looking for a manhua where the main character (MC) is the young master of a family. He has a physique and constitution such that, if one person in the family has this, the whole family will be ...
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Short story about girl back from a Narnia-like portal trip
A few years back, I found a short story that I'd like to find again. The basic premise was that the main character was a woman who as a girl had stepped into a portal into a fantasy world—much like ...
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Isekai manga where the mc has a writing skill
I'm looking for an isekai manga where the Main Character (MC) has some type or writing skill (kanji I think or the other Japanese writing) I don't remember if he was transportated with other people ...
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Book about a wormhole found inside the Moon
Back in the '80's, I read a book that begins with astronauts exploring caves in the Moon and finding one tunnel that has no end. They discover that it is a tunnel through space and time, maybe even ...
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Manhwa where a witch accidently wakes up a crown prince
I'm looking for a manhwa where a witch accidently wakes up a crown prince. The crown prince had some issues with waking up or something that anyone couldn't wake him up (I read it months ago) but ...
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Anime in which the main character is summoned to another world by a god or goddess who puts a curse on his skills that makes him barely able to get XP
The anime, as I remember, starts with the main character getting summoned to another world and a god or goddess that summoned him puts a curse on his skills that makes him barely be able to get XP, so ...
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Book about a vampire who is tasked with watching over a woman whose boyfriend has been murdered
A human woman's boyfriend gets murdered, a vampire has been watching over her apartment sees it happening, he's been tasked with watching over her.
She gets a call from him saying he's got info on ...
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Choose your own adventure style: medieval post-demon apocalypse
I had a book when I was younger, that was a choose your own adventure style, with an inventory in the front pages, and you would roll for your skills/attributes. You would roll dice during any ...
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A short story about a gadget that proves that that the future is totally determined [duplicate]
I read this short story about ten or so years ago, in a collection.
It is not about Asimov's thiotimoline, but it has some common aspect.
There is a gadget with a light and a button. Whatever you do, ...
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