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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Short story: Sci-Fi pilot discovers a massacre investigating mysterious signal
It's been years since I read this short story, I apologize if this is fuzzy or incorrect but it's been bugging me all day and I'd like to know what I read.
A pilot in a high-tech jet/spacecraft flies ...
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A programmer developed a program to read contracts and convert them to plain speech or make them abstruse
Programmer for a company writes a program for simplifying government contracts into plain speech so anyone could understand it. The software could also reverse it and make text abstruse. I think the ...
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Young adult novel, read in early '60s, about a spacecraft travelling from Earth to a mysterious purple planet
UK? YA novel. Travel from Earth in spacecraft which is actually constructed as an amphibious 'Flying Boat' - takes off from ocean and gradually gains altitude to space. Destination is a mysterious ...
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Story about orbiting brain / super computer
Please help identify this sci-fi story: The course of the story describes how a supercomputer / AI brain is going to be put in orbit, and when it finally is, all of humanity ends up frozen in their ...
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Manga where the main character gets kicked out of party then hero disbands party once he finds out
I’m trying to find this one manga where the main character gets kicked out of the party, one of those stories, but later the hero finds out why he was kicked out and then he disbands the party since ...
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Manhwa/manhua in which a bunch of people were teleported by train to a strange city of monsters
Does anyone know a manhwa/manhua where the main character teleports to a strange city of monsters by sitting on a train? He has to go on various quests, like surviving at the station itself (that was ...
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A short story about aliens befuddled by human (and, in general, terrestrial) sexual reproduction
I read this short story (or, possibly, novelette ?) at least 40 years ago, probably more. I read it in French, in a collection, but I am almost sure it was a translation from English.
An alien ...
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Science fiction book with a character based on the emperor Claudius
It's possibly from the 60s or 70s and I think it was a novel and a sequel.
It's set in the future and a human society is recovering from a techno-crash. The main character is modeled on the emperor ...
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Game ad on television about a racing game with an environment that can be changed [closed]
When I was younger, I saw an ad on television, most likely on Jetix or Disney XD between 2008 and 2012. This video game ad was about a racing game where you could drive cars and where buildings could ...
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Story about humanity going infertile [duplicate]
I'm trying to find a story about humanity starting to go infertile.
The premise of the story was that human sperm contained within it another human, which contained another and so on.
It has now ...
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Space colonization book, first published in 1950s or 1960s, where people of Earth are being "drafted" to colonize other planets
People of Earth are being "drafted" to colonize other planets. A male volunteer gets the first choice of a single woman. He chooses an "experienced" female. An innocent young lady ...
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Time travel short story: Someone travels back in time to the start of the 18th or 19th century. The naming of the genre
The time traveller is confused and disoriented and meets a man in a park.
He babbles about the future and says "parts of this may sound like science-fiction".
This is the only bit of the ...
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British Sci-Fi Pre-1980, aliens use mind control on humans to steal germ weapon and turn against humans
I am trying to find the name of the book.
The main character is a writer who had some nightmares and found they are a part of aliens' mind controls. He is able to break away and see how others got ...
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Urban fantasy. Normal guy learns about werewolves and is taught to hunt them by a female werewolf hunter
I read a series years ago about a normal guy who accidently discovers that werewolves and shape shifters and vampires exist.
I don't remember everything but there was a woman who hunts supernatural ...
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A fantasy movie with two races, "Big Ones" (=us) and smaller ones, about saving a newborn baby from a cruel queen
I watched this movie on French TV about 30 years ago. It was in French, but obviously dubbed from English.
There were two races (in the sense of Tolkien), Big people (us) and smaller people whose ...
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Book that tells the story of how a dragon was banished
A dragon wakes up in a cave with no memory of how long she'd been there or how she'd got there, one specific thing being she was too big for the cave, but when she left the cave she encountered two ...
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YA sci-fi fantasy novel from the 80s or 90s about boy who goes to a boarding school where students wear some kind of mind control device
I'm looking for a young adult sci-fi fantasy novel from the 80s or 90s about a boy who goes to a boarding school where students wear some kind of mind-control device.
The cover may be yellow with a ...
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90s (or 80s) two-book series about a librarian VS a vampire over a college girl
I'm not sure on the publication date, but I read this in the 90s and I believe it was fairly recent then. The first has a librarian falling for a woman who is being pursued by a vampire. By the end of ...
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Looking for short story about detectives investigating a murder in the future
The story contains elements of murder and the possibility that DNA evidence could be manipulated. One of the detectives named Xia who people call Shaw says at the end that a potential presidential ...
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Chinese novel in the rebirth genre, where the female lead is kidnapped while pregnant and later travels years into the past
I'm looking to identify this Chinese novel in the rebirth genre. The female lead is kidnapped while pregnant. Her kidnappers call her husband for ransom, but a woman picks up the phone instead and ...
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Show where a group of four students are sucked into a game on a laptop
Around 2018, I believe I watched a show in Russian as we are a Ukrainian household, but I don't remember if the show was Russian.
But anyways, a group of 4 students find this laptop and open it, and a ...
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Isekai mahwa with silver haired male lead who is an illegitimate prince
The fl is a noble lady who is unwillingly married to the ml. He lives in a countryside farm. The fl comes here with him but doesn't want to live here. Ml cooks and cleans. She doesn't do anything. He ...
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Manhwa Where Protagonist in a Subway and Fights Monsters
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In this manhwa, a class of students is teleported to an underground subway system for a tutorial. The protagonist, who gains mysterious powers (i dont remember power), he tries to guide ...
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Manhwa where the main character's family is deleted by the system next to the place where they lived
I had read this manhwa in Manga Livre a long time ago. The manhwa was colorful.
If I remember correctly he was an ordinary person who gains powers. The most memorable scene was him coming home and ...
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1980's sci-fi cop movie with a smart house that uses sound to immobilize intruders
I'm looking for a specific movie I think from the 80s.
I can only remember one scene.
The set up (as much as I can remember): set in the future, a man on the run who I think is a current day police ...
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A fantasy story with an imp in a box that paints pictures
There is just one detail that comes to my mind and I cannot connect it with any other memory of a fantasy story I read very, very long ago. I vaguely feel it was a long and intricate novel, but I may ...
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YA novel with dual perspectives and amnesia/memory loss
I'm looking for a book published around 2009-2012, its a young adult novel with both the girl and boy perspectives. The girl is popular, the boy is not. They are both suffering from gaps in their ...
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Animated show where people have a source of energy which helps them transform into beasts and the main protagonist is searching for his dad
I remember one episode where the main protagonist and his two friends went to the North Pole and recognised a boomerang carved by his dad. The main protagonist unlocks his dad's signature ...
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Manga in which the main character dies in a bus accident [closed]
The MC once lived in an ordinary world trying not to stand out he entered a bus to get to somewhere, when a strong looking and well-built man, in an effort that others don't get harmed, he chooses to ...
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Manga where a girl is reincarnated and drafted into a war
It about a girl who was reincarnated into a world that’s in the middle of a war and she was drafted into it, she also has healing magic and has to serve a reckless general.
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Comedy/Sci-Fi movie about one of the last men on Earth living in a museum/zoo on display for humanoid robots
And I'm back with another story ident
Pretty sure it's a movie
No idea when I watched it
I only remember one scene, and it's a guy trapped in a room (bad artist's rendition below)
Guy collects toys ...
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Short sci-fi story about a Martian girl collecting specimens from Earth with her green pony
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The main character was a reverend/pastor/sexton or something similar, who was tending the church gardens when he was visited by a Martian girl and her green pony (it was hinted that the ...
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A novel about Earth crossing a toxic cloud of cosmic size
I read this novel at least forty years ago but I think it is even much, much older.
The theme is the existence of a huge toxic cloud in outer space, and at some point Earth trajectory goes through it.
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Help identifying a late 70s/early 80s android made-for-TV movie
This one has been bothering me for years. I believe it was the very early 80s (but could be late 70s) because it's in my memory along with This House Possessed, which took me a long time to find.
My ...
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Need help remembering an underground city novel
I vaguely remember this book from elementary school about this boy who ventures into an underground city to find his lost/missing brother. The boy was claustrophobic because of an accident in which he ...
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Guy from a future gets transmigrated to a murim world with a system but he is a higher dimensional being so the system can't take control of him
Looking for a murim manhua where the mc gets killed by a woman in the future. He gets transmigrated into a murim world, but his world had more rules so he's a higher dimensional being. The system can'...
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Looking for manwha about guy with no powers accidentally invited to group chat with top players
I am looking for help in finding a manwha about this topic.
From what I can remember it is about an old guy who is in the dumps because he can't unlock his powers or he doesn't have them, and one day ...
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Comic about twin Earth at other side of the Sun inhabited by robots
In the 90s, I found an old comic in a public library. I remember the story and graphic style were similar to Spirou and Fantasio from Franquin, but I was not able to find it in the Spirou comics, so ...
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Movie about a post apocalyptic world with a scorching hot sun
I remember there being a lot of robots cause they can survive in the heat, there was def a robot dog
Humans die if they go out in the heat too long
I think MC dies but not sure, a tennis ball is ...
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A short "space-opera" with references to ancient Greece's city states vs the Persian Achaemedian Empire [duplicate]
I read this story more than 40 years ago, probably in a collection. Technically it might be a novelette rather than a short story, but no longer than that. Short as it is, it is a space mini-opera.
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1980s sci-fi or fantasy book about a planet surrounded by toxic clouds, from which invaders periodically arrive
I can only remember the barest of details.
It was set in a different world: the humans lived in an Earth-like setting surrounded by opaque, toxic clouds. Invaders periodically came out of the clouds ...
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Kids TV where the main character gets powers and wears a red outift with boxing gloves
I’m looking for a show that was aired in mid 2000.
There is a kid/teen who gets powers, (not sure how, but I think he found a robot that gave him his power and that is a maybe) but anyways, the kid ...
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Young adult novel featuring sci-fi agriculture, class struggles, and possibly cloning
I read this book 2010-2011 in an 8th grade English class. Certain elements of the story stick out strongly in my mind, but the plot is very scattered. Here are the details I remember.
The story ...
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60s YA story about a boy aiding a phoenix in battling griffons
I recall reading a Young Adult library book (its possible it was a short story from an anthology) in the late 60s early 70s. (Being a library book the story could have been 5-10 years older.)
There ...
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Fantasy books that might have two girls and a boy, and there are a unicorn and maybe harpies
I read these books when I was about 9. I think a lot of it was set in a magical forest with different creatures. And one of the books had a unicorn in it. One of the scenes in the book is where the ...
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Short story about a man living In an apartment who's curious about his neighbor who turns out to be a monster or demon
Back when I was in 8th grade (1976-77), I read an old short horror story about a man living in an apartment. I can remember that he hears either a new neighbor, or a neighbor he had never seen/met, ...
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Parasite infecting pets and humans protected by the local law: which Star Trek episode that was?
I vaguely remember the episode, but I cannot find it. I believe it was TNG, with less probability it could be Enterprise or Voyager, I don't think it was DS9.
Enterprise(?) is orbiting a planet, one ...
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Horror novel advertised at the end of a ghost story novel
I'm looking for a book that was advertised at the end of a horror/drama novel about a haunted house. I'd accept either the name of the primary book or the book that was being advertised. I read it in ...
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Isekai manga where the guy gets a skill that makes women fall in love with him
At the start he’s talking to a goddess and she gives him a skill that will make him invincible (all women being in love with him and want to protect him) and reincarnates him.
It turns out she mixed ...
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Omni magazine (maybe) about neo-primitives destroying the last bit of technology
I'm trying to identify a short story, possibly published on Omni magazine.
IIRC, the protagonists were flying in an airplane, using some sort of beam to irradiate the Earth below them, which caused ...
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